The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-01-15

MRS. ANNA N. N. STORM, OF THE NrTHER.
LANDS
"Hope's sun has not vet set,
Though Mfsfortunes clouds now trown
On Lies tempesuous sea-. JOHNSON
GAS hostility and law are not very concordapt
IDEAS every step we have taken, has been made
By tramphng on some maxim Of Justice or some
capital principle of wise government.
A conscientious man would be cautious how ne
dealt IN blood. He would feel some apprehen-
sion, at being called to tremendous account
for engaging IN so deep play, without any sor,
Of knowledge OF the game. So EdmHnd Burks on
the Anericdn Revolution
1t has always been difficult to believe the
possibility OF any event, the realization Of
which we dislike or fear. So it was at the
time Of the last presidential campaign, when
Garrison and Wendell Phillips Ian English,
man who refused the oath of allegiance to this
government repeated, in large halls. before
crowded audiences, these terrible words
The CntoH ought 10 be, and ShaH be DIS
s0tred.' But as nobody could believe such
an awful event, the abolitonists continued
their shameful public discourses everywhere
u9harmed, unrebuked and UNPUBLISHED -
They prayed tor war and now have obtained
the blessing they sought for, by the deyas-
tatlon OF these prosperous states the ruin Of
the country, the distress and anguish of wild
ows and Orphans the mutiIation and death of
thousands and hundreds Of thousand. OF limo
cent victims Not satisfied by bringing
about these awful horrors, one Of the British
hlreings is even now engaged in sowing the
seeds of treason and stirring up the passions
OF the people in the loyal states to light, if
possible, also there the incendiary torch
against the government and the president. -
It's but yesterday, that the population of the
capital of the most prominent states of thi.
republic, suffered a patriot who called out
three cheers for Abe Lincoln and tie c0nsti-
ton p to be hustled ANONYMOUSLY out of the
hall where one of the traitors repeated the
delivery OF an incendiary grafton And the
loyal people Of a loyal state saw this act 90
unrebuked and unpunished..
Among the first acts Of the new legislation
last winter, was the adoption of al i,h nrn-
tectlve tariff. Though it cannot BE denied
that the country was long since in want Of
premium Tor her manufactures and an oueniny
OF a more remunerative market for her farm
ers, in order to keep her own capital at home
and to draw more tit mechanics 10 her fertile
shores, the time was then very i'll chosen
when a powerful Instruction in some Of the
states was trying to realize the wish of the
public speakers above mentioned, and wanted
allthe efforts of this Union, to preserve friend
ly relations with those nations " hose interests
were opposed to such an extensive protection
OF American manufactures.
In recent editorial article of the London
1s"'es' on the question of actual war, in con-
sequence OF the capture of the Southern Com
missiohefs' that influential paper compares
the state OF affairs at the com mepcement of
the Russian war and the position of the Amer.
lcan Federal Government as almost identical
in every commercial poin, with that occun;ad
by Russia towards England, and ut,o,s tba
following remarkable words, which 49,. L
supposed to embrace tie ,clole paiieu a 1" ~ oe
land, in few significant sentences y .. wy
sia," it says, ''had a hostile tariff, wb;la u W.
looked to her for large portion of our no oeno
raj supply of breadstuts; but there is tbi,
pc uliaritv in our present case. tina, the
commencement would be by breaking up the
blockade of the Southern ports, and at once
set free our industry from the anxiety Of a
cotton famine, and insure prosperity to Ian.
cashire through the winter. At the same
time we shall open our trade to eight millions !
Of people in the Confederate States. who de. |
sire nothing better than to be our customers.