The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-02-18
he Union and The "Times.,

MI, OHto" shhho ehns sho ue'"oe'@hS
party have not given Mr.. Lincoln firm,
cordial support for the purpose Of putting
down the rebellion. II the evidence he
has had is not sufficient, then we should
despair Of convincing him, even if the
whole democratic party should turn out
en- 0sasse, with all of their effects, and 60
10 Washington and offer themselves and
all they have to Mr.. Lincoln. Mr.. Union
knows that when the President called for
the first seventy-five thousand of volun-
teers there was no distinction Of party
that responded TO the call, democrats and
republicans alike offered themselves with
out hesitation, and when the first three
hundred thousand were called for there
was willingness shown to comply with
the demand that is unprecedented in his
tory, and nothing but the hundreds of
thousands that followed them so fast that
the government could not receive and pro-
vide for them as fast as they came could
compare with the first that offered them
selves willing sacrifice, if it was necessa-
ry for the preservation of our Union and
its constitution. Will Mr.. Union take
into consideration that the larger proper
ton of those hundreds o., thousands were
men who were living independent of the
necessity of working by the day or month,
for the purpose of obtaining a support for
themselves, leaving friends and kindred,
and life of ease and comfort, and in very
many instances making sacrifices of posi-
lions of profit, exposing themselves to a
life Of toll and hardships they were stran-
gers TO heretofore, and TO climate which
has sent thousands Of them to their long
homo. Even those who had been in the
habit of working for wages, by the day or
month, were making sacrifices in pecu-
MARY point of view, for they were getting
more per month than the government is
giving them, This we call giving the
President firm and cordial support for
the purpose Of putting down the rebellion.
1t was a voluntary act on The part Of those
who enlisted There was no compulsion
used; and, until The 22d of last Septem-
Der, the thought of being drafted was far
from our minds. From that date there
was change. Abraham Lincoln was in.
duced by the abolition party TO violate his
pledged word, which he had given the
democratic party, that " be would prose-
cute this war for the sole purpose of
bringing back the rebel States as they
were, under the constitution" The dem
ocratic party, while giving Mr. Lincoln
their unreservcd and hearty support, en-
phatically gave him notice, that if he de-
waited from this purpose, for the sake OF
party, he would have their opposition.
And in every instance, thus far, where he
has violated the constitution they have
faithfully and sternly rcproyed him for it.
The democratic party have reverence
for the constitution Of the United States
that is not understood or felt by any 9TH
er party. For under that constitution
they have made these United States what
they were before the present Administra-
lion came into power. We are quite
willing that such men as control the I'm
ION should undertake TO ridicule us for our
love and defense Of the constitution. We
do not expect anything else. For when
the leaders of the republican party will
fellowship with and countenance such
men rs Garrison, Phillips, and men Of
their sentiments-when the Senate Of the
United States unblushingly invites man
into their presence who has declared that
"The constitution is league with hell
and covenant with death when the
President Of the Senate Hannibal Ham
lin, leaves his scat ard walks into the
middle of the hall TO meet him and show
him tho honor of distinguished guest
then, certainly, we may expect the under.
lings of the party to follow their example
Mr.. Union, in his reply to our last arti
Gle, has not undertaken TO defend Mr.
Lincoln in his numerous unconstituliona
acts, except in ono instance, The suspcn
sion of the writ of hobeas corpus. The
Governor Of our State, in a pettifogging
manner, undertook to justify him for hi.
illegal arrests. Any one who will'justify
him in the one will justify him in the 9th