East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-03-16
The Manifesto of the Rebel Congress-


The Manifesto of the Rebel Congress.
The Confederate Congress have is-
sued remarkable address to the peo-
ple of tho region in instruction, which
traces, always from southern stand
point, the origin and progress of the
rebellion, portrays the alternate hopes
and disappointments of their cause,
presents a formidable indictp ent
against Mr.. Lincoln, declares against
any overtures for peace, and, in def
ant attitude and with inhammatory
appeal, pr,claims anew the resolve to
continue tho war. Still there runs
through the paper, in the absence of
gasconade, an admission of popular
discomfort, and lurking distrust of the
fortunes Of the rebellion.
We are told, at the outset, that the
so-called Confederate States, with
drew from the former Union and
formed new confederate alliance, as
an independent government, based on
proper relrtions Of kaJor and capitaL"-
Nothing more clearly shows that the
secession leaders arc Of different spirit
from the revolutionary men on whom
! pubic affection, North, South, East
and West, gathered, than the preson-
tation Of slavery, to be the pepper re-
lation of capital and labor, anu as the
foundation Of national government.
The Democratic founders of republican
government here, proclaimed no such
basis. Of oil our statesmen we should
select Jefferson as the representative
of u thorough Americanism and his
inaugural the platform of the De-
mocracy and of the People-proclaims
mans equal right to the use of his ia
cilities, to the acquisition of his indus
try, and to that wise government that
should not take from the mouth Of la
Dor the bread it has earned !. but the
sympothizer with feudalism Will look
In vain, either in this paper or else
where in Jefferson's whole utteranccc
for any such idea as that a nation
should be based on the principle that
the rich man should own tho laboring
man Of all Republicans, Madison
most represents the serene wisdom as
to practical affairs that eliminated in
that monument of tho advance, Mack
intosh's eulogy) which tho human
mind has made in the science OF gov
eminent, our Constitution and YET
nowhere will such basis be found in
his writings and he would not have
the word slavery in the great freedom
instrument. All agree that the sub
lime blending OF civic virtues in Wash
ington was the best exponent OF our
Union; but so far from entertaining
such n conception as that nation
should be based on capital owning la
Dor, his earnest desire was that th,,
States that ordained the Union might
become by their free action all free
States. The basis in this last secess
ion manifesto, tested accurately, is the
aristocratic spirit that here in Now
England sought to keep the laboring
man under, grudged him his rights,
saw with jealousy and alarm the glo-
rious progress of the free West, and
finally eliminated in the Secession
doctrines set forth in the address Of
the Hartford Convention.
1t is la,nentable that the principles,
objects and measures, which North
ern extremists have wrung from an
Administration more seiieitous to catch
their votes than to save the country
should hero form tho basis Of the mos
inAamatory appeals to the people to
continue ruinous war. For Illus
tration the trainers of this address
! pass by resolutions adopted, nearly
unanimously, by the House, forgrant-
ing money and men for war to pre-.
serve the Union and Constitution and
find matter to their purpose in the
miserable partizan resolution of the
demogogues Of Congress, of q savagt
stamn which ia nnotad Mt lenoth In
decd the citation of the policy of ex
tremists, worthy it must be confessed
of race of Goths and Huns, make.
the only strong point of this artful pa
per. 1t is the old story of tho deadly
enemies for the Union at the North
supplying the faggots, and their allies
at the South applying the torch. II
the eternal shame Of mankind, tn,
preservative element, thus far, ha'
been so cut up by pastloves and hates
and old sores, that it has been littl,
more than locker on Of the conha
grafton.
The hope Of tho country is in {
change, North and South. The mas
ses Mt the South-the free labor Of tn,
South--cannot subscribe to the doc
trine that capital should own it. Ii
time, the reverers of the memories ant
principles of Madison, Jefferson, Jack
son and Washington will test thing
by tho right test. In time, they will
as it regards tho North, distinguish
between tho practical objects of thu
great body of the people and the i'm
practicable schemes of the radical fan
atics and the prohigate demagogues
{ The mass of the people, here, beyond
a question, aim to save the country
while the avowed objects of the Scces
sion ultras, on the one side, and of thu
Abolition ultras on the other side, is Il
substitute at the South q degrading
feudalism for tho grand individual lib
erty of the Fathers, or at the North t.
establish Capitalization unknown t.
the Constitution. Could the sterling
, good sense and patriotic aspirations o
vast majority of tho people, Soutl
, and North--tho bone and sinew Of tn
laud-have fair and full play, thu
, priceless blessing of Peace would sool
be seen in all our borders, and tn,
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