East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-10-05
ago, for that atrocious and ungodly
assault upon our government which

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assault upon our government which
initiated this gigantic civil war
["Thas's So" Applause.] We all
know that the secession leaders Of the
south, who had SO long been medita-
ting the movement in vain, exulted in
the election Of Abraham Lincoln at
that day as / fully believe they viii
exult again, if he is re-ohosen in No
vember- because it supplied the very
fuel which was needed for kindling
this awful conflagration. That as
sault upon the government can never
be characterized in terms of too severe
condemnation: and, if railing at the
rebellion or its authors would do any
good this evening-if it would be any
thing better than baying at yonder
moon--I would join with you in de-
nouncing it until tho vocabulary of
condemnation was exhausted. But
we all know tfIut If1e wnofe north rose
nobly up, as one man, without distinc-
ton of party, to repel that assault; and
that they have sustained the govern
ment-democrats, republican, and con-
servatives alike - with all their hearts
and hands pouring out their blood
and money like water from that day to
this. And the loyal states will con-
tinue to sustain the powers that be in
all their constitutional action, until the
end of their term, whatever may be
the result of the pending election mot
all of them, by any means as approx
ing the policy of the administration,
but all of them as recognizing its
rightful possession of the authority of
the government. But no considera-
ton of loyalty, or of patriotism call
upon them to 60 further. ["No,"
and cheers. No considerations of
loyalty call upon US to prolong the
supremacy of party whose act and ggl
ihinntgSuish almost every spark of union
sentiment in the southern breast, and
to implant there in its Stead a desper-
ate and defiant determination never
to be reconciled, never to submit or
yield, never again to come under ru-
lers, whom, reasonably or unreasona-
bly, they have learned to hgte. No
considerations Of patriotism call upon
us to renew the official term of an adj
ministration whose peculiar policy, by
inspiring this spirit of desperation and
hatred, has rendered the victories OF
our armies hundred fold harder to
achieve, and has robbed them of so
many of their legitimate results after
they have been achieved. For never,
my friends do victories cost so much,
and come to so little, as when they
are wrung from foe who has been
goadcd and maddened to despair
This sort of goadng and maddening
process may answer well enough for
increasing the sport at bull run
+" Good LAUGHTER and ehaers J And
/ fear the day is still distant when il
will secure us that sort of victory
which we can reasonably hope to see
followed by union and peace.
Nothing could be further from my
purpose, i'll these remarks, than to cast
the slightest imputatIon upon the pat
riotism of President Lincoln, or any
body else No one can doubt that he
wishes to write his name on the roll
Of history as the restorer Of the Amer.
lean union. 1t is title which might
satisfy the most exalted ambition
lie may well be excused for his eager.
ness to remain in office until he ha:
accomplished the work. He may al
most be pardoned for welding til,
enormous patronage and power which
belongs to the executive in "a war lik,
this for securing his own nomination
and his own election, if he really be
lieves he can accomplish it. And thos'
who are of opinion that he is jus
about to succeed-whether within six
- VS. or ninety days-before Christ
alter--are right to give hin
An ,upport. We would all supper
. n.ni # we were Of their opinion, fo
we want the country saved, no matte
who is to have the glory. But Presi
dent Lincoln is evidently looking for
, ward to another title in the history o
the future. He desires to be enrolle'
as the great liberator of the African
raco-a glorious title, also, if it coul,
be legitimately obtained. But / great
: ly fear that in aiming at the second h
{ has lost the first. No man, think
can help perceiving that he is so em
barrased and entangled by his procla
\ nations and commitments, and pledg
\ es in regard to slavery, as to be al
: most incapacitated for bringing thi
| terrible struggle to an early or sue
: cessful termination. [Applause. II
: has contrived to weave Gordian kno
1 which he himself is unable to unit,
: and which tho .truest and sharpe'
b swords seem thus far powerless to Gu
y asunder. No one can have forgotten
4 certainly, that recent and extraordir
@ ary manifesto "Fo whom it may cor
: cern," in which, in reply TO the fir
,f suggestions Of peace, he felt oblige
n 10 insert condition which discomiite
@ his best friends, aud rendered all sue
e efforts hopeless
II Fellow-citizens, we need n chang
o of counsels "Thats true" Al
n plause. We need change of couI
q selors. We need return to the po
n icy on which the loyal states first ra
It lied so unanimously to the suppressic
O of the rebellion. We must 20 bat
/ to the principles embodied in the re
l. olution adopted by the congress of Il
lt United States, not far from the fourt
m day of July, 1861, and worthy TO ha'
{. been adopted on that hallowed ann
al vcrsary Itself, adopted in the senat
g on motion of Andrew johnson, al
N adopted in the house Of represent
k tives on motion of the lamonted Cri
ir tenden. That terrible repulse at Bt
to Run had then just taught us wisdol
id Would to heaven that We had not
s, soon forgotten that lesson! If we h'
Is never departed from that resolutions
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