East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-08-09
Rodncina our Annaies.

From the Rochester Union.
Most of our city contemporaries join
in a persistent clamor at the magni-
tude and cost of our remaining force,
and in demand that 1T be rapidly
reduced to fifty if not to twenty-five
thousand.
From the South, however, We have
quite other representations. The Pro-
gress Rahleigh) AYERS that the Union
lists, white and black Of North Carroll
ma, will be under the feet of the rebels
from the moment our remaining reg
iments are withdrawn-that threats
of hanging loyal men heneeforth are
openly made that these will be exc
cuted if opportunity shall be afforded.
Hence the Progress demonstrates
against the apprehended withdrawal
". Y. Tribute.
The demands Of Southern men and
Southern newspapers, however loyal
they may be, and the representations
upon which they base those demands
for keeping up large military force
in the lately rebellious states, are not
by any means to be accepted as con-
elusive evidence of necessity for such
military occupation. The fleet of the
rebels" will never cease to be held up
as bugbear by politicians at the
North, who desire to keep the South
ern States as long as possible from
the enjoyment of restored govern
ments, and by the Union men at the
south, who profit by the presence and
purchases of the military. The inter-
ests of the whole country, however,
and especially of the northern masses
who will have to pay tho bulk of the
enormous debt incurred by keeping
a standing army in the South, demand
the reduction of the military estab-
lishment as soon as possible. Men
who have some realizing sense of the
four thousand millions of dollars Of
obligations now saddled upon their
shoulders, do not relish the idea of
adding an additional thousand mil
lions to please fanatical or interested
parties here or There
! We insist upon the right Of the
lately rebellious States to govern
themselves and regulate their own do
mestic affairs in their own way, and
also upon their duty 70 do so and to
pay the expense involved, instead OF
drawing a vast sum from tie Federal
Treasury to cover the cost of liked
military and and civil government,
which is practically no government at
all. The people Of the south occupy
in some respects position somewhat
analogous to thot of the negroes Of
the South what they require is thai
they may be let alone in order thai
they may work out their own destiny
in their own way and adapt them
selves to the surroundings of their sit
uation. This, we have no doubt, il
, the view of President johnson, All;
r as soon as his Provisional Governor
get their States fairly upon their feet
under the provisions of the revised
constitutions, we shall expect to SCI
him withdraw from all parts of tn
interior such military forces as he ma.
: have left at the South and concentrat
: them in the regular Federal garrison
q and forts. They will then have n
!, more to do with civil government il
u the States where stationed than hav
g the troops in the forts along the Mort
= Atlantic and Lake coasts. If civ
outbreaks should occur and tho r-sa,
}" wees are required 70 .ettdfness to az
~ unucr mat section of the constitution
8 which provides for protection by tn
United States against domestic vic
II lence "on application of the legisla
y ture or of the executive when the lee
O islatare cannot be convened"
To this complexion do the peace
loving and tax paying people Of tn
r country desire the affairs at the Sout
d to come. There is not now an enem
n in arms or to be feared within the lin
its of the Uniled States. And, what
= ever may be the object Of concentrat
h ing force in Texas as an army q
/ observation upon the Mexican from
: tier, there is certainly no reason VIII
the military establishment east of tn
. Mississippi and north of the Re
8 River should not be reduced to
peace footing at once.