East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-03-25
NUMBER "a.

turn, and by every movement Of our
Iarmy. Their practical and satisfactory
solution can only be found in a resort 10
the principles underlying the whole strue-
ture Of our government, If the policy to
be inaugurated contemplates the main
tenauce of the old system, the old con.
stitu,ion and Union. s
The evidences are overwhelming that
the northern public will divide, as hereto
fore, and that, too, upon the very test Of
the government as now administered
To a considerable section of the republi.
can party, and especially to those who
assume to champion its principles, the
policy of President Lincoln, in his close
adhesion to the constitution, in bis un.
shaken fidelity to the Union, in his sx-
pressed anxiety to act under law, and in
his conduct oil the war, with a sole refer.
ence to its only Legitimate object, xss
been highly displsasing.
And now that the question is made, a.
to what shall be the status of the govern.
ment and the Union when peace is re-
stored, many Of those same leaders, and
the radical abolition press, with Greeley's
7ri5sms at their head, boldly ignore the
old constitution, and repudiats the old
Union. This question must be referred
to and settled by the people. 1t is evi-
dent, then, that resort to the ballet-box
must be had.
IN Party organizations must be renewed,
and party platforms adopted, at least 20
far as to test the fealty of voters to the
time-honored work of our fathers. There
can be no neutral, no middle ground on
this issue. Men must now arrange them
selves politically either for or against the
old Union. The new government Aag is
already unfurled with its disunion and
reasonable motto, I" No Union with szass-
holders" It's adherents are, therefore,
not only hostile to the old constitution
and Union, but are and have been al
along hostile to the President and his
adhering Charlottesville to the policy
of the war--hostile to the retention Of
the border States in the Union, and hos
tile to all our conservative Generals and
troops--exulting in none of our battles
fought since Bull Run and Balls Bluff,
and sorely chagrined at our splendid vio-
tories recently achieved, since their svi.
dent tendency is to bring peace to our
borders by the restoration of the Union
as it was. .rr.o reso ga ,qro
AS this same radical class have hith-
erto manifested au equal repugnance to
any peaceable separation between the
free and the slave States, il is evident
that their desire and design from the
start has been to force the war into one
Of conquest and subjugation---to drive
out the adhering border Ststes--then TO
declare forfeiture, by fifteen States of
this Union, of all their rights of equality,
sovereignty and independence to wipe
out all their organic and municipal laws
and institutions, to emancipate the slaves,
to reduce and degrade the loyal white
citizens to the same political and social
status, and then, from the central throne
at Washington, to govern the whole %
Territorial dependencies.
1--WE at the North have had faith in the
loyalty and Union.loving sentiments Of
the conservative wing of the republican
party. How large section of that party
is thus abolitionized we know not. That
conservative men of that party can no
longer fraternize or stand upon the same
platform with these disunion radicals, We
readily believe. With such affiliation
and such a creed, it viii be impossible
for them, even norninslly, to pretend 10
stand by President Lincoln, ss he stands
by the constitution and the Union. peas
We hold il settled, then, that the re-
publican party stands virtually rent in
twain--a house divided against itsslf.
powerless to prevent its own fall, much
less to furnish q Union-saving platform
for the nation, and yet such a platform
must be had, and q majority party orgsa-
lied and standing fairly and equally
thereon, Or Ais nation /. lost. aR = e.'A@
There is a party organization in this
country, and, has been from the time of
jefferson, its artyfsr maranns ever battling
for the constitution, the Union, and the
supremacy Of the laws. The record Of
that party forms prominent part Of Ne
history Of these United States, both In