The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-16

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will again be received into the bosom Of the
'epublic." And finally, after the surrender
u Lees army, when h returned 10 Wash.
nkton from Richmond, he was there called 1
but, and in Q public speech to the people he |,
again urged the policy Of rscisvine back the I
states without any conditions, and reiterated |
IN tho strongest language the ideas he had /
previously promulgated upon the subiect.-l
The last congress, my friends, passed bill
which initiated against the policy that the |
president had 30 uniformaly pursued. The |
Of the two housee, called the COM
mIttee on the rebel states, reported bill to |
congress, in which they asserted the right of |
congress- to lay conditions upon those states
my friends, as have been attempt
cd to be laid on the states since the rebellion
was crushed, but they asserted in congress
the power. That bill contained the princi.
pie of tho bill which sub equently passed
both houses Of congress, and which principle
ia common to them all. IL asserted the pow
or Of congress to keep out of the Union those
states after the war should have ceased, and
until certain conditions which congress should
prescribe had been conformed to By all the
states in rebellion or revolt. Mr.. Lincoln
put that bill in his pocket, and refused to as
sent to it. lie, in fact, vetoed it, although
bis election was then pending, for he had
then received the nomination Of his party at
Baltimore, and his election Is president was
pending befrre the people Of the United
States. Notwithstanding this, and notwith-
standing it was shrewdly suspected that this
movement iu congress had been instigated by
men who were hostile to his reelection. and
who desired the election of some such radical
Is Fremont or Chase-notwithstandln that
| he took tho responsibility and pocketed the
bill, telling congress that he could not conform
| his action with the requirements OF that
measure. TAppIause.l And Immediately
| Mr.. Henry Winter Davis, who was chairman
| Of the commmittee in the house that reported
| this measure, and Mr.. Wade. OF Ohio, who
| vas chairman of the committee in the senate
that had reported this measure, united to-
gether in a pronunciamento against the pres
| ideut for his refusal to sign this BILL and a
| call was made for a convention TO convene at
| Cincinnati for the nomination of new presi
| dent on the radical platform. These are mat
| tiers of history. They made this call for a
| convention to meet at Cincinnati to nominate
| a radical although there was one radical then
in the feld-a radical who had been put in
the field chiefly at the instigation Of the Mis-
souri, radicals, by convention which sat In
Cleveland, Ohio-which was called together
by several individuals, among whom was our
very uls6in&uiSue0 SoScHhoi, AAoHo1 "
Fletcher, and our still more disting ulsheo
senator, B, Gratz Brown. laugh. Upon
tn at call the convention had met at Cleveland
and nominated Fremont. He had been in
nomination for a month or two, ana that 10
about as long as he could continue In any
business without playing out" Laughter.
So when they found he had played out. the
persistent malignity of these radicals lnstiga
ted a second attempt for the nomination Of
another radical president, and although i
was proclaimed by the republican party tina
the Union itself was at that moment in Jeop
| ardy: although the platform of the Chicago
convention, upon which Mcclellan was nom
mated for president, was pointed at as con
tanning q disunion programme, OK at least al
containing a paragraph which pointed to th'
time when we ought to open negotiations anc
make peace with the southern states short o
maintaining the Union and whilst although
DANGEROUSLY proclaiming that the election o
Mcclellan was the death knell to the L nloi
vet these were the men who made two sew
eral efforts to get up candidate who coui'
take away from Mr.. Lincoln sufficient vote
to defeat him for president, and make M'
Cleilan, the nominee OF the Chicago conven
ton, the president of the nation; and i
thew had believed they could have accom-
plished his defeat, they would have continued
their candidate in the field. "hs prime NOV
ers in this mischief, who instigated the at
tempt to defeat the MON candid ate, were tn
radicals from Missouri. They were the mos
prominent the most persistent. They wer
the most malignant, and il has been afhrme
to me, and believe with truth, that the tw
most prominent and distinguished leaders Q
that party never did give their votes for MI
Lincoln. l mean the present governor o
Missouri and Mr. B. Gratz Brown of the sen
the real friends of Mr.. Lincoln were EXCLUDES
from the Baltimore convention. The onl
friends he had in this state were the conserV
esiyes The conservative Union men sent
delegation and were excluded from the Bsiti
more convention and the radicals from Mis-
souri, were admitted; simply because tia
convention understood very well that the cor
servasives would vote for Mr.. Lincoln whetf
> er they were admitted or not. They knee
they had to buy the votes of thu radicals
they got them st all by admitting them
, Laughter They were admitted TO the COZ
yention in order that they might be bound
the support of Mr. Lincoln. 1t was admi
ted that in such an emergency, at q time
, important, even injustice might be done
the true and real friends of Mr.. Lincoln
. those who had supported him and his polio
:. through good and through evil report; tbs
Injustice might be done to them and indign
ty heaped upon them, but that they woul'
: notwithstanding that, maintain the primo
: pies for which they had fought; but 1t W.
known that those other men required to r
, ceive brides for their adhesion that the
;, had to be brought into the convention beoau:
= they had no princi pie to bind them to tt
support of Mr.. Lincoln or the Union party
!. the country that they were instigatsd sol
g " by their malice and vindictiveness, an
u therefore they were admitted But that d
not soothe them-did notpropltiate thsm-ft
> even after they were admitted they we
. among the conspirasors who urged the call
. this new convention. They were the conspl
!. ators of the Cincinnati movement for ne
= nomin alton after the fzzle of Fremont, ar
!, they chung to 1t until the last hope had d
:. parted until every Union man in the couI
. try who was really for the Union prinoipl
and who believed that the Uniop would
best maintained and vindioated by the r
election of Mr.. Lincoln. had abandoned ther
y aud they dropped into the republican organ
cation to be curse to it, as they have G
- ways been a curse to it. Laughter.
st This, my friends, was the policy OF Abr
n ham Lincoln, and the policy of his admin