The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-25

every injury possible and all the insults that
they can heap upon these victims vi the
prowess of their husbands arms. Thank
God that civilization has made our ladies
different from the Indian squaws-that II
has left them touched with refinement, and
brought them to know that those who suffer
are not to be scorned-that those who have
deem defeated and are lying PROSTATE in the
dust, are not to be trample upon.
But in lieu of the squaws of these uncivil-
lied Indians, wo have class of men who
never go to war, Laughter, who are at once
devoid of the manIlness of warriors and the
tenderness of women, but who make amends
for their poltrOOnery by the vigor with which
they prosecute the down trodden.
l am opposed to this system which has
been gotten up by the radicals for the des-
truction of our owe race at the south. / am
opposed to their wholesale system Of robbery
and plumber for the benefit of provost mar
shals and attorneys, and | am equally op-
posed to this little, petty system OF tyranny
and oppression with which they would still
persecute the men who have not only been
distinguished in battlefront, In their efforts
to establish q cause which they at least were
devoted to, but who have, by these acts, been
robbed OF property as well as of civil rights,
and, therefore, are incapable of indicating
themselves against the prosecutions of the
most malicious and malignant OF their own
party. | am opposed to it on general prin-
ciples. | oppose it, as | said in the begin
ming of the few remarks which L have made,
because when the war is over | desire to see
peace. am opposed to it because it will
be the fruitful source of other wars. / am
opposed to it because it Is in no sense a
measure which commends itself TO a civilized
and humane community. | am opposed to
1t because | am in favor of my own race in
preference to any other race. Applause }
| saw the other day little return from the
state of Connecticut, where they voted down ne
gro suffrage in that state and about the same
time we had telegram from the new state OF
Colorado, where it was voted down five to one,
and so from the east and from the west and from
the centre it seems that negro suffrage is not 30
popular after ALL Now, the true motive why
these gentlemen want negro suffrage is this, rs
will explain: New England has had a very good
time during this with high tariffs. They
laid the tariff on US, while the manufacturers of
New England have been coming the money
They do not want the the south to come back
in the shape of white men, who have always been
against the protective system, but they want
them to come back with these negroes under the
guidance of these New England men, so that they
can maintain their political possession of the
government of the United States, and also that
they NAV be able to pass their tariff laws, which
the drawers of water" for these lords of the
loom. These Yankees, my friends, there is one
thing peculiar about them, they have always got
eve to the main chance Laughter. They
will talk very prettilv-hne sentiments-very
piou- and all that sort of thing; but they never
forget-it is a religious duty with them never &c
iorget-an eye to the main chance. They are
now rolling in wealth, at period of time when
we in the west have been suffering from every
sort of distress. They rolling IN wealth
throughout New England, which has been amas
sed during this war, and want the privilege OF
continuing that same ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by obtain
ing political power. Their principal men want
the negro to be made voter in the south, be
cause they think New England will control the
vote of the negro, and so their ambitious men are
striving to accomplish their object by declaring
that the negroes are the only loyal men IN the
south, and therefore should be allowed to vote,
while the white men, who are all rebels, should
be deprived of the right