East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-10-25

beginning OF thnt lupnc sentiment WHICH mann
tains aud makes operative all living laws. This
Is my faith and my hercsy.
That is the gist of the whole con-
troversy Of the hour. There is one
party in the country which favors the
policy Of restoring Immediately the
excluded States to their practical rela-
tons in the Union, for their good and
for the good of the whole country
There is another party which opposes
that policy and favors the plan of CO.
ercing tho South into adopting certain
amendments to the Constitution BY
his letter to the Cleveland Convention
Mr.. Beecher gave his heart and his
hand to the support of the men who
met in that Convention, and Of the
principles they maintained. Mr..
Beecher still supports those principles.
but he has turned his back upon those
gallant men. Are they not as pure
and patriotic to-day as they were when
that letter was penned? Have they
abandoned their principles ? Are they
not striving, "by their voice and vote,
to consummate what their swords rem
dered possible ?" Yes, assuredly.-
And Mr.. Beecher's faith F" to-day is
what it was when he wrote that letter
and it is the faith of all those brave
men and of the party to which they
belong. And more than that, it is
faith based upon the Constitution and
the theory of our government. 1t re-
cognizes the great principle of self
government, the capability and will
ingness of the people to govern them
selves, and their Unborn hatred and
contempt for all foreign and extrane-
Gus interference, so that while Con-
gress may enact laws in opposition to
the will of the people, such laws can
not be executed. And it admits the
fact that the war has not left one-half
of the people of this country devils
and the other half saints, and that
the people Of the South can be, and
necessarily must be trusted.
Now the Republican party have no
such faith, they have faith in guaran-
tees and in nothing else. and yet Mr..
Beecher proposes to act with that
party. He gives us his reason. tits
simple and easily understood Mr..
Beecher says that since 1860 the Re-
publican party have always been right
and the Democratic have always been
wrong, consequently hereafter the
Democratic party must be wrong and
the Republican right. Indeed, he goes
further and says that the Republican
party cannot advocate a measure which
taken at it's worst will DO so bad as q
measure advocated by the Democratic
party taken at its best. No dirty bare
footed zealot ever had so great faith
in men, and if he had he was not fool
enough to publish it. Mr. Beecher
tells an amusing anecdote of an old
dog his father owned, who used fire.
quently to go to certain hole and
bark because he saw squirrel disap-
pear there when he was a puppy
And now Mr.. Beecher is initiating
that old dog such is the influence of
association upon the tender mind.
If q party once right is always right,
how did it happen that the Democrat
ic party ever fell from grace, as Mr..
Beecher claims it has And how does
it happen that the Republican party,
in the language Of Mr.. Beecher is in
a "bad way" at present, and how
long must it continue in that way be-
fore he will feel justified in abandon
ing the party ? We do not understand
how a man Of Mr.. Beecher's genius
and intelligence, could have fallen in
to the absurd position of maintaining
that, while his fellow-citizens are di-
vided into two parties, nearly equal as
to numbers, and equal in intelligence,
virtue and honesty, the peers of each
other, and whose interests are identi
cal, one party cannot possibly advo-
cate principles that are right nor the
other principles that are wrong. Not
even his eloquence can galvanize such
nonsense into an argument
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