East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-11-02
VOTE THE CLEAN TICKET.

ciont earnest work which is required
of members of any political oigani-
zation to insure success, there are rea-
sons at this time moro potent than
any heretofore urged, why Democrats
should stand firm in their faith with
out vairableness or shadow of
turning"
BY their own declarations, which
however moderately sanctioned by
those of the party not yet lost to all
sense of decency are by no means re-
pudiated or discountenanced, the Re
publican party characterize every diff
ference of opinion existing outside
the magic circle of the followers of
Abraham l, as crime, those who in
dulge therein as atrqitQrs,n", ,,,f T9 spp,
this insult however stupid it may be,
and bless the hand that smites them
by bestowing vulgar fraction, even,
Of the franchise left them through the
rare clemency OF the Executive gov
ernment,' upon any of its parasites,
is an insult to them far greater than
it is in the power Of niggerism in any
I
phase to perpetrate.
Pomeroy, republican, may say Of
old Abe rs he did in his circular, "The
"people have lost all confidence in
"his ability to suppress the rebellion
"and restore the union" "The can't
"about "Honest old Abe" was at
/" first amusing, it then became ride
"ulous, but ao,c IL is absolutely Grim
sDiak" Framnnt may state. ns ha did
in his letter accepting the Cleveland
nomination." To day, we have in
"the country the abuses Of a military die
station, ~ithom its unity Of action and
"vigor Of execution. IN .Adlniaistra-
ton marked al home By disregard Of con-
Institutional rightS,Jy its riolations of per-
"sOnaI liberty and the liberty Of the press,
"and,Gs a grooming shame,Jy its abandon
"ment Of tile right Of asyl1m, riqht es-
specially dear 10 all free nations abroad"
b. +. Wade and III. Winter Davis
Republican leaders may accuse him
as they do in their protest against his
proclamation of the 9Th of July, 1864,
sol. acts unknown to the laws ard
the Constitution Of the United
States" Of "graro erecutire aaupa-
"tiop." a more stndied ontrapo ON lae-
islativo authority of the people than
has ever boon perpetrated" conyin-
ing in the Inauguration of a civil
"war for the Presidency" and other
republicans may denounco him as
they did with a manliness in honora-
BILE contrast their present trucking
subseryiency, and it is all legal, just,
patriotic, in the eyes of {" the govern
ment +" and its shoddy admirers. For
them there is free-speoch, free press
and freedom from arrest and incarce-
ration, and it is acknowledged to them
as right-as it is every citizens
right-wherein it is no mans prerog-
alive to interfere, be he plain citizen
A, or His Excellency, Pro gratm
Del ct Populi, Lincoln;" but tc Dem
ocrats there is no such right, or
any other right, acknowledged
They are granted certain privileges,
it is true, whereby they may contrib
ute in blood or treasure to q war
waged on principles and for purposes
which they hate and rcpudiate, but of
their " inalionable rights 4" character
lied in tho Declaration Of Independ-
ence as certain" but now by far too
uncertain, or the validity Of the citi-
zenship, even, of more than ono half
of the legal voters Of the loyal States,
there is no shadow of recognition by
the so-called government" 1t is
with it as with its supporters to-day,
as it was during the tendency of the
Crittenden compromise measures, "ev
erything for party, and nothing for
country" unbridled license for them
selves, relentless prescription to all
opposers. TO vote for one of the
minions of such a party, however
insignificant the man or the position
to which he aspires, is to sanction and
endorse the lawless despotism and un-
mitigated meanness of its chiefs, which
no Democrat can do and retain
tho self respect and manly independ-
ence which should at this time above
all others characteirze the only true
friends of the Union under the Con-
stitution.