East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-06-01

louministraCons itiad opfcced do-
lusive and enervating system Of nsper
money. II had yindicated the fanio
Of a patriot general, whom you hsd
removed from command Oh the eve ef
victory. It had deprecated your le-
election. Did YOU not find in thesa
facts the provocations Of your wrong
and your persistence in wiongs Had
you not made up your mind agains.
us before the underling, your partisan
had concoted his plot 7 When you az.
swer these interrogatories, viii Ero.
duce the proof of threats made agaiust
us by those nearest you, and nssan.-
ing to exert your perogative. before
this trick of forgery furnished ycu
with the spacious prctonse Of on eccr-
sation.
Can it be possible, sir, that Cor q
moment you supposed that iouIuais
like ours could afford to be guilty cf
this forgory9 Let the unanimous voice
OF your own press answer. Such "a
trick would hardly have succeeded in
Sangammon county, Illinois. For
party which is about to 90 before the
people, aud ask them to commit 10 its
hands the administration Of atiai,s.
which has been more generous and
bearing to your errors than you have
been just to its guides, permit mo 70
say that it was less possible to he truoe
OF any one of them than il was Of any
man high or low who suspected thcnl.
And SO the end has proved Tho
confessed and guilty forgors were your
own Jealous partzans. Joseph How
ard, Jr., who has confessed his c.i1no,
was a republican politician and LOYAL
Leaguer of Brooklyn. Consider, sir,
at whose feet he was taught his poli..
ical education, and in whose cousc he
spent his political breath. Mr.. How.
ard has been from his very childhood
an intimate friend of the republican
clergyman, Henry Ward Doesher, aud
member of his church. lie has lis
tened year in and yoar out to tho
droppings Of the Plymouth eanctuary.
Tho stump speeohos which thero rci-
lows and precedc tho benediction he
for years reported 10 the Journal
which is your devoted organ in this ,
city. For years he was tie editor Of
that journal, the Now York Zines !,
for long time ho was the Washing
ton correspondent of the chief aboli-
ton newspaper Of the country, tho
New York 7riJ,a's, he has bcon a fre-
quent contributor TO tho columns or
the Independent; he journied with you
from Springfield TO WASHINGTON; no
himself favored visitor at
the White House since yovr residence
there.
By curious felicity the stylus with
which his amanuensis copied on tissus
paper the proclamation, and signed
your name, was abstracted from the
editorial rooms Of the zrtJrns. The
party principles upon which you vero
pledged to administer the government
have becn the daily meat and drink
of this forgor. He has denounced 90
faithfully as you the party by whose
defeat you rose to power lie has
been'the noisy champion Of an ezclu.
siye loyalty; he has preached il club
at street corners ihosc rcl.
tics which stigmatize Constitutional
10 the administration as
disloyalty to the government. The
stock brokers who were his corfede-
rates will bo found to be OF the came
kidney. They all advocated a paper
money legal tender; they have all
'ountcnanced the paper imitation; they
have all been needless Of the misery
70 poor men which such inhations D
breed; they have all reioiced at tke
speculation thus fostercd, and by snec-
ilation they had hoped to thrive.
For twenty-four hours something
vas pardoned to your presumed natu.
al trepidation since our balnelessnesa.
laving been alleged to you by those
lere whom it was your duty to be-
ieve, II seemed only prudent to await
'our recovery.
For the next twenty-four hours
rom moment to moment, it was OK
,ected that you would hasten to con-
oss and repair your mistake. But
he mistake thus prolonged grew TO
he proportions of crime and till
ho discovery of the iforger stripped
is mask off and disclosed the lnslir-
ng cause Of the act, it grew monstrous
lourly in mems eyes.
We were patient that the immeas.
irable infauy of the act might swo!I
o its full proportions, and stand COM
,leto.
BY the rocall Of your arbitrary or
lor, you have not mado reparation
or the wrong you have done. The
injury and tho insult yet remain. Tho
'iolation of the Constitution stands
ecordcd, and unless adequately atom
d, becomes a fatal precedent. For
no purpose of gratifying an igncs
lie partisan resentment ycu Layo
truck down tho rights Of tho prcss,
on have violated personal libcity,
ubjectcd property to unjust seizure,
placed force ebovo law,
citing dangerous example 10 those
rho love force moro than they respect
lw; and thus, and by attempting 10
rush the organs Of free discussion,
avc made free elections impossible.
nd broken down all tho safeguards
| representative government.
1t is you that in this transnct;on
fand accused lcfore the pooplo. II
you who orc conspicuou.ly guilty
is upon you that history, when rc.
ording these events, will nifix tle
rimo Of . disregard Of your duty, ob--
won Of your oath, and litiablc
nbsorvienty TO party prejudice. anl
personal ambition, Whom tho coun-
> demanded in tho Presidential ci.
co, elevated character, devotion 10
II " and or, ,fi,o e1lf aL.,l..,..,ls-