The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-23
tn. Mountain Brings Forth

The Mountain Brings Forth.
The Jacobin convention has labored and
brought forth. Its travail was painful Mt
first but, failing to elicit the public sympa.
thy for its distress that the doctors anticipat-
ed passionate outbursts assumed rapid
diminnendo movement, and were lost in a
suppressed moan, meaningless and spiritless.
From opening to close, il has been, emphat-
ically, q tame affair. II has failed to elicit
any cordial response from the popular heart.
Like the accidental hero placed in nomina-
ton for an Office for which he is unfit by ma
ture, sby education, by experience, aud by
lack Of brains, it has been a cold, dull, life
less. apathetic, stolid expression of the mega.
tive side of human nature. The heart OF
the people ia not in it.
The platform, like the convention, and like
It's chief candidate, is negative quality
throughouL Not one positive affirmation
does Il contain that touches living chord
in the popular heart. Il congratulates the
country on the snccess of measures that
have politically exchanged millions of intel
igent citizens of the white race for other
millions of ignorant descendants of Ethiop-
ian barbarians. Itaf6rms the assumed right
of the central power to exercise despotie
authority in one section of the republic that
the constitution forbids it from exercising in
any section. 1t ignores the just and lawful
right of the people to pay their debts upon
the basis of the same lawful money IL which
| those debts were contracted. Ii asserts, by
| intended implica tion, that capital invested
| in government bonds shall be excepted from
the operation of the law which makes treas
ury notes the lawful representative OF capi.
| tai, and compels the people TO receive them
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shall be carried for IA indefinite period, for
the benefit of those who receive double in
| terest on their investment, and who demand
double payment in gold. 1t is silent on the
question of al oppressive tariff BY which
he great body Of consumers are impover-
| ished to enrich a favored class, mainly in
| the New England states. 1t is silent con
| cerning the popular demand for the abroga-
ton of q host of favored manufactures Of a
shinplaster currency. 1t is silent concern
| ing the peoples demand for the equal taxa
| ton of the wealth OF the country, whether
| invested in government bonds or otherwise
1t is silent concerning the oppressive burd-
| ems, the unprecedented corruption, and the
UNPARALLELED fraud in office, under which the
| country groans and the substance of the
people il wasted TO fatten a hungry horde Of
| political adventurers and keep them in office
| 1t family essays to evade responsibility by
casting tie sins of the party that zacknoWl-
edges no higher authority upon the Pres
dent of its own making, and whom it asserts
the right 30 evict for offences against the
| party, whose offences, above his control, are
against the country. sus.c
q Such is the essential substance of the
emssculated, dodgethe-issne platform or
which U. s. Grant, a man without an idea
beyond the points of horse, and Schuyler
| Colfax, a statesman of invisible dimensions
have been mounted for the presidential race
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A Marked Contrast a. s..5s -.
| 1t will be remembered that, four years
| ago, the night after the nomination Of Gen.
| Mcclellan, there were large number Of
monster gatherings, principal among which
was the meetings at the Sherman house, the
court house, and the fremont house. A
that time there were no less than $4,000
| people to listen to speeches from the baico
MES of the hotels; and the widest enthusi
asm prevailed. How different was the spec,
tacle presented last evening. There was nc
| speaking at the Sherman house, and at the
fremont house only little knot of politi
clans gathered in the gentlemen's parlor
| Out quickly dispersed, Wit1out the ISasS uis
play of enthusiasm or excitement. The
courthouse meeting was attended by about
as many as usually congregate TO listen &c
the preacher who makes the steps his pulpit
The Wabash Avenue Rink was comfortably
filed with an orderly and comparatively IN
| demonstrative audience. But that was all
Brass bands drummed and footed togethel
all who did assemble, and no larger crowds
were collected than could have been at
tracted on the most ordinary occasion, Will
the same amount of exertion. When the
large number of strangers in the city is con
sidered, it must be acknowledged that III,
notifications" last evening were most hu
initiating failures. The enthusiasm which
it has been claimed the name of GRAM
would awaken has not ye. been discovered
and failure TO FIRE the heart of the nasse
on the eve Of nomination is, certainly, bu
poor encouragement with which to commence
a campaign.
| No contrast was ever more striking thar
the streets Of Chicago last night compared
with those of four years -Chicag,
| Times.
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