The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1864-05-11
A Change.


power to secure the success of Mr.. Lin
coin for the Presidency, and the adoption
of their political platform rs the policy Of
the new administration, hardly q speaker
at their meetings. but what held up to
1dicule any resistance the South might
make to any acts Of the new party and
the new policy that might be inaugural
ed with Mr.. Lincoln. We we'll remem-
Der how noted politician and success
full candidate for official honors, proclaim
ed at gathering of his faithful "wide-
awakes," that with but a regiment of
them, though every State south of Ma
son and Dixon's line should place itself
in antagonism to the government, yet
with bis little band, he would march from
Washington TO New Orleans, and with
no other arm than their torch sticks,
would he bring the traitors back to ODE
dience and subsection.
Following as this did close on that raid
when John Brown, with his little band of
seventeen men as insane as himself, dis
turbed tho equanimity Of the whole State
Of Virginia, and for time actually held
the village of Harper's Ferry, it did not
call for any great stretch of imagination
10 picture band of wide-awakes driving
before them the Wanted chivalry of the
South.
Well, Mr.. Lincoln got elected Presi-
dent, the South went out of the Union,
and the greatest war of modern times has
been inaugurated for the purpose of bring
ING them back; thus far without success.
We are now in the fourth year of the
struggle; many of these wide-awakes-
thousands of them-with hundreds of
thousands of friends, with arms and can
non, and all the paraphernalia Of vigorous
war, have attempted TO make a Judgment
in the heart of the rebcllious states, but
with doubtful success; and now comes up
the plaintive wall from the great north
west for help TO keep the invaders from
our soil, our homes from the hands Of
the spoiler.
For three years the administration and
the republican party have been carrying
on two wars, with divided success. In
the South they have expended life and
treasure with an unsparing hand, to sub
jugate the people and their institutions
with the avowed object of restoring the
Union, but they have sought TO break it
up beyond reconstruction. At the
North the war has been against demo-
Gratis and democratic principles, bloodless
as yet, but with growing rancor and bit
terness which gives promise of something
more than words. We have, and do re-
greet that, rs a party, we may not be per-
mitted to sustain this government without
being the recipients of all the vile cpl
thets which the tongue of party Islander
can utter; and we think we can see
a change coming in this regard, change
produced BY n common suffering for a
common cause. Heretofore what instan-
ces of suffering and loss that has been
outside of the army, has been with the
South; their country has been overrun;
their towns depopulated and destsoyed;
their towns pillaged and burned; their
families driven forth to bear MS best they
may the rigors of the season; but now
the latest news tells us that our homes
are in danger, that our exasperated South
ern foe is marshaling his clans TO bring
the torch of destruction to our dwellings,
the hands Of the spoiler to our doors, and
that little band of torch bearers, which
did not march through tie South, are
likely to be needed to protect our homes
from the foot of that southern chivalry
that would not be so easily crushed!
At the solicitation of number Of
Western Governors, who find their states
threatened with invasion, the President
will call for 100000 moro mon from
these States alone, for their own protec-
ton.
We might dwell on this change from
the Wanting of three or four years to the
cry for help, but the matter involved is
too serious to point even political NOR
al. We trust that should the fears Of
the Western Governors DO realized, and
we be obliged to give an armed protec-
tion to our homes, that while all alike
would unite in affording this protection,
all may be treated as friends ofa common
country, in which all have an equal inter
est, and that republican bitterness and
rancor may, for the first time, be laid
aside.-JackSon Pdtriot
A vrrr,xo &c c;t;7aps of Grand Ha-