The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-25
sprRcH OF HON. MR. PERRIN, OF NEW
YORK, AT THE sERGEANT BATES
RECEPTION.

After Sergeant Bates had been welcomed
By the President Of the United States, and
by several democratic members of congress-,
and then rudely repulsed from the peoples
capitol by radical minions, the immense as
sembly gathered around Washington's Mon
ument, when Hon. Mr. Perrin, ofNew fork'
made the following speech:
Speech Of Hon. Mr. Perrin
Svpop.Sr R.rEs: As Unexpectedly TO
myself as to you, the reeePtion com,n'.'es
no. and voar flag, after having been driven
fror, the portals Of the nations Capitol.
Alter such a repulse from such a source,
NO place could be more appropriate than
here. at the base of this unfinished monu.
ment, erected to commemorate the virtues
of George Washington, the Father Of his
Country.
Could the spirit of that great patriot look
down upon this melancholy picture to-day,
he might deliver another farewell address to
all the hopes and prospects of distracted
country. -A@ ~@
Look bat o moment on the picture. That
silken banner wrought by fair hands upon
the banks of the Mississippi, and placed in
your keeping by the citizens of Nicksburg
on the 2Sth of last January, has been borne
BY you, mid sunshine and rain, by night and
by day, for nearly three weary months,
through the States of Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Virginia, and everywhere throughout
those once rebellious States it has been
hailed with JOY and gladness-every city,
village, and town joining in the glad shout
-old men and young men, soldiers and cit
liens, matrons and maidens, all, all welcom-
ing it as the harbinger of better days. Even
at Montgomery and Richmond, the boosted
capitals of the late confederacy, you were es-
corted to the dome of each Capitol, and the
| stars and stripes kissed again the balmy
| breeze of the once rebellious South, amid the
| loud plsudits of a conquered people.
I have it from your own lips that every
| where upon your triumphal journey you have
! received the same warm, joyous, patriotic
greeting, and all without the expenditure of
one dollar, from Vicksburg TO Washington.
Yet here, in the capital of the nation, by
men full of professions and Boosting of 10y
atty, you have met your first, your only re-
buke. At the moment you expected to
| crown your triumphal march by planting the
flag upon the dome of the Capitol, the mass
i've doors of that temple Of liberty are slam
med in your face, and you are driven to
/ Washington's Monument; and there, with
| bowed head, you have unfurled your ban
| ner.
| Had the so-called rebels torn from il TWEEN
] ty-six bright stars, a Radical Congress would
/ have welcomed the dismantled ensign with
| shouts of iey, as being evidence of an unre-
pentant people. But it was standing re-
buke to them to find it pass safely and tn
ur phantly throughout your entire journey
without an insult, and requiring no recon
| structi0a at their hands.
Yours is the same banner denounced by a
radical organ thus:
| Tear down the Haunting lie;
Furl up the starry flag;
| Insult no sunny sky
| With hates polluted rag"
Could you expect better fate for the flag
of your country from such a source?
| Your mistake, Mr.. Sergeant, is an inno-
/ cent and natural one. You believed in the
| professions of these men. You though,
their loud Boosting of love for the Union was
sincere. The people once thought like you,
but like yourself they have found that they
| keep the word of promise to the ear but
break it to the heart. Had you taken some
| dusky son of Ham, and borne him, Atlas-like
upon your back through the sunny South,
and landed him here, Radical Congress
| would have opened wide those boltod doors
and when You thrust your sable hrother-the
American citizen of African decent-int1
the outstretched arms of the Goddess of Lib
erty which crowns the dome of the yondel
Capitol, one loud, long shout of JOY would
I have gone up from those gilded halls below
and you would have been hailed as a here
and crowned with the laurel.
Seated at the same Capitol from which
| you are driven, they strike down the Supreme
| Court, trample upon the Constitution of GU,
| fathers, ride over the sacredness of law, and
| in the madness of their wrath, drunken with
| power, they are this moment enacting ths
solemn farce of impeaching the President
for the high crime and misdemeanor of re
| fusing TO Down down to their party lash, snt
daring to stand between them and future
power.
This traitor President" gave you and tn,
Gag warm welcome to-day, and the loya
Senate, that bars you out Of the Capitol, may
for that crime, frame another charge in thei
bill of Indictment.
But we must not despair. Their trancien
voice is not the voice of the people. No
they but initiate the rash youth "who fred tn,
Ephesisn dome, that his name might outliv,
the memory of the pious fool who reared it.
we'll remember in the Compromise day
of 1850, Daniel Webster, that great expound
er of the Constitution, after voting for thos
measures that spread the bow of promise il
the political heavens, returned to Boston an,
the Radical fanatics that drove you and you
flag from the Capitol to-day, barred tn
doors of Faneuil Hall, that cradle of Liber
ty, against Daniel Webster. Like yourseli
he was driven into tie Indictment air, an,
gave them that rebuke, which may well re
peat here:
"Ol ye solid men of Boston, you bav
conquered an inhospitable climate you bav
| conquered sterile and barren soil; you hav
conquered the very waves that wash you
shores, but you have not conquered you
prejudices."
| You, sir, have faced rebel bullets in tim
of war, and you can bear Radical insult il
time of peace.
The day will soon come when your brigh
banner can and wiu float from yonder Dome
every star having State, and every Stat
, having her star. Then will your triumph
ant march live fresh and green in the mem
: CRY of grateful nation, while the YER
! names of the men who drove you from th,
, oaptoi viii be forgotten, or remembered on
! ~ WIN the scorn and contempt which vii
ever iolioW the betrayers of confding PEG
pie. -
At the conclusion of Mr.. PERKINS, remarks
, the flag was waved from the monumen