The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-12-24

exactly that. They had no right to seize
upon the peoples money for auy such OBJ
jet.
The friends of the measure should first
have obtained an act Of the Legislature auth.
orziug the board Of supervisors to submit
the question to the people, and if the people
approved ofthe tax, authorizing is collection
not otherwise.
We presume no one will contend that the
board has the right to order dwelling houses
built for each of our county officers, and
horses, carriages and servants for each, aud
take the money from the people 3 pockets by
forced taxation. Or that the board has
right to send tax collector with warraDt
aud forcibly take every mans personal prop
er,y in the county and sell it at auction to
raise money with which to build a monu.
meut to jeff Davis or Booth Yet such an
act would be precisely as legal as what they
have done.
Let no blackguard, or fool or ials6er
now say that we have proposed buildings,
horses and carriages, and servants, for our
county officers and monumeo's to jeff Da. |
Wis and Booth, or suggested that they would |
be desirable, or compared them in desirable
ness to d monument for the dead soldiers OF
our own county, for We have done no such !
thing and don't hold to any such sentiment.
We simply say that, in legal point ofview'
they are oil alike, and the board Of superyls'
ors has lust as good a right to seize upon
and use the peoples money, or order taxes
to be forcibly collected, tor one as for the
other Of the aforementioned objects. That's
the point we are illustrating.
As to the desirabIeness Of monuments,
! north or south, that is entirely another ques-
' ton, and one upon viii ch every man has, Of
3 course, right to his own opinion. We e1,
It press ours without fear or favor, and no one
p else is responsible for it. If any man diff.
u fers from us, we think none the less Of him,
}; and do not pretend TO censure him as hold
Q ing or expressing opinions "unbecoming or
/ 'unpatriotc," as the board of supervisors
have made asses Of themselves by doing.
Now word or two about the uem"tos'
uery and political fayoritism which has char.
ac'er2ed the management OIL the mohu'neN'
business vi al the members Oh Tue mon
ument committee, from the beginning 10 the
present time, no democrat has ever been Of
tered place on H. except Mr. h'thoal'' anu
he only because 'hey "an'eu MS influence a.
supervisor, at It's start lhey uoh IKE
h'm' ana 'Hey Oe'leVe ne ID just as Dig d
'eoPPeFh'"a rs there Is IN tue county
lhey even went SO lar III 10O|' "' - se'
iar'oh Drugs 10 swear 10 S'a'''neu'' D'
fore Judge WILKINSON that h'm0"II SA'a DC
had rather live under Jef' DAVIS govern
ment than ou:5 But they wanted his 'hH0'
ence, and 50 they put nm on ana nave
never found any good chance 10 get ria Oh
him since tie IS the only democrat on Inc
committee, from first to last
, Was it any better at the fairs and festi'
walls? Not bit. The whole ;h'ng was run
n on the political demaEogue track D'd any
e body ever hear Of such democratic soldiers
n as Maj Connolly, Maj Butord, Capt. Copp,
Geo. Carlton Sergt Adams, Capt togg,
T. Lieut. lobe, |. y. kirkpatrick, Lieut. EngeI,
o Capt. Blackburn, Geo y. Mower, f. >
/. Gates, s. 5. Hobart, NJ. X. Mel2gar, Nm
lie Ostler, Col. Williams, David Shires, ". W.
1 Ferguson, Capt Ballard - or any of
the hundreds Of other democratic sol.
X diers in this town and county I'VE
Is can't think of them all now who are
2 perfectly competent for the positions. being
10 placed on any of the important committees
connected with the monument? No, of
coprse NOT To have divided these apuoiDt.
ments fairly would have shown that demo.
crat, had "A much to do with the matter as
p, rennhIicans. would have shown that there
was no nolitical demagopuery in il. But
NJ, tina, would not suit the super.loyal SQUAD
. they wanted to show that Hey did the lob,
, and the democrats stood aloof
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