The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-03
MR.. DooLITTLE's SPEECH.
(Concluded.)

What do the great examples of history
teach us in dealing with rebellion if not that
after force has been subdued by force, mag
naniminIty is more powerful than revenge
that love conquers what hate never can
the hearts and affections of people?
When Latium, one of the Roman prov
inces, revolted and the revolt was put down
by arms, the question arose in the Roman
senate, what shall be done with Latium and
the people of Latium. There were some
then who cried, ''disfranchise them y others
said, "confscate their property" There
were none who said, Subject them in vas
salage to their slaves
But old Camillus, in that speech which re
vealed his greatness and made his name i'm
mortal. said: Senators, make them your
fellow citizens, and thus add to the power
and glory of Rome" In this high place, in
the senate of the great republic of the
world, the outgrowth of the civilization oil
all ages, cannot we, senators, rise to the
same height in that great argument?
TO decend to humber examples, may we
not even take lessons from some of our In
dian tribes? 1t is well known that the civil
lied tribes of the Indian territory took sides
IN our terrible conflict. Civil war in its dir.
est and most savage form ragged through all
their country. Their dwellings were sacked
and burned their hands were red in each
others blood. Yet they have made peace
They have reorganized their governments.
They now live side by side in perfect tran
guilty. Prosperity is once more smiling
upon their beautiful land. Cannot christian
statesmen have equal faith in magnanimity,-
equal courage to forgive, and to believe that
love is the power by which to reach the hearts
OF our late enemies?
But, sir, suppose the statement be true
that the negroes are loyal and the whites
disioyal IN heart, have we even then the right
to degrade the whites in vassalage TO the ne
groes? | answer. no. For their criminal
acts we would have the legal right to try
and convict and sentence to Imprisonment
and to death even. But now, without trial
by what operates as substantial bill of at
talnder, and &c post .facto at that, to subje ct
them to negro governments is a crime
against the constitution, against our own
race, and against civilization itself. 1t is to
impose upon them, against their will, deg
relation which every state of the north would
reject, and one tenfold greater than has ever
been attempted in any northern state. 1t
would make them unfit to be our fellow-cit-
Zens and place the states of the south upon
footing infer0r to that of the other states
in the Union.
Sir, we claim to have fought for liberty
and against slavery. The issue of 1860 was
the extension of slavery into the territories.
by the election of Mr.. Lincoln, the people
OF the United States decided against that
Inc radicals of the south, another name for
the sececessionists, rebelled against that de.
cision ana endeavored to enforce it by arms.
That rebellion raised another and greater
lssue,-the existence of the government
itself. 1t also placed at stake slavery in all
the states. BY the reelection of Mr. Lincoln
in 1864, the people decided in favor of a
vigorous prosecution of the war until every
rebel should lay down his arms, and also in
favor of an amendment to the constitution
to abolish slavery in all the states and terri
tories forever.
AT present, what do we behold Now
that war Is over, now that every rebel has
laid down his arms, now that the people of
the south have unanimously agreed to abol-
lsh slavery forever, to obey the constitution,
and discharge every duty as citizens of the
United States, the radicals of the north have
morally begun new rebellion against the
Union and the constitution for raising anew
the old cry of the radicals of the south. they
now declare that the states of the south are
outside the constitution, and that congress,
acting outside the constitution, has unlimited
power over them as over conquered terri
tories. In their blind zeal for the advance
ment of the negro they propose to overthrow
the constitution IN order to practically sub.