East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-10-25
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
RESTORATION INDEFINITELY
POSTPONED.
Confirmation of Radical Designs.

We have repeatedly declared our
convictions-based upon the conceded
aggressive nature of radicalism-that
the adoption by the Southern States
of the constitutional amendments pro-
posed by Congress at its last session,
would not be accepted by the radical
party as an ultimatum Of reconstruc-
ton; that they were mere subterfuge
by which it was hoped to tide over
the October and November elections;
and that in making them an apparent
issue, to the careful exclusion of the
well known Interior designs Of the
extreme radical leaders, a deception
and fraud was being practiced upon
the people. We pointed out the dan
ger and inpolicy of allowing the
amendment to be made an issue in the
contest, and declared our belief that
radical victory would be claimed as
an endorsement of the extreme policy
of Sumner and Stevens; that they
would use it to force the timid and re-
calcitrant Republicans into the adop-
ton of their entire plan of reconstruc-
ton.
Our position and predictions were
denied with great afectation of indig-
nant rectitude by many Republican
newspapers, simply because they saw
it was policy to make that denial.
They knew all the time that their de-
mails were false; yet that made no
difference in the measure of their eff
frontery. Convinced of the truth of
what we predicted, we have urged the
President to favor the adoption Of the
pending constitutional amendments,
and to forego the objections as to reg
ularity which were made in his spe-
cial message. We did this because
we opposed the amendments them
selves; and further, that it was a mat
ter of policy to do SO, in order that
the real issue might be understood
and passed upon by the people. That
issue we maintain to be simply be-
tween the policy laid down and adher-
ed TO by President Johnson, and the
extreme new policy Of Sumner nd
involving State suicide, negro suffrage
etc.
We had expected to wait for cor
roboration of our assertions, although
few organs like the New York In
dependent were bold enough, and hon
est enough to openly admit it in
advance. We were, therefore, not a
little astonished at receiving the fol-
lowing telegram among our morning
dispatches TO day, showing that even
the accredited apostles of radicalism,
the political missionaries chosen to
stump the North as "loyal Southern
ers," were impatient of further con-
coalmeLt; and inspired by the result
of Tuesdays elections, they had de-
termined boldly to throw off the
mask and avow the extreme radical
purpose which we had charged upon
them. The following is the dispatch;
"New York, Oct 10.
az Tribune st. Louis special, yes
terday, says the Southern loyalists
prepared an address this morning TO
the people of the United States, before
leaving Springfield. They urge the
people to insist in behalf Of the true
loyalists, on still further conditions
precedent to tho admission Of the reb-
oil States, than those enunciated in the
Congressional amendment, because
the present State governments Of the
South are not legal bodies, and there
fore cannot legally ratify the amend
ment. They plead that the people
insist that their Representatives shall
at the next session declare the pres
ent State organizations in the South
illegal, and proceed to organize gov
ernments based upon the principle of
impartial loyal suffrage. A comm {
tee of seven was appointed to keep
the subject before the people until the
final decision Of the reconstruction
question of Congress.
"This committee consists Of Col.
Moss, Of Missouri, President; Cover
nor Hamilton, of Texas; Bingham of
Alabama Griffin, of Alabama; Tuck
er OF Virginia: Eaton, &c ro--.--.-,
and Randolph, of Louisiana. The
loyalist disputation is now dissolved.
Everywhere their pleas for impartial
suffrage were enthusiastical received,
even in the supposed strongholds of
conservatism in Indiana and Illinois
and every where they have met the
most cordial audiences"
When we consider the source from
which the address issued, and the pa
per which publishes the dispatch, we
think it will daze even the effrontery
of such papers as the Albany Erening
Journal, and the callow Express, of
this city any longer to deny our as
sertion that the adoption of the pro-
posed constitutional amendment is
not the real issue in the present can