The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-17

the "trooly lol" howl. SO they sent fellow
by the name ofWoodward a sub,editor ofthe
Cincinnati Commercial down to Memphis,
to get up reported conversation with Gen.
Forrest. He came home and reported a
long list Of lies about Forrest, charging him
with having said he knew of 10000 ku
kluxes 10 Tennessee; that they would resist
the laws, and all that sort Of nonsense. As
soon as Gen. Forrest saw the statements he |
wrote Woodward a letter, dated Sept. 30,
denying the whole string Of ielsehoods, and
closing as follows:
II cannot consent t. remain quiet in this mat
ter for, If did 50, under an incorrect impression
Of my personal views, might he looked upon as
one desiring conflict, when IN TRUTH AN
so ADVERSE TO ANYTHING OF THE
KIND THAT WILL MAKE ANY lIONORA-
BILE SACRIFICE TO AVOID IT.
And, in answer to letter from P, NJ.
Henkel, Of Warsaw, Indiana Gen. Forrest,
in a letter dated Memphis, Sept. 10, speak
ing of the pretended conversation gotten up
BY the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial said;
az was misrepresented by that correspondent
in nearly everything BIO wrote I had only
short conversation with him,--at most not more
than I've minutes. lie has In bis letter adopted
questions and answers TO suit the paper or him
self, without my consent, and wholly and entirely
foreign to my political views. TWILL Allow
NO MAN TO 60 FURTHER TO SUSTAIN
LAW AND ORDER THAN MYSELF. As to
Ku Klux Khan, ! know nothing about them, and
have never stated 10 any person, that | did
know lie misrepresented me for political effect,
and nothing else.
Gle has written another letter from this place
purporting to be written from Fort Pillow. He
has never been at Fort Pillow"
And yet, after all these proofs Of radical
fasehoods, they still keep on lying, just the
same as before.
And the lies about Gen. Blair we're re.
peated so often that they really made some
soft democrats believe them. Among other
statements, the radical papers used to keep
the following as standing matter, viz: "Let
us have Peace - Gen. Grant. "Let us
have War. Gen. Blair. They carried
such a banner in this city, in their process
sion. The editor Of the Atlanta, Georgia
Neto Ira, Col. X. a. Aston, wrote to Gen
Blair on the subject, and Gen. Blair repli
ed, from Fort Saunders, Wyoming Territory
Aug, Is, saying;
81 have never made any such statement Or
the contrary, | AM FOR THAT POLICY
, WHICH ALONE CAN GIVE PEACE TO THf
! COUNTRY"
And yet they kept carrying their lying
D banner and kept saying that Gen. BIai
wanted to get up another war another rev
oution; that he had said so in the Broad
: head letter, &c, &c, when they knew per
fccty well that Gen. Blair had repeated
over and over again, that all the revolution
be sought was peaceful revolution, through
the press, the forum, the balIotbox, and the
courts.
They not only continued to lie about Gen
Blair, but they declared that, if the demo
Gratis carried the election secession and slav
cry would be revived, when the very first
paragraph of the democratic national plat
form is as follows:
Tho Democratic party. in National Convention
| assembled, rep0sng its trust in the intelligence
| patriotism, and discriminating Justice OF the
people; standing upon the Constitution os the
foundation and limitation Of the powers OF the
Government and the guarantee Of the liberty OF
the citizen, and recognising the questions q stnU
erg aud secession as hduiHg been sottied for al
tune to come by The ,oar the voluntary actlo'
of the Southern States IN cOpsitati0Rdl contention
asscmbicd ond NEVER TO BE RENEWED OF
REAGITATED.
This platform was accepted in good faitl
4 by all democrats north aud south, and actet
on throughout the canvass in all the states
and the only position assumed by democrats
o in regard to the illegal and unjust measure
y, Of the radicals was to correct them throug
the ballot.box aud the courts. That wa
the position Of democrats, north and south, a
L through the campaign. And since the election
y democrats, north and south, who all signif
their acquiescencc in the will Of the major
Il ty, are insulted by the little Rim, whic
} says these professions of submission to tn
result is an afterthought and Il forced one
. The "Senior Editor" knows he falsiGes tn
- whole history of the campaign when h
J. makes any such assertion.