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

4th. Resistance to the draft, or en-.
courage thereof, will be punished by
confinement in the State Prison for not
more than one year, or by fine, not en-
ceeding IS 900.
9Th. All persons knowingly harbor.
ing deserters will be punished by term
in the State Prison of not more than
two years, or by fine Of not more than
$500.
9th. DESERVING substitutes are liable
to imprisonment for not more than one
year, or a fine not more than 81 600
The Presidents Proclamation ian
England.
The steamer Arabia brings us the fol
lowing admirable, manly, and thought
full letter upon the emancipation proc!a'
nation of Presidcat Lincoln. 1t was
written by Sir POWELL Buxton to the
London Times in answer to an inquiry
of that journal as to the light in which
that proclamation is regarded Dy the
men whose lineage and whose lives have
most clearly identified them with the
cause of national emancipation. Sir
Powell Buxton inherits from his father
sturdy honesty of character and su.
periorty to all petty political consider.
atoms which clothe his language ON such
a subject with a weight and dignity it
is not easy to concede TO the proceed of
noisy meetings or to the epistles Of the
illustrius obcure who vote themselves
into committees of correspondence with
a President:
To the Editor OF the London Tmes
SIR-In your paper of to-day you
ask "Whether the sons of Wilberforce
and of Buxton, who have all been
brought up in the teachings of their
fathers, now share the opinions of the
present emancipation society as to the
proclamations Of Mr.. Lincoln?
If the proclamation means anything
if i is not dead etter-it means to at.
tack the weak point Of the South by
exciting an Instruction among the slaves
AN insurrection which would com.
mence by producing untold misery to
many isolated families of whites, and
would inevitably end in a wholesale mas.
sacre of the unarmcd, ilorganized, igno,
rant negroes. Can you seriously ask
whether the sons of Wilberforce and Of
Buxton approve this?
/ cannot doubt what views my father
would have taken. There was nothing
he more earnestly deprecated, nothing
he so anxiously dreaded, AS the revolt
Of the slaves. His letters and speeches
during the battle for emancipation are
full of references to this greatest sub.
iect of anxiety. In letter dated Octo-
Der Is, 1892, no writes:
"If the emancipation of the slaves
were in my power | could not dare to
accomplish it without previous police
regulations. Those ought to be taken
instantly, for know our.power of eman.
cipatng in one way or another is fast
drawing to a close. | mean that the
negroes will take tho work into their
own hands. But whoever else is will.
ing to undertake the weight of so enor
nous responsibility, | am not, without
considering the personal safety of all
classes"
Again, in debate in tho House of
Commons, on the 18th of June, 1888, he
says:
"Were an amendment on this plan to
be made and carried, and we were in
consequence to lose this measure alto.
gether, an Instruction would inevitably
take place, and | confess cannot with
frmness contemplate SO horrible a ter.
mination of slavery"
hope no one will suspect, because
none of my fathers descendants have
taken part in the recent emancipation
meetings, that our adherence of slavery
or our zeal for emancipation have grown
cold God forbid that such should be
the case. | never was more strongly
Impressed than now with the cruelty,
wickedness and folly of the system Of
slavery; | never was more convinced of
its demoralizing effect upon both mas.
ter aud slave Yet, in the cause of the
negro himself, / cannot regard with APP.
proval the act of Mr. Lincoln, which,
iC effective must bring about $50 horn.
BILE termination of slavery" as a servile
war.
am, sir, your obcdient servant.
T. POWELL BUXTON.
Leytonstone, Feb 10.