East Saginaw courier., 1866-05-23
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Tho Logic OF Events.
weiresdas. May 30. leee.

We regard il as especially fortunate
for our country, that the principles,
the polieies, and the measures which
have been most strongly rebuked and
repndiated by the Democracy, are be-
enuing every day more and more odi-
Gus in the estimation Of all men OF
discernlnent and candor. As illustra.
tive instances, take the Provost Mar
shals Bureau--a thing once consid-
cred essential to the nations safety,
and now knOwn to be an unmitigated
nbomination- = the arbitrary arrests
made at the instigation Of the War
Department, and lauded, in forms of
unlimited commendation, 10y the apol-
ogists Of military despotisin, as q
means of preserving liberty at the
expense of its constitutional guaran-
tees, but now almost universally de-
nouneed as crimes worthy OF punish
d, ment, the guilty authors of which are
seeking Tor some chance of escape
ihrough the meshes OF an er post fact
., ,law--and last, though not least, the
Freedmen. s Bureau, once thought to
he an, ark of safety for the negroes,
/, hut now standing revealed as an IN
suit to the whites and an outrage
upon the interests of the blacks. To
TINS trinity of evils, produced in the
hot bed of an impracticable tanati-
cism, may be added the so-called plan
OF reconstruction, hatched after five
months, incubation by the committee
OF fifteen, and sanctioned by every
radical in the rump House OF Repre-
sentatives at Washington and now de-
nounced as inpracticable and absurd
by the most sagacious of the party in
which the scheme originated. These
four instances are palpable illustra-
tions OF the folly and madness of the
party in power, and furnish so many
demonstration of the wisdom, justice
and patriotism of those who, through
Evil and through good report have as
sailed and denounced all such proceed
ings.
AS regards those measures, it may
now be iearlessly asserted that they
stand condemned by an overwhelming
majority Of the American people. =
Iney have been weighed III the bal
ance and found wanting. And those
who have had the hardihood to iden.
tify themselves with such measures
aud devices, are doomed 10 float down
the resistless tide of public conden-
nation, to the deep gulf of oblivion =
Who, now, in the lace of the decls-
ions of our higher courts, will attempt
to justify the Incarceration OF Ia spect-
able citizens III obedience 10 an order
from some military satrapY Who
now, has u word to say i'll cxtcnuation
OF the systematic NAL practices of the
Provost Marshals Bureauy Who,
how, dare risk his reputation, if he
has any, upon the assertion that Pres
ident johnson did otherwise than
right i'll vetoing the Freedmen's Bu-
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OF the bill passed by the House ioi
the subyersion of the fundamental
law Of the country, 10y trampling under
loot the rights of eleven sovereign
states, acknowledged to be in the
Unon2
More, then, is our justification. We
have been right all along. And our
defense, and our triumphant vindica-
tion, as the unwavering friends Of the
Union, the Constitution, and the
rights Of the people and of the States
Is based, not upon any assumptions of
our own, but upon the confessions and
Acknowledgements of our own political
enemies, One event after another,
and each succeeding development has
served " yindicate the truths which
we as Democrats, have asserted, and
the motives by which, as friends o.
our whole country we have been gov
erned.-7LanSiag Democrat.