The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-07


found excitement, il nevertheless behooves |
q watchful people to remember that eternal |
vigilance is still the price of liberty, and to |
manifest bold and ready determination to
yield none OF the common rights to the usur-
pations of a faction driven TO desperation in
order to keep its hold on power.-Boston
Post.
From the Israelite
Gen. Grant and the Jews.
About that General Grant nomination at.
fair, we can only repeat what we said before,
presidency, which we hope will not take
place, we will consider it our duty to oppose
him and the party nominating him. We are
told that no politics is expected from the
Lsrdelite, and it has no intention OF NEEDING
with any. 1t has kept aloof all the time,
except when men like Grant, Butler, wilson,
Ellis, Brownlow and others OF this KIND
abused and outraged the Jew. Then II did
not care for the cry of treason raised at
everybody who had anything to Say, not
endorsed by the censor in Washington and
struck with both fists. Worse {hsn General
Grant none in this nineteenth cetaSE in
civilized countries has abused and ad4traged
the Jews, officially, in broad daylight and
most barbarously. If there are any among
us who lick the feet that kick them about,
and like dogs, run sitter him who has whipp-
ed them, ifthere are persons small enough
to receive indecencies and outrages without
resentment, and creep about their tormenters
for selfish purposes, we hope their number
is small, and we know it is too small 10 be
counted in comparison to those who will not
vote for man and oppose him who outraged
the Jew in manner as General Grant did.
Here is the story in full:
HEADQUARTERS 18th Army CoRps,
DEPT OF THE TENNESSEE, OXFORD,
Mss, December II, 1882 J
General Order No. H.
The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation
of trade established by the treasury department,
also department orders, are hereby expelled from
the department within twenty four hours from
the receipt of this order by post commanders.
They will see that all this class of people are
furnished with passes and required to leave and
any returning after such notification VIII be
arrested and held in confinement until an oppor-
| tunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners,
| unless furnished with permits from these head
| Quarters
No passes will be given this people to visit
headquarters for the purpose of making personal
application for trade permits.
By order of Major General GRANT,
JOHN A. RAwLIsGs, A. A. q.
| Gfhcisl: j, LoyELL, Captain and A. A g.
This barbarian order caused general
outcry of of horror all over this country, in
the public press, public meetings and reso-
buttons, in any and every form. In congress,
Mr.. Pendleton, of Ohio, moved the following
| resolution
| 1862, Major General Grant, commanding the de-
| partment of the Tennessee, did publish the fol
| lowing order, to-wit: h ere followed the above
| order uerbatim.) And in pursuance thereof did
| cause many peaeeable citizens of the United
States residents in the said department, to be
PEELED therefrom within twenty -four hours with
out allegation of special misconduct on their part
and ON no other proof than that they were mem
bers OF a certain religious denomination : and
| "WHEREAs, The said order in its sweeping
| condemnation of a whole class of citizens, with
out discriminating between the guilty and the in
nocent, is illegal and unjust, and in its execution
| is tyrannical and cruel therefore
| "Resoired That the said order deserves the
| earnest condemnation of this house, and of the
| President as eem,nander-in-chief."
| This was host in the House, but only be-
cause nobody paid any attention to it, and
the order had been revoked previously. The
vote, after all, was a very close one, 56 voted
to table and SO to pass it; two more votes
would have done it. Among those voting
| LOT Tue TeSOiutlOu were, DeSiueS
licans, also Mr.. Oolfax, the present speaker
of the House, Mr.. Blow, Of St. Louis, and
other prominent members of that party.
The order No. IL tell most savagely upor
the old Jewish residents in that department
but there was no senator from those states il
Washington, except from Kentucky. There
fore Senator Powell from Kentucky, in be
half of his outraged constituents, introduced
in substance the same preamble and reso
luton in the Senate, where it was defeated
in most shameful manner, where but Z
viz: Messrs. Davis, Harding, Latham, Mes
NTH, Powell, Salisbury and Wilson of Mis-
souri,, had the moral courage and moral rec
titude to stand by an outraged class of their
fellow.cilizens.
President Lincoln could not persuade
himself for a long time that General Grant
issued that order but when Mr. Haskell, OF
Paducah, KY, sueceeaed in convincing hin
of the fact, he Immediately revoked il, auc
expressed his indignation at the outrage il
the strongest terms in presence of Messrs
Gurley, Lilienthal and Wise from Cincinnati
and Blur from Louisville.
There was nobody, at the time, to defend
the despotic barbarous order Of Genera
Grant, not voice was heard in its favor Oh
defence /; but plenty, besides President Lin
coin, seven senators and fifty three member
of congress, in its condemnation. Every free
man felt outraged by the lawless ukase of q
military chieftain. whom they now want tt
force upon us as chief magistrate ofthe eoun
try.
We have to say this: AS Jew, we can
not and will not vote for man who has
done us more shameless injustice than AM
man in power, in this century has done u:
in any civilized country. Therefore we hop,
and expect that the entire Jewish pres,
will come ont boldly and justly against the
movement to nominate Gen. Grant as Presi
dent of the United States. Again, as a citi
zen who loves his country and her free in
stitutions, who considers it his solemn duty
to protect justice and freedom as much as
it may be in his power, we cannot,a mus
not entrust the banner of justice and free
dom to the hands of n man who, when pos
sessing the brief power of commander of 9
volunteer army land among them thousands
of Jews) abused it so outrageously, and
trampled upon his fellow citizens because
they were too weak to resist. That man, in
our estimation, is unfit to be-the chief of a
| republic whose citizens claim euual iustipe