East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-07

the ConsJtion we are wasting treas
ure and lbd is thick headed or black
hearted. Never since time began
was wakaged for what was more
valuablef holy. The man who
fights in BIT cause may study tho an
nails of ~ since history commenced
and find he equal to it. The man
who dies the cause may be placed
at the he1of the listof martyrs, faith
full and II, who have died for civil
and religis liberty, for they are in
eludcd iihe constitutional Union Of
these Stfs. But slavery is the
cause, z ,me say "and we must re-
move thi and then we shall have
lasting IIce." We agree that it
would bel blessed thing to remove
slavery, rjvided we do il from a con-
viction ia as violation of the law
oflove f0Tlneighbor tits a sin against
God; audt fovided at the same time
that in rel3ving one evil we do not
bring onfJgreater. Mr.. Lincoln in
his inalfp'al address used this Ian
guage infsard TO slavery -
" | do I'd cDte from one of my speeches when
! declare ti have no purpose, directly or indi-
rertly, 10 itk,ere with the Institution Of slavery
in the Sta3}here il exists believe / have
no lawful II TO do so, aud have no incina-
ton 10 do s4rhose who nominated and elected
me did 50 r5;,full knowledge that | had made
this and ,&6fkimi'ar declarations, and | have
never recafdfthem
now rs1hte these sentiments; and IN do
ing so l only }css upon the public attention the
mest conc1s~k evidence Of which the case Is
susceptblcfF the property, peace and security
e no scct11tto hc in any wise en- FINGERED by
the now urfjing Administration. | add too
that all th* kotcctio ION which, consistently with
the Copsts .'tb nnd laws, can he given, will bc
che' rfull1 Il h 70 all the States when lawfully
denandet, 1{what atever cause--as cheeruly 10
one section 10 another,
Adm<ftiiu slavery 10 be the cause,
then it y&xaA still be question how
fur we c,6ll act upon it. Mr.. Lincoln
said he "a 10 right or inclination to
interferekfifh it. This is the ground
that all rtatcsmcn have taken from
Washin, ypn 10 Lincoln. There has
been no Inference of opinion here !;
each Sia}> has the right to regulate
It's own tdomestic concerns, and no
other St&v has right to dictate
Having abolished African slavery our
selves, if{the system be sin il was
not our for in one sense these
States wIfc TO each other as foreign
'ountrie We of Massachusetts, have
40 right )6 question South Carolina in
'elation her domestic affairs, more
han w4hnSo France or England,
Russia xn{;hina. So il was arranged
~ our i(<hers so il was decided by
he Cons htion so il was written in
he bo,,{f< We have not reached a
'oint W eAy eQ2l$iAerablc number
( ,.Hr " |ss-< Z: ~, =, s''s. ~ .s'gnsii-
,e the SPECTACLE of twenty-iouf7 f7satxf
ighting to force the Constitution on
leven States, when they did not re-
.ard or execute it themselves. We
AVE a written Constitution--the law
# all the States alike, and the law of
III the people, from the President to
he humblest citizen alike. 1t is bind
ng in war as well as in peace; if not,
Republican liberty would be no more
ecure in America than in France.--
,Ir. Lincoln may have been right or
wrong in his inaugural address but
whatever are the limits of the Consti-
ution there we must stop, and TO
hose limits-to the outermost verge
against slavery, which is a cursed sys-
EN-, we would 90. 1t is true there is
war power provided for in the Con-
,titution, by which in times of great
langer local civil laws must give way
o military supremacy; and by the
avs of war; the Commandcr-in-C Chief
may impress the services of men, or
seize, use or destroy property, as the
public safety shall require. But even
hen he can only confscate property
IF persons within his military lincs.-
1t is an absurdity to say that because
war exists in one section, the Prcsi-
dent may take that occasion to pro-
duce a revolution in the industrial af-
fairs of the whole nation. Within
the lines of his army he may abolish
slavery, seize ships, destroy towns, OF
otherwise change property; and slav-
cry has been broken up and will be
wherever the army holds
possession. Beyond their lines We
have not, and cannot affect one slave
A proclamation is as Mr.. Lincoln told
the Chicago clergymen, like the Pope''
bull against the comet. To say there
can be no peace while slavery remains
is to utter what is false. Over seven
ty years of trial under the Constitu
tion gives that assertion the lie
Never was a country more peaceful
more happy and more prosperous thar
were the United States and the,
might have remained SO till now, an,
forever, if we had all agl eed that sla
very should be what our fathers mad
it a State institution, Great by AM
subject to local laws. Then the Mort
would not have troubled the Soutl
about what was none of our business
and the South would not have at
tempted to claim for il nat onal prcrc
gatives. 1t was not the fact tina
slavery existed that made war, NOR
than that the Ohio River existed; ; bu
the further fact that neither sectio
was willing to leave it to its own fat
under the laws. We were not willin
TO abide by the Constitution as it wa'
Slavery is the pretext, the subject
war, not its cause. We could hay
fought about something else as wei
if that had not existed, and thirt
years before a rebellion was attemp
cd upon the tariff. To hear some a
que, we might suppose that war ney'
occurred till American slavery con
menced IL; and, that removed, al
other could not be in the iuture.-
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