The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-29

SPEECH OF ]. c. LOvEJoY.

j. C. I4ovejoy, brother Of the late Owen
Levejoy, of this state, being called on the
either day, in the Massachusetts, democratic
state convention, said;
feel to day like one of the old prophets,
when the jews were all in captivity at Baby
lon. "Comfort We, comfort We my people.
Speak comfortably unto the democracy, and
say unto them that their warfare is ended,
that they have received double for all their
sins.r If eight years of radical rule is not
as much punishment as Divine Providence
intends to infict npon the democracy for
their sins, they must have sinned immensely.
laugh er.l I have always thought that
the ACCESSION of the republican party to
power, in 1861, was the greatest calamity
that ever befel the human race since the fall
of Adam. Applause. That drought
death end all our woe;' this brought four
years of war, three years of anarchy, and
one year of impeachment. Applause. Sir,
we have just engraven for posterity one of
the darkest and one of the brightest pages
of human history. The darkest page is that
foul conspiracy in the house and in the SEN
ate, headed by B. f. Butler misses and
Boutwell, Kisses, and Stevens Kisses and
in the senate by Charles Sumner, Zach
Chandler and Ben Wade hissesl conspi-
racy TO seize the government OF the United
States. bind the supreme court in letters, de-
pose the President, put up the figure head
of 8 general on the prov of their ship, and
run the whole institution for themselves.
Applause. Sir, / wish this day, and
through all the future days of nv life, to pay
a special tribute of honor and admiration to
| Judge Chase, Pitt Fessenden, applause !,
| Trumbull Iapplause1, and Grimes. APP
| pIause. They have performed iussration.
When there was an accusation without a
crime, an Impeachment without the forms of
Justice, an attempt to break down the chief
Justice and discard him altogether, to coerce,
drive or compel the senate, then these three
or four men stood up and elevated them
| selves upon pedestal where all future gen
erations will honor them as men of upright
ness and integrity. Applause].
| ''patriots have toiIed and in their country S
cause
Have nobiy bled, and the historic muse,
| Proud of her treasure, takes their names
| And bears them down TO future ages;
But fairer wreaths are due, tho seldom paid,
| To them Who posted at the shrine of truth,
Have fallen in her defence"
These men have not fallen before their
time, but in the view Of every right-minded
1 1Ad jAAcS 1A2lf hueft AAC xhNNheSay out khc
| have been put, like the three worthless at
| Babylon, into the fire ofdenuneiation, heated
seven times hotter than it was wont TO be
heated. Applause But there is a strik,
ing analogy in another point. The three
worthless who were put into the fire came
out without the smell of fire upon them
and the seven men who put them in there
were scorched and burnt to death. Ap
| plause. Now, the seven Managers will be
| seorched and burned TO death, and there vii
not be even q smell OF fire on these Senators
mot smell. Applause, / tell you
| posterity viii find no monument high enough
no marble white enough on which to unite
those three names. Renewed applause, !
The breaking up of this radical party is but
| the forerunner of return to the broad
comprehensive universal principles of the
democratic party. Applause.