The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-06-28


Speaking of the hanging Of Mumiord q,
New Orleans for hauling down the national
flag. in violation of the expressed orders OF
Gen. Butler the K. |. Argus says, 1--WE think
the country will generally approve the YER
dict and the execution" Mahony, ofthe Du-
buoue Heraid has denounced 1t in the sew
crest terms and thus having given the cue to
the seccssion sympathizing press of Iowa, we
expect soon to see general Remuneration OF
the act. Anything that tends to weaken Sc
cessionism finds an opponent in Mahony, who
is upheld in his reasonable procllvllles by
those editors of Iowa who hang on to his coat
tail Davenport Gozette,
We have no respect for any newspaper
which employs its type in finding excuses for
the rebel. or the rebellion especially dem
ocratic paper; abolition papers are expected
to do this, Greeley did it, and Garrison did
it, but no democratic editor should prostitute
his position to the reasonable purpose Of Civ
ing aid and comfort to traitors. Nor should
he spend any time or words in adr0cQtiny
slavery We will 60 just as far us the consti-
tuition goes, and not an inch further, in pro-
tectng the rights Of tho people Of the south
their RICH, to hold slaves under the laws Of
their states, il they want slaves their right
80 manage their own domestic concerns IN
their own way, provided they do not infringe
upon the constitution of the United States, --
But we have no love for their peculiar lns'l'
tuition. and we never intend to advocate 1t,
anywhere. We advocate the right OF the
people of every state or territory to regulate
their own matters to suit them selyes-but we
don't advocate the institution Of slavery, nor
does the democratic party advocate it. Give
the south all it can fairly claim, under the
constitution, but nothing more. We hope
never 10 see another slave state apply for nd.
mission into the uniOn-we hope to see the
institution Of slavery under the policy Of
gradual compensated emancipation, and i'm.
mediate colonization, soon fade out from the
border states, aud ultimately from all the
states Of the union. We don't know ~ the
soil of the cotton growing states can be sue
cesslully cultivated by free, white labor but
we believe it can We believe the Germans,
in Texas have demonstrated that fact, and
that better cotton and greater crops are thus
produced by them than by an equal number
Of slaves anywhere. We hope that the Unit
ed States Of America may, without convulsion,
without violence, without infringing upon the
constitutional rights Of the people Of any state
in the union, some day become free in fact,as
well a. in name; and that the institution Of
slavery may become extinct We hope this
war may 20 on, until the last rebel is com
PEELED to lay down his arms and submit to the
constitution as it Is, and the union a. it was
and if, il accomplishing this, slavery is
wiped cut, cxtinguished. cxterminated, we
shall have no tears to shed, because we be.
lieye liberty and the union are blessings ines.
timable to the world, and to be preserved at
any cost Of property and life. That is just
the way we feel, lust the way we have felt
since the first gun was fired on Sumter, and
just the way we expect to feel till the end Of
the war.
We feel too that there are few men III
Dubuque, Davenport and Burlington, who
control the organization of the democratic
party in Iowa, and who would rather see the
TIE union divided and the north disgraccd
than tose tAerparticular friends jeff. Davis,
Caleb tushiur John SIilcll h f Butler
Lawrence Keitt, Geo W Jones, Robert
Toombs, Jesse Bright, lyerson, Nallandig
ham, Benjamin x Go. deprived Of the power
to control the organization Of the democratic
party and use it tor their own selfish ends
The sooner they quit that business, or the
sooner the genuine democracy of Iowa compel
them to quit it, the better will it be tor the
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