East Saginaw courier., 1862-07-29
THE COURIER.
EAST SAGINAW w
TO ARMS!

lhc camp TOT the zou lhihniry estao-
lishcd here, has been located on Hoyts
tract at the upper end of this city, and
named Camp Saginaw. ID. II. Jerome,
Esq, Of Saginaw City, a popular and
efficient gentleman, has been appointed
Commandant, and recruiting in many
portions of the District is going forward
with alacrity. In Gcnesce county the
enthusiasm is up to the highest pitch,
and notwithstanding tho immense drain
that county has already suffered, there
is . determination to fill her quota at
once. 1t is expected that Saginaw coun
ty will raise two companies; she has done
nobly thus far, and it is not in the range
of possibilities that she will be behind
in this hour of peril. Our men of means
are coming up to the work with libcr-
ality worthy the highest praise, and max
ng provision for generous bounties and
the support OF the families Of volunteers
during their absence. A mass meeting
Of the citizens of this county will be
held in front of the Bancroft House, in
this city, next Thursday afternoon, which
will be addressed by the most prominent
speakers in the valley,and at which time
the amount Of bounty and other induce
ments proposed will be authoritively an
nounced.
1t is fact, which however unpleasant,
must be looked squarey in the face, that
the need Of men on the part of govern
ment is greater now than it haas been
since the commencement Of the war.
While our army has been diminished to
an alarming extent by losses in action,
sickness and other causes, the Confed.
crate army, by vigorous system of con-
scriptions, has been increased in CORES
ponding degree, until its numbers are
fully equal, if not superior to our own.-
The exigency mnst be met and met
promptly or all is lost. That it can be
met, and the current Of Federal success
made to resume its wonted course and
sweep on, and on, until it sweeps from the
land every vestige of the foul treason
which now curses its soil, no one who
has the heart Of true American can
doubt. Between the glorious triumph
of a righteous cause, the restoration Of
the Union, and the infamous disgrace of
patching up temporary peace over its
ruins, we must decide and decide quick
ly. To ask how we shall decide il is to
ask whether or not we are yet q sane
people and deserving the name of Amer
leans. War, vigorous, energetic and de
terminei war, will bring speedy and per-
manent peace, any other course will
bring war, war, war, anarchy, disgrace
and ruin. President jeff. Davis in his
recent letter to Governor Brown, of
Georgia, said:
1t some future day after our ind.psnd
ence shall hare been esta6hshed, Hn no i'm
probable supposition that our present Naemy
may be tempted 10 abuse his moral po,cer by
depredations on our commerce, and that zoe
may be compelled TO assert our righte BY Of
fensiro War.
We must conquer. Think, for who
dare to doubt, if there are any, of this
nation being hemmed in by envious, thick
pated Canada on the north, bitterly
terly hostile power on the south, our nat.
ural channels of trade obstructed, our
rights in the Great "Father OF Waters"
and its tributaries usurped, out COM
merce threatened, our States distracted
and disaffected by the unequal burdens
of a frsgmentary Union. Think of the
utter irretrievable ruin, national demor-
alization aud threatened "offensive war"
from powers whose insignifcance has
been their only protection from our just
resentments in times past, all which, and
untold evils innumerablc in addition,
must result from any apathy or want of
vigorous and patriotic cooperation with
the Government at this time.
Every man can do something, He
can go, induce others to 60, or help pro-
vide for the families Of those who go,and
it should be the business Of everybody
to attend to this business at once. No
time is to be lost. The men are wanted
now. They must be had, and Where
there's a will there's way"
Citizens Meeting, East Saginaw.
At a meeting Of citizens, held July