East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-06-08

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"THE LADIES' COyENENT."
What Mercantile Organ says of it
From The Z. S. Economist.
We must confess to a peculiar re
luctance in alluding to this new popu
lar topic. We never like to speak O
our oountrywomen otherwise than re
specially, and in terms of commen
dation. The men monopolize the pow
er of tho press, and it is ungenerou;
TO make any structures on the acts Of q
class that have no adequate means o.
defence. Moreover, the motives of the
ladies, in the formation of their GOV.
cnant, are of that warmly patriotic
character which commands the admi.
ration of every high-mined citizen
however little their measures may be
approved by his judgment. We can
persuade ourselves to allude. in what
may be considered unfriendly terms,
to the Covenant" only OH the ground
that We do not believe the ladies to
be responsible for the origin of the
movement.
There axe certain political grannies
at Washington who are smitten with
moral terror about gold expectations
and who can see nothing in this war
but 'Providential opportunity" sent
for the consolidation Of exclusive do
mestic interests These parties have
had the ungallant astutuess TO set up
the women of the nation in a position
that will bring them little else than
ridicule, in order TO carry out the CRU
SADIE against the foreign element of
our commerce. They know that wo-
men have certain power In the com
munity, and they have in most up-
worthy cupidity, stopped to employ
their influenehce for their own mar
row and selfish purposes.
The scheme has been engineered
with the utmost tact. 1t was started
at Washington under the patronage
of some Of the first ladies Of the
country, whose husbands, by the way,
should have known better than to al
low their wives to be used for such a
purose it was recommended under
high sounding pretensions of patriot
ism; the names Of popular clergymcn
were brought into the movement with
as much facility a. the ladies had been
drawn into it; a system Of public
meetings have been instituted for the
formation of national organization,
and the schemeis now spreading with
all the rapidity Of popular .faro,r.-..
Thus far the development of this plot
of the protectionist politicians has
proved signally successful. How far
it will answer the purpose of its au
thors is another matter Viewed i'll
respect to its object, the government
is the grand Utopia OF the times.
At time when our stock of goods
is completely exhausted and we have
no possibility Of increasing our pro-
duction, the women of tho country are
asked to solemnly pledge themselves
not to buy even SO much as spool OF
sowing cotton made by foreigners
If the ladies intend to carry out this
ridiculous pl ,dgc, they must prepare
for the alternative Of dressing them
selves in rags for it is utterly beyond
the ability of our own producers to
supply all they want. Our woolen
mills are running to the utmost of
their capacity, and movement for
excluding all foreign wools is being
agitated in Washington,
which, il successful, would reduce the
production of domestic woolen fabrics
over one-third. If, therefore, the Ia
dies persist in buying only domestic
woolens, onc-haif of them must die
next wintcr from colds contracted
through patriotically denying them
selves sufficient warm clothing.
The ladies have boon told by their
Solon promptcrs that it is necessary
for them to wear domestic calico in
order to prevent the country from be-
ing drained of its gold. as though
these theorists had not been tho very
parties to drive gold out of circulation
by supporting Mr.. Chase in his
policy of flooding tho country with
greenbacks. And so the ladies have
to bo brought in to save the country's
gold A committee of impartial hus-
bands, we opine, would pronounce
their wives and daughters adapts in
spending it, but very poor helps in
boarding their treasure. Suppose,
however, the ladies refuse TO buy for
eign products and cloths themselves
in home-spuu, what then2 oB asuas
Why, as we should import nothing
from Europe, in turn Europe would
import nothing from us Tho result
would be that we should lose ourmar-
kct for the immense amount of pro-
ducc that goes abroa1; our farmers
would be ruined, our ship owners have
no employment for their vessels, our
railroads and canals would be depriv-
ed Of large proportion of their
freights, and the prophetic grass
would certainly at last cover the teem-
ing tlsuotyhfares of New York city.