The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-29

Il is not many months since the standard
of loyalty was devotion to the govern
ment; and the president was the govern.
ment. The loyal" party in Iowa have de-
termined TO change the standard. So has the
same party In Maine; and Judging from the
expressions OF the legislatures OF New Hamp-
shire and Tennessee, IL has reached a similar
determination in those states. In Ohio, il is
divided In opinion as TO the propriety of a
change. But day or two ago it was report
ed, aud probably truly, that the cabinet were
becoming "dlsloyal." At a recent s.ormy
session, she president was strongly pressed
with difficulty" There were those who
were dissatisfied with him" and with his pol
icy of reconstruction, and who demanded it's
abandonment. The president is said to have
replied to the'dissatisfed =" in substance and
spirit, as Gen. jackson did to Mr.. Calhoun,
when the latter was in q somewha imperious
manner urging the propriety of course diff
ferent from what the general was pursuing,
I'VE differ" The great metaphysician at
once appreciated the force of the argument.
and closed the discussion. We have little
faith that the dissatisfied" in the cabinet
will evince equal keenness of perception, but
We have mucn faith that the ultimate result |
of the dissatisfaction will be that in the mat !
ter in difference the president will have his |
own way.
The instances we have cited are ample to |
show that the "loyap' definition of loyalty |
has returned to plague the inventors and that !
in no slight degree. They can be indefinitely |
multiplied. The loyal" Cameron of Penn.
sylvania, is dissatisfied" because the presi.
dent has removed sundry gentlemen from of
flee In that state. In a recent speech in Phil
adelphia, he said There is no reason why
the men appointed by that great and good
man Abraham Lincoln, should be put out of
their places the moment he was murdered :"
The remark betrays an extreme state of dis
but Is not as intense as that felt
by the anti Siraery Standard. Witness:
ssDay by day The fruits OF our victories are taken
rom US and handed over to enemies, by a
nan In whom, as Governor Perry, of South Caro-
Ina, says, the south has complete confidence
II the south has, the north certainly has not.
lis there no remedy for the Are we to bear
i Tor near hive years morei Evidently, unless the
mousse OF representatives has the moral courage to
mpeach Mr.. Johnson before the senate The an ,
continent OF these men, and their continuation | ,
n ONCE IN open defiance of the law OF the United :
states, offers sufficient ground Then let the
lonse do the work which is before IL and liber,te
IS from MIR. Johnson.
Are the dissatisfied" intending 10 content
themselves with growing or do thew propose
o "liberate themselves from Mr.. Jobnsonv I
n the manner suggested by the .lovaI,
newspaper we have quoted, or by action of
ongress which shall quash his policy of res
,ratlon Z 1t is matter of much interest
We apprehend the growing dissatisfaction" =
mong them will have reached a height by
ne hrst OF December next which will bring
iuarely up the Question whether the presi.
emit or congress is the stronger The''loyap'
ay then ''learn" that thesr theory concern.
g the governments has about it much more