The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-01-04
DODGING AROUND.

The Union takes two issues and five coli
umns of tyne TO dodge around the issues be-
tween the president and congress, when the
whole matter is as plain as a pike staff and
could be summed up in a stick full of type
Its article is full of subterfuges and misrep-
resentatiou, and attempts TO cover up the
rupture which has occurred in the repubh-
can party. The fact cannot be covered up
that the republican party is hopelesly divi-
ded. The N. Y. Times, and the Chicago
journal both republican authority CORES
pondents from Washington describe. in
lengthy letters, how Messrs Wilson and
Price, radical repu blican congressman, from
Iowa, called on President johnson and at
tempted to bride him into an abandonment
ot-his reconstruction plans, and how utterly
they faded, They had ascertained that the
president had given orders to the heads of
the various departments to make no mora
appointments to office upon Recommendations
OF members of congress, and they were
alarmed They wanted him to recall that
order, and to abandon his plans. They re-
ceived satisfaction, so far as obtaining knowl-
edge Is concerned. on both points. Tbs
president declined to change his instrutions
10 the heads OF departme nts, and gave suffi.
clent Indications that he would adhers In his
policy. They retired bre athing vengeance
nereupon l. W, in the New York Times.
gives tair notice that the radicals in compress
VIII have himself and the conservatives tn
oppose and thus the war between th. radi.
cal and conservative republicans IL decIs,ad |
Political affairs are exceedingly interesting
and promise to become more go as soo, =.
congress assemblies again.
The Illinois State Register photographs the
situation" as follows:
The great republican party is DIVING, Tbo
struggle is hard one, and it is is indeed 81
ancholy spectacle to observe the consterna,;o,
ihlo whieh the loyal doctors have been thrown
by the alarming disease that has lately hro,,an
out SO violently in the ranks of the do.a;o.
party That the patient is "down sick " ard co.
rlousiy affected, there can be no doubt Cd a. |
hhai oissointion OF the "Union party" Of &c
!ears standing, is liable to take place AZ al
most any moment. Its demise is oniy a question
OF time; when great wall from federal e.
holders will go up out of the land. AIresa, NC
paratioDs are being made for its funeral oh ;
at ashngton on an imposing scale the ara
ing Oh ceremonies having been placed in tho ban2,
vi tue ''treedmen's bureau and the .sburoas, e
military justice" with the freedmen onors
the position of chief mourners
DiHererces OF opinion exists to an aIor,,;
eAteht among the physicians in attendance a, -,
lhe nature OF the complaint and the restora,;ras
mat should be used. This situation of aIfs;., :.
~ DC legre!'ed as 1t only complexities and agra
Ta'es the disease The doctors of the Cb;"sao
"a rs ersa, t uon seem to be much alarmed, aud
lnd say that between President Jobnspr /
Tue radicals, as they are called the difference :;
lol one OF KIND, but of degree simplyn Tb;s
earnsu physician prescribed as a cure. that men
he assembling OF congress, it shall immad;s,s.
!, nearby unite to-pass a constitutional amend |
ne,t prohioiting any state from restrict;nT ,ha
ieh' Oh suffrage by reason of race color or ,.eJ;1
oae q uts c.ftzeas. and guarantee it as ..sn:.
are, or no pay" in the New York collectorsh;n
his remedy, translated into common FneIsb
UNIVERSAL suffrage to all men, negroes in mar
iGuiar' Although this medicine has been tba D
uHhg practice for the last four or five years IL ia
80, i,olh the nature OF the disease it will b
!ne Repabticd,s's older and more ssoac;o,s n
eighbor and practitioner, the T;vu,s fssis .hs
use OF the patient, steps back shakes HE baaJ
minousiy, and gives it up as gone. and declarss :
&c patient dead. This doctor, in his agony al
linu, exciaims, Is the president not now keen;n.
&c company OF "rebels and copperheads ?" and
II 10 wash his hands of the consequences tho, !
re TO follow, asks, "whether the nres;dant ~ G
81 placed himself in this company: gives wax
ms ieelings, and leaves the scene in desns;r al
n'ie the scientific and formal practitioners of in
e "a assoae'. Democrat, Cincinnati Gaze6e in. II
uuins Professors Sumner and Stevens, recon-. =