East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-07-14
NUMBER. So,
the Loyal enguers.

The Loyal engwers. Gf1d
When, under the seductiveyg',is of
loyalty and patriotism, a secret league
camc into being 10 this city, cooseryas,
tive men contemplated with natural cons
Germ the rise and progress Of an organ'-
cation so easily susceptible of perysrs,
sion TO tho worst Of purposes, TEsi
leaders of the movement were not ex-,
actly the men whom a confding com
munity would select as its Irresponsible
Council of Ten In the van carneeths
historian, skilled to hit"from grave ,tpA
gay, from lively TO severe who, IN one
short year unlearned all that he hal
spent lifetime 20 cnbody, in nine long
volumes, of the principles of liberty AMI
progress. With him came diyipcs de-
Douncng the Constitution as "a parch-
merit," or Numbering the strange polit-
ica doctrine that in time of war Mr..
Lincoln is the CONSTITUTION, at whose
voice the meekest of evangelists is bound
to grid on the imaginary swords OF Gid,
con, and TO blaze IN the front OF hypoi
thetical battle. Add to these the opu.
lent Opdyke. throwing shoddy TO tho
dogs, and burning. with such patriotic
ardor as inffamed Of old the impetoons
taiiors 81 TeoIey street, Tho worldly
Wetmorc, and the other worldly Gonlji
The sententioas Stevens and the bclllg-
erent Busteed, and it must be admitted
that there was nothing extravagant IN
the anticipationthat under serne sudden
impulse, these leaders might sally forth,
intent to slaughter Copperheads and
save their country, and shouting,
Ho gallant mobiles o. the league, look that your
| arms be bright pBa3 dliR snoiiebaT
iranpls al before them in the dust, oput
the peace Democracy to the sword, and
realize in a night Mayor Woods I'M
mortal vision Of a free city a Western
Venice, with anderbilt To bwIdlits
bucentaur, and I.ong Island Sound to
be itss Doge'ss bride. Recent events
have gone far, to reassure, US against
these dreadful fances. 1t begins to be
suspected that after all these Iions'of
the league are such lions as Bottom
dreamed of, lions kind in harness and
safe to be brought ia among tho ladies'.
This at least the experiences OF Phiiadei'
phia tends to show. For Philadelphia,
too, has her loyal leagaeoa ''league" as
| loyal aud as loud, as dreadful TO Demo
Gratis, as contemptuous of common. de-
cencies in the devotion Of it's members
to cotton, cont racas and their country
as our own. Fierce as ten furles had
these leaguers been to all who would
not bow before the image they set up.
They made "social war; on Democrats;
refused to kneel at one altar with Cop.
perheads, and fell into an epidemic of
near.sightedness whenever they encoun-
tered their conservative &C .uaintances
on the public streets. Ofcourseitswas
to be supposed that loyalists SO trncn.
lent in respect to their neighbors. who
simply disagree with them in opinion,
would be perfectly untanabie IN tho
terror of their onslaught whenever for
tune should afford them an occasion for
charging upon ihee, enemies les OF LIP. fnfir
country.
Bot Twain is the help Of manlNl No
sooner were the leaguers OF Phlladel'
phia startled over, their Madeira with
the news that Lee was upon them, than
they allfell to discovering reasonsfor
sudden andnindefniteg absence from, tho
city. A majority of them dispatched
at once their household goods to the
Copperhcad sanctuaries of New Jersey
and New Y ork, and called, not Iindsed
upon the mountsins, but upon Governor
Seymour to "hide themw t
I From an interesting statistical sketch,
with hassj just been published, OF tho
Philadelphia leaguers, we learn. that
while three fourths of these patriots arc
saving their country either in public
Office or as contractors, only fcc4ofthem
have actually taken the field againstthe
rebels. "A similar Investigation tato the
natural history of the, New York lea
guers would doubtless be attended with
similar results We hope, therefore,
that nobody vii make it or direct the
attention of the enrolling officers to tho
homes and haunts of men WHO are really
harmless, and the airing of whose pat.
Iiotisn in the public press was intended
merely as the'prelude to more sbotidy,
as passport to the goodwill Of Chase
and Stanton. They do not intend, to
mingle in actual strife, either in Penn.
sylvania or elsewhere. Every one will
stay at home and in, the future mind his
own, business, until there is a possibility
of being useful to the state, and then-
they will eniigrate in q body to New
England Wo,ltt. .eeit " troq
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