East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-02-17
Peace and Separaiion--The Rad
zeal Platform.

Lest any reader Of the Union should
think we have done the Greeley Radi
Gals injustice in representing that they
are cautiously but yet certainly break
ing ground in favor of recognizing South
crn Independence, it may not be amiss
to give the N. Y. Times epitome Of the
Greeley Radical Platform. 1t is equally
concise and just. The Times says:
Some ten weeks since TIE Tribune as.
tonished the country Ivy advocating the
acceptance Of Foreign Mediation as a
means of ending the war and settling
the difficulties between the North and
South. Very soon after, it took the
ground that unless we should conquer
the rebels in the campaign now opening.
we could not do it all; it urged that
we should enter upon this campaign
with the distinct understanding tina. it
we were not successful in it, we should
frankly accept the "best attainable
peace" 1t urged that we should raise
money enough to carry ON the war for
three months longer, with the distinct
engagement that when that was expended
the war should and 1t continues to in.
sist that we shall proceed in it's prose
cution upon this basis. And Mr. Gree.
ley has entered into personal CORES
pondence with Mr.. Vallandigham of
ohio and with M. MERCER the French
Minister upon this subject, with the ac-
knowledged purpose of paving the way
for such Foreign Mediation as shall end
the war within the time and in the man.
ner advocated by him in the columns Of
the Tribune.
The correctness Of that synopsis of
the Radical platform is unimpeachahle.
And it is equally undepiable that the
Greeley Radicals control the Republi.
can party and the Administration as
absolutely on most occasions as If they
alone constituted as well as dominated
over, that organization. They have
dethroned the Dictator" and driven
him from the "Epening Jo,tynal; and
they have crushed out the conservative
clement of the Republican party so
efectually that it is said there is not
solitary representative of that element
in the Assemhly-not Weed man"
in the whole body. So, it amounts to
little that Republican paper here and
there should mildly dissent" from Mr.
Greeley's platform. lie is the master
of the situation; and bis creed the
creed Of his party.
The fact is that from the beginning,
the war, so far as the Radicals are con.
cerned, has been rigldly suborlinated
10 their views of partisan exigencies. =
They are utterly opposed to the rsto
ration Of the Union on the basis of the
Constitution, because in their opinion the
vote of the Southern States would be
east as unit against themselves, and
they would thus be banished from pc.
iitical power. Hence they have taken
this alternate positioD:--thatthe South.
ern States must be utterly destroyed as
political communlties--th their politi.
cal consequences must be annihilated; or,
theY must be kept out If the Union..-
Wendell Phillips stated the proposition
IN fewer words, but in words designed
to convey the same meaning, when he
said he and his party were for
"Liber,y TO the Stave; or DEATH 10 The
Union" .Gs
- Horace Greeley, the present Dictator
Of the Republican. Abortion party, en-
dorsed Wendell Phillips at the same
meeting. His programme is to let the
South 60, and to use the army, If neces-
sary, to consolidate the Radical Des.
potism and intrench il thoroughly all
through the North. Will conservative
Republicans continue TO follow bis lead?
- Rochester Union. lh