East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
Blindness to the Providences.

COpperneauS contemplate aSklHP situ-
liar favors for that State. Why not?
The President considers himself the
Government Of the United States. -
Gazette.
The Missouri delegation did as all
delegations do when they wait upon
Presidents ask for what they want,
and have any hope to get Probably
not less than five hundred delegations
from Ohio, at one time and another,
waited upon President Lincoln and
asked for offices either for themselves
or their friends. 1t is weakness with
which delegations are very apt to be
afflicted an appetite for Federal Off
ces. Your politician, while he is de-
voting his energies to serving his
country, seldom fails to keep an eye
out for the best possible base line OF
operations. Why shouldn't he ? Sup
pose it is a matter Of reward: What
virtue deserves higher rewards than
patriotism Suppose it is to facilitate
his labors in the cause Of his country:
Who deserves better facilities than
the patriot? Patriotic as they were
and perhaps the more so because
they were patriotic-our Republican
fellow-citizens never failed to place
proper estimate upon these advanta-
gos. Mono ever exhibited in higher
degree that species of moral spheri-
cality which enables men to rotate in
to office, and from one office into q
higher one. And now, because they
are turned virtuous, is there to be no
more cakes and ale Is ginger to
cease to be ginger because it is to, be
distributed under a Johnsonian in
stead Of a Lincolnian dispensation?
The Missouri delegation want the
army at their disposal; do they9 What
is there to complain of in this? Has
the Gasette anything to say against
the principle of employing the army in
party operations I? 1t certainly will
not condemn practice which its own
party, with its own approval, inaugu-
rated and used to such excellent eff
tsff Is H9}t H9Rh r oH1nse e WAS? Are
not his functions, and rights, and du-
ties, and privileges, as such Command
er-in-Chiof precisely the same? If
Mr.. Lincoln employed the army to Sc
cure his own election, why should not
Mr.. Johnson lend the army to his
friends to secure theirs If the use
of the army for that purpose was in
accordance with Republican principles
does not the Missouri delegation man
ifest its regard for Republican princi-
pies by asking that the use be contin-
uedp
"The President didn't say no."
Why should he say nor Did Mr..
LINCOLN, under like circumstances, say
MOP When regiments were sent home
under command Of their officers, to
vote at elections; when sergeants'
squads and corporals' guards were set
to preside over the polls in independ-
ent States, and to decide upon the
rights of citizens to the enjoyment of
the elective frar chise, did Mr.. Lincoln
forbid it? Mr.. Lincoln was a Repub-
lican; since his sublime apothesis, un-
der special dispensation, it has not
been permissible to doubt the purity
of his republicanism. How, then,
can Mr.. Johnson better demonstrate
his attachment to the principles of his
illustrious predecessor than by walk
ing in his footstepsP
'"rhe Indiana Copperheads contem-
plate asking similar favors for that
State" Our contemporary asks: "Why |
not?" and we echo the inquiry. Most
emphatically, why notP Has sauce
for goose ceased to he sauce for gan
der? BY what change in the Consti-
tuition has practice, which was fully
in accordance with the spirit of that
instrument year or two ago, become
antagonistic to it now? 1t is scarcely
more than a year since the Gazette laid
down the doctrine that whatever the
Constitution did not forbid was con-
stitutional. 1t would give us great |
pleasure to be informed in what part
Of that instrument is to be found a
provision which forbids the Indiana
Copperheads from asking the Prcsi-
dent for the use of the army in the
next election, or the President from
acceding to the request.
"The President considers himself
the Government Of the United States
Why shouldn't he consider himself
the Government Of the United States?
If no isn't the Government of the
United States, who isp When Mr..
incoIn uaa President did INV so,nd