East Saginaw courier., 1866-05-09
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hh OlHiilAutiOh hdo uShpci"'oil '"hci
grouad in favor of disunion, it is wei
To consider by what stages it La:
reached that, its most natural posi-
ton. Though pretending to be ii
favor of union at the outset, its rep
rcsentutivo men and its press Will
scarcely an exception, ridiculed the
best and purcst statesmen, who were
enrnestly seeking TO avert the calamity
of civil war-which has filled the
land with mourning, and loaded the
nntion with debt that will grind the
face Of the poor forever, and iasten
ON us that most pestilent curse upon
the industry of free people, o
nonied aristocracy--calling them in
dsirsion ''union savers" dotards, need
less alarlnists, ridicpling their timely
warnings and moclSing at their well
grounded fears. They scoflcd at a
''union with shareholders" denounced
the flag Of their country as "hate's
polluted rag" and made column after
column of figures to show the com
mer,ial and financial disadvantage to
the North Of tho union as it vas
Under no circumstances, i'll war or
peace, in prosperity or in adversely
las the Republican party been an
unconditional union party, it is at
last, however, Internationally dis
union, having no policy, save that of
disruption and disorganization, and
on that square issue it must soon be
tried.
The n. Y, Times sometime since
wrote up a portion of the record Of
tho Tribune, to-day as always the chief
organ of the Republican party; as
showing in the friendly guise of fam
lily criticism some of the phases of that
concern, only equalled in Inconsistency
bv tho hosts Of "'umble followers I"
who lave tried to keep in its track
but couldn't for lack of cussedness, it
is worth making note on and gives
several facts to be remembered:
The only impatience" the Tribune
evinced in the outbreak of the "slave-
holding treason" was that our Gov
ernment should "tamely" submit to
n division of the Union and the es-
tublishment of slave confederacy.-
maintained that slavey had "right," I"
not only to perpetuate, but to
strengthen itself by fresh stealings
from Africa. zoo
The Tribune maintained stubbonly
that the slave States had right to
90 out of the Union, that the Federal
Government had no right to restrain
them; and that it would help them
out. Then the Tribune, instead of
1cs;s;ns tho emancipation nf fnur
millions of slaves, deliberately con-
signod them and their posterity to
perpetual bondage. But the Tribune
had its reason for advocating sep
aration from the slave States. That
reason was that the shareholders would
not allow its editor to lecture among
them.
The Tribune forgots, or docs not find
it pleasant to confess its own compile
ity in tho Bull Run disaster That
was the 7riJmc's first military achieve
ment-thc first fruits Of its con to
Richmond" order-an order for which
the Tribune cvinced temporary remorse,
though it now casts the blame upon
others. The T1bme's "protests I" did
not stop with Mcclellan and BUELL.
Long after those generals had been
retired, the Tribune exclaimed that if,
"after sixty or ninety days more Of
fighting" tho enemy should not he
conquered, il would become the duty
of the Government to make "peace
upon the best attainable terms"
And again, in tho darkest hour Of
our countly's trial, the editor of the
Tribune went to Canada to negotiate
for peace with Jake Thomson, c. G.
clay, George Sanders, etc. These
Confederate agents, while negotiating
with Mr.. Greeley, employed their
intervals in fitting out "raids," and
''conspiraciesp to rob, burn, and assas-
sinate. These pleasant incidents are
now proven by published letter from
&. C, Clay, asking jefferson Davis to
assume the responsibility of the st.
.Albaas robbery and murder. Stimuli
tnneously Mr.. G. c. Clay wrote call
for a public meeting i'll New York to
sustain Mr.. Greeley against President
Lincoln. That call was brought to
This city, in the handwriting of Mr..
Clay, for signatures, but by some
means found its way to Washington.
In Mr.. Greeley's negotiations with
tie Canada conspirators he urged Mr..
Lincoln to offer Slavery four hundred
,aillions of dollars for peace.
Subsequently when the war horizon
was Frightening, the Tribune was
seized with another peace spasm. II,
when "old Blair" went to Richmond,
the "hoarse howlings" " of tho Tribune
for "peace" had prevailed, Grant,
sherman, Porter, Sheridan, Terry and
their compatriots would have been
robbed of the glory of their achieve
,nents, aud all tho blood consequent
upon four years Of war would have
been ingloriously sacriticed.