The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-11
THE sTH OF JANUARY AT WASHINGTON.

THE sTH OF JANUARY AT wAsHINGroN.
At the democratic banquet held in Wash
ington, January 9Th, letters were read from
large number Of distinguished democrats
throughout the country. Among them was
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,, late
democratic candidate for governor, writes as
follows:
"There never was time in our annals
when it was more important to wake the
dormant sensibilities of mutual good will and
national fraternity, 1t cannot be that the
generous and magnanimous men OF the north
can much longer cherish or endure the dom
ination of vindictive passion or retributve
revenge in dealing with their vanquished and
bleeding brothers at the SOUTH" He offers
as sentiment the following, from the end
of President Lineoln's inaugural: 1.-The
mystic cords of memory, stretching from
every bettlef field and every patriot grave to
every living heart and hearthstone, all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus OF
the Union, when again touched, as they
surely will be, by the better angels OF our
nature
Ex-Gov Perry, of South Carolina, says ::
"The southern heart, crushed and broken
by terrific calamities, social and political,
appeals at this time to every generous and
manly principle of the north. A portion of
the southern people were opposed to seces-
sion, and did all they could to prevent so
dire calamity. They have suffered the de-
struction oftheir property, the loss of their
bands; and now as a reward for their devo-
- e. he Aaop,od 20 MOI CIV.
premacy, and the barbarie rule of their for
mer slaves. stepped in ignorance and vice.
SelEdefence and selfpreservation will force
war of races, the most cruel unnatural
and horrible that ever desolated the face Of
the south. The southern people are power
less and helpless at this time, and their only
hope is returning sense of justice on the
part of their northern and western brethren.
They expect nothing from the present con.
eress. The leaders of the radical party have
shown themselves insensibe to justice, honor
and patriotism. Their sole purpose is to
perpetuate their own power by the destruc-
ton of the constitution and all the principles
of republicanism. Liberty is first to be
crushed out of the southern states, and then ,
with those Africanized rotten boroughs, they
hope to control the white race north. They
will hold in their hands twenty four black
senators and eighty black members of con-
gress. Are the northern people willing TO
submit to such government, and controlled
By such an Africanized south? l pray to
God to avert such calamities, and have not
vet lost hope and faith in the moth, the east
and the west
After the reading of letters, the toast
"The memory of Andrew jackson. A grea,
general, greater statesman and magistrate, y
was announced by Colonel Thomas B. Flor
ence, and duly honored.
The next toast "The Sth of January, 1916
AN era in our national life worthy of per
petual commemoration, was responded to
by Hon. jeremiah Black. of Pennsylvania,
ex-attorney general. He said:
THE life of Andrew Jackson was one
long battle with the enemies of constitutional
freedom. Applausel. He had been as
sailed with every species of SANDER and
even to this day the foul birds who had
screamed around him in his lifetime, and
others Matched from the same stock, liked to
degrade and dehle him. One of the worst
injuries heaped upoa him was that by which
the radical party had attempted to make him
the authority for their own attempt to tram
pie on liberty and the law. If there was any
truth in this then was Gen. jackson utterly
unworthy of the honor which The Americans
over the country, at this moment, were be-
slowing upon him Referring to the proc
lamation by Gen. Jackson of martial law in
New Orleans, he said that that was no fiction,
as war actually existed there; and he declared
that Jackson's acts in New Orleans bore no
sort of resemblance to the wanton outrage of
declaring martial law for the mere purpose
of trampling down the law of the land at
places where there were no military opera
tons going on. Applause "If Gen.
Jackson had" he said, "syssematized rob
berry and murder by means of military com
missions laughter, and suggestions of the
name of Ben. Butler if, instead of using
his army to fight the common enemy, he
had scattered his soldiers all over the coun.
try, hundreds of miles away from his post,
to kidnap his political opponents for express
sing their honest opinions; if he had ordered
an upright and conscientious judge to be
dragged from the bench by rufians, beaten
on the head with the but-ends of their pis-
tolls A voice-"Like Judge Carmichael, in
Maryland" and carried to prison because
he had administered justice according to
law; and, finally, if he had established q
government then Mr.. Black admitted that
jackson would have been fair authority,
and he might have been quoted as an exam
pie for radical misdeeds. Applause "But,
in truth, in fact Gen. jackson had been one
OF the boldest and best defenders which the
constitution and laws of the United States
ever had. Cheers. There never had lived
a man within the limits of the country who
would go further to defend them, or more
cheerfully have shed his blood to save them
from violation. A voice-"Andrew Jehn-
son would What would Gen jackson
have thought of our bureau of military JUS
tice? Shouts of derision. If such a bloody
machine as that had been set up in his time,
he would probably have shattered it into a
thousand atoms with one blow of his hand,
and the first impulse of his noble nature
would have been to take that goddess crew
by the throat and strangle them" Laugh
ter and loud cheering.
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