The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02


A Jacobin paper "pitches into the Chica-
go Times because the latter protests against
the conduct Of mAny professional lecturers
in dragging paxtisan politics into their pub
lie lectures. The Times is right. If a course
Eef LECTURES professsdly upon general literary
or Observation-Disclosures for the elevation and IN
| formation Of 1he people is to be converted
into mere series of harangues in the inter
Ell of a poIiticaI org a1ization, we unheaita.
tinply advise eur readers to repudiate the
whole concern. There is time for an af.
fairs, and it is-a~ sad condition of things II
men cannot be found who are willing to d.
vest themselves of partizan proclivities suf-
6ciently to deliver lecture on some one of
the thousand legitimate subjects offered
them without trenching on the field of poll
tics. At all events if partisan interests are
TO be advancedss1athose Of opposite views
should not be expected to contribute to or
| encourage them.' kEa-kA
1t is asserted that "all the leading literary,
scientific and philosophic minds Of this
country" belong to the republican party, and
| in proof of this Che names of Emerson, Whit
tier, Phillips, Cheeser, and others are aqu ot-
ed. To this we answer that an eye AN a
fine frenzy rolling" is doubtless good thing
for poet, but hardly what the country de
sires in a Statesman who assumes to direct
the course of a. great nation through the
shoals and breakers which surround US now
| In political matters we want calm and
practical judgement and rot fine rhetoric OF
novel theories. Every one of the men named
are dreamers and Missionaries, and their views
/ of practical matters, "sicklied DER with the
| pale cast of thought" are morbid and i'm
practicable. We can listen to them in then
hor< nr,
| meu-spare us We are advocates of the
most widely. difused popular information
1 but in all earnestness and sincerity we pro
testsgainst theprestitution of public lectures
| to petty partisan uses Qasacy Herald.
Weston walking on.
DEDHAa, Mass, Nov. Weston, the pc
/ destrian, left the Phoenix House, in thi.
/ place, at g minutes before o'clock to-day
i beginning one hundred miles here, which ht
proposes to accomplish in twenty-four hours
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| ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE FOR THE NEeRo-
| A vignette cut of Iincoln ornamented the adj
| cal ticket in Norfolk last week, and the sabl
voters in procuring their ballots, would bawl GU
to the extent of their lungs, 18th me one OBJ den
| Lincum tickets" 5a
/ We copy from the Davenport Gazette thi
iateSe aHo nosl Ingenious douSe loT Secuf
ing eolored votes. As the child prefers q
picture book to one devoid of characterization
so the simple-hearted black man can bu
choose a ticket bearing Che portrait of Amer
teas latest martyr who by the-by when aliv
never advocated negro suffrage, bnt thi
Dissertation of his memory is of q piece wit
the radical quackery which made a rare,
show of his corpse. -
i'tGib me one of dem Lincum tickets,
fairly represents the knowledge OF that the
we're doing, possessed by negro a&AS
| Until a higher degree of education is com
mon among them,the suffrage is simplyequiv
4 alent to handing over bundles of proxies u
their radical drivers.
We are not against negro suffrage, or an,
other suffrage, but we wish to see it guide
by intellect and not driven by water power
4 Davenport True Radical. IA F