The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-01

received with affection and respect, no mat
ter who. had been the declarations OF q few
men assembled in the state of New York.
That party is represented by Sumner and
Chase and Beecher, and the leading abolition
lists of the country +; and that they are noto-
rlously committed to this view, every fair and
reasonable man will admit. If this party
succeeds, these men will control it. Howev-
or one or two or q half dozen republicans
may conceal their real designs, the hand of
Chase. Sumner Il Co., is clearly seen, and
they will govern the action of the republican
party. The ostrich Seward may hide his lit
tie head, but the tail-festhers, and wings,
and body of Chase, Sumner, Garrison and
Phillips stick out and disclose the real ami
NAL. daughter and applause) Now, fell
low citizens, what is the plan Lot US look
for a single moment, and see what it is
Since the existence of the government, all the
states in rebellion have had slaves By the
uni ust war waged against the United States
government, the state governments OF the
south have been overthrown and slavery abol
lshed. How. is that slave population found
under this state of things? Why, you have
a race Of adults numbering some eight hun
dred thousand, in four millions of people, en-
tirely uneducated, to teach whom to read has
been a crime, ignorant of the martial rela-
tions, of providing for themselves and taking
care of their children. And now we are to
deal with them what do the democrats, what
does President Johnson-(cheers) say to
them? He says, in the first place, you must
respect the marriage rite; you must take
care of your own children; you must clothe
yourselves you must olothe your children /;
you must be taught and you must teach your
children and you must subsist yourselves.
A helpless, miserable, ignorant population of
a sudden and instantan eously told this -
Why, any rational man would say that is
duty enough to impose upon the people at
first but this Seward party says "NO; in
addition to this you must get the constitution
of the United States and study it; you must
be taught the laws of the country; you must
canvass the claims of the candidates for Office;
you must vote, and you must vote against
those who have formerly owned YOU
Good God was there ever a more mad
project conceived upon the face of the earth
(Cries of never) A more quixotic one p
And they say that unless this is done the
states formerly in rebellion shall not be al
lowed to have representatives in either
branch of congress or be considered by the
United States as members of this confed era
cy. They thus become the disunionists of the
country they thus show their determine tion
to keep this Union divided, to keep alive the
civil strife. and to psrretuate forever the diff.
1cultles under which the country has been
staggering for four and half years through
disorder, confusion and anarchy. To pre-
serve peace even in states thus situated would
require a standing army almost as large as
the army we previously had. Taxes upon
the people would be ten told increased for
the purpose of Insisting those armies
This policy of the republican party must be
met-must be overthrow.