East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-10-11

Inc RaOtC0l oendtOrldl OouVeutiSh
of the Twenty-seventh District
Cruel Slaughter Of Gen. John II.
Richardson.
Correspondence Of The Detroit Free Press.
vAssAR, Tuscola County, Oct. 6, 1866.
The radicals had a pow-wow at Bay
City yesterday. Their Senatorial Con-
yention of this district was called to-
gether to agree upon candidate, and
many were there who were ambitious
of the distinguished honor of the Sen
atorial robes.
Among them was General John II.
Richardson, man who came into the
Saginaw Valley at an early day, who
settled upon the Cass river, in an un-
broken wilderness, and founded the
villiage Of Tuscola, who had always
performed the hard work for his party
who had waded through mud and wa
ter often from Tuscola to Lapeer and
s'"--'' L. 49, earuioa Of his party
and to extend its connections, Who nad
always in earlier life been Wing, an
honorable Wing, and was always con-
sistent with his EARLIER principles
General Richardson had seen the coun.
try improve around him, and much OF
that improvement owing to and the
consequence Of his own efforts, until
the country Of Tuscola became from a
wilderness the garden Of Northern
Michigan.
When he entered upon that life OF
trial-thatstruggle for lifetime, with
bad roads, or no roads at all, nc
schools, no churches, no society, and
nothing but the impenetrable forests
around him until it was beaten back
and has disappeared, from the effects
of his own herculean Efforts Gener.
al Richardson was young. God had
given him constitution of iron
which enabled him to buffet with all
these hardships. He had also will
Of iron, which brooked no discomfort
which stilled every murmur and sup.
pressed every yearning of his soul
and the hardy pioneer lived and labor.
ed on. General Richardson, although
well advanced in life, at the first cal
of the bugle went to the late war, and
went to the front, and there he acquir.
ed a reputation which of itself is @
glorious inheritance to his children
He was in tho army Of the Potomac
in all the seven days battles, at Get
tysburg, Antietam and in the great
campaign of General Grant against
Richmond. He was often promoted
for notorious servics. Ho was Otter
especially mentioned and praised in
the official reports of his superior Off.
GERS. He is a man of giant stature
and in that army of heroes he dealt
the blows Of gaint to all the foes
and difficulties before him, and Oh
many a hardfought battle, in the
midst of carnage, in the presence Of
terror and death, that brave old man
had barred his bosom to the storm and
cOuitvu ucaCiI Va victory.
Gen. Richardson is getting old now
His spring and summer of life have
passed away. His party owed him
any position he could ask, and he is
qualified for any. her honors they
had bestowed on others; they never
came TO him. Even merited promo
ton in the army was often denied him
and he had one ambition, hopefully
but differently entertained. Would
his party elect hin to the Senate Of his
State which he had done so much to
develop, to whose glorious material
record he had added so bright page?
Would they thus reward his fidelity,
has trials and his sacrifices? He
thought-he hoped they would. He
sought these honors as the brave only
seek them, in purity of purpose, con-
soious of his own merit and Of his
own capacity for the position. But
he does not know the materirl Of
which that party is composed. With
that party virtue must be its own re-
ward. and his services as soldier,
splendid as they have been, are to be
rewarded only by neglect and detrac-
ton, the same in proportion as other
bravo soldiers were rewarded in the
bounty bill
These radical convictions give mon
ey and honors to the spectators, fill
the minds of the people with ten
thousand visionary projects, tell them
of the transcedent ability and splendid
character Of some one never before
heard of an unknown, and they over
look the great claims Of a brave and
gallant officer, and run the man who
has no claims whatever for the Office,
who does not want it, and who is in
no way qualified for the position.
This is the way the radicals lore our
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