East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-06-30

for the large, rich, and populous district
of West Tennessee. lie WAS ORIG,
anally from New York. True ,he was
never in West Tennessee until sent
from this city on his official errand, hut
he no doubt knows by intuition the
true value of the goods and chatteIs,
lands aud tenements, &c., &c, of apeo-
ple be, never knew, and a, country in
which be never lived. But he is so 10y
also much so that / doubt not no is
better fitted for the Office than any Of
the native born sons, bi others. or fathers
Of the the thousands OF, soldiers which,
before the 22d Of last September, West
Tennessee had furnished tho federal
army, Let the committee initiate the
qLoyal Deagues" of Baltimore and re,
solve that that you not only approve al
the present, wise and patriotic admins,
tration baye dong, but that you will
sustain and upholdit in ererytAtgg J Il
mag .Acreqf1er DE- Let, the committee
make an elaborate report, accompanied
with resolutions denouneipg all who
find fault with our most excellent Prest
dent. For instance, the last Congress
Gn July 1SG2,) passed a lazy TO coDGsti-
cate the property of certain rebels
That Congress, though a very wise
body, did not possess as much aggregate
wisdom as our great and good Presl.
dent. In proof, Of this we need bnt re-
fer to the fact that the Congress afore1
said provided that, under this law, trial
should precede conviction and forfeiture,
and that guilt should be proven, not
presumed Worse still, it offered an
amnesty to repentant rebols it merci-
fully gave them sixty days in which to
accept It, and provided further that our
most noble President might suspend,
for a period, the operations of this law
as our armies advanced southwark, so
as to afford all an opportunity to accept
pardon Worse still, this law actually
applied 10 no one bat re6els, And it is
astonishing that it applied to them
everywhere, North and South; in
Springfield Illinois, as well as Spring
field, Tennessee But worse still; it did
not wantonly effect the rights or prop
erty of Union men, women and children,
or lunstics in any section of the coup
try. rm1 a3
That Congress, strange as it may
seem, did not perceive that the way to
end the rebellion and restore ailectionate
relations between the sections was to
place tho Union men, women, and chill
dren, and the insane upon perfect
footing of equality with the vilesL trai-
tors in the land That Congress be,
lieved that the crime of refusing obedi,
encc to the usurpation of j. Davis s.
Co, in Mississippi, Arkassas, North
Carolina and elsewhere, amid the ter,
rors Of military ,despotisIn, did not
merit Che same or worse punishment
than that they had denounced against
titled and official traitors That Con
grcss spared the women and Children;
also shielding from harm tho Union
men who still adhered to tho national
symbol ofprotection! What weakness!
But Congress had adjourned. What
was TO be, done? Thank heaven, our
President was equal to the
occasion. You will perceive on the
first. of January last, under this so call
ed couGstication law, the slaves of every
rebel in the, United States who had
not accepted tho amnesty therein pro
vided were dc .jurc free, But how
were we to end this rebellion if the
Union men, women. and childron in the
so.called Confederate States were left in
possession of all their legal
aud constitutional rights? If this poll
cy were adopted, the rebels might be.
come angry with these monuments of
federal mercy" and in that event the
spared monuments aforesaid might
cling more closely to the federal flag
This division, among the people might
cause a still more unhappy state of
affairs down in Dixie; our friends. there
might have to bear additional indigni-,
ties. AS before remarked our merciful
and considerate President was found
equal to the crisis In a long converse.
ton with some inspired apostles from
the sanity city of Chicago--a place
where Onderdonking and other worldly
are unknown--the III esi.
dent candidly confessed that he was en-.
deavoring (he did not state the means)
to ascertain the will of the Lord upon
this difficult question that so soon AS
he learned the Divine pleasure he verify
would do tho will of tho Master who
sent him. The revelation came, ldonbt,
less, "by due course ofmail." I'D Judging
from that (which is written,ni amount
ed TO this; that in portions of Virginia
and Louisiana, in Delaware, in Mary
land, in Kentucky, in Tennessee. aud
Missouri it was lawful for traitorslwho
had accepted the amnesty provided by
the, oonfistication law, and all other per-
sons to holdIslaycs; but tbatin tue tide
water regions of Virginia, and in that
part of Louisiana which had not been
coRSecrateCl TO stavery byth military oc.
cnpatio0a Of Genc'al Butler, as also in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi Arksn.
sas, and Texas, it should no longer be
lawful for Union men, women and chill
dren to hold our African fellow, citizens
to service or labor. And yet there are
those of the %Coppcrhead pursuasion''
who profess not to SEQ the wisdom of
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