East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-02-24
A Vivid Picture of the Result of this
os n 4f War. W


Some fifteen or sixteen months ago,
in an address delivered at an Eastern
city, a well-known orator and public
man exclaimed:
q will not speak of the costiof this
war, though you know we shall never
get out of it without debt Of at least
81, 900, ,000,0 900. L will not remind you
that debt is the fatal disease Of Repub-
hcs-the first thing, and the mightiest
Ito undermine Government, and cor
rupt the people. The great debt of
England has kept her back in all prog
ress at least o hundred years. Neith-
or will remind you that, when we go
out of this war, we go out with an inn
mense disbanded army, an immense
military spirit embodied in two-thirds
Of million of soldiers, the fruitful,
the inevitable source of fresh debts
and new wars. 1 pass by all these,
and lying within those causes are
things enough to make the most SAN
guine friends of free institutions trem-
bic for our future.
"But let me remind you Of another
tendency Of the times. You know,
for instance, that the writ Of habeas cor
pus, by which Government is bound to
render reason to the Judiciary be-
fore it lays its hands upon citizen,
has been called the high-water mark
of English liberty. The present Ma
poleon, in his treatise on the English
Constitution, calls it the germ of Eng
lish institutions. Iieber says that
that, with free meetings like this, and
a free press, are the three elements
which distinguish liberty from despot-
ism, and all that Saxon blood has gain
ed in the battles and tolls Of two hun
dred years are these three things
Now, to-day, every one of these-habe-
as corpus, the right of free meeting,
and free press-is annihilatod in every
square mile of the Republic. We live
to-day, every one of us, under martial
law or mob law. The Secretary OF
State puts into his Bastile, with a war
rant as irresponsible as that of Louis,
any man whom he pleases, and you
know that neither press nor lips may
venture to arraign the Government
without being silenced"
This is an eminently truthful pic
ture of our present condition, and il
well portrays the daugers..of the fu-
ture. OF all that has been said on
the subject, we do not believe that the
facts were ever 50 ably condemned and
so boldly expressed as by the author
of tho above remarks. He continued
ave are tending with rapid strides
You say, inevitable don't deny it,
necessarily; l don't question tive
are tending to that strong Govern
ment which frightened Jefferson; to-
ward that unlimited debt, that endless
army; we have already those Alien
and Sedition Laws which, in 1893,
wrecked the Federal party, and sum-
moned the Democratic into existence.
For the first time on the continent we
have passports, which even Louis Buo-
naparte pronounces useless and odious.
For the first time in our history Gov
crnment spies frequent our great
cities"
Now, who do our Republican
friends suppose held up this political
mirror to the Government What
distinguished Copperhead did it?-
Was it Vallandigham, Thomas III. Sey-
mour, Horatio Seymour, George +.
Pugh, Fernando Wood or ID. w.
Voorhees,? Was it Brooks, Wall OF
Medary? Ahl they can not guess
their conjectures are at fault. We
will tell them 1t was Wendell Phil
lips.-Cm. Eng.