The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-05
Who "Demands 20


travelling on the charity of northern black re
publicans, is one noted character known as
ttJsck Hamilton" As q compensation Tor
the part of ais travelling expenses PAID by the
Chicago radicals, Hamilton made a speech to
q small crowd here, in which we find the fol
lowing:
$50 they come back and demand their positions
in congress, not only upon terms that would equal
their former position IN the Union, but with IN
creased power. They demand it of you. These
men can't vote, and never did. fit depend upon
the south, they never will. But they must all be
represented in congress The result would be
that in South Carolina of the swell headed ar
stocrats of the former days, OF the leaders OF
the rebellion, one of the old masters will cast
about three and a half times az many votes as one
of YOU in Illinois. l suppose you don't exactly
that that Is fdIr! you don't recognize u =
Neither do |.
sTThey demand their position back IN the Union,
and the President asserts that he has the power to
let them come back, aud that anybody who stands
in the way of their coming back Is traitor Al the
other end OF the line. The President imagines,
suppose, since he finds himself so CONVEX SAINT with
treason and traitors that he can read treason 10
evsry mans face, and don't wonder atIt don't
at all wonder at !"
In these statements Hamilton shows either
l-mendaoity or ignorance, or both, to an extent
that is only equaled by his shameessness in
endeayoYing to pass himself among intelii-
gent men as a southern loyalist. lie states
and reiterates that the southern people "de-
maud" this thing and that thing. They ode
msnd" to come back in the Union they "de
maud" that their negroes shall be entltl-
ed to representation they demand"
that rebels shall be admitted to share in
aud a control of the government.
All this is mere, sheer bosh pure. unadul-
tsratsd clap-trap. Hamilton repeats what the
| lying newspaper organs of black republican
ism are rehearsing. ps-rot-like, In every Ia
sue to their credulous readers.
What has tho south demanded" since the
close of the war? Not single thing. 1t has
not demanded" that it's slaves shall count rs
| representative population that il should be
| admitted TO a share OF the government that
It's unpardoned and unrepentant rebels should
| hold Office 1t has demanded" nothing of the
sort, nor even limited at the desire to do any
such thing We challenge the production of
| q single paragraph from q southern newspa-
| per, or single utterance from the speech OF
| of a southern speaker In which even one OF
| those things is demanded" of the north.
| Ever since the war the southern people
| have remained passive, quiet and waiting -
| They reconstructed their state governments +;
| adopted the necessary legislation for the re
| pudiaton of the rebel debt and the abolition
| of slavery; they selected men for congress,
| and all in obedience to requirements OF the
| federal government They have acted, all
| through, su bmissively and as becomes brave
| people who submit with dignity to the defeat
| which they have suffered.
The Junior republican newspaper of this
| city makes some pretsntion to fairness in the
discussion of political questions. Will 1t In
| form its readers that this constant relteration
| that the south demands" all these things of
| the government is a malicious lie, invented
| and harped upon by demagogues to excite the
| popular mind of the north against the SOUTH
| Let us see if it will do this, if it have mod
| cum of that fairness which it claims In the
discussion of political questions.
| The s'demand" involved in the present con
test emanates wholly from the insolent and
grasping faction which now accidentally con
| trolls a nation of which it constitutes but a
] small minority. 1t demands" that the south
Hshall SD bmit to infinite humiliation. 1t 'de
mands" that the south, in selecting men for
congress- shall select not It's best men its rep
| resentstiye men. but men who will allow
themselves to % made supple instruments fol
the use of radicalism. It"demands" that the
south shall submit uncomplainingly to the
| operations and exactions of that Infamous
partisan machine, the freedmen's bureau. II
| demands that the south shall allow it's state
courts to be obliterated, in defiance of right
and constitution, in obedience to the iniquit
Gus civil rights bill. 1t demand" that the
south shall adopt proscriptlve and stultifyinl
Amendments to the constitution, whereby itl
representative. power may be lessened. with {
view of increasing that of the black rspubli-
can states. And finally, when all these "ds
mands" shall have been complied with sup
posing that they may be at some time,-i
will proceed to demand" that the south con
fer suffrage upon its negroes. - Chicago
Times.