The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-02
From the Boston Pilot
From the Boston PlIots
ThadSteyens' Radical Policy
For the South, Identical with
English Policy towards Ireland.

We are filled with amazement that there
are statesmen at this day, In this country, |
who with the cry of liberty upon their lips /
and the claim of equality for all, as the car- |
dinel principle in their political platform, |
should with the most depiorable inconsistent |
cy, announce an intention to pursue policy |
towards one entire third of the people of the
United States, who inhablt fully one-half,
and that the best half our territory, precisely
similar to the policy pursued by England to-
wards Ireland, for centuries, and by Russia
towards Poland since the subiugation and
partition of that brave but unhappy country.
il ia a strange thing to witness, in the ma
turity of the nineteenth centurY,-that OF
people who profess to be guided by the light
of the Christian religion and OF eminent IN
,ellectual culture, who profess, also, the
broadest humanitarian principles, and to rec.
ocnize the equality of man, without regard
to race, In the exercise of political privileges
seeking to fasten shackles and disabilities
upon an enemy whom they have conquered
in battle, and who confess that they are
conquered by laying down their arms and
giving up their opposition.
This, however, is the radical programme
| for treating the south. Thad, Stevens, the
| RECOGNIZED congressional leader, teaches that
| tho great body of the people OF
| that section must be distranchlsed.-
| He holds that the states are dead and that
those who have been engaged IN rebellion are
entitled to but one right, and that Is. the
right to hang. He insists upon 1t that, state
/ lines being wiped out, the entire south is one
| greatunorganized territory and thus that ore
! third of the states of the Union have ceased
| to exist. lie claims that the conquered must
| suhmit 10 such terms and conditions as the
| eonouerors NAV see fit TO impose, and that
those terms and conditions should be dIsiran-
| chisement; denial of representation; gov
| ernment imposed upon them over which they
have no voice military force to keep them
| in subsection !; q great governmental agency,
| with extraordinary powers, and the military
to enforce their edlcts ; taxation TO support
| these governments, the military and the
agency, and not only that, but taxation to
paw their proportion of all the other. expen-
SEES of the general government. Charles Sum-
uer, the senatorial radical leader, supports
| this doctrine; Gen'l Butler, the personal enc
| nv of General Grant. supports 1t, and goes
further even, than the 'Draco" o. Pennsyl-
yanis. The Southern Loyalists," so called,
who are following in the wake Of the Presl-
dent declare this doctrine, and one OF their
number, Psrs0n Brownlow, would have the
armies Of the north divided into three grand
diyjsions,-the first to penetrate the south
/
second to follow on with spirits Of turpentine
and frebrands to consume what the tide OF
war has lett standing, and the third TO follow
with the surveyors and measurers' cham to
divide and parcel the land off 10 the conquer
ing hosts.
This is the policy of the radicals as proclaim
ee IN their conventions, IN speeches Ia con-
gress, and by public speakers everywhre dur
ing the political campaign that Is now before
US 1t il policy Of conhscation, extermina
ton and blood, England towards Ireland
aud Russia towards Poland, furnish the his
torical precedents for pursuing this course
FelIow-citizens, who havs Irish blood In your
veins, and who baYe sworn eternal hatred to
| q governmental policy like that; which IS q
poljcv of demons rather than of human men
which is policy that has spread mourning
and ashes over ireland; drenched her solI
with blood driven her children by thousands
and millions from her bosom ; covered the
land with desolation; bowed down the hearts
of her people with anguish filled tho LAND
with famine in the midst of plenty cursed
the fairest land which the sunlight of heaven
ever shone upon, with long. dark night OF
desolation and despair,-thls policy, fellow
citizens you are called upon TO uphold an
support by you appreciation and votes.
Shall we, who have felt the appalling re
! suit of that kind of treatment towards whole
people, and that people our ancestors ant
kindred, lend ourselves TO the hldeous wori
of imposing the same work upon others?
is true that the north has the power, now, t.
confiscate the lands of the south, and to treaC
our southern courntrymen under our feet
It has the power that Cromwell and his par
ty had over Ireland. 1t can keep clever
states abect, beneath an iron rule. 1t cal
make slaves, literally, and proposes to MAKE
slaves of all who inhabit the vast terrltorIe
of those states, except the negroes. Bu
what are to be the consequences? The New
York Express, with Il correct appreciation o
? the subject, furnishes full and impbatic ans
wers, which are:
est Inevitable and constant rebellions. TIL
Irish and the Poles always rebelling, Stand
ing armies are always necessary to keep them i
order Hence, the British people taxed |
death to supp ort these armies and bayonets, - an
hence, furious conscriptions reign and rule a
over Russia, to force peasants to be soldiers,
order to enforce the RuEsia-Poland and Circassia
policy.
. s'2d. The reaction upon freedom and ire
people, OF great standing armies There can b
, no free institutions among 10000 900, who ar
keeping 100000 or 10 100000 IN subJection-
Slavery and freedom for the same races are incom
patble under the same form of government. TIL
south cannot be held conquered, subject teri
tory, and the north kept as free states. The Ur
ion is impossible from it's utter lepugnaDcy."
Il is, therefore, true that the policy of tn
, President, and the struggle that has arise
with the President and those who sustai
!, him on the one hand, and congress and tn
radicals On the other, is the struggle that Ir,
land has been making for two centuries =,
the struggle for liberty, and law, and Sc
government, and voluntary Institutions. W
save ourselves by consenting to and mair
tanning the rights of others. We presery
. our own institutions by guaranteeing TO oti
ers theirs. Will Irish men be found consen
ing TO fix upon another people the grievor
# yoke they are striving to throw from the
t own necks 4?