East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-06-21
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE.


of the most exuberent stripe. 1--WE
copy below its leader of June 10:
The civil war lust closed, has set
tied beyond all question D the perma.
hency of the American Republic. II
has removed all doubts from the minds
of enlightened hnien at home and
abroad as to the capacity under oui
form of government, TO carry on with
-vigor and with success and unity the
affairs of a nation of such expanded
territorial limits as the United States
Other nations have vast territorial
possessions, but the people Of onlyas
comparatively small portion of the
TERRITORY have ANY voice or represen-
tation in the government. The people
of the British Isles have the form oi
representation; yet the large majority
of these people have no vote in the
choice of the representatives. The
British parliament, with only one
branch Of representative character,
enacts the laws that govern the mil
lions who, in every cline and OH every
continent, live under the British flag.
The subjects of Great Britain, scattered
throughout her widespread dominions
are, with the exception of those in
the British Isles, and to some extent
in British America, wholly, excluded
from any voice in making the laws
that govern them The United States
are governed differently. This is
purely q government of law, and the
law itself depends for its, execution
upon the win of the people themselves.
The late rebellion was an effort TO
defeat the great American principle
that the majority must, under the
constitution, rule, and the minority
submit Whatever may have been
tho doubt in former times as to the
danger of expanding our territorial
limits, no danger is to be apprehended
on that point now. The government
of the United States, located at Wash
ington, with a skeleton army of six
teen thousand rank and file, and the
most of them located on the extreme
frontiers, was able to summon by call
tho faithful people to sustain its au-
thority and to suppress an insurrec-
ton of greater proportions than any
that ever overturned and destroyed
other governments. The strength Of
our government is not in its army and
navy, but, in the loyal hearts of the
people. As long as the people adhere
to their own liberties and maintain
their own government external vio-
lence and domestic insurrection will
fail to disturb the stability Of our
government. California and Oregon,
the most remote states of the Union,
were as loyal to the government and
as prompt in responding to its calls as
were any Of the states within striking
uis'"iiso or .i.s 'voPi'"i' saaad the
first blood of the war was shed on the
battle field SO near Washington, city
that the thunders Of the cannonade
were heard in the executive mansion.
The expansion Of our territory in no
way weakens the power or the unity
Of the nation, because as the frontiers
are extended there GO with the flag
loyal hnd devoted hearts, whose high
est aim is to serve their country and
to advance its honor, its glory and its
power. ''.'' ~ - 10
The rebellion has buried in the
graves Of its victims every political
heresy that would weaken tho power,
sap the life-blood, and end in the des-
'truotion Of the constitutional liberties
of the people and of the conservative
authority of the general government,
Now, commencing with the, admins
tration Of ASDi,Ew JoHNsoS, the nation
starts for the first time without one
single question as 10 the powers of
the general government, in time of
war or in time of peace, open to doubt
or dispute Nor is this settlement of
these questions, SO long productive of
exciting controversy, resulting at last
in deluge of blood, the settlement
wrought By forco or by questionable
judicial decision. 1t is settlement
in which the government in all its
branches, and the people tho loyal as
well as the vanquished insurrectionists
acquiesce, and accept as final and con-
clusivey0 1t is settlements hallowed
by the memory, of the noble dead,
who fell in making it,, and sanctified
by the persevering patriotism and
enduring Courage of the honest union
loving men of the land.n The nation
rises from the war in no exhausted or
crippled condition. 1t rises from the
bloody contest fresh in all its pristine
vigor, stronger because it haslnow a
knowledge of its strength, and re-
loved from the distressing political
weights which have been shaken off
forever in tho fury of the fight 1t
can now face the world, not in, the
vaunting spirit Of a successful prize
fighter, but in the conscious security
of man who has unexpectedly dis
covered his own powers, and who in
tho very act of discovery has adyer-
tlsed the world OF the TACT. Lrn TonDl
Douglas, twenty years ago uttered
the trsth that will one day be verified
to the letter, when he said that the
continent was too small for more than
one government, as long as that gov
ernment was a Republic. While no
one feels disposed to disturb wantenly
or recklessly the people of any other
nation in North America, nor interfere
in any way with the free exercise of
their political freedom by people now
living under other governments, still
the duty Of self-preservation must
eventually, and in the gradual but
inevitable progress Of free thought
and free action, demand that the
United States shall tolerate NO terri-
torial neighbors whose political OF
military alliances may be dangerous
or hostile TO the Republic, The "man-
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