The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-24

YOU really think there's any show to get your
money back. Wen bet al ours on $4,000.
Quincy Herald.
The Soldiers and Gen. Grant.
We notice that General Order No. p,
issued by General Shepherd, commanding
in Alabama, rebuiing the soldiers who al a
political meeting gave three cheers Tor
Mcclellan, three groans for Grant, and three
cheers for President Johnson, is travelling
very wide circuit through the county
Journals friendly TO free speech and which
accord to soldiers the privilege of having
opinions on political topics, are giving wide
circulation to an order which brands as
military INSTRUMENTATION" the expression
by the soldiers of their political opinions
concerning the political man General Grant.
We are glad to notice that this order has
travelled from Alabama into every northern
state, and we hope that every soldier in the
land will see and read it, and think upon
what it means Certain soldiers were pres
ent at a "carpetbag and scallawag" politi-
cal meeting in Montgomery, Alabama
While there they cheered for Mcclellan
aud johnson and groaned fer Grant. We
have nothing to say about the propriety and
taste of grooming st political meetings TO
signify disapprobation. If the soldiers in
question were guilty of indecorum, and of
disturbing g. meeting by their cheering and
grooming, they we're entitled TO rebuke from
their superior officer. But General Shep-
herd did not visit his censure upon them
for going TO meeting to disturb it, and for
indecorous behaviour there. He charges
that grooming for Grant was "insubordina-
ton and Disgrace since it WAS against the
General of the army; and he couples his
phraseology concerning "disgraceful acts
and characterization" with the admonition
that soldiers should abstain from any ex-
preston of political opinion as persons or
parties"
1t was perfectly well known 10 General
Shepherd that the expression of disspproba-
ton on the part of the soldiers had no ref
erence to Grant, the commander in-chief of
the army, but to Hiram Ulysses Grant, rad.
zeal candidate for the presidency. twas no
more an act of military characterization to
grodn against the radical candidate than it
would be to cote against him. But here we
have General Shepherd, a subordinate to
General Grant, and subject to his orders,
proclaiming at the commencement of the
presidential campaign, that the soldier who
expresses his political opinions against
Grant by groans, is guilty of insubordina.
ton and disgrace, and warning soldiers to
abstain from any expression of political
opinions as individuals or parties. The or
der Of General Shepherd would show that
General Grant, radical candidate for
the presidency, is TO have the assist
ance OF his military subordinates to
his political as well as his military capacity,
and that political opposition on the part of
soldiers is to be silenced by military orders,
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them in the process of reconstruction. Did
anybody ever know military officer TO issue
an order restraining the expression of opinion
when it was favorable to radicalism How
was II when commissions from Missouri,
New York, Ohio, and other states went
through oil the armies seeking for radical
votes from soldiers? Was it not the boast
of radicals that the political opinions of sol.
diers were anti-demoeratic, and did they not
travel through every camp seeking for an
expression of such opinions2 But now, so
sacred is the person of General Grant, and
so closely identified are the personalities OF
the Army General and the radical politician,
that the expression of political opinion ad-
verse to the radical politician becomes anof-
fence to the General. The radicals have ex-
ceeding love for the soldiers. But it is for
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and groansfor whomsoever they please. Rad
ical soldiers may groan for their CUmnan-
der in-chief, the President, if they win only
cheer for his subordinate, Grant. Radical
soldiers are taken under the protecting wing
o. the senate, while scores of conservative
and democratic soldiers, covered thick with
laurels won in battle, were driven forth re-
jected and disowned. There 10 something
in this matter for the people to think of. II
is well understood that armies are still to be
maintained by radicals in the reconstructed
states. The freedmen's bureau, a military
establishment, is to be continued there one
year more. The grand object ofthe radicals
distinctly avowed on the floor of the house
and the. senate, is to bring in those states as
radical, and to secure their electoral votes.
Grant, the head of the army, is to be the
beneficiary of these votes. And he-the
man who seeks the suffrages ofa free people,
through his subordinates, thus early in the
campaign, silences opposition to himself by
military orders. This is forewarning that
American people will most assuredly heed.
They will suffer no man TO elect himself by
force ofarms.-St Louis Republican,.
aThefgures at which U. s. Bonds stand in the
market do not indicate any apprehension that the
democrats are TO succeed in November.
York Essasag f'ost--o radical paper.
No, they do not indicate apprehension, >
but rather expectation Bureaucratic success.
Every intelligent man knows that the radi,
cal policy of corruption, extravaganza and
military despotism is the only obstacle TO
the reduction of taxation and presents the
only danger of Reputation. Let it be clear.
ly understood that that policy is to continue,
and. the prices of .. s.. bonds would fall be.
low par IN ten days. The hope of reform,
which oan come only by the overthrow Of
radlcahsnn, is the main cause of the advance
of these prices. Reform and retrenchment
IAN honest administration of the govern.
ment--would soon place these securities at
the very stop of the market" .asse4sesrs es