East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-07-26
Address ofthe National Committe,
~ to the Democracy of the II. s..

Address of the National Commute
l1i to the Democracy of the u. S.
! st The change which has recently Ia
Ken place in our condition and pro,
poets induces Us now again to addres
yon. The work of destruction
ended. The restorative process ha
commenced, Weare, therefore, place
in new relations to public affairs, bu
the influence we can exert has nc
been thereby lessened in importanct
BY harmony, promptness, and unior
We may now hope to rescue our coun
try from that ruin which but latel
seemed SO inevitable. .s.-.
.o, With but few, exceptions, we, as /
body, have always sought the welfar
and unity of the entire country, bu
we have differed as to the means mos
appropriate to that end. In the be
ginning we all believed that peace an,
union were compatible, and that botl
could be secured by conciliatory meas
ures. But the reckless and the inter
ested of both extremes proved to,
powerful for US. Aided by circum
stances, which we could not control
they hurried the country onward int
the great vortex Of blood. 80
The war once begun, we were al
obliged to yield, more or less to over
ruling necessity. You of the Soutl
were obliged to fly your country OF
join in aid ofthe attempted revolution
Among US at the North some were
still pnalterably opposed to all but
measures looking Immediately to peace
Others, after the war had commenced,
joined with those who were urging il
forward, till its supposed cause could
be wholly eradicated while the great
mass Of our number acquiesced in
that war as an unavoidable calamity
to be prosecuted Ger the sole purpose
Of restoring the Union, and believe
ing that, as soon as this object was at
tanned, the war ought to cease g.,
Upon the issue last, suggested we
entered the political contest. The
combined influences against us proved
too powerful, The war went on till
African slavery has been suddenly
and violently uprooted. We believe
this has been effected through great
and useless wrong; but for thus we
are not responsible, as we used all
reasonable efforts to prevent that
wrong. y f
In one important particular great
benefit has thereby been conferred up
on us. 1t has removed the soul cause
of disagreement among those, whose
views in other essential respects are
in harmony. This has been one of
the. many instances whore retributive
justice has crushed the wrong doer
through his own success, and benefited
the opposing party through its own
failure. 400. .-., x ..,..-
And now we stand at the COM
menoeaont Of q now polititieel e-a.
Old things have passed away. Let the
dead bury their dead, while we turn
our thoughts to the living, and to the
future. Whatever we may think of
accomplished facts, they must receive
our acquiescence. Let us then accom-
odate ourselves to what is inevitable,
and direct our efforts into channels
where they can still produce useful
results a.4.'. .lr...f -...r.k
Those who have been foremost in
urging on this war Of emancipation,
now insist that the freedmen shall at
once be made our political equals
to this we are unitedly and unalter-
ably opposed, not only because as a
class they are not so educated as to
qualify them for the exercise of the
important and delicate rights of an
citizen-whatever might be
their natural capaoities--but for the
still sir niger reason that we believe
the African TO be by nature greatly
inferior to the Caucasian. To ANAL
gamatel or to ,intermingle politically
would be to lower the standard Of av-
erage human intelligence in this coun-
try, either individually or collectively.
Even with that standard undebased,
there are grave doubts whether We
are capable of maintaining popular
like our own. How then
will it be when we shall have infused
an inferior element into the body
polite, and our European civilization
and scale of understanding shall have
become adu.terated with those Of Af-
rica or Asia. Yd sijlvara3 sl1ssH
We can, therefore, all unite in
maintaining that this is white mans
governmeut, which must be preserved
by preserving undiminished the STAN
dard of popular intelligence and ca
pacity - that tho negro, like the Chi
nese, is a foreign element which cam
not be successfully assimilated-that
he is merely here at school, where he
should be kindly treated and instruct
ed, and that when his education is
he may in some congenial
seek his own happiness in
his own way. But let US steadily and
unitedly oppose the commingling of
what God and nature have so unmis-
intended toIpreserve separate
and distinct. qessfrH, ~ t,.s.-..,s..,
Again, they who assume to lead the
party who triumphed at the last cleo
ton seem bent upon upholding the re-
volted States in an attitude of perma-
nent suljugation. While they have
urged at any cost of wealth or blood
or principle the emancipation of indi-
viduals who have all their life been in
they would reduce whole
that were once free and
equal to ourselves into a state of sub
Slavery. To this, also,
we can all unite in unchangeable OPP
position. 9'ita orc indi saai'orfs fo .siI
-rWe behave that the Federal gov
ernnent cannot exist while q portion
6f the States which compose it are
free and the other portion enslaved.--