East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-02-03
/" Where are We---And Whence
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From tho Albany Evening Jousnsl, Jan. %.

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From tho Albany Evening Jousnsl, Jan. %.
Intelligible, significant and alarming
answers to this interrogatory are fur
nished even earlier than was anticipated.
Following a movement, headed by
Messrs. Opdyke, Greeley and other rad.
icals, upon the President in favor of an
abolition Cabinet their recognized ora.
tor, Wendell Phillips, is brought to New
York to unfurl the abolition banner and
announce the abolition programme
That such of our readers as were un.
willing to understand the ground OF our
apprehenslons, aud the reasons for ex-
pressing theui, may now realize that we
are drifting upon breakers, we ask
their atteStion to extracts from Messrs.
Phillips and Greeley.
We stated, it will DO remembered,
that an effort was making by radical
speakers and presses, to change the
character and purposes of the war, so
that instead of struggle to preserve
the Union and the government, it should
become crusade for emancipation
Here, in the speech of Mr.. Phillips, 10
the evidence to prore the truth of our
assumption: t.I ..,.T
"0n the first day Of the present month,
he announces, in the name of the nation,
that nationality is henceforth liberty,
and that the nation is henceforth to
bo wholly free. Applause. 1t is
turning corner and launching into a
new channel. IL as not The punishment
of treason, it is the Inauguration of JUS
tice. He loads his cannon with broken
letters, and fires them from the bastion
of absolute justice. [Applause.l The
Union, in other words, launches on a
now channel She undertakes to say
that thcsystem of slavery is incompati
Bile with the perpetuity of the Republic.
The Union announces that doctrine,
records It on her statute.book, and hence.
forth the motto Of the American citizen
is Liberty to the Stavs, or Death TO the
Union.". up on t
| 1t will, we presume, be admitted now,
by the republican journals that have
failed to understand US, that our "logic"
is sound. The war is not to "punisb
treason" but to liberate slaves, aud the
motto is, "Libertyto the Slave or Death
to the Union And at this "turning
corner we part company with abolition.
Our motto is "Preserve the Union and
the Government, by crushing and De-
stroying our Enemies, Rebellion and
Slavery" "u1s p, -...i ~ at .ra,.iy
Abohtionists arc, as they have ever
been, "one.idsa" men. Mr.. Phillips de-
mands that the government shall con.
form its action to that standard:
alt is a conflict which will never have
an end until one or the other element
subdues its rival. Therefore We should
he, like the South, penetrated with an
idea, and ready with fortitude and cour.
age to sacrifice everything to that idea.
When the government is brought to
adopt this "idea," and to prosecute the
war only for its "death to the Union,'
a triumph of rebellion and slavery is
assured i'.
Mr. Phillips says that "Liucoln is an
honest" as man born in Kentucky car
be: i' -l '9frlI) alf - ass
"But I have no confidence ia the
counsels about mm. have no conf
dence in the views of your son of New
York, who stands at lis right hand t.
guide the vessel of State in this tremcn,
dous storm. Hisses] That is right
| honor every man that expresses his
| opinion. express mine; and | would
have every man express his dissent.
am saying nothing of'the motives o
Mr. Seward, nothing; But wha
/ say of Mr. Seward is this: The Who'll,
philosophy that he has announced il
regard to this struggle is one opposed
to the proclamation of the President
The nation has chosen policy: 1t il
one that he has denounced that he doe
not bellows in that, he distrusts. o.
q every principle of Parliamentary gov
i eminent the Premier retires when th
, idea which he has opposed comes int
power.p io9a insbisgTf Boa .iaui, y
!, The abolition orator docs not, how