The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-18
A Good speech from a Union General.

Soon after thu National Union Convention
at Philadelphia, a great meeting wac held In
Memphis, Tenn, to ratiiy its doings. The
| late rebel Gen. Forrest presided and made
| very sensible and patriotic speech, and In the
course of the evening the gallant Gen. Stone
| man addressed the meeting in the following
| neat and timely little speech
| Friends AMI Fellow Countrymen - You
have called before you, not a partizan or q
| politician, but simple citizen of the govern
| ment of the United States, knowing no north,
| no south, no east no west. The war in which
| the people of this greatest OF all great coup-
| tries has been engaged during the past event
| fol years is ended, the issues upon which
| that war was based are settled. IF there is
| ANYTHING to forgive, let it be forgiven; if
there is anything to be forgot, let 1t be for
| gCtten
country and one flag. The object for which
I we are all assem- ied hero 10 night, Is, as /
understand it, reconstruction ana reunion
| You may force separated man and wife to
! live in same house, lodge IN the same room,
| but they will never be reunited as man and
wife until they have first become reconciled.
| | said the war ended. AS we were
| enemies in var. let be again friends !;
and in this sentiment I know shat none
Will Join me rnsrs heartily than the gal
| liant and Distinguished pyesldSnt of this as
sen. o!eee The bravery that was displayed
| during The past by each one engaged IL the
war let il D, th5 ooumon property % ali
| We soldiers who dad she fighting recon
| ciled aud want peace aai harmony. aaj sc
/ call upon you editors and orators OF the land
! 10 ala with your ptns ard tapgues.
Preachers OF the gospel whose solemn OBJ
! legation is to preach peace nEd good will, We
! ask your prayers and invocstions and from
/ YOU, politicians, we demand that You cease
| your wrangling and allow the good work 70
| 20 on until our object is attained. And you,
fair rnaidens and noble matrUns, who during
the fighting, oheered US with your smiles and
frightened Us with your fross, lend Us the
| potency of your power in the accompiis hment
| Of Il work so audable end SO noble.
| As an not candidate for your suffrage
| nor never expe t 70 be, nor ever cast a vote
| for president IN my life, you will not expec;
me to define my position; but this much
will say, / have been a me an Der OF a club for
nearly quarter OF a century, and which was
organized nearly three-quarters of q century
! ago By the constitution of that club it's prea-
| idept il elected every four years. Its first
president was George Washington /; It's pres.
| ent president is Andrew johnson, whom the
people call ''Our Andy"
And the people one and all who listened
| applauded this speech, but the radicals don t
| like it, nor the brave man who made it. The
reason is obvious.
| An Exhibition OF Radical Moral Cowardice.
! How to do it without seeming to do it, and
| without letting the people see them do it was
| O constant struggle with the northern radio
| ais at the recent Philadelphia mulGtto conven-
| ton Negro suffrage was the great thing to
be obtained, but how to get it by stealth, and
without arouHing the people to resistance,
was an exercise of many brains under consid-
cradle trioulation Of spirit. They were as
much exercised to know how to express the
idea properly was the editor who, writIn z
about q woman who had not been buried with
proper observance, said: "She was buried
| like dog, with her clothes on" lie saw the
| blunder, and in his next issue, corrected
thus: ''She was buried with her clothes on,
| like d dog" Exasperated with the double
mistake in his next be had it thus: Like
dog, with her clothes on,swas she buried"
! With all the changes of language, it would
| still read she was buried like a dog. The rad
| zeal leaders ct Philadelphia suggested some
manhood suffrage; ;" others, impartial suf-
| frage;" others, equal rights and franchis-
| es ;" and other, ''the attributes of citizen
ship and still with al the difference of
language, and various phrases used it would
still be negro suffrage pure and unadulterat-
ed. They all wanted it-all favored tall
were sure it would come-but to declare
ter il openly, boldly, and manfully they
would rather not-for polioy's sake. And
for fear that they might be committed in
black and white, to the naked issue of negro
suffrage much as they favored it and wanted
it, the northern delegates would not join the
southern delegates and form one convention
thereby exhibiting n moral cowardioe with
out example in modern politics.
Yet, what will 1t profit them. Every body
can see their cowardice and hypoorsy-oan
see that they believe that their political SAL
vstion depends on negro sufrage-oan see
that while they favor and want negro suf-
frage. they are afraid to make manly avow-
al of it Just now, hoping to blind the people.
| and secure two-thrds Of the next5 congress
by false pretenses. Without a great acknowl-
edged leader, afraid to make a manly svowal
Of their principles, and the rank and the file
demoralized by moral cownrdice. what hope
can the radicals have of success. - Cincinnati
Enquirer.