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

result is invitable. Radicalism, as
now developing, means nothing else
but civil war.
Forwarned is forearmed.-M y.
World, oct. 10Th.
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A Remarkable Prophecy--How True.
A Mr.. johnson, of Baltimore, an
intimate personal friend of tho late
Senator Douglas, has made known
a remarkable prophecy Of political
events made by Senator Douglas in
1854, Immediately after he had COM
pleted his report to the Senate on tho
Kansas Nebraska bill, and which was
placed in Mr.. Johnson's keeping at
that time. 1t could scarcely be more
accurate had it but been written yes
terday as history of what has occur
red. After stating infinitely the causes
that would land which did) lead to
civil war, he gave the result as fol-
lows:
"Should the South withdraw under
such circumstances, the struggle will
be fierce and protracted. The men
who have been ready at any time to
sacrifice the Union to emancipation,
will have exclusive control of the gov
eminent. 1t is folly to suppose, then,
that their efforts to put down rebellion
will be limited to the restoration of
the Union. 1t will not be a careful
enquiry whether they possess legal
authority, by virtue of the Federal
Constitution, to do that which they
have ever been ready to do in con-
tempt of that compact. They will
make new law suited to the ends
they seek to accomplish, and / do not
perceive how any wholesome limita-
ton is to be put upon them while pro-
fessedly engaged i'll the great work of
restoring the integrity of the Union.
The foremost evil Of such state of
things as that which shall bring into
power that nomadic class of mind,
those wandering humanitarians, those
fierce and turbulent spirits, whose at
mosphere is the hurricane and the
storm. Starting with the conviction
that civilization and good government
are long way behind them, they
have no respect for constitutions, how
ever wise, and no regard for rights,
however sacred. Suspicious and un-
generous in mind, vindictive and cruel
in resentment, proscriptive and un-
principled in action, and tyranical and
merciless in authority, their subjuga-
ton of the South will leave us an in
heritance of evils scarcely less appal-
ling than those inseparable from q
struggle to maintain the integrity of
the Union. We shall be forced, new
ertheless, however fragrant and wick
ed the measures adopted to put down
rebellion, to sustain them without pro-
test or objection, for the preservation
of the Union being the grand object
in view, il will be our duty TO post
pone all questions which might retard
the accomplishment of this end. The
attempt will be made to confer upon
the two races equal rights and privi-
leges. am irreyocably opposed to
any such policy. This "a a whhe mans
government, and IL cannot Be anything else
and preserve the public peace. The abo-
ltion of slavery is the most probable
event of the future, but that will only
exhibit the folly of all attempts to
confer political power upon the negro
race. They, 10y the constitution of
their nature, are dependent people.
They are entitled to protection and
if made free, either by their own vim
dication-an event l have never con-
templated- or by the commissions that
would inevitably attend an effort to
break up the Union, would regard
it the duty of the United States, as it
would be the dictate of justice and
philanthropy, TO extend over them, as
we have extended to the Indian tribes,
the vigilant guardianship Of the Ma
tional Government. In regard to the
negro men, / hold that we have done
quite enough for them by giving them
an asylum, field for labor, and the
protection of our laws / repeat
again, and / have everywhere pro-
claimed, our institutions were made
for white men, and must be maintain
ed exclusively for their maintenance
and advantages. My faith in the pol
icy that looks to the exclusion of the
blacks from all political rights is stern
and unbending. 1 see nothing but
evil in attempts to equalize the races
politically, or to bring them upon
terms of social equality. lcould never
consent to the former without recog-
nizing the latter. Political enfran-
chisement and social prescription
equals at the polls and separated at
every other point by natural antipa-
thies and aversions-this is not my
theory of justice to either. Nor is il
the theory or philosophy of the gov.
eminent of the Union.
"The withdrawal Of the South,
then, will not only precipitate enamel.
patton, but, when the rebellion shall
be put down, an attempt will be made
by the men in power to confer upon
the negro equal political rights. The
secession of the South will be the
transfer Of all agencies and means tC
them. The government will be in tho
hands of a class of men the leas
qualified of all American citizens t.
administer its affairs. Their econom
zeal schemes, their class legislation
their protective tariffs, their CRANE
projects of internal improvements
their bankrupt laws-in short, theil