East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-11-02

these footsteps, woe be to the Ameri-
can Union, and you know it. And
this in the President is an example
that every true lover of liberty should
resist. Mr.. Philips then went on to
say how much quicker Messrs. lin
coin and Seward were to stop North
ern newspapers and to "ring the lit
tie bell" for hundred men to go to
Fort Layfayette than they were tol
touch the Southern slave. They could
only see that slavery is more sacred
than the Northern right to free speech,
or that they dreaded Southern slavery
opinion. Again, in 1861, that horri-
bic wretch Lamont, who kept slaves
confined in his brutal den in Wash
ington, and even had the impudence
TO refuse admission into it, to Senators
of the United States, though the
country has shaken with Indignation
at the horrible illegalities he practisod
on the negro, yet President Lincoln
Bssad BssTsdt to ssg 8S taa a9 and
In January, 1868, Mr.. Lincoln sum-
moned the negro to his aid. The first
lawyers in the land begged him to
pay the negro soldier the same as the
white man. Mr.. Lincoln answered
them with jeers. The Attorney Gen.
eral says there is not, and never has
been, any law making distinction
between the white and black, and yet
the President refuses to pay the negro
his legal wages. ["Shame, shame." ]
Is that the man to be trusted with the
rights of the negro in this critical
hourp T" Yes, No"] The speaker
next alluded to Fort Pillow and Lin
coins unkept promise 10 examine and
redress the masracre of the negro
troops. And so with the re-capture
of slaves in Virginia. Lincoln says:
"There has been some blacks taken
and sold into slavery, and Horace
Greeley will make fuss about it and
what can / doY' And an outraged
nation protested in indignation-and
"what could ho do?" Kisses and
applause. Missouri would now be a
free State but for Frank Blair, whom
the President made. Maryland an
swers, "You would not have to doubt
the adoption of any Constitution If
Montgomery Blair had not played the
devil with the State" Judge Durant,
of New Orleans, says "our public men
and editors have two sets of opinions,
one for the public and the other for
their friends. They do not let the
last be known for fear of dividing the
republican party, but liberty is in
danger" He would quote also some
opinions from prominent men in the
republican party, all expressed since
last May, in the deepest sincerity.--
Last June one man in the field, said,
"the reelection of Abraham Lincoln
will be disaster" Another said,
"the recollection of Abraham Lincoln
will be national destruction" Anoth-
er would rather SEQ Mcclellan olootod.
Said another, "there is no govern
ment at Washington, nothing there"
Winter Davis, Of Maryland, testified
to his inability Said another, "that
proclamation won't stand week be-
fore the Supreme Court, but had
rather trust it there than Abraham
Lincoln to make the judges" If they
have made Abraham Lincoln so strong
to-day that they cannot resist him
though unfit and incapable, should
they repeat indiscriminate eulogy now
that next February he will DO so
strong that he demands compromise,
that he cannot oppose himP Mr..
Lincoln has secured his success just as
the south used to secure its success
He says to the radicals of the repub-
lican party: 81 am going to nomi-
nate myself at Baltimore; risk di-
vision of the party, if you dare" and
the radicals submitted. Political Mas
sachusetts submitted, and is silent;
but anti-slavery Massachusetts, calls to
the people to save their own cause
Who are you in favor of? Will
YOU let us know, right out ?" The
speaker said he was not in favor of
Mcclellan, and concluded with more
savage comments on Mr.. Lincoln
Ho wanted by free speech toilet Abra-
ham Lincoln know that we are stron-
ger than Abraham Lincoln, and that
he is a servant to obey us. He dis
trusted the man who uses whole des-
potism in Massachusetts,, and half des-
potism in South Carolina, and that
man is Abraham Lincoln. Applause,
Misses, and confusion, during which
the speaker retired.