East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-08-26
Che Courier.
"Wednesday. August 20. 1868.
Words of Wisdom.

as 10 our mind is woll-timel aud appro-
pirate. The cases among Democrats I
or others, in which Indignation at the
mad "course Of the Radicals goes 50
-11a- a,s 10 GO injustice stq the para
"mount duty Of supporting principles
"which are held 10 be vital and funda-
''mental," are indeed exceptional; but
it is a cardinal doctrine Of the Denlbc-
racy which cannot be too often stated,
or too strongly urged, that statesman
ship, to be worthy the name, must
rise above the base IDEAS of hatred,
revenge and uncharitablencss. Prin-
ciple, not passion, must be the basis
of action, and this mainly constitutes
the line Of distinction between the
two great parties Of the day.
We subjoin a portion Of the article:
We have referred to the exceptional
cases. in Democrats and in others, in
which indignation at the. mad course
Of the Radicals goes so far as to do
;n;rot;ao - A. r-"---'-----...t 1''ty vf
supporting principles which are held
to be vital and fundamental. Edmund
Burke, the Burke of '76, when he
sympathized with our American pat
riots, in a private letter wrote "The
principles that guide us in public and
IN private, as they are not of our de-
vising, are moulded into the nature
and essence of things, will endure will
endure with the sun and moon, -long,
very long after the Wing and Tory,
Stuarts and Brunswick, and all such
miserable bubbles and playthings OF
the hour are vanished from existence
and from memory" Thus may Dem
ocrats say who sympathized with the
ladmarks that guided, like the stars,
the olden patriotism embodied in
jackson and Jefferson. These great
characters were no stand-stills they
were for progress as well as conscrva-
tism; but every thought and action
Pies to carry on the work of progress
and reform through the magnificent
channel Of the LAWS.
We think we cannot be in error in
adducing, among Democrats, as so
vital as to be an absolute RecssSty those
provisions and limitations Of law seen
in the principle Of division of political
power for local things, and Of concen-
tration of political power as to nation
al things, embodied in the State and
Federal Constitutions, which surely
care not of our dcvising, but moulded
into the nature and essence Of things"
The one, the local governments for the
domestic sphere, is as old as civiliZa-
ton on these shores; the other, the
Federal Government, grew up from
thirty years inspiration of the Union
or National element. Jackson and
Madison and Jefferson aimed CO.
equally for both objects, keeping for
the State Governments all their rights
and for the General Government its
full vigor; and they looked ON tb~ soy-
s@faWtg cdpGcHB Of the FedeyUt Gore'"-
-D,enC as edat 10 me poorer 10 net as pro-
tcctRg A.y,S to the Home Of tie State
Government.
Now the advance made to the more
perfect union of the Federal Constitu-
ton, all admitted, was in making the
authority of Government, instead of
depending on the States, bear directly
oRte mdiridaal; for instance, clothing
it with full power to commend the
service, and the means Of the citizen
for the public safety. in times of do
mestic instruction, to carry out the
great guaranty Of restoring domestic
tranquility, and in times Of foreign
war to protect the national rights for
it is paramount duty incumbent on
an Administration to maintain the ma
tional authority, and to stand by the
flag. The Democratic party have al
ways done this.
In Madison's time, as righteous
and as beneficial a war as country was
ever called upon to engage in, deman-
ded men and money; but an opposi-
ton pronounced this war wicked and
ruinous. "My aim. Is" M pi"'':,
;..o, Or nfaosdcnusetts, III 1914, SAID,
when British guns, as it were, were
battering down the capital, "to put
an end to this unjust and ruinous war,
and therefore l viii oppose all supplies
for carrying it on" We need cite no
more. But what did the statesmen Of
the Jefferson and Jackson stamp say
The same page Of debate that has the
sentence we have cited, has Felix
Grundy's manner Of meeting this
lie said that "those who systematical-
ly oppose the filing Of the loans and
the enlistment of soldiers, are in my
opinion guilty of moral treason. By
this, by no means intend to censure
those who, in the exercise of consti-
tutional right, express their opinions
freely against the eXpediency of hav-
ing declared the war, or those who,
from choice, withhold their own money
from the public service; bun those are
intended who, after the respective laws
were passed, exerted their influence to
prevent others from carrying them in
TO effect" Thus firm were the democ-
racy in asserting for the General Gov
ernment its whole constitutional vigor,
and thus careful were they of the con-
stitutional rights of opposition: and
10 suppose that they would endeavor
to sustain their authority by breaking
the doors Of houses, dragging citizens
from their beds, trying them by a
drum-head court martial, is TO libel
their great names. They sustained
the National Government in its full
vigor by a ,0isely deD'sea CONSUMPTION (;
they knew they were not encroaching
on the home Government for merely
local affairs when they opposed Gov
ernor StroDg's pretcnsions as TO the
national army, and steadily, gloriously,
triumphantly maintained the Generel