The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-31

knows not what is written. But he is now
past voter, and turning about, clapping his hands
and singing out, "diory to ole massa !" l leave
him in his delirium, and 60 on to repeat the
same, over and over again.
So much for the voter. Now for the voted
Let us pass from this scene Of sublime Ignorance,
TO one Of equally sublime nonsense. Come with
me to the room Of the new made legislator Of the
| southern people. To the room, did say1 /
mean the hovel. Sixteen squalling brats with
curly wool and ebony mien are scattered about
upon the floor, luxuristing In filth and wretched-
ness. In one corner sits semi-rude female, who,
in humble imitation of some Of the "incidents of
the war" is picking the many looted, tormenting
vermin from her flesh This female is the mother
of the darling objeess scattered about her. In
the opposite eSrner sits being, from whose
mouth prot,ades a small clay pipe, from whose
countensace beams the blissful image of nonenti-
ty. 4 coat Of many colors shields his back from
tic weather. An enormous hickory is in his hand
TO protect his children from the fancied intended
violence Of the hated rebel foe He says he lives,
was born and raised in Virginia, and he thinks
that Virginia is ''near abouts some where in
America" He thinks that Abraham Lincoln
was the dscoverer of Columbia, and Hunnicutt
the father of Africans2 That the constitution
was made for the niger, and that this broad do
main is his, though now held by the usurping
whites This man is the happy candidate elect,
whose duty it is to go to Richmond "when Cen
eral Hunnicutt says So" to dethrone the base
usurpers OF the black mans property and wealth ,
The sequel you may perhaps imagine. Fifteen of
these institutions are elected to the convention
Don't yon now think that the southern white men
have cause to hail with joy the advent of the
old Tag! Your good sense must certainly APP
prove of this, as the only proper way to make
them love the Union
We repeat, let intelligent, patriotic, chris
tan men read and reflect. This is the en-
tertainment to which radicaism has invited
them. The men or beings above described
are the chosen instruments of radicalism to
carry out its policy ir~.he south, and to
govern that great secsi "a the interest of
the radical party. And the taxpayers of
the north are forced to pay the expense.
We find in the Hartford Times descrip-
ton Of the radical negro, black and tan tick
ct in South Carolina. They we're printed all
in red, so that the intelligent darkeys might
not mistake them, and are headed "Union
Republican Ticket of Charleston District,
for the Convention" Then follows a por-
trait OF the late Mr.. Lincoln. Under this
are the names of the candidates for delegates,
headed by Alonzo J. Ransier, /. negro
Next are the names of Frederick A. Sawyer
of Massachusetts, white man; Christopher
c. Bowen of Rhode Island, ditto; Albert G.
Mackey of South Carolina, ditto; Gilbert
Pillsbury of Massachusetts, ditto; Richard
Il. Cain of Massachusetts,, negro; Francis
l.. Cardoza of New York, another negro !;
Robert C. Delarge of South Carolina, anoth-
er negro; William MKinlay, ditto These
red ballots were put into the hands of all the
negroes, some of whom voted more than
once, and some came in from adjoining states
and voted, so as to be ''neighborly just as
was done in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia
and Louisiana. Not one in two hundred
could read the ballots they voted. 1t is stat
-aI 49,. - sA,e lee, 900 49,. LiaaL and
tan ticket in Georgia, not 10000 could tell,
to-day, whom or what they voted for And
so it is in other states. But white men are
DISTINGUISHED in order to enable these de-
graded beings to rule! And when an ''elec-
ton" is carried there by these means, we
are told that ''the glorious work of reconstrnc-
ton is going on grandly )" and in view of it
congress declares its policy TO be all right
and entirely satisfactory, and that it shall not
be changed,