East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-02-28
DIS SPEECH.

speech at Cooper Institute, though
fully endorsing the course of the
President manifests a hopeful spirit
which smacks strongly Of his famous
sixty and ninety days assurances at
the commencement of the war. The
nation, he says, is in no peril, 1.-THE
"cause of liberty and human free
" dom-the cause of progress, me.ior-
cation or civilization the cause of
national aggrandizement, present or
future, material or morals in no
"danger of being long arrested,
whether you adopt one set Of politi-
seal opinions or another"
The design at the outset was Un-
ion restored without slavery, seces-
"sion or compromise-not with
freedmen and refugees abandoned
"to suffering and persecution, but
"with freedmen employed in produc-
"tiye self-sustaining industry; with
" the refugees under the protection of
claw and order. The President secs
"that it has come out right at last,
sand he accepts the situation. Con-
gress on the other hand, hesitate
"delay, debate and agonize, not be-
"cause it has not come out right, but
because they have not individually
"had their own way in bringing it TO
/" that happy termination"
He makes the following truthful al
fusion to the adverse and injuicious
action of Congress
"Congr0ss has had a Reconstruction
Committee, composed of fifteen men,
bers, who have stopped the wheels of
legislation three months to enable
them to submit plan different from
that which is now on the eve of a
happy consummation, and what have
they given us? One proposed amend
ment to the Constitution to compel the
excluded States to eqalize the suffrage
upon the penalty of abridgement of
representation. The resolution which
passed the House on Tuesday last, di-
rectly declares that loyal representa-
tives shall not be admitted from the
loyal States until Congress shall pass
law for that purpose which cannot
be enacted without the Presidents APP
proyal, ard which cannot consistently
be given in view Of the opinions he is
known to entertain. This resolution,
then, is not plan for reconstruction
but for indefinite postponement or
delay"
His concluding remarks furnish in
few words vindication of the Presi-
dents course, which columns Of abuse
and vituperation can neither weaken
nor gainsay. To them we invite the
attention of all, and especially of
those who are not YET altogether inn
80 tne law, OF niareh 3D. rsai.
which created the Freedman,a 70 -,oo'
provides that it shall continue IN force
during the war of rebellion, and one
tuiI year thereafter When does that
year expire In the Presidents
Judgment as I understand the matter,
tine war of rebellion has been coming,
and is still coming, to an end, but is
not yet fully closed. 1t is on this
ground that he maintains an army,
continues the writ Of Mbeas corpus and
exercises martial law, when these
things are found necessary in the
rebel States. The existence of the re-
bellion was legally announced by Ex-
ecutive proclamation in 1861 The
end of the rebellion ought to be and
may be expected to be announced by
n competent declaration of the Presi-
dent or Congress, or of both. For
all practical purposes the rebellion
will in law come to an end if the
President or Congress, one or both,
officially announces its termination
Now, suppose the announcement to be
made by the PRECEDENT and by Con-
gress, or by either Of them tomorrow
in that case the Freedmen's Bureau is
continued by virtue of the limitation
prescribed in the act of March 3D.,
1865, one year after such proclama-
fion shall have been male. Thus this
Freedmen's Bureau would continue by
the original limitation until the 22d
day of February, 1867 very proper
day on which to bring it TO an end
If Congress should find it necessary
to prolong its existence it can at once
take the necessary steps, for it will at
that date have been in session nearly
three months. Ought the President
Of the United States to be denounced
in the house Of his enemies, much
more ought he to be denounced in the
house Of his friends, for refusing i'll
the absence Of any necessity to &C.
cupy or retain, and exercise powers
greater than those which are exercised
by any imperial magistrate in the
world Z. ] trust tl;, ell e i--i.--i-e,
Dyaesl9J e8Hqdinta congress i,, may be.
forgiven by generous people. 1t
will be sad hour for the Republic
when the refusal of unnecessary pow
ers AMI patronage by tho President
shall be held to be a crime. When il
shall be so considered, the time will
have arrived for setting up at the
White House an imperial throne, and
surrounding the Executive with impe-
rial legions."
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