The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-26
Questions and Answers.
mar. Pendleton in Reply to Repub-
lican xnterrOgations.
Does lie IndOrSe the Programme
Of the Democratic Can
didate for Vice
President?
DOES he ENDORSE CERTAIN FL
NANCIAL VIEWS OF HE
DEMOCRATIC CANDI-
DATE FOR PRES
IDENT
Questions and Answers,

pressed some views which have not been
contained in any Of his previous addresses.
The editor Of the Cleveland Leaicc IA radi.
cal iournal having propounded some ques.
tons to him, he proceeded as follows;
Another question is propounded to me.
ado you indOrse the programme Of the demo
cratic candidate for the vice presidency Gen.
Frank Blair, as stated by himself in his letter to
Col Broadhead, as follows; There is but one
way to restore the government and the NOnstitu-
ton and that is for the president elect 10 declare
these acts, the reconstruction Rcts) null and
void, compel the army to undo its usurpstiOns at
the south, dispense the carpet-bag state govern
ments, allow the white people to reOrgRnzs their
own governments and elect senators and repre-
sentatives. The house of representatives will
contain a majority Of democrats from the north
and they will admit the representatives elected
by the white people Of the south. With the CO.
operation Of the president 1t will not be difficult
TO compel the seEats to the obligations Of the
constitution.
This gentleman wants TO know whether
indorse that programme or not ! don't
quite agree with Gen. Blair that that is the
only way, but | can tell you that think it
is very good way. | doubt very much
HHtku'l II WIN VIC hSNVoao' W w All JkulHR
Of the kind.
What are these governments that have
been erected aud put over the people Of the
south by the military power Of the United
| Statest They are founded not upon the
| will of the people lut made according to
| the will Of congress. These states have
been admitted within the last month into
! the Union under constitutions which they
| abhor under Institutions which they detest,
constitutions and institutions imposed upon
them originally by the military power Of the
government. To-day they are held there by
that same military power. They are found.
ed upon one simple idea, and that is the ex.
Cluslon from all governmental power of oil
that is intelligent, all that is yirtuous, ell
| that is good in the resident white population
| Of the south, and admitting to the political
| power the lately entranChlsed slaves, and that
meaner than the meanest thing Of all things
that creep upon Gods footstool-the carpet.
! bagger. Why, gentlemen, do you believe
| that these constitutions can stand or that
| they ought to stand !? mo, MOI All
history is against it tradition aud the ex-
! perieuce Of our race are against it. Why,
| # you viii read the proceedings Of the last
| b"b AhFs ~ N'll tr'Nt NDA Will tthA AlE pa
thctic appeal that WAS made hv n gentle.
man that was recently admitted as mem
Der of congress from the re-0rgan2ed state
| of South Carolina, but who has still upon
| the soles Of his shoes the dust Of MassaChu-
sets laughter, and you will find be says,
unless the congress Of the United States
shall put arms into the hands Of the negroes
| Of the south these governments, the product
| Of ! : months despotism, will pass away of
! themselves before the November election
| Applause
Why, gentlemen, picked up paper last
| night, and to my utter horror found in the
RECONSTRUCTED state Of Georgia, where there
| has been fight going on for good while,
| to use the language Of the New York Her.
aid, between the scaawags and carpet
| bapgers = saw in that lately reconstructed
| state, by reports, that they have turned out
Of the house of representatives. n negro
members, by the votes Of the republicans
themselves. Applause Why gentlemen,
if this process is to 90 on, there will be no
sort Of necessity for Frank Blalr's recon.
| struCtion.
! | am inclined to think that everything will
! 90 along yerg pcaceably and very comtortH
! bly, IN that part Of the country, providing
that Illegal and unconstitutional powers on
the part Of the federal government are with.
| held. don't hesitate to say to you in re
spouse to that question, that believe those
reconstruction acts from beginning to end
are unconstitutional, revolutionary. and ut.
tcrly void Great applause don't hest.
tate TO say that everything that has been
done under them should be undone, unless
the undomg Of it will cost us more trouble
than the correcting Of it. Sometimes, you
know, out Of those things that have no
justification, except the mere brute force
which has been able to execute them, such
force may CRATE ut times, but it may cost
more to undo it than to submit for time
Possibly we may have to experience such
state of things in the future, but am in
favor, if ever the democratic party gets in
power of taking away from the people Of
those states the illegal and revolutionary
burthens that have been imposed upon them
by the federal government and Of restoring
them to the Union, with all their lawful pow
! ers under the constitution. Cries Of Amen
| And that is the sublime theory Of our party
now. 1t IS not struCtioH--wbICh, as my
trend SAID, implied Distraction 1T is recon.
slrucuon OF the states~-reCOustructlon of the
government ra,o,str,ot;o,, or ,;,,1 n. |
reconstrnct;or ~ w. l,.,,,,,,, AVA 10y
which for so vcer, marked , tbe eoyernm v",t
when it was Administered ACCORDING to ,be
letter Of our beautiful cons,itntioTH rSn.
pause
But now have some questions to ask this
gentleman on this point. l. he in favor Of
these caropt.boo ,nyorpna,ts tbat bocoboo,
= 80 20 40 g
army OF the United States to the sonth for
the purpose Of making constitutions for this
peoble Whether Ia beliayos W. tE to d i,''