East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-03-07

portance as how II can be restored 10
health, yigor and strength. This re-
quires of him as the highest duty to
himself, to wait quietly and patiently
in splints and bandages, until nature
resumes her active powers until tho
vital functions perform their Office -
The knitting Of tile bones and the
granulation of the flesh require ,time.
Perfect quiet and repose even under
the severest pain, is necessary. 1t
will not do TO make tho great haste 10
get we'll An attempt to walk too
soon will only make the matter worse.
We must or ought now, therefore, in
similar manner to discipline our
selves to the same or like degree of
patience. L know the anxiety and
restlessness of the popular mind to bo
fully on our feet again to walk
abroad as we once did to enjoy once
more the free outdoor air of Heaven,
with the perfect use of all our limbs.
representation in Congress g ss hS %haifiss hafislsd S
are paying our proportion Of the tax
es how annoying it is to be even
partially under military rule, and how
injurious it is to the general interest
and business of the country to be
without post-oifices and mail commu-
nications, to say nothing of divers
other matters on the long list of our
present inconveniencies and privations.
All these, however, we must patiently
bear and endure for u season. With
quiet and repose we may get we'll
may get once more on our feet again
One thing is certain, tnat bad humor,
i'll temper, exhibited either in restless
ness OF, grumbling will not hasten it.
Next to this. another great duty we
owe to ourselves is the exercise of a
liberal spirit of forbearance among
ourselves.
The first step toward local or gen
eral harmony is the banishment from
our breasts of every feeling and SEN
timent calculated to stir the discord of
the past, Nothing could be more in
.jurious or mischievous to the future of
this country than the agitation at
present of questions that divided the
people anterior to, or during the ex-
istence of tho late war. On no occa-
sion, and especially in the bestowment
of Office. ought such difference of
opinion in. the past ever to be men
toned, either for or against any one,
otherwise equally entitled to conf
dence. These ideas or sentiments of
other times and circumstances, are not
the germs from which hopeful organ
ization can now arise. Let all differ
enoes of opinion, touching errors, or
supposed errors, of the head or heart,
on the part of any, in the past grow
ing out OF these matters, he ut once in
the deep ocean of oblivion forever
buried. Lot there be no -erlg.gnatton4
or reeriminations on account of acts
of other days; no canvassing of past
conduct or motives. Great disasters
are upon us and upon the whole coun-
try, and without inquiring how these
originated, or at whose door the fault
should be laid, let us now as common
sharers of common misfortunes, ON all
occasions, consult only as 10 the bost
means, under the circumstances as we
find them, to secure the best ends to-
wards further anielioration. Good
government is what we. want. This
should be the leading desire and the
controlling object with all and l need
not assure you, if this can be ob-
tained, that our desolated fields, our
towns and villages, and cities now in
ruins will soon like the Ph9nix--
rise again from their ashes and all
our waste places will again, at no dis
tant day, blossom as the rose. r
This view should also be borne in
mind, that whatever differences of
opinion existed before the late fury of
the war, they sprung manly from DIFF
ierences as to the best means to be
used, and the best line of policy to be
pursued, stp secure the great con-
trolling object of all-which was
GOOD GOVERNMENT. Whatever may be
said of the loyalty or disloyalty of
any, in the late most lamentable con-
fict Of arms, / think / may venture
safely to say that there was, on the
part of the great mass Of the people
of Georgia, and of the entire South.
no disloydhg TO the principles of the
Constitutional the United States TO
that system of representative govern
ment; of delegated and limited pow
ers; that establishment in a new
phase on this continent, of oil the es,
sentials of England's Magna 'Czarts,,
for the protection and security of life,i
liberty aud 49,, .-.:.i. tie addi-
tionai reeoylntlonof the principle as
fundamental truth, that all political
power resides III the people, With us
n was SIMPLY a question us to where.
our allegiance was due IN the main
tenance OF these principles-which
authority was PARAMOUNT in the last
-resortTotate or Federal. As for N.Y.
seif, can arffini that no sentiment of
disioyaity to these great principles of
sell eli-Sovernment, recognized and en-,
bodied IN the CONSTITUTION of the Uni
ted States, ever Beat or throbbed in
breast or heart vi mine. 10 their
maintenance my whole soul was ever
eniistdd,. and to this end luy,whole
lie has been devoted, and will con-
tinue to be the rest OF my days--God
willing. In devotion to these princi-
pies, yield to no man living. This
much 4 cam say ior myself; hay, /
not say the same for you and for the
great mass OF the people of Georgia;
and Tor the great mass of the people
oflthe entire South Whatever diff
ferences existed among us, arose from.
differences as to the best and surest
means OF securing these great ends,
which was the object Of all. 1t was
with this view and this purpose seces.
sion was lried. That has failed. In. .
stead Of rbettering our = condition,
instead of establishing our liberties