The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-06-28

1t is belieyed that the supreme court got
cooper down here. thinking Herndon and
Foster had both left, and they could then
show him off (about week after the Moline
affair with pistol in one hand and morse
whip in the other, as a brave man. 1t was a
mistake. Neither the court or Cooper gained
any laurels on the occasion. sr--
The members of the Rock Island supreme
court, and those wiu, like foolish moths, flick
er about the little blazs Of their wick, may
| think it very brave aud honorable to attack a
| defonceless old man ike Mr.. Bulley; they
may think IL brave and honorable to sit round
their corner and SANDER their fellow citizens,
and discuss the loyalty of women. but there
are other people who think it very dishonora-
BILE and cowardly. There will always be
towards, protesting superior loyalty. in such
q state of country we have had sUr the
last four yre. In fact they are as inseparable
from it as maggots from carrion or flies from
a molasses barrel in dog days. They are
brought forth by it. Not more surely does
war develope the natural heroism that may
be in man, than it warns into life and aetiyi.
ty the qualities of an opposite kind 1t is a
wonderful mirror of human nature 1t shows
US the stuff that men are made of, and how
thee are made. IL tears off the mask which
society has worn, and reveals it's members in
all their native beauty or deformity, noble
ness or meanness.
The coward you may always know by his
noise-just as blind man may distinguish a
jackass from a war horse. He is the most
belligerently administrative of beings. He is
continually wanting to hurt somebody, and
wanting that every body shall know it and be-
lisve it. He is for fight. Not that he is yery
apt to enlist, unless 10 the ." Home Guards
but whenever there is enlisting to be done,
his voice is heard above all other voices in
urging others to do so. He is ready to stand
around Harper L. Steel's corner and Islander
his heighbors from one end of the week to the
other He will bs there early and late and
do his best to neglect his own business and
attend to the affairs of his neighbors. If the
emergency is great or the danger imminent,
he gets terribly excited about it. He rushts
around frantically. uses terrific words and
gesticulates in an alarming manner. lie ex-
presses a vehement desire to rip and slash
things. He blows like thundergust. He
Frances and kicks up, like an unruly mule on
g horse railroad. He snorts like a steam en-.
CINE. He gets rpd in the face, like boiled
lobster. He roars and bellows and paws II
ground much wrath. lie CRASHES mis-
teeth aud shakes his fist at the enemy-six CT
seven hundred miles of. He expresses a
willingness to cut the throats of any number
of traitors, and wants to know why other PEG. |
pie don't do it. He is turbulent. He wants |
a " muss," in which somebody or anybody |
He exhorts somebody to borrow a meat-axe |
and "spare mono of them. males or females" |
He insists upon demolishing things generally |
at a single blow. and, like quack medicine |
gives full direction how to do |
it.
Notwithstanding his terrifcal habits, he is |
not a formidable or dangerous object 1t is |
not generally believed thpt he breakfasts on |
" raw Irishmen," or dimes on broiled Germ |
ans with Negro sauce. 1t is not the univers- |
al superstition that he can swallow sixteen or
binary human beings at a moutbful. Altho', |
mounted on borrowed horse, be may follow
an army to the battle field, 1t is not altogeth-
@. credited that the soldiers fight more des |
perateiy for fear Of being transferred to his
haversack for rations. IIe is careful to keep |
in the rear, where, in case of retreat, he |
will be sure to reach place of safety in the |
advance He is not of those who, in the |
midst of perils, looks danger calmly in tn
face, and by their GOODNESS, steadness of |
nerve and calmness of purpose. command the |
confidence and obedience of thousands, an
wrench victory from the very jaws of defeat
Such men are brave The men we have de-
scribed are towards.