The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-27

The Record of the Negro-suffragists.

Soldiers of Rock Island county The cleo
ton which will occur in this county, on the
seventh day of November, will give you an
opportunity to show your aversion to those
man and those infamous doctrines which are
being used to degrade you to the level of the
negro The recent elections in the several
states of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Iowa
and Ohio show the revulsion in public senti-
ment ami although the success OF the demo-
cracy is incomplete, enough is known TO as
sure you that the people are being aroused
and will at the next election pronounce
against the monstrous doctI ines of the faUa-
tics.
We have published, for your information,
the record of the democracy. You will find
thaethey have constantly endeavored to pre-
serve your rights and if they have failed on
some points, 1t was caused by the iauatical
spiris of .he late republican leaders, who III
their efforts to laud the negro as the ablest
soldiers of the war, and to give him your i'll
estimable privileges of the ballot and the jury
box, these fanatics evince their hatred to you
and the white race.
The demoqratic party persistently ondeav-
ored to secure to the soldiers the right to vote
in the field. For this purpose they intro
duced into the legislature OF 1868 amend
ment of the constitution, which was defeated
by the vote of the republican members.
In the session of 1868, the democracy in
troduced resolution appropriating the sum
nf rad nd nj no Il
buted amongst the soldiers. This effort was
defeated by Gov. Yates, who desired to have
the handling of the appropriation ; and be-
cause it was proposed to put the funds in the
hands of impartial commissioners, he proro-
gued the general assembly. at the great
democratic mass meeting held in 1868, q
fund for the relief of sick and wounded sol
diers was voluntarily raised by the demo-
crazy, and two gallant soldiers were commits
stoned to distribute it amongst the brave
boys. These gentlemen performed their
duty, aud many of our sunerIng soldiers were
relieved by this voluntary bounty.
The fanatical fragment of the demoralized
republican party now oppose with vindictive
bitterness the efforts of President johnson to
reconstruct the Union, stigmatizing the
presidents policy as an experiment" In
stead of being Union, they are disunion men.
They once claimed to be the only men
who were In favor of the unconditional res
toration of the Union. They are now the on
ly men who oppose its restoration. They
claim that they were the only men who op.
posed the south leaving the Union. They
are now the only men who oppose her return.
Their actions speak more distinctly than
words, and show that they are, to-day, the
disunion party.
Nor has the course of the fanatics been
wanting, in language, to distinguish their
hatred of the white soldier. On more than
one occasion their leaders have taken pains
to applaud the negro soldier at the expense
of the real veteran. We have space for only
two or three extracts:
Wendell Phillips, one of the leaders of the
negro suffragists, exultingly exclaims 81 de-
clare in the face of all prejudice, that amid
the galtantry, the patience, the heroism of tis
scdr, THE NEGRO BEARS THE PALM" Negroes
are superior to white soldiers J" say they.
LELAND, OF Ohio, a leading republican men,
0sF VI congress, says 1.-The heroism of negro