East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-07-26
NUMBER 312.


0 ship and not childish animosities con-
troll our conduct.
This exhibition Of a feeling of toll
: Grafton and charity is no novelty, even
: in our own, history. Its blessed eff
fects have, in principle, been exhibited
5 in the organization of our government,
5 and in its successful administration
throughout all the palmy days of the
republic. 1t would have preserved us
from the tragic exhibitions of the last
four years. 1t can even yet heal the
wounds that have been inflicted and
replace us in our career Of unrivalod
7 prosperity, and freedom and splendor.
Nor have we to labor and wait for
Years before the harvest will com
J 1nence. The, means are already pro-
vided which promise for immediate
success. Combinations of circumstan-
ces seem to have been providentally
prepared to suit our purposes. The
800, 900 voters who constituted the
effective strength Of the great conser-
vative host at the last election, and
which would even then have been
i triumphant but for extraneous inhu-
enees, are still organized and ready to
act. Add to these the numbers then
estranged by causes now obsolete,
and there can be no doubt that on the
issues now presented the majority viii
be overwhelming with US.
+ But on these stupendous issues we
shall be sure Of the cordial sympathy
and support of the great majority Of
the people of the South. Their al
most unanimous aid can be implicitly.
relied upon, swelling our numbers to
as great majority as is desirable.a-
The two Houses of Congress will be-,
moved by the popular impulse or they
will at least give way before the pop
ular will. 9liihHo2 '.il "oat no : t-
To crown all, our Chief Magistrate,
though raised to power by our antag-
onists, has by the change of circum-
stances already mentioned, been placed
again by the side of his political
brethren. They and he were separa-
ted by surrounding extraneous con-,
siderations, which are now forever re-
moved. In respect to thevital ques-
tons of the day, there is no living
man who more fifty represents the
great principle on which our institti-
tons rest, than does the President
Born and bred in the South; fully
conscious through reason and obsotea-
ton of the fruitlessness and folly of
attempting a political partnership be:
tween the two faces; impressed with
the vital Importance of maintaining
the rights and securing the indestruct-
ibility Of the several members of the
great Federal family by birth and
sympathy a man of the people; ever
hostile to governmental extravaganza,
to class legislation, and schemes of
and schemes of public plunder.; op.
posed throught his whole life to those
" lao -vIv shining ~ IIiosho ours
splendid, overshadowing, centralized
government; he is the right man
providentially placed in the right po.
sition, to extricate the country from
the eminent perils which now surround
it, and TO roll back that tide Of abuses
which threaten TO engulf the blessings
public and private, which were be-
queathed to us by our fathers,
DO you doubt this? Will you ask
why, if this be so, have not the multi
tude of these abuses been long since
abolished p? "
BE not too impatient. Great chan
ges in public affairs should not be
made imcautiously. The tares cam
not always be suddenly and safely up
rooted, lest the wheat be also de-
stroyed. Our antagonists could not Z
await the slow but certain operation
of peaceful causes to remove an OBJ
noxious institution, but by their recls- Il
less impetuosity led to the drenching
of the land with fraternal blood. =
Let us not initiate their impatience.
All the acts of the President since
he assumed the reins of power, have
tended in the right direction. The q
only fault we can iInpute is, that he
has not moved forwerd with sufficient
rapidity. .., .'-., : ... I. : Il
He might, it is true, have moro
promptly restored the benefit of tho
writ of haJeqs corpus, But practically,
no great evil seems TO have resulted
from delay. He might have sudden
ly discontinued the "bureau of mill.
itary justice;" but as mere court 6f
enquiry, advantages may grow out of
its Investigations which partially, per-
haps, redeem and shield it from our
Just detestation. When any sentence
which it may render shall have been
executed, there will be good reason
for complaint but until then let us
have the charity not to condemn tho
physician though his remedies may
seem rather tardy. l1ri7I ~
Multitudes of other abuses Of every
grade, and which have become invet-
crate, await the pruning hand of re-
formation But their removal in.
wolves the radical changes which call
for caution and deliberation rather
than haste. If thore has been error
it has been on the side Of safety. If
even blame can be imputed, II is tri-
fling in comparison with the stupenH
dots interests which now tremble in
the balance. fir sial ~ f9lad 3 a.
Or shall we apprehend thatwe may
after all have been the subjects Of de-
ception ? Caution in political matters
is ever ccmmendable. But President
johnson, In his frequent and open
declarations that the opinions he has
so long entertained on all subjects
which are now Of somuch interest,"
are still unchanged has had'no mo-
tive for deception. He we'll new that
by these declarations he wasisure to-
loose the favor ofa controlling nums
Der of those who, 20 secure thoir own
ends, have aided in his election. They