The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-08-27
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and federal otice-holders III M@i y'a"u, ~
Gently rushed into print with very emphat'
10 denial of what they deemed very dam
aging report, viz that they were in Sympa'
tbv with the movement TO bring Mr. Chase
.orwsrd as candidate for President in
1872. These irats gentlemen grew indig'
nan, as they proceeded in their denial, and
finally declared that all editors who should
give currency to the report would he dealt
with as "lars and libellers The Chicago
Post, which has keen eye for the geo
graphical location OF crimes and misde.
meanors, made the fact that these men lVeu
lust south of the old line Of slave territory,
the occasion for INDUCING in the following
silly TRADE against the people OF the South
--upder the heading Of Southern Bius-
ter"
If the South ever 10 tends TO give over Its bull |
living, staggering, blaekguard manner OF saying |
things. It is about time beginning were maze
in the needed reform. "A 1t is in Maryland, so
Il is elsewhere in the South. The old plantation |
manners are constantly appearing, to the damage |
Of civilization and the regret of gentlemen'-
The late political campaigns in virginia anu
Tennessee more especially in Tennessee were
sort of public exhibition Of rlbaIdry ana oTstof-
ical smut machines. The character OF southern
politicians generally appears to be low. Even
Mr.. George D. Prentice born Yankee and
geptlemap. has been affected by his surroundings
Of years, SO that his humor now frequently de-
generates into bosh. The great need oil the
South is to be supplied by Christian civilization
rather than by political measures Of any sort
We refer TO the need of breeding. The South
must stop its old and long endured rufhanlsm,
whether of fact or of language, and demonstrate
it's title to respect by the development OF enough
sense improved by culture, TO show that II Is not
absolutely impossible to raise gentleman IN
that part Of our Republic.
The result of the late war has largely in
creased and stimulated the Phariseeism o.
those who before were ready to thank Goc
they we're not as other people in the South
were. These miserable creatures wigghng
through the world in the form and with the
conceits of men, should probably receive
the pity instead OF the scorn of their tancied
fellows. Why, in the name OF reason and
common decency, should one section OF the
country alone produce gentlemen, scholars
or christians? Are these not to be founc
everywhere in the civilized world, and ar
no, their opposites in character to be ais
found everywhere? The bigotry which ha
inspired selErigbteous people North an
South to claim that everything good in hl
man nature is indigenous to their RESPECTIVE
sections and States, and if found elsewhere
is an exotic,--is of the most contemplate
chararter: and we are astonished TO find
such journal as the Post the subject OF
such weakness.
Comparisons, it is said, are always odious
and the contrast which the Post inferen
italy institutes is particularly uufortunat
for it and its kind Just now, and illustrate
the truth Of another trte maxim that pee
pie who live in glass houses should no
throw stones. The very paragraph quote
shows as complete q lack of decency AM
proper regard for the proprietles of newspa
per decorum rs does the publication com
plsiued Of. The reproof to Judge Bon
itself needs reproving. Besides, IL was on
the other day that New Hampshire mel
ber of the United States Senate from Nor
Carolina cut the disgracetul figure beIo
the whole country of saying in publ
newspaper that his political opponents
North Carolina were public liars;" and 0
finding that the use of such ungentlemanl
language involved serious personal cons'
quences, made another publication ~
knowledging that he himself was guilty {
the ofense charged to his opponents.
But few months have elapsed since liz
race Greeley, the very high priest of RI
publicanIsrn, and the personhcation of th'
sort of patient philosophy which uncon
plainingly allows its happy possessor
have his nose pulled and his ears boxet
without whispering an ungenteel recogn
ton, bIazoned the Tribune columns with tn
startling head line: "Horatio Seymour Il.
Liar"
During the closing days of the war r
publican Legislature Of the Republic
State of New York, while sitting as a leg
lative body, banded the die and "sco,
drel" with and flung spittoona at each otl
as freely az gentlemen would jokes, a
what is worse, it is probable that each me
Der at whom such missiles were hurled, {
served them.
Only few weeks ago the telegral
clicked to the whole country the POLISH
words $50 to h--ll," from the christian Ii
of Northern Republican Senator in Co
gress, addressed directly to the Chief Ma
istrate Of the Nation, in the presence of Il
merous callers at the White House and I
aforesaid Senator represents State II
was born of the collision between slave
and freedom, and was swaddled by the N
England votaries of an anti-sIavery bi
and liberty's god
If the great need Of the South is, as
legged, "to be supplied by christian civili
tiou,' it is certainly to be hoped that b
ter representative of christianity than
writer Of the above quoted paragraph sh
be sent to supply the need.
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Boutwell, Called.