The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-10
Germans Deserving the Radicals.

The Indiana Onion. q German pager, pub
lished at Lafay cite, Indiana, hitherto strong
lY repub lican has come to the conclusion that
radicalism and fanaticism are fast running
the country and that it is the duty of Germans
to cut loose from party shacklss and act indie
pendently. We copy from late article in
the onion, Tin which it takes bold ground
against Mr.. Orth, the radical member of con-
gress from that district the following ex-
tract:
II we look to the workings of the radical
congress We find, the only result, unjust
oppressive, and exorbtant tax lava law which
has tendency to make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer; in other words an exact copy of
the European despotic ideas of government. A
case mentioned of this is sufficient to set the for
eign born citizen to thinking, for you all well
know that the scenery of your native land is no
way inferior to the most beautiful scenery of
s'Columbia's farm, that the women are asfair,
and the heart beats as warm for justice and
right as anywhere in the universe. In fertility
our soil can not be surpassed our native tongue
itself is almost the perfection of language and
the richly decorated prairie flower is not even
comparison to our clover blossom in beauty and
fragrance. Well indeed might the proud son of
Colambias land ask why we did not remain
in the fair land that gave Us birth. We answer,
and give es the reason, exorbitant taxation
violation of the organic laws of native states
BY designing and rotten men, who, robbed the
people of the power whichrightfully belonged to
them, and concentrated the same in themselves in
order TO carry out their hellish designs In other
words, the love of liberty and free government
This being our cause, would it not be treason to
the hopes of the world if we were to defend any
thing else than the principles herein advocated.
While we see the necessity of two or more par
ties 10 the welfare of we'll organized republican
government, we can not shut our ewes to the
corruption of either Therefore we saw that we
condemn the cause pursued BY Mr.. Ortb.
our present representative in congress- and we
charge that, instead of serving or even consult
ing the interests of his constituents he has lent
his aid to partisan purposes, yea believe even
selfish considerations did at times control his cote
To saw the least, look at his vote on the whisky
tax we may be permitted to fall from the sub
lime to the ridiculous. Can.he claim that he is
loser by it? Again the idea of forcing an OBJ
noxious constitution upon an unwilling people,
which is not republican in any sense of the view
vet this he is guilty of, and he claiming TO be {
worthy descendant of Alderman ancestry, haC
the audacity of denouncing, whilst he acted al
chief cook and bottle washer of the know <noth
ings in this locality, the Germans and foreigner
especially, ss incompetent to exercise a RICH
which is so dear to every American heart am
citizen the right for which so much b. BOD ha
been shed, the right of suffrage and self-govern
inent.
The ewes of our German fellow citizens ar
everywhere getting opened to the effects O
radcalism and other forms of fanaticism