East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-30
q he Courier.
wednesday. September 80. 1853.
Tho Issue.

There is no installing the real issue
which exists now and viii govern in
the Presidential election of 1864; that
issue will be the management of the
war, and no exhibitions of shoddy in
dignation, indecent abuse for difference
of opinion, or extravagant claims of a
monopoly of all the patriotism on the
part of the administration and its sup
porters will divert the attention of the
people from the record as it is already
made up. The n. Y. Hara in a re-
cent article, copied below, states the
issue and exposes the record in terms
sufficiently plain for all practical pur-
poses.
The issue viii be the management
OF the warts Congressional and OK
ecntive management. And never was
any thing so atrociously bad in the
history of legislation as the action of
the last Congress in connection with
the war. The Emancipation act, the
Confistication act, the Indemnity act
and the Conscription act are four
measures any one Of which would be
sufficient TO ruin any party that adopt
Cd them. They are all calculated to
impede the successful progress of the
war for tho Union. The Emancipa-
ton act is equally silly and unconsti-
tutional II is n greater blunder than
the Popo's bull against The comet; for
it has done immense mischief by
uniting the rebels aud increasing their
resistance, while it has effected moth
ING whatever towards the accomplish
meat Of its prolessed object. II is null
and void by the provisions Of the con-
s,itution and 10y the nature OF things.
The Con!iscation act is equally n le-
Syu nuurty ana UIWu} uUSIlrd. Incsc
measures leave the rebels no motive
that can influence for human heart 10
lay down their arms; on the contrary,
they make it the interest of the Con
rtdcratcs to hold out until they are ex-
terminated. And this, no doubt, was
tho satanic object with which thoy
were passed. Tho Indemnity act on
It's very face Is nullity; for it under-
takes 70 indemnify the Executive and
the Administration and all It's subor-
dinates for unconstitutional acts. Con-
press itself having 10 power to violate
the constitution, much less 20 author.
ize others to violate it. II is a vain
attempt TO protect from their legal con
sequences the arbitrary arrests made
by ordor of the administration. AZ
for the Conscription act, whether it i,
constitutional or not it is a most de
testablc law, and wholly unnecessary
1t is now admitted by the more en-.
lightcnol republican party journals
that it has proved a tailure-that il
will not produce at the very utmost
seventy-fve thousand men--one-fourtl
the number called for-and that the
money expended in carrying out its
provisions would have produced al
least an equal number of volunteers
who might be far botterdepended upon
than most Of the substitutes obtained
by the exemption money. The repea
of these obnoxious acts will be de
ln9nde1 hv the nnnn'n, "Td thot WI
bring up an issue which cannot Dt
evadod.
Such is the legislative record. The
executive is equally black. In the
early part Of its carocr the admins
tration arrested in the most wantor
and arbitrary manner every man il
thought proper whether with or with
out cause, or even prctense Of cause
which made people almost believe
they were living under the despotisn
Of Russia or France, instead in a free
republic. While these cruolties were
inflicted on many innocent and loya
persons at tho North, the organs o.
this radical administration directly Ell
Outraged the rebels to perseyere IL
their secession, because they had {
right to secede according to the prin
ciplos OF tho Declaration Of Indepen
denco, and afterwards they fired then
with fanatical zeal TO resist as long
us q regiment was left them in the
field By urging against them meas
ures Of couiiscation, spoliation, anC
ruin, which were worse than dealt
itgolf Every motive for submission
was taken away, and every motive to!
resistance was supplied.
By this political mismanagemen
tho war has been protracted. 1t ha!
been prolonged still further by militia
~ and naval mismanagcment. Rebe
privateers have been permitted e
swarm the ocean, and Charleston
S. c., and Wilmington, n. c., have
been permitted to become almost i'm
pregnable, when they could have beer
secured in the beginning almost with
out an effort The utter mismanago
ment Of the Virginia campaigns is {
matter of history, and is too wei
known for detail. In the history o
no other administration since the fOun
dation Of the government has SO larg,
an amout Of public corruption beer
developed. The Secretary of Wa
and other radical members Of tn,
Cabinet are too busy planning anC
arranging the Presidential campaign
of the next year to attend to the grea
and vital exigencics of the present
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A Mob Orran.