The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-30

showed that while they had emancipa,ed
four millions of negroes the radical partv
had enslaved eight million of their own
race.
Proceeding he said t@ e
+ say to you tonight, that in this great
city of st. Louis, In the great state of Mis-
souri,, you are virtually in state Of slavery.
You have men here in your city who cannot
vote, who are net permitted 70 vote-men
who never breathed breath against liberty
or against the flag of their country. Some
of them-the most honorable of the city
are not permitted to register their names or
have voice in making the laws, by which
their lives liberty and property are REGULATE
ed. The man who is taxed, and WHO'S NOT
permitted to have q voice in the election OF
his law.makers is q slave. The man who is
tried in your courts here BY law, which he
has not the power either 10 make or change
either In the most remote or direct manner,
is virtually slave. By a late act of your
radical Legislature here, those men, who cry
out aeternal justice and liberty" have ap-
pointed man il st. Louis county who is to
determine who, in this city and county shall
vote and who shall not. ask you if that
is not q libel upon the age-if il is not an
outrage upon the name of liberty, if it is not
a farce worse than any farce that was ever
perpetrated BY any despot in the old world.
You have the forms of republicanism while
you have the very chains Of slavery clinking
at your heels. tell you that the day of
trial and trouble and of national travail are
past. tell You that this dark night Of po-
litical persecution is at an end, and the
and shining upon US. asas.es,
This radical party has nominated Grant
for the presidency, and you cannot find.
from enc end oft broad land to the other,
voice to ratify that nomination, unless it is
some small office holder or ofice-seeker who
is trying to keep up the radical party
Let me make suggestion. I see num-
Der of my German fellow citizens. / am
desperately pleased 10 see them, and want
10 saya word for the masses of tho republi-
can party. Congratulate them upon their
returning reason in attending this meeting
tonight.
/ congratulate them upon their being so
far emancipated from their prejndiees and
passions that they can come mp even now at
this hour to receive absolution and forgive.
ness for their sins. i want to say to those
radicals that We are not prepared TO say
that we wall not forgive them. We viii do
as the old man did for his sou--kill the fat
ted calf for them. We will take them BIZ
the hand and welcome them home. We
wall presume this country and its liberty to
be as much for them and their posterity as
for ours. When talk about the crimes of
the radical party, / do not mean to be IN
derstood as including the honest masses Of
the people, because the masses of any party
are always honest The only fault have
10 find with the masses of the radical party,
is that they allow themselves to be led like
sheep to the slaughter, to be bound hand
and foot BY n pack of political mountebanks
They are political slaves to men, who make
freedom a mask and pretence for their own
passions and selfshness, men who speak
about 'God and humanity" only TO deceive
those honest fellows, that they may carry out
their own personal, selfish purposes. So far
as the masses of the party are concerned, /
believe they are honest, and all ask of
them is 10 strike off the shackles of party
bigotry, passion and prejudice, and look at
the thing as it is. Ifthey will only 90 down
on their knees and pray to God to enable
them to look at it as it is, / will guarantee
that the light OF the next morning will find
them praying for the success of the demo
cratic party. | want it understood that the
democrats have nothing against the masses
of the radical party. We expect 10 get
them with US in this contest of the Cypress.
ed against the oppressor; We expect to get
those men that left us and went into the rad,
zeal party, believing that they were fighting
for liberty. We want them now to look at
this party and to leave it as soon as posi-.
BILE. We viii take them by the hand and
welcome them back; we viii share with |
them all the honor. / want them to be a |
little honest now; do not want them to |
shut their eyes and go on blndly after the |
radical party. You take Ben. Butler, Of |
Gen. Cochrane, OF New ork, |
Drake of this city, and this man Logan, Of |
are the fellows that burst our |
party. Why, they fasten themselves upon a |
party like the poisoned shirt Of Nessus. They |
have charge of the radical party. They are |
mounted upon the radical animal, and ike |
his poisoned shirt they will poison the par
y, and they have done so already. They |
are fit 10 burst any party. An honest re |
publican, even when it was unpopular to be /
one, stood up for his principles and his flag. |
We can take that man by the hand and rec |
ognize him as an honest man. Take such |
elbows as Logan, Drake, Coehrane and But |
er, and that class of men, and you will find |
hey were the original secessionists They /
Advocated the extreme ends of all measures,
but you always notice that there is method |
n their madness-in their radicalism. |
they are never on tie extreme side. unless |
Is q profitable one. They always run on /
he side where tie spoils are. When they |
ire IN power they take charge of the valua- |
'les. A voice in the crowd-"What about |
he spoons So" You will have TO ask But.
er about them. | know nothing about |
hem. These fellows would burst any party.
They ran the radical machine in Chicago |
he other day and will burst IT,
find that there are men here who are ac-
Luainted with Logan. / will say a word |
bout him. Inasmuch as the general is no,
lere, | will not say anything of him worse
han the radicals themselves say. Then no.
'ody can find fault with me. II wus an out
age for the radicals to call him "Dirty
york" He cursed Abraham Lincoln and
hen worshipped him. He cursed the negro
nd then worshipped him. He cursed the
epubhcan party and then worshipped il.
n fact there is no end of any measure that
logan was not on, but like the rest of his
ribe, he is going to poison bis party. / do
ot pretend that am so patriotic as Logan
n 1861, when he thought jeff Davis was
kelly to succeed, he declared that the sons
I Illinois should drive back northern fanat.
'ism. This / have from radical authority.
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