East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-09-28

81 The neutrality-suspicious. OF the
Chicago Platform was recently given
in a speech, by Washington Hunt.
The entire speech is excellent but we
place thus particular portion by itself,
that it may receive undivided atten-
ton:
ave hear great deal said about
the platform adopted at Chicago. The
platform was not intended for such
men as Mr., Greeley and Mr.. Sumner,
the leaders of the republican party !;
it was intended to proclaim to this
people and the world that we are still
a froe, civilized and a christian peo-
pie, and that we intend to maintain
constitutional principles in this land
of ours-that we intend to use all the
energy we possess to preserve our con-
stitution, and that purpose is express
ed in phraseology which no fair min
ded man can mistake. You have been
told, no doubt, that by the terms of
the platform adopted at Chicago, the
democratic party were in favor of i'm
mediate peace and separation, that we
are in favor of dividing the Union
There never was a more fragrant cal
umny. They begin with the assertion
of answering fidelity; that while
they condemn this war as it is now
carried on and the policy by which it
is conducted, they declare that imme-
date efforts should be made for the
suspension Of hostilities. In what
wayp On the basis Of the Federal
Union of tho States, and to the end
that tho constitution may be restored.
This is tho one condition-that is the
basis on which we propose to estab-
lish Union. We purpose to say to
the people Of the South, whenever they
will come and take their place in the
Union, the states shall again be equal,
our government will be restored to its
former condition; the framework will
be the same; the relations between
the states and the general government
will be the same; the rights Of the
citizens will be the same, and we will
again become freemen indeed under
this federal bond--under the @gis OF
law. Great applause.) And when
we are reproached, will ask whether
our republican friends are willing to
make peace on these conditions? II
they are then they ought to go with
us. If the course is pursued which /
have attempted to place before you,
if earnest efforts be made to bring up
the disunited people of the South to
their old relation to the people of the
North--to bring these states back
once more upon the guarantee and as
suranoe that they are to have their
rights, believe that the Union will
be restored, not that it is an easy task
II is one of the greatest labors that
was ever placed upon men since the
beginning of the world. To re-unite
the parts after such a struggle as this
is work thatrequires wisdom, states
manship, skill and forbearance. 1t il
easy to destroy, but far more difficult
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spirit Of hatred; it is not to be done
by declaring to the people that We in
tend to hold them as enemies, but il
is to be done by going back to those
old principles which were so scrupu
lousy observed in the early history o,
our republic, when we were united a.
one people by common recollection'
and by kindred hopes, and by al
those ties Of interests and affection
which combined people together until
this spirit of discord came in and des-
troyed the paradise of American pros.
perity. (Applause.) Now are you
representatives of these principles fol
the purpose of restoring peace and
the Union, for there can be no Union
without peace, and no peace without
reconciliation ?"