The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-06

twe sons. II ms1hat Divine Providence
intended il a. rebuks. IN illustration that
Justice will not only overtaks its victim. but
will mets justice in similar manner.
Il think. Mr.. President that have shown
the tendency of the policy 20 which have
called attention, Whether il has be n de-
signed at all times BY those who pr, scaed v
or mot, shall mot undertake 70 say. but
will cay that the effect of that kind Of teach
ing hse been the result which 10 30 evident;
and ! want to say now in no spirit OF boast
ing, 20 my friends east and west, north and
south, that the time has arrived when en-
croachments on the institutions OF the south
should cease the time has arrived when we
have well nigh done making appeals 10 you
on the ubject but eli we ask OF you 4 that,
as brothers of the same great confederacy,
YOU will understand and carry out the con.
stitation ms il is, and let us cease this bicker-
ing. Let us cease this agitation, and stand
upon the constitution as the common altar,
and maintain all it's guarantees. and swear
by our fathers and the God who made us
that the constitution and its guarantees shall
be preserved aud, in doing 90, We shall
preserve the Union; and. in preserving the
Union, we shall have peace and harmony,
and the unexampled prosperity which has
visited our country will continue to 60 on"
The editor of the Old Guard says:
Ii is fortunate for the cause of truth and
Justice, and tor the future historian of this
terrible civil war, that the correct history Of
old John Browns Inauguration of the policy
of the republican, or abolition party. was
made by so eminent an authority as Presi
dent johnson; and it is especially fortunate
that this record was made in the senate of
the United States. 1t is a part of the debates
of that body, where il stands uncontradicted
and unrefutej. Ii WAS the Endorsement of
the policy of this raider and murderer by the
north, that startled and aroused the south,
and finally drove ii into secession for John
Browns raid tcas Endorsed by the north
From almost every church and school house.
the voice of prayer and lamentation went up
to Almighty Gsd, canonizing his name, ana
indorsing his lnfamy. The whole republican
press lent u SUPPORT 70 this sbomination !;
and viii 80 a., ,sistency, when the New
EnglaD3 ,..1iers marched through the city,
they m-de it hideous as hell by singing and
shouting John Rro,cn's Soul as Marching
on" So il is, we have little doubt, marching
on, through seas of FIRE, in company with
hends. thieves and as assins, such as were
his companions and abettors 10 this life. So
1t IS marching on 20 the music OF despotism,
ignorance. revenge aud lost, that swells up
like gorgOn from the botto :niess pit, out of
the brazen threats Of negro worshipping
mobs Marching on. as q pestilence or con
tagion. or q thing of horror aud death march
es on! Behind its march are the walls of
widows, the screams of children, the vain
Implications of defenseless old men, and the
humiliation of manhood. Before il, the in
sane gibberish and fantastic dance of ne
groes, of both the white and black complex.
ion. making night and day hidsous with in
fernai delight. Marching on !-alas, poor
country alas, human nature! Why do We
write these things now? Because we love and
you'd save the country. Because we would
bring our countrymen Of the north TO their
senses by holding up the-John Brown raid as
a glass Tor them TO see-their faces in. We
would remind them that thsre is both r God
and history, and that Justice and truth, soor-
er or later, will whip all of the shams and
lies ont OF the records of human events. II
the south has fotlaes to repent of we have
crimes crimes which will roll out of their
graves and hunt u like demons through the
world. Nainly do we seek 10 assure our.
selves, by shutripg our eyes and saving.
rer'ty. schot a good people are pe! There is
an eye that We cannot shut. There is an
arm that We cannot stay. Time is an mex
"rable svenger of all mems wrong-: and
time will strip us bare to the bone, and show
what CARCASS OF frauds aud shams we are.