The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-11-19
AN ORGANIZED FORCE TO VEL.
COME CONGRESS.

Congress is to be welcomed and supported
by an unusual array a. the opening of the
coming session, which array it is supposed
may be made permanent and subject to the
orders of congress. Forney's Washington
Chronicle announces the programme in the
following Official call:
GRAND MASS WELCOME TO CONGRESS
being profoundly impressed with the Importance
OF the struggle through which the country is pass
ing and of the necessity of preserving the results
gained by the triunphs in the field, and more re-
Gently st the polls, the undersigned, committee
appointed by the soldiers and sailors union of
Washington, D. c., do in their name earnestly in
Tte their comrades the loyal veterans of the repub
lie, with all other friends of the great Of I'm
ion and liberty, to meet in a national mass welcome
and council to be held in this, the Federal Capitol,
on Saturday, December the 1st proximo.
eve ask your presence to honor and assure pro
lection To the loyal majority of the thirty ninth
gress in whom recognize faithful guardians of
our assalied institutions and able supporters of the
principles involved.
''come in your might! By your presence show
how sternly loyalty rebuke treason Prove
thereby that that the threats and insults of treaeh
erous executive against the legislative branch of the
government cannot intimidate free people, Here
in the federal capital, must great struggle cul-
inmate, in wise and equitable legislation. Here,
then should assemble to encourage and streng
en- congress-to whose hands the constitution wisely
lntrusts the power-to such action will make
peace permanent, and liberty universal D. S. Cur
It's K. G.. Hinton A. j. Bennett, W. S. Morse, L.
Edwin Dudley. Correspondence is invited, and
may be addressed r. j. Hinton, Washington, D.
The Washington lnteltigeaccr comments al
follows, on the first appearance OF the call:
'FWe panied and shocked to announce, from
many sources of reliable information, that the above
call looks the establishment here permdnenc C.
of organized force, to be subject to the orders
congress. What they may be. and what disastroui
calamities impend over our beloved country Heaven
only knows. But the ferocious counsels of Butler
Wade and Forney may be carried out by the Sword
smoking with bloody execution
eve are reminded by this of the threats once
made by partizans in New York, to organize al
army Of ten thousand men to encamp upon Capito
Hill, to overawe the administration of Andrew Jack
SON."
Ii appears now, however, that the signers
OF the call have become alarmed. The Intel
ttgenccr thinks they may we'll shrink from
violent demonstration looking to steps de-
FAINT of authority, hoperer they may hare been
inspired" But let us say to the gentleme On,
IN all kindness, that the record of the edito,
OF she Chronicle is so atrocious, not to saw f.
roclous, tor indictment to mob riot, blood and
murder, and also for another war of rapine
against the unarmsd and PROSTATE south
with beauty and booty and burning as watch
words; and that he is an acknowledgements,
adviser to such susceptible and unsophis,i,a.
ted men as he may ensnare for his uses an6
purposes"