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

bar Mr.. Donnelly, of Minnesota, who turned
r;ght around and said of Grants keeper,
saYou are q liar" He says, "you are stump
tailed bull in fly time, except when you are
rnnning for office, or all of yeur family are
not In Office Now, nay friends, these are
Icharges, and the same charges that are ap-
Iblied BY the leaders of the radical party
against each other, and ] ask you 20 night u
one tenth part Of the testimony introduced
By. them against each other has not proved
enough to damn any party that ever existed
iCheers, and voice, ''they are deadly Yes,
they are dead; they will be everlastlngiy
damned. Well, now, my friends, that am
upon this radical party, let me say to yen
here tonight, ahat no party IN this or any
other couptry ever Inhibited as much impu-
danoe as this radical party in nominating o.
candidate, as they have DONE. After having
com N itted such ontrages npon liberty, hw
ana light; they 20 to work and rnakeanother
nomination, md call upon the people to
come up and again ratfyitl It is an act
Of boid.faced impotence that none but rad
icals could ever assume, and one which no
party with such record would commit and
brave the storm of public opinion again. 1t
is q matter even of wonder that they have
ever decided to bring out even Grant.
Laughter They feel that they are guilty,
and their own guilty consciences prick them.
There is no man in ST. Louis who is prepa-
red to hurrah for Grant, voice: "Not
onelnA not, one, in the state of Illinoisl
There is mot q man in the great state of Hi
nois who Ii prepared to hurrah for him; he
was clamorons for power when he used to
haul wood and get drunk. Ny friends, !
want to indict this party; make the charge,
aud defy contradiction, that they never made
q pledge to the American people which
they. have not broken. make. the charge
tonight, they have violated every promise
and pledge they ever made from the day
they were first organized up to the present
hour. (Cheers, and q voice, at is strong
language tits strong language; and let
me say can prove it. In 1861 they calles
upon the nation for men and for money; for
what purposes? Was it to dissolve the
Union, 20 trample under foot the eonshtu-
ton, to violate the law of God and mans to
elevate the negro upon the ruins OF the
white man? No, they pledged themselves
BIZ resolution of congress on the list day OF
I,,lx l86l-I am now endeavoring to show
that they violated the pledge that they
naade-they obtained men and money; they
obtained seventysix hundred millions Of
dollars and seven hundred thousand men to
carry out purposes they to-day laugh at
when you remind them oft They glory in
their shame and say it was not their purpose.
| charge tonight that every man who en-
listed upon the pledge of the radical party,
did so because they said they wautel him
to fight for the flag, the constitution and the
laws Every man who enlisted in the army
and laid down his life, believing that was
the purpose has been murdered BY the Tadi-
cal party. They declared then that the OBJ
feet of the war was TO preserve the Union,
and maintain the constitution with all the
rights, dignity and equality of the several
states unimpaired; after that was done the
war was to cease. They got money, they got
men, and seventy-six hundred millions
You will find that the amount given them
exceeded this sum-$7, 600, 100000, to pre-
vent that which the Radical party has ac-
| complished within the last two years The
| nation waded through ocean. of blood for
four long years to prevent disunion, and the
Radical party proclaim that the [ nion is
| dissolved FIT is, then, ask you tonight,
| who dissolved it? In 1867, they submitted
Constitution 10 the legislatures Of the
| South; it was rejected; then they turned
round and told them they had ne power to
vote at all. If they had voted fer this thing
this Radical measure-at would have been
| all right; but as they voted against it, they
told them they had no right to vote at all.
Well, now, my friends, we viii take thi-
party and it's record. ] remember reading
| that Colfax boosted in Washington the other
| night, and referred to his record: Grant, al.
| so, did the same and referred to his record.
| Well | would like to know If it IL his record
| in st. Louis or Galena he referred to. He
| is brought forth and did not breathe one
| single breath in support of the Radical par
| ty until they had nominated him for Presi-
| dent. | charge that IN constructing their
| platform they have violated the teachings Of
| God and man. Do you know why they trot
ted out Grant? They trampled principle
| under foot, and claimed they were
fighting for eternal justice, for God, humani
| ty and the equality OF all men before the
| law!
How did they stand the storm which was
raised against them? Did they, like the
democratic party, stand by their flag
through good and evil report2 MOI They
| deserted their colors and instead of shouting
.God and humanity, it was Grant, Grant
| tCheers.) "Grant, come and save us from
the white people of the country or we are
lost" Applause and laughter.) ! tell YOU
justice has been voted down, the imam and
brother" has been voted down and equality
before the law has been voted down. They
are afraid to stand by their record. They
take up Grant that they may get up by hold
ing on to h's military reputation, and We
we'll know what that Is, He is man whC
never won a battle except by superior force
(Applause.) Anne Dickinson aud Wendell
| Phillips, good authority, have spoken o
him, and the latter said that the only victor
he ever achieved was over the whiskey bot
the and tobacco. {Laughter.I You certain
ly will not go back on such pillars of the
church as Phillips ard Dickenscn and Chas,
and those men.
Well, now, let me say again, charge tha
in civil life, his capacity has never beer
higher than that Of an ordinary tanner
clerk. You may go to Galena city. to hi,
own home, and there'you will find he wa
never able to climb single step highe
than to keep the books of a tanner, at tn,
ordinary salary of $40 q NINTH. SIS
The only craftsmanship that ever heart
of Grant doing was the time he accepted tn.
war Office from Johnson to put cut Stanton
He pledged himself that he would not sur
render it to anybody until the President haC
an opportunity TO put somebody in his place
As soon as he was nominated for President
he goes to work and plays INTO the hands o
the senate, allows Stanton to take the Office