East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-10-14

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may toll and suffer equally with us
you shall have no part whatever in th
management of public affairs, unles
you will dishonesty belle your politica
sentiments, subscribe to all the dogma
of the republican creed, and give il
your adhesion To- an out.and.ou partisan
nomination !" And now ,Gollow.citizens
by whose authority was this high hand
cd rejection made? Not by the peo
pie; not by their authorized agents. A
m5norny, a small minority, of the com
mlttee of my party dared to do thi,
thing. BY coup d'ctat they accomp
lished that which even the strong liga
ments OF party force would have en-
abled them to do in no other way. Tn,
other members Of the committed, as ON
by one they were informed of what had
been done, most heartily dsapproved
OF the rejection, and regretted deeply
that the more patriotic course, proposed
by Mr.. Howard, had not been followed
II this Is so, it may be asked, WHY did
they not come out and denouncc it ? Ii
Is idle tn ask such question. Every
man who understands the machinery OF
party organization knows that one OF
It's giant evils consists in this very pow
CT OF coercing, against its will, its bet
ter Judgment and its conscience, the
great majority into compliance with the
action, however unprincipled and impo.
lltc, OF those managers and intriguers
who boldly precipitate an claim it as a
party measure. 1t was held out AS a
fact accomplished; step which could
not be retraced. The country press
had, in some degree, uttered its re
sponsc. These gentlemen satin Detroit,
sending their accusations of fraud and
corruption, through the telegraphc
wires OF their organization, to the local
politicians of tho counties and of TIE
towns. These men did not wait for
evidence of fraud and corruption. They
had been accustomed to trust to their
leaders. Their leaders now proclaimed
that 1t was so, and they accepted the
nnfuunded charges against our demo
cratic fellow citizens. with rnquestion
ing acquiescencc. The proposition was
nowhere amongs. party managers in the
country discussed upon its merits
Precisely that thing occurred which
those who launched this scheme of
wrong anticipated. The majority of
the republican State committees, disap.
probatIng the action of those who mu-
tllatcd the letter of Mr.. Howard, deem.
ed 1t Impolitic To protest against il, and
reluctantly yielded to what they deem
ed partisan political necessity. There
stands, to-day, before the people of
Michigan, in nomination, partisan re
publican ticket,i violation of the wishes
Of vast majority of the party itself
[ [Applause.]
That the authorized agents of my
party, therefore, were in favor of sub.
hitting tho generous proposition of our
democratic fellow.ctzens to the party
at large, have most abundantly shown
The other branch of the proposition,
that those who SO wantonly refused to
suffer the submission, well knew that u
majority of their political associates
were utterly opposed to party nom.
lnatlon, Is conclusively shown from the
fac that they dare not ask the question.
Had they the least confidence in the
compliance of the people with their re
quest for denunciatory AMI acrimon,
ious par.y conllic'; had they ventured
to put the absurd question: Will you,
fellow citizens, in this hour of suffer ing
and national danger, turn from the
duties which the giant war demands at
the hand OF every man, and engage in
a petty scramble to determine whether
John Doc or Richard Roe shall hold
some office? they knew, as we know
what response would have been made
Supreme rs those gentlemen may deem
their authority, such is the frequency
of its exercise, and so sensitive are they
to the danger of impairing it, that they
never fail to- take the sense of the pco
pie, when they believe there is chance
of popular support for their measures.
They did not voluntarily throw away
the moral force of the peoples indorse.
mcnt. They knew it could not be had.
They were well aware that if Mr.. How.
ards letter had been sent, anil the peo.
pie OF our State apprised of the prop
ostlon, that Union delegates would
have been sent to both conventions, and
mon been put in nomination for the Of.
tces of tho State, wholly irrespective
of the plans and bargains of our politi
cal masters. Applausc.
Bnt this is by no means all the argu.
rhentative use | desire to make of these
facts. What an illustration do they
afford OF party tyranny and corruption.
This daring minority, these men who
thus, with seeming unscrupuousness,
forced a party domination upon M un.
willing people, arc gentlemen They
sure y will claim to be my social and
political equals. Community must
have accorded them large measure of
principle and inteil'gence,or or they would
not have been where they are. Now,
fellow citizens, it is just because such
men, gentlemen, men of character, in
the name of party, using the accustom
ed power, which the tame aud slavish
submission of US all, myself among the
number, has sanctioned, can perpctrate
a crime so atrocions, that | all the more