The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-01-13
QUINCY, Ill. Dec. 80.

QUINCY, ILL.,, Dec. 80.
Ny DEAR SRI know of no reason why
should not place in your hands for such use
opinions upon the situation as you request
in yours OF the 18th.
| have no aspiration for place-no wish or
hope for office. The public confidence. SO Of
ten reposed in me by the people. entities
Shem 10 my opinions. | have no motive to
conceal them. TIE surrender of the southern
armies ended the rebellion, and by the stipa
lati0ns of the surrender both officers and men
made prisoners were protected from trial and
punishment for treason.
Nearly all the leaders were thus protected
from harm. and In my opinion it would have
been better had the president at once issued
general amnesty proclaim alton, and restored
the habeas corpus recognized at once the
fact that the rebellion was over, the states
still in the Union, and lett the civil authorI-
ties to do the balance.
This would have bsen better and spec iier.
This was not done, and We have to take
things.a as they are
| had a very satisfactory Interview with
the president day or two before the meeting
of congress. His message contained all that
| expected. Acts are more potent than words,
and the president. by Withdrawing his pro-
ma Georgia Mississippi and South Carolina,
AID reoo ynIzing ths governors elected the
proper officers TO discharge the duties OF the
place, has shown his desire TO do all he can
do in the premises. l repeat, this Is all he
can do now, renrganIzlng them as states II
the Union with ali the rights of the states
The republicans in congress are opposed TO
this. The president says the rebellion IL
over, congress says no, the rebelilon Is still
going on Between the president and the
radical repu biicans there il ''deeI ditch
and high wall" The radical republicans
in congress don't want the Union, they mean
to keep discord and anarchy triumphant a.
long as they have the power. Their expul
sion from place by the people is certain
There is not to-day in the land except In
congress) any opposition to the Union the
constitution which makes the Union or the
laws passed IN pursuance OF the constitution,
yet the radical repub licans say that the
bellion still continues that II will last and
continue until the negro Is allowed 10 vote
in all the states lately in rebellion, Negro
voting is now the test of loyalty" All the
states and people opposed to this are In re-
beliiou. By this test Connecticut, at her las {
election, placed herself in rebellion so did
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado. Mass
achusetts allows the negro to vote. Rhode
Island, Vermont aud Maine do the same
All the rest of the states | believe, deny the
negro this privilege.
Thirty states certainly III rebellion ac-
cording to this test, Four, say SIX. are 10y
al" l have heard the story of juror, who
disa agreed with the rest, when asked by the
court if they could agree 10 a verdict, said,
mo, Mr.. Judge they are eleven of the most
contrary men | every saw" Massachusetts
says there are thirty odd states In rebellion.
I'll !,
the almost unanimous vote of the people, are
in rebellion.
| need not argue the question now, that the
negro is an inferior race to ours. The histo-
ry of all time proves this. The popular vote
of the psople everywhere demonstrates the
fact that we will not follow the example of
other republics on this continent, who have
been plunged into and kept in anarchy by
comforting the right of suffrage upon inferior
races. / would not throw straw In the
wav OF the unfortunate African. The white
race perhaps have done the black and red
races much wrong. To the contest now TO
ensue the black man will disappear as the
red man has done. Superior races extermin-
ate inferior ones When in contact the in-
ferio.-race only learns and practices the vices
OF thesuperior. | am doing what experience
teaches should be done by excluding from the
greatest privilege known to civilized people
all inferior Races from the ballot box. They
have never preserved it when committed to
them.
In conclusion, think it our duty in THE
contest to overthrow the radical party, a
mere faction now controlling and running the
country.
Let US give to the president an earnest
support in exterminatlng this faction
am, truly,
W. A. RICHARDSON,