East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-02-03

the Secretary OF State ought TO resign,
but proceeds to charge him with treason:
snow, / stand alone--no man re.
sponsible for me, and responsible for
nobodv-but say that, on the 4th of
Dec.a 1860, James, Buchanan wrote a
message to Congress, and it is, on the
very best authority, stated that before
he sent it he submitted it to William
II. Seward, and from that time to the
4th of March, 1861, no fortnight passed
that he did not consult your New York
Senator in regard to the policy of the
government. Rightfully, unanimously,
in the collision Of the great forces of
the government, he took into, counsel
the statesman of the republican party,
and if the history of the closing months
Of that administration is written over
with treason, say the Premier, the
Secretary of State, has his share of the
responsibility. [Cheers. "That's So"
Applause and hisses Yes, know
that Mr.. Thurlow Weed denies that
Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Seward spoke
to each other on the subject Of public
affairs. IF he will ask Judge Black he
will tell him the means by which they
communicated" =.
Up to this point wo were dealing
with Wendell Phillips opinion his
cone idea.n Here is distinct charge
Of treason, made on his own RESPONSE.
bility-yet the charge is calumny-
an aggravated calumny. because the
utterer of it confesses that he has seen
an equivocal contradiction oft. We only
knew this man before as fanatic
We know him now as slanderer.
But we shall treat this calumny prac-
tically. The radicals want to get Mr..
Seward out of the Cabinet. Here is a
charge of treason. Prove it, and their
object is accomplished. AS it stands,
their exponent, the accuser, is branded
as a calumniator:
"In August the President laid before
the Cabinet this very proclamation, fix
ing the day on the first day of Decem.
Der, 1862. Stanton, Chase, Bates and
Wells voted for it; Blair and Seward
voted against it. Mr.. Seward begged
delay, and telegraphed for his Siamese
twin from Albany. [ Kisses and ap.
plause. When he came to Washing.
ton the proclamation was smothered,
and to Massachusetts, Senator Mr..
Seward said "I smothered it, and the
best service I ever rendered to this ma
ton WAS TO smother it," Now, l don't
dispute his right to have an opinion
He understands this country as we'll as
you and l. He has right to his phil.
osophy of the struggle, but say when
the government announces that the
philosophy which he trusts in is mis-
taken, and the nation chooses new
channel, it has a right to new pilot
[Cheering.] i a.
Here is another, though less essential,
falsehood. No such telegraph was sent
or received. Nor do we believe that
Gov Seward used any such language
to "a Massachusetts Senator" But
Messrs Phillips, Greeley, Sumner &
Co., having, as they claim, put the
"nation" into "new (aboliton) chan
mel" they demand ga new pilot"
Mr.. Phillips says:
| "What did we choose Abraham Lin.
coin for? Or what did you, rather?-
did not vote for him."
OF course he did not. No such man
as Mr.. Lincoln could get his vote. But
he now arrogates TO himself the right to
change the course of the national ship
and 10 dictate "a new pilot"
So much for Wendell Phillips, who
was announced in the Tribune as ar.
irving in New York to say "Amen to
the emancipation proclamation" Then,
in the same capting language, Mr.. Gree
ley being called upon to pronounce
tho blessing" said
"Mr. Greeley then came forward, and
when it had subsided he said: Fellow.
citizens, when this struggle commenced
/ think | was not as gay and as san
guine as most of you were. did no,
believe, if we had civil war at all, il
could be a little war. I did believe
and l believe now, it might have beer
made little war by striking so strong
ly that it would not have been civi
war at all"
q Mr. Greeley's memory is at fault
He forgets the mode by which he labor
cd to avert "a civil war" He was a
the outset, in favor Of division of tn,
Union. He did not "believe" in "strk
ing" at all; but he maintained in th'
Tribune that if the cotton slave State.
resolved to go out of the Union, the,
had "the right" to do so, and that th,
governmenthad no right to hinder them
That was Mr.. Greelcy's position ant
view. Nor was he willing that it shoul,
be "a little war;" for when it broke out
and the border slave States manifesto,
desire 20 remain in the Union, tn
Tribune did all it could to drive then
ont. So that he not only acquiesced il
a separation of the States, in the begin
lining, but prevented the possibility Q
"a little war" by forcing North Csrolin
aud Tennessee into the rebellion.
! But let US come to the gist Of MI
Greeley's blessing: @
4 ave ara now in the midst of tina
war. 1t demands of us efforts an
sacrifices and porils. do not see tn
immediate result of the war. / am no
sanguine that, under tie leaders zoe hav,
tho management wo have, an immedlat