East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-28
Tho Dying Counsel of Crttenden to
the President.

The Louisville Jommal has an article
showing how utterly Mr.. Lincoln, in
his late Syracuse Springfield letter,
failed to meet the question of the wal
as it universally presents itself to the
people The President, it viii be re-
membered, declared that he was shut
up to the inevitable necessity of fight
ing, and fighting alone, wilfully ignor.
ing tho fact that the people ask him.
not to stop fighting, but only to fight
with a policy which will make it pos
sible for the war to bring forth fruits
of union and peace, instead of anarchy
and war without end. The JOmnet
says forcibly III this connection:
The conservative way is frankly to
offer peace ON the basis of the consti-
tuition, and to fight simply until the
constitution is accepted. This is the
way which the conservatives of the
country are now vigorously urging Mr..
Lincoln to adopt by proc lamation of
amnesty or by some equivalent acts,
or at any rate by some act that invol-
yes the assurance Of exemption from
the extraordinary penalties of confisca-
ton and emancipation on the condition
of Il return to allegiance. The conserv-
atives of the country appeal to the
President TO throw open the doors of
the constitution to the people in rebel
lion. SO that they may see that the path
Of their return is clear and free. The
conservatives invoke the President by
q high act of justice and of magnanim-
ity to support our triumphant arms by
stimulating the people in rebellion to
revolt against their wicked leaders and
to come back to the old allegiance. In
short, the conservatives urge the Pres
ident TO add Cancellation to coercion
without subtracting from COERCION
Such is the conservative way Of attain
ing peace.
But the more striking portion of the
Journals article, TO which we wish es-
pecially to direct attention, is that in
which the departed patriot, Crittenden,
speaks, as if from the grave, in ap-
proval and confirmation of the Demo-
cratic position. We quote:
Our purpose in this relation now is
to adduce not any arguments of our
own, but the authority of that peerless
statesman and patriot who has but
just departed from the midst of us
crowned with love and generation of
his countrymen. Mr.. Crittenden spent
in this city the greater part of the fort
night preceding his death, and every
friend who visited him during his stay
here, and conversed with him at all on
public affairs, can bear witness to his
exceeding anxiety that the President
should at once second the recent vic
tories of our armies by a proclamation
of amnesty or by some act of like eff
feet; but it is not so generally known.
that prompted by his absorbing sole
itude on the subject, he had resolved
to address private lettor to the Pres
idont, urging him without delay to
take this step. Yet such is the fact,
as it is well known to number of the
friends of Mr.. Crittenden, including
the writer of this article. In response
to very kind message from Mr.. Crit
tenden, was called upon him the oven
ing before he left for his homo at
Frankfort, when he introduced the
subject of his resolution privately to
address the President concerning a
proclamation Of amnesty, spoke of the
deep interest he felt in the adoption of
such a measure in this hour of our
military triumph, declaring his firm
conviction that more than oil other
agencies beside it would serve to bring
the war TO a speedy close, and OF the
same time pave the way to an early and
permanertre-establishment of thegov-
ernment in the hearts Of the people,
avowed his qualification at tho report
oil discussion of proclamation Of am