The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-20

cuIar letter of the 9Th, frauked BY the Hon
! Mr.. Brooma. and containing the modes
and moderate request of ~ to deiray Inc
expenses incident to the election OF uran
| and Coliax at the coming November cleo
ton. took the matter at once under serl
| Gus consideration, as | do nothing unadvi
| sedly or in haste, however trivial; and came
10 the following conclusions, which have
the honor to return 10 you AS an answer to
the flattering confidence betrayed by your
| communication
II it were indigence that impelIed you ia
the request, or default in the payment Of
| your laudlady or wRsherwomau, common
charity would induce me to comply; but gen.
| tIcmen who have the manipulation of the
government eXchequer, and with the tran.
scendant talent for finding excuses for dip.
ping their hugers therein that you possess,
especially your Hon. Secretary, - can
surely not be IN personal want.
You are evidently not Of the "confden.
tis sort, or, in plain parsnce, swiudlers,
or You would have asked for r larger
amount; and are, moreover (eT oficio at
least, "HonoraGi@ men.
You say, in your letter, that the money is
10 be exclusively for the use and behost Of
the republican state central committee, to
be employed in placing Grant and Coiax
III the presidency aud vice presidency Of the
government II ia a ta:tering consideration
for one to know that he had to do personally
with the fabrication Of President, and
that 1t was his money that helped TO fix him
IN bis seat, and no, other inducement should
be necessary than the selGgratuation Of
being a president-maker, to part with
much larger sum than 50, but the intrusive
suggestion will slip in that, being a govern.
mcnt officer, it is levied from me as black.
mail. Antipathy to the man Grant is not
the reason of my hesitation, "but that the
fear of something after Grant leads me
into these considerations, TO wit;
Who is Grant? A man whose life has
been spent in barracks and who is devoid
Of tue least requirements of an executive
officer. Who are his supporters under
whose party flag he sails? A set of men
brought into power by anarchy aud fsuati
cism, and who retain their power at the ex.
penSe Of all decenoy, of theConsttution an
the laws-pardon my candor, gentlemen.
Why should | assist to elect Grant? That
we may still continue 20 be subject TO the
tyranny of radical dominion That we
may still declare, through our representa-.
Iives that ten states of the Union, which we
fought four years in accordance with the |
of Washington to "irown indig. |
nanty on the first effort osever the Union
are virtually out of it2 That they cannot |
come in except at the serene will and pleas |
IRE of the radical majority in congress, after |
declaring themselves subject TO negroes who |
are instinctiyely agrarians and would have |
4 community of goods and all lands and |
property divided equally among them ? |
That they may consume it in idleness with |
I'LL license to enjoy their native barbarity |
without being held accountable to the laws? |
That the President of the United States is
be government, but must hold his office
ubservient to, aud at the pleasure Of the
yhims and caprices Of petty tyrsuts in con
'ress that misreprescuts the people? That |
he people should be over.burdened with |
axstion, business stagnated and the public |
offers pillaged a.? Gentlemen, in reply to oil |
hese obvious suggestions, | have but one
.nswer to make. | will not contribute 81 |
II cents to complete the destruction Of the
ountry, already weighed down by the fear.
I'll incubus of anarchists or their parasitical
'loodsuckers throughout the length and
readth of the land.
have the honor to be, gentlemen
Yours, respectfully,
SAMUEL HrAGY,
?. NJ. Hampton, III.