East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-04-02
A GIGANTIC MONOPOLY.

As usual on the eve of election, the
Republican party is engaged ut this
time in demonstrating that all the patri.
otism, loyalty, love of country, unhinch.
ing devotion to the Union, and earnest
support of tho Government, are mo
nopolized by that immaculate organza.
ton. To doubt IL 10 he damned, or
what 10 equivalent, to be stigmatized as
=" tory, traitor, "copperhead use.
Gosh, ""butternut. ""rebel sympathizer,"
or acme other ''pet name which they
apply unfortunately to sll who do
not adopt their radical modeof thinking,
sing peans to the memory of Old John
Brown, gloriiy Wendell Phillips, Hor.
ace Greeley, and other "powers behind
the throne" and endorse, without a
wherefore, all the ultra and disastrous
measures of the administration. As an
Eastern journal remarks, the underly
ing principles OF their action is that it
10 treason to oppose them, their plans
Of wholesale robbery and fraud, their
debasement Of the country to the vilest
purposes of plumber. They declare
that any one who finds fault with the
manner in which public affairs are con.
Quoted is traitor. They propose, in
moments of passion, to inauguratc mob
law, and proceed at once to hang all
the LOYAL men who dare to think that
"suppOrting the government" is not sy-
nonymous with plunging the hand deep
into the treasury, and filling the peck.
cts of contractors and newspaper edi-
tore with gold coined from the peoples
blood.
The manner in which this monopoly
has been acquired is interesting, though
q too thorough investigation is apt to
give doubts as to the validity of the
claim. Such patriotic sentiments as
"the Union is not worth rush without
little blood. letting "the Constitution
is league with hell, and covenant
with DEATH" and such acts of wanton
outrage, waste aud corruption, as are
without parallel in history, constitute
the record; rotten ships, hard tack"
and shoddy for the soldiers, Brigadier
Generalships, fat contracts and toddy
for useful politicians, has been the prac.
toe, and whoever has dared to question
p tho patriotism Of such practices has
been denounced without stint as trai.
tor. The only traitors, in fact, at the
North, are those who rob the Govern
ment their name is legion, and they
oil belong to the monopoly. The in
quiry is well put-"llow long must the
"pstienco of the true patriot permit
"these curses Of our land, these radical
"plundersrs Of the treasury, to continue
ITO hold up their heals among us p
"Has the new doctrine which they IN.
"culcate gained hold on the people ?
"Do we indeed believe that it is treason
""in America for men to think and talk,
3 "but no treason for men to rob the gov.
"ernment and prey on it's very vitality?
"Our ears have been deafencd with
"ther loud outcry of treason, treason,
"directed against men, no one of whom
"they pretend has done solitary act
"of treason. They shout traitor till
"breath fails, against men who have
spoken or thought of doctrines dis
tasteful to them. But they are silent
against their allies, their companions,
themselves. devising treason, acting
"tresson from day to day, and the
"worst of treason, because insiduous,
"wily and deadly"