The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-11

waukee, on the 22nd, 10 u large audience, in
which he gave the following as the opinions
OF Generals Grant and Sherman on the sub
ject of negro suffrage:
OPINION OF GEN. GRANT.
But / will not stop here. This is too Sc
rIous a matter for men with hippant tongues
to pass over, as if there were nothing in it
The other day when General Grant was here
spending several hours with him in free con
versatiOD upon this subject among others he
expressed TO me the same opinion. Said | !;
General Grant, never quote private con-
versation without express permission. Am
permitted to state what you now state to
me? ?" Said he: Certainly, there is no con-
ceaimeDt on my part And he stated 10 me
IL the conversation that a considerable Dor
ton of the troubles between the whites and
the blacks, that had already occurred, Vas
in consequence of this upwise attempt to
force negro suffrage in those states. lie
said, further. that if the federal government
were TO attempt to do it and to enforce it, it
would undoubtedly produce war between the
two races there.
Now, how does it seem for some of those
young men that were never there in their
lives. and know nothing about it, some edit
of q newspaper, or some stump orator
now uOoH 1T Stcm LOT euCn men, In presence
of authority like this, TO say it means moth
ing? When | stand before people and plead
and plead to save the lives of these DOOR
down-trodden men, whom their mistaken
zeal, false philanthropy and blind fanaticism
would hurry into their graves by hundreds
and thousands, perhaps. Applause.
OPINION OF GEN. SHERMAN
Rut thara 10 stiIl onn.har aud No loas k;uL
authority upon this subject:
In conversation with General Sherman.
that great captain, who was this day in the
city, and who desired much to be present
here this evening, whose friends telegraphed
TO Chicago for the purpose of OBTAINING the
boat that he might be here, but were unable
10 do 30, which i much regret, for would
prefer to say il IN his presence. found be
entertained the same opinion. That great
captain, who, at the head of his conquering
legions, swept through the very heart uf the
rebellion, who is familiar with the condition
there, who has lived in Louisiana, and who
was at the head of a military academy there,
when the rebellion broke out, he, too, in con-
versation with me at Madison, was decidedly
of the same opinion with General Grant and
the president
My fellow citizens, when i stand here
pleading here-agaiust this insane project
for 1t is none other-this insane project of in |
sisting that the government of the United |
States, while endeavorlng to establish peace |
in those states. should adopt policy leading |
to a bloody war of races, by forcing negro |
suffrage upon the people of the south at this I
time, against the unanimous opinions OF the |
white races what most of the free states
will not do, though their numbers are so
. nall that they could have but very little
most fearful nroDosition under
these circumstances. do not rest upon nv
Own knowledge. l am bound to regard the
of those great men-onr greatest
have been there, and state what
the effects of such policy would be. And
he must be very brave man who, never
having been there, and knowing nothing
about it, stands up and says, at is all delu-
lion there is nothing in it. [Chesrs Il
Q moral cowsrdios, and only timid men who