East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-10-07
speech OF Hon. Gilbert Dean be-
fore the Democratic Union As
sOciatiOR Of New York.


fore the Democratic Union As
sOciatiOR Of New York.
Hon. Gilbert Dean said, although M
well, Ire could not retain from comin
Lcre to attest his devotion 10 the caus
that would liberate New York and tn
Union this fall. [Cheers.1 lie was un
able to-day, perhaps, to perform mill
tary duty, but he was willing to be sho
down for the principles of the constitu
tion. AL personal issues should be for
gotten in the grca. issue that is pre-
sented to us this day. The atmospher,
around US is tremulous with change; tn,
air is full of revolution. Ten million.
of people went TO bed last night bclicv
ing that the pilot of the government
was conservative; they awoke to fine
that all their dreams We're blighted, and
that proclamation had been signed
which makes emancipation of the slave
the object of the War. He had sus
tanned the war and been in favor oil
using every means that was demanded
since the firing on our flag at Sumter,
but he would protest against this proc
lamation. He was willing to fight and
die for the restoration of the Union,
but not for the emancipation of the
negro. He was against war for this
object. [Cheers. If for uttering this
sentiment he was to be consigned to
Fort Lafayette-to the modern Bastile;
then let them send him to morrow.
TCrics, "J hey dare not" "Let them try
it" "You will have brigade 90 with
YOU" "Therell DO trouble if they do"
He loved his government, but if it was
to be administered so that a person
would be imprisoned for uttcring his
sentiments, with no chance of being
heard or placed face to face with the &C.
cusers, then he could only say that the
government had been perverted, and
such government it was not worth the
life ofone white man to uphold. [Cheers
He loved the governmcnt-witha all tho
faults of the administration for the last
two years he loved it still, and he be.
lieved it had a regenerating power with.
in itself, 30 that the American people
would be free people under it yet
again The government has heretofore
received the oppressed fiom other lands;
{ has protected feeble womanhood and
lel pless infancy, it has never until with.
n the last sixteen months taken n man
rom his family aud business, and sent
him to prison whore he could not be
ieard as to the truth of any charge
against him. Was there any necessity |
or that 4? [Crics, "No, no.n1 In the |
oyal State and city of New York has
here been any necessity for that? ["No,
10 What has New York done
What has she refused to do? Will any
epublican here who thinks the govern.
ncnt is justified in suspending, by the
mere force of the cdct Of the President
r of 'clerk" of the President, as Tom
Benton used to call them, suspcnding
D the State of New York-loyal every
nch Of it and every man of its terri
ory-the writ of ha5caS corpus--lct
i'm tell the reason-a writ that was
'rested from King John in England,
nd rather than reiinquish which VIC had
etter charter another "Mayhower,"
nd go to somo other continent, where
reeman may live and breathe. TIRE.
nendous applause. They say the
Democrats have no right to talk on the
ubiect. The Supreme Court made
ecision that the blacks lad no rights
'hich the white man is bound to re.
pect, but they say the Democrat has
o rights which the republican is bound
} respect. We are all war Democrats.
Ve are all for sustaining the constitu.
on and restoring the Union. But
-reeley hissesl may publish in the !
rt6une anything he chooses about the
efficiency of the administration. He
IN write letters, and the President will !
down on his marrow bones and an
ver them. Laughter.] The Times !
IN do the same thing, and propose
eorgo Law or somebody else to take :
10 place of Lincoln, and it is still right.
he PoSt may utter the most seditous |;
ntlments, and Fort Lafayette is still h
nut. But when q Democrat speaks 4
is candidate for the modern Bastile /
-aughterl / will read the Post to :
ght. If were to say what it says l y
ould not see my wife and family again q
r several weeks--at least until took .
c oath of allegiance. The Post says q
the recent battles 4
"Thousa ands suffer indescribablo tor. y
res, and arc manned for life--and the
tier pangs of their hurts are assuaged h
the reflection that by this battle the s.
emy had been crushed or destroyed. n
lch battles may be magnificent, but Il
oy arc also cruel. 1t is not war but I,
irder; butchery which fills all right n
hded men with horror, and which has o
thing to redeem it except the brav. %
OF tho noblc-heartcd men ncedlcssiy G.
,rifcod." r,
Although tho Democratic party has cl
on organized moro than sixty years, G
d has controlled tho administration SC
most of the time, yet il one of its W
mbers should say that battle was hi
rider, and tho war was butchcry why, n
'nnedy [Sisses] would take him right bl
1t may be that as this is in Bry. W
Is paper, it is poetry. Laughter. vi
en- he goes on To ccnsuro Mcclellan. "
hree cheers for Mcclellan / knew
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