East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-11-01

sustainiRgit, my promise is out, as
before stated. But, as bad promises
are better brpkenthan kept, 1 shall
treat this as bad promise, and break
it, whenever / shall I've convinced that
keeping il is adverse to the public in
terests But j have not yet been SO
convinced.
81 have been shown a letter on
this subject, supposed to be an able
one, in which the writer expresses re-
greet that my mind has not seemed to
be definitely fixed on the question
whether the seeded States, so called,
are in the Union or out of il. 1t
would, perhaps, add astonishment to
his regret were he to leaan that, since
l have found fprofessed Union men
endeavoring to make that question, I
have purposely foreborne any, public
expression upon it. 1t appears to me
that question has not been, nor yet is,
a practically material one, and that
any discussion Of it, while it thus re-
mains practically immaterial, could
have no. effect other than the mis-
chievous one of dividing our friends.
AS yet whateveri it may hereafter be-
come, that question is bad, as the ba-
sis of a controversy, and good for
nothing at all a merely pernicious
abstraction. We all agree that the
seeded States, so called, arc out of
their proper practical relation with the
Union, and that the sole object of the
Government, civel and military, in
regard to tliose States, is to again pet
them into that proper practical rela-
ton. / believe it is not only possible
but in fact easier to do this without
deciding or even considering whether
these States have ever been out of the
Union, than with it. Finding them
selves safely at home. it would be ut
terly immaterial weather they had
ever been abroad. Let us all join in
doing the acts necessary to restoring
the proper practical relations between
these States and the Union, and each
forever after innocently indulge his
own opinion whether, in doing the
acts, he brought the States from with
out into the Union, or only gave them
proper assistance, they never having
been out Of it: -ia- ~
"Still the question is not whether
the Louisiana government, as it stands
is quite all /, that is desirable. The
questions are. "Will it be wiser,
take it as it is, and help to improve it
or to reject and dispense it?' "Can
Louisiana be brought into proper
practical relation with the Union
sooner by sustaining or diseard'ng her
new State government?
"Some twelve thousand voters in
the heretofore slave State Of Louisiana
haye sworn allegiance to, the Union,
assumed to be The rightful political
power of the State, held elections, or
ganiaed State government, adopted
a free State constitution, giving the
benefit Of public schools equally to
black and white, and empowering the
legislature to confer the elective fran
chise upon the colored man. Their
legislature has already voted to rati-
fly the constitutional amendment, re-
Gently passed by Congress, abclishing
slavery throughout the nation. These
twelve thousand persons are thus full |
ly committed to the Union, and to
% aiissai % thisseaaqqy i in ths State; com
all the things the nation wants, and
they ask the nations recognition and
its assistance to make good their COM
initial. Now, if we reject and spurn
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ize and dispense them. We, in effect,
say tosthe white man, You are worth
less, or worse; we will neither help
you, nor be helped by YOU To
the black we say, This cup of liberty
which these, your old masters, hold
to your lips, we will dash from you
and leave you to the chances of gath
ering the spilled and scattered con-
tents, in some vague and underlined
when, where and how If this
course, discouraging and paralyzing
both white and black, has any ten
dency to bring Louisiana into proper
practical relations with the Union, /
have, so far, been unable to perceive
it. If, on the contrary, we recognize
and sustain the new government Of
Louisiana, the converse Of all this is
made true. We encourage the hearts
and nerve the arms Of the twelve
thousand to adhere to their work, and
argue for it, and proselyte for it, and
fight for it, and feed it, and grow it,
and ripen it to a complete success
The colored man, too. in seeing all
united for him, is inspired with Wig
lance, and energy, and daring to the
same end. Grant that he desires the
elective franchise, will he not attain it
sooner by saving the already advan ced
steps toward il than by running back
ward over them? Concede that the
new government Of Louisiana is only
to what it should be as the egg is to
the fowl, we shall sooner have the
fowl by Matching the egg than by
smashing it. Laughter,) Again if
we reject Louisiana, we also reject
our vote in favor of the proposed
to the national Constitu-
ton. ,r-t.---------------,s
al repeat the question, Can Louis
lana be brought into proper practical
relation with the Union sooner by
or by discarding her new
State government What has been I
said Of Louisiana will apply generally
to other States. And yet so great
pertain to States. And
yet so great peculiarities pertain to
each State, and such important and
sudden changes occur in the same
State, and, withal, so new and unpre-
is the whole case that no I
infexible plan can safely be prescrib-
ed as to details and collaterals. Such
exclusive and inAexible plan would
svrely become new ENHANCEMENT.
Important principles may and must