East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-02-24

ter the question would rise whether tn,
war should he prosecuted to keep then
IN or whether thew should be allowct
to go, and that for myself l should be
in favor of allowing them To go. Tn,
n. Y. Tribune WAS shocked at these re
marks. The idea that by any conceiv
ahle possibility any single State should
be suffered to go seemed at that time 8
cause of great offense. But now WI
find the n. Y. Tribune openly stating
that, unless We can conquer the enemy
by the LIST of May, there is no more ar
ranging the matter, and substantially
expressing desire TO acknowledge the
Southern Confederacy il they hold out
till the lst Of May. This is an extra
ordinary change, certainly, in the senti
ment of those who were opposed to il.
Well, gentlemen, the suggestions that
| then made were received with very
moderate favor at the North and none
at all ut the South. The speaker then
read an extract from the Richmond
Dispatch of January 10, saying that he
(Mi. Van Buren) aud Mr.. Brooks were
as bitterly opposed to separation as
Lincoln himself, or any who loads his
army, and that they looked only to their
pockets when they looked to reconstruc.
| tion.
Mr.. Yanccy, assumed in the Charles.
ton convention to be, and in fact was,
the leader of the Alabama delegation,
and he now claims to speak for the
Southwest, says that there can be no
reconciliation unless it is by the recog
nition Of the Independence Of the South.
ern States. have great regard for
the State of Alabama for reasons which
| shall explain to you. | remember
with the highest satisfaction William
r. King, who was elected Vice Presi.
dent with Gen. PIERCE, in 1852. / re
member John Forsyth, of Georgia, and
his son John Forsyth, Of Alabama, as
John Forsyth, of Alabama, as among
the most upright men that we ever had
in the country; and | cannot help DO.
lieving that there must be IN the State
of Alabama representatives of these
men and the sentiments they entertain
who would reject the views of Mr..
Yancey. Besides, in this great contest
of 1910, when the State of New York
rejected her native SOD, when the Key.
stUne State faltcred and fell from it's
time.honorcd allegiance to the demo.
cratic party, Alabama, by an overwhelm-
ing majority, sustained tho democratic
candidate against Southern man
But it is idle to refor to these things
now, because we must deal with those
who speak at the South, and not with
those who keep still; and If persons at
the South assume to answer, those who
remain silent must be bound by the
answer of those who speak; and we
have no right mode of dealing with the
enemy except by taking the expression
of the leading men as the sentiment Of
the enemy.
W hat, then, is their view? That we
must admit the Independence of the
South, and must coucede that they have
right, when they choose, to seceds
from the Union, That utterly deny.
While God spares my life will never
acquiescc in any such thing. There is
nothing in the constitution to warrant
it; it is the destruction of our existing
form of government, and must be re
sisted at all hazards.
This, then, is the condition of the
country. A rupture has arisen; a war
is pending; propositions to confer with
each other in a convention, propositions
to hold a convention by which they, az
well as we, may get rid of the existing
government, because Abraham Lincoln
is the consttutionally elected President,
and must serve for two years from the
4th of March, unless the people of the
United States go into convention, and
remodel the constitution aud then the
whole government devolve'i upon the
convention, aud new election can he
ordered in sixty days if the convention
SO declared.
But the people Of the South do not
choose to see the thing in this light
They choose to take the opinion Of hot
headed men who have led them into
this controversy, and who are, of course,
uncquivocally opposed to restoration
of the Union. L never doubted that
Jefferson Davis was opposed to rerto.
ration of tho Union. | never doubted
that the ringleadcrs in this rebellion
were opposed To a reconstruction of the
Un.on.
Their existence-politically, certainly
and physically, probably--depends up.
on the independence OF the Confederacy.
No man who has any regard Tor himself
in the free States of this Union, would
undertake to support these men hcrcsf.
ter in union with the slave States Of
this Union. as political allies, or even 10
associate with them rs political brethren;
that cannot be done.
We have disinterestcd men at the
North, no doubt, engaged in politics
but the certain martyrdom that would
await those men who should undertake
to associate themselves with the leaders
in this rebellion in political campaign
during your life aud my life would for.
ever deter any such exertion on :heir
part. Therefore, of course, they are
opposed to reconstruction of the
Union. OF course our friends in Hi
pois, true as their resolutions may he,
well ne they ara nut patfipiic as their