The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-31
Daily ARGUS.
OFFICIAL PAPER
THE UNIONS BLIND oEYE y

In this mornings IHiDn somebody who
is evidently in good favor with himself, in.
duges in what he iace,ously terms ga brief
review over the sign Of Eye" Just
what be reviews is not entirely clear, but we
suppose from some quotations from the Ar.
GUS that he would like to be understood by
bis indulgent readers as reviewing some
thing the ARGUS has said This Eye
which we insist, if not Of glass is blind or
badly squin,cd, in It's frenzy rolling i'm
agines it sees things which haze been hid
den from others. We uayetI the "Eyo,
and let it peep through the ARGUS. Now
it begins:
Il the ARGUS also talks about the ut.
tsmUfrd impeachment Of johnson. Every
schoul.boy knows that the House Of Repre-.
sentatives did impedch President johnson
20 all iutents and purposes and that that
House is the only House, body or authority,
known 10 the Constitution or laws, that can
upeach President Of the United States.
The Senate, as a Court Of impeachment,
tried President johnson on the impesch.
meut of the House, and by vote Of 80 to
~ convicted him
This discovery that johnson was i'm.
pcached by the House Of Representatives,
"the only House, body or authority, known
to the Constitution or laws, that can in.
peach which We are assured is fact pc
cularly within the knowledre Of school.
boys, may lead some Of Eyes readers to
believe he is a school boy, a conclusion
from which we would dissuade them as a
reflection on the lad 3 teacher. This Eye
had evidently not yet opened when the i'm.
parchment scheme was concluded, else he
would have directed the attention Of the
Radical party in Congress to the fact that
they had not simply attempted TO imPeach
johnson and failed, but that they had actus
ally impeached him 10 all iutents and pur.
poses" which at the time were understood
TO be Johuson's removal from Office What
q pity was that, most august impeachers
The AHcus has said that the assasaina.
ton Of Lincoln was the act Of madmAn
in which the assassin represented nobody,
and with which nobody Sympathi1cd. We
were honest in this, for the reason that no
party, pub ic journal or speaker, orany class
Of men, women or children, to our knowl.
edge, had ever approved Of or sympathized
with the deed and we therefore concluded
that Booth did not act in representative
capacity. But it appears that we were
wrong for that nice Eye Of the LRioa
cannot see the point and the fire Of its ge.
MUS blazes out: That we might as well
say "that jeff. Davis and his c0icrie at
Richmond, that II. II. Lee and his follow
ers at the battle of the Wilderness, repre-
sented nobody We acknowledge our ina.
bility to make this point clear tie "Eye,' and
we shall therefore not attempt to overcome
his infrmity by pointing out more minutely
distinction which must be patent TO every
body else.
Eye has some charity, for which We
| give him credit, and in order that 1t may be
known that it is worthiy bestowed, We again
allow HIS glauces to illuminate our columns.
After making a mangled quotation from the
ARGus, about the assassination Of Lincoln
and the attempted impeachment of John.
son, "Eye" dilates into "What can a man
mean by such language? Can any man say
that in its legitimate sense and be sane?
1t is here that he interposes for US the plea
Of insanity, and allows US to escape, in
stead of thrusting more Of his interrogative
daggers into US. If anybody who read the
Unions's first article, and our reply to it
insinustions, is in doubt, as to what We
meant, it would be a waste of time to ex
plain it to him. If a journalist should be
held accountable for the dulIness Of his
readers, the responsibility of journalism
would be too heavy to be borne.
Some mischievous person has evidently
thrown dust into the eye Of the Union.