East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-08-12
ON PEACE.
From the Boston Host.

tuo Dohloh iiVas'
When our young men are called for
by the million and taxes are called for
by the billion, it is the duty of all to
scan the course of officials and see
whether their aim be Utopian or prac-
teal, humane or atrocious; likely to
bring an honorable peace or tend to
an eternal war. Terrible is the re-
sponsibility officials assume who cast
obstacles in the way of restoration of
fraternal relations betwweens these
States; to be precise, who adopt such
higher law policy, or bitter, utterly
lawless policy, as Solicitor Whiting
has laid down for the country. The
Administration is authorized to 60 as
far in dealing with the insurrection as
the Constitution goes and not step
further. No measures can be more
unconstitutional or obnoxious to eight
millions of the white race than those
proposed by this Attorney-at- Law, and
they deserve the severest condemna-
ton the language can give.
Eight millions of whites to be kept
under the heel of four million blacks. !.
When George III, proposed his afro
cious meaures for less than three mill
ions of people, of whites, the great
minds of England said they did not
know how to frame an Indictment
against whole people. GA whole
people culprit," are the words of Ed
mund Burke applied to our country.
''Nations under accusation! A tribu-
nal erected for commonwealth! This
is no vulgar idea, and no trivial un-
dertaking it makes me shudder. i
confess, that, in comparison with the
magnitude of the situation, l feel my
self shrink to nothing. Next to that
tremendous day i'll which it is recor-
ded that the saints of God shall Judge
the world; l know nothing which fills
my mind with greater apprehension I;
and yet / see the matter trifed with,
as if it were the beaten rotine, an or
dinary quarter session, or a paltry
course of common Jail delivery" This
is the shock which the tory project of
1776 of enslaving or exterminating
millions of the white race gave to
such minds as Barre, Chatam, Burke
and Fox. But our William Writings,
our Charles Summers, our shallow
radicals, labor under no apprehen-
sion, as they propose to put eight
millions of whites under four mill
ion of blacks---as they wipe out such
commonwealths as Georgia and North
Cardinal But they pursue their
partizan and revolutionary project as
calmly, as conceitedly, as recklessly,
as though they were insulting truth
and common sense in arguing bad
case before quarter session.
What right have the leaders of this
faction to propose such terms as con-
ditions of peace? Suppose North Car
olina should, as State, see fit to go
through a process satisfactory to her
self, to get out of the Confederate tolls:
say repeal her secession ordinance,
withdraw her armies, submit to the
laws. What is to prevent her from be-
ing once more treated as in the Union
What constitutional right would the
President or Congress have to lay down
the condition that she must do any
thing with slavcryY The Abolition
twattle is that the Presidents Procla-
nation freed her slaves and they must
remain free. And so long as there is
a slave in this State she cannot come
back! According to Solicitor Whiting's
programme the President has resolved
to give arms to the slaves; back them
by the power of the nation; and COM
pei the whites of this State to subniss-
ion !, The mere statement of this shows
it to be simply monstrous, Any at
tempt to carry this out. will involve
the North in civil war, and on the
heads of the Abolition faction will rest
the responsibility OF the blood that
flow from it,
While there is so much atrocity in
this bloody programme of Solicitor
Whiting, il is really refreshing to read
the common sense of some of the Re
publican journals. Take the following
from Saturdays Newbcryport UerdM,
which we agree to in full
1--WE are told that North Carolina
can come back if she will do something
about slavery. The slavery question
has no more to do with her coming
back than it has to do with the next
years thunder and light ming. When
ever her act of secession falls she is
back-that is, she does not return to
the Union, for she never was out of it,
but she returns from disloyal to a
loyal condition. The treason of jeff
Davis and Gov. Harris could no more
carry Tennessee out Of the Union than
the riot of Andrews and other mobo-
Gratis could carry New York city out
of that State. The laws of that State
were not operative while the mob con-
trolled, but when that was subdued,
New York was where she had been.
and entitled to all the rights which the
laws guaranteed her. So the rebell-
ion prevents the execution Of national
laws for time; but when the rebell-
ion is subdued and the loyal people
controle, Tennessee will hold her place
among the other States according to
the conditions on which she was ad-
initted to the Union originally"
This is common sense and sound
law. 1t is strictly true to say that,
constitutionally, the slavery has moth
ing more to do with the comings back
of the States to their constitutional
relations than it has to do with next
years thunder and lightning; and we
are glad to welcome this from q repub-
lican journal.
To this expression Of sound senti-
ment in this State, showing that all
the Republican journals have not lost
sight of common sense, take the follow
ing from that able Union press, the
Louisville Jcvasb which sPeoks the