East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-01-11

prodigous shirt collar, and with hands
folded at point which indicated their
utmost limit Of downward extension,
in the blandest style of melo-dramatic
enunciation, said;
Mr.. President, sab IL am happy to
soc my old friends in Saginaw; 1 hope
you viii all grow rich and prosper, =
During the past two years tho country
has been heaved up by great moral,
political and social commissions, and
has been trembling upon the yertex
into which Rome and Greece fell upon
the plains of Marathon and PRISCILLA.
In that time l have been interested
somewhat in the military service of
the United States. From. my stand
point have become familiar with the
views Of the administration. Mr..
President, sah McDuffee said in 1872
that slavery is the corner stone of tho
Southern Confederacy. The Rich
mond Eram,aer said tho Same thing
when Lee crossed the Rubicorn. They
plotted the destruction of this country
as did Brutus, Cezar and Anthony
plot the destruction Of Rome. Mr..
President, again, sab: we have walked
into the jaws of death and into the
mouth Of hell, to save the United
States Of America. Henry Bulwer
said in O book, American nationality
ought to be subdued. / differ from
Bulwer. Again, sah The admins
tration could not put down this wal
without calling on the negro; yes,
sab, the slave Of to-day viii be the
ruler Of tomorrow; this war has dem
onstrated that the negro possesses all
the higher attributes of human ma
ture, and is entitled to all the priv
leges of American citizenship; they
charged to the lannon's mouth al
Port Hudson, Fredericksburg and Pc.
tersburg, and their blood has been
poured out in torrents upon every bat.
tie field of the war, from Vicksbure
to Ocoolooche. Mr.. President, sab
have felt this rebellion more than
most Of you. was once a citizen Of
Virginia, "the mother of States and
the mother of Statesman" What il
her condition to-day, sah The per-
simon tree where once tho beloved
'possum revelled in gladstone glee
secure and happy, with "nono to mo-
lest or make him afraid" is rived and
shattered by tho crushing shot and
bowling shell, and the rich alluvial
soil where the sweet potatoe grew
and the imperial naizo waved its tas.
seled head over scenes of incompar'
able brightness and innocence, has
been rent and torn by the carnage o.
bloody, devastating war. But sab,
see the end approaching, when the old
flag, the sign of freedom TO the Afri
can as well as the Anglo Saxon, shall
be planted on every rice plantation
and cotton field Of the sunny South
and the colored man taking his prop
er place beside the white in the granc
consumation, shall point exultingly tC
that flag, and exclaim, in the language
of the poet of old, an hoe signo rmees
Here the speaker paid an eloquent
tribute TO Gov. Blair, and strongly
urged his claims for the u. S. Senate
and with wave Of the hand grace
fully bowed himself off the stand
amid the waving of perfumed hand
kerchiefs and the laundering plaudit
of the audience.
The next speaker announced upor
the programme was u. Chandler, bu
the "blood letter" having failed t.
connect, the audience were spared tina
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infection, and Mr.. Mitchell, previousl,
noticed as graduate, &C., took TIT
stand. Mr.. NJ, a dapper, dandifeC
, shade of moderate dimensions, blu
most immoderate rim, struck an at
titude, "his eye in q fine frenzy roll
ing" Sawed the DIR with his hands,
''strutted and bellowed," store passion
, to tatters, to very rags" and in
: whirlwind Of uncomfortable demon
strativeness wherein the action obscur
ed the sentiment to such an extent tina
our report thereof is in consequence
: very indistinct mathematical tn
Free Press, the copperhead fraternity
, stirred up numerically all who dare t.
doubt that
: affection dwels in white and black the samo, ("
and raised q sulphurous fume abou
the premises generally; the burden o
his remarks being that the white mai
valued the negro only for the "dolla
and scent"
After Characteristic rendering o
Babylon is Fall'n," and other choic
selections in the musical line, the gas
tronomic exercises commenced, ia
bic beautifully supplied with "fish