East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-05-26
H eason im Massachusetts.

Treason in Massachusetts. d
1t is incredible that the people Of
Boston allow in their city the weekly
publication of such Infamous utterances
rs the following from the Li6erator Of
April Gath ;,iI) 97eI m
mo act Of ours do we regard with
more conscientious approval or higher
satisfaction, none do We submit more
confidently to the tribunal of Heaven
aud the moral verdict of mankind, than
when, several years ago, on the 4th of
July, in the presence of a great Assem-.
! bly, We committed to the flames the
| Constitution of the United States, be.
cause lin the language of john Quincy
Adams) "the bargain between freedom
and slavery contained in it was morally
and politically vicious, inconsistent with
the principles on which alone our revo-
luton can be justified, and cruel and
oppressive by riveting the chains of the
oppressed, and pledging the faith of
ireemen tn maintain and perpetuate the
tyranny of the master" And should
the presen. bloody struggle end in any
compromise with the South, or in rec.
ognizing any constitutional obligations
to Shareholders Oh slave.hunters in the
border States, We shall again give that
instrument to the consuming fire, and
renew our protest against it AS a GOV
enant. with death aud an agreement
with hell" H...f ~ .lf.
"In the court of conscience before
God, it matters not what slaveholding
agreements or compromises may be
found in the Constitution or out of it,
they are all inhnman, unjust and i'm
moral, and therefore null and void and
if man can obtain office, or 6e a voter
under the Government, only on condi.
tion of sustaining such compromise,
then it is certain, if he would not do
evil that good may come, no must 70.
linquish otfice.holding, and refuse to
cast vote staine with human blood.
HIS motto j., and must be, an one loyal
to right and duty, No Union with
shareholders p'
Man is more than Constitution-better rot beneath
the sod
Than be true to Church and Safe, whilst we are
doubly false to God"
Perhaps we err by saying that it is
incredible. Within the past two years
"Loyalty" has became word of purely
arbitrary significance in the mouths OF
the mon that use it for the time. The
New York radical papers which de-
nounce their political opponents as dis
loyal have no words of censure for this
Boston paper, but on the contrary they
delight in honoripg Mr. Wendell Phil
lips, whose name is printed conspicuous.
ly at the head of the l.iberator as one
of the managers of its finances.
In the Middle and Western states we
hear daily of the capture of newspapers
and the arrest OF editors for alleged
reasonable sympathles. We have new.
er seen In paper published out OF
Massachusetts, a more atrocious anticle
than this, and yet it will pass unnoticed
by "loyai leaguers," unnoticed by radi-
cal newspapers, who mob the office of
the Boston Courier or Post to-day i'll
either ofthem should express a senti.
remotely in favor of the destruction of
tho Uuion. ..I .... -.
While ths men whom these disunion
Aboltionists call disloyal have been the
unwavering defenders Of the Union and
Constitution, their maligners are permit.
ted to preach treason in the pulpit, p 10
lish treason in their newspapers, aud
and are received with distinguished at.
tentions on the floor of Congress and i'm
the mansions of the highest Government
officers.
1t is a shock to the moral sense oft
world that an officer was dismissed trom
the service few days ago for voting a
democratic ticket in New Hampshire,
but no word ofcaution or rebuke comes
from the self styled ''loyal" party for
this outspoken treason in Massachu.
setts.-N Y Journal Of Commerce.