East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-06-08
A Slight Difference Of Opinion. How
TO Support the Government. fl

, A Slight Difference Of Opinion. Ho,
TO Support the Government.
Il Some very loyal women in Washing
ington have lately formed an assoeis
E ton, and invited all the Indies Of th
country TO join them in the adoptio
of the following pledge: ~ -
\ Noy-IMroHTATfoS ACT.
/ For three years or for the war, W
pledge ourselves to each other and tn
country, to purchase no imported al
ticticle Of apparel. gecr T
Another loyal lady, in, the Sandusk
(Ohio) Register, a loyal journal, pro
poses an amendment, as follows, TO tn
Washington programme. Sbe says
This pledge of the ladies of WASH
ington, recommended for adoption b,
all ladies throughout the United State
seems very uDpatriotic at this time
The chief reliance of our government
for paying the interest on their bonds
is the gold paid for duties on importec
articles.
! Nearly one-third of the money w
| pay for foreign goods goes directly int
the United States Treasury. t.-'..
On the contrary, our own manufac
turers are getting rich, and are in nc
wise likely to enter Heaven by the en-
ornous profits they are making, con
sequent on these heavy duties. 1t i:
nonsense for the rich to hoard uI
riches, instead of spending it through
fear of setting an example for poor
folks, which is the reason assigned foi
taking the above pledge.
Here is pledge, which, in my os-
timation, is more patriotic than the
above.
We, the ladies Of the United States
pledge ourselves to buy imported ar
ticlcs of dress, Sc, whenever by SO do
ing we can pay by duties into the
United States Treasury, what would
otherwise go as extra profits into the
pockets of our own manufacturers.
MRs. M.
We think the last pledge decidedly
the most loyal and patriotic, as well as
the most agreeable. In this connoc-
ton we give the following:
PATRIOTIC DRINKING.
A 'loyal' man came to town the
other day, got a little heavy about the
head, and fearing he might be sus-
pected of drinking too freely, apollo
sized to a crowd of by-standers in
the following eloquent and patriotic
language
"Now / ax you fellcrs who's the
bes: citizen, hun as supports the gov
ernment, or him as doesn't? Why
him as does, in course. l supports
government, fellers---.every man as
drinks supports government--tha is
If ho drinks taxed lickers. Every
blessed drop OF ticker he swallows is
taxed 10 pay the salaries of them big
officers at Washington, and support
the war. 'Spose all was to quit a
drinking, why the war must stop and
the government fall--it couldn't help
it nohow. That's the very reason 1
drinks. / don't like grog-I mortally
hates 1t. If follered my own incler-
nation, Id rather drink buttelmilk,
gin er pop or soda water. But /
drinks lickers for tho good "a n,y
country, TO set an example Of loyalty,
wirtuous self-denial to tho rising gen
eratian."--Hoimes County Farmer.
"BLAcKGuARpIsM IN THE HoUsE." ~
The New York Times Of Friday con-
tains an article under this title, which
we shall be pardoned for transferring
to our columns. 1t is as follows:
While our soldiers are baroing their
breasts to the storm of war, with
heroism that makes all truemen proud
to be their countrymen, the represcn-
tatives OF the people are besmlling the
American name with their unclcan
tongues. No decent man can read the
scruirility banded in the sitting Of yes
terday without shame. Though but a
neagre outline of it is reported, it ex-
cites absolute disgust. ltpasses com.
prehension how gentlemen--and we
know there are some in the body
could sit so quietly and endure the ex-
hibition in all its foul reality. Talk
of purging the House by the expul-
sion of Alexander Long, Alexander
Long is Hyperion himself in compar-
ison with the members, who, at such
a time as this, can indulge in such mu
tual abuse. Fallicious as were his ar
guments, disloyal as were his sonti-
ments Long in no wise infringod upon
the dignity of the House. His
words werc the words Of q gentleman.
They were words that could be neu-
tralized by sober reason, and leave no
stain. The feeling they aroused was
pure and generous Indignation, which
is a feeling essentially healthful and
invigorating. They sickened no man
with disgust Men could listen to
what he said and breath with casc--
could sternly rejoice cvcn that il gavc
truth one more chance to grapplo with
error. but no such sensation is pos
siblc in such commingling Of spite
as that of yesterday--Ynhoo with va
hoo. The only effect is unmixcd, ov-
empowering loathing. Tho House
ought to have p,irgcd itself on tho
spot. No silence could have been too
summary, no rebuko too severe. If
tho House has no care for its own
dignity, it at least has no moral right
to allow such ribaldry to be thrust upon
the people, who have n sense of
tho rcquirment Of civalizcd society,
and whose hearts are now less thon
ever in n frame to abide the outrage
patiently. Blackguards are never SO
intolerable as when solomnity should
rule the hour. -sr sB f@'
One item of duties ut New York
last week was SI6.7SG for f,ro;on