The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-25
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
HAWLEY's HATE POLICY.
Tbs Admission Of Virginia.

The course pursued by M. Hawley in
relation to reconstructing the southern states
has been one of hate towards con-
quered and submissive and suffering people
a policy which the people of this district
can hardly approve. Nearly six years have
elapsed since the close of the war-a larger
period than is required for the naturaliza
ton of foreigners, and We. he is not willing to
receive that portion of our countrymen into
the Union.
On the l4th of January last the question
of the re-admission Of Virginia was before
the House, when Hawley and others of
the radical hateites put forth successful
efforts TO repudiate the pledged faith OF the
nation in regard to the re-sdmission of that
state On that question we quote from q
speech Of Mr.. Fitch, of Nevada, found on
page ATS of the Congressional Globe,
declaring that the due course of reconstruct
i've legislation did not Justify nor demand
the legislation proposed By the reconstruc-
ton com mittee. He said
Sir Il regret that We did not admit
Virginia to political equality by the same
act through which reunited Georgia to
political pupiiage. l believe it would have
been better Tor Virginia, better for Georgia,
better tor the repu Diican party, if We had
kept our Implied compact with the one
state while We compelled Inc other to Keep
its compact with us ; and am quite coa-
vinced that We can do 10 act so hurtf0l to
the republican party, SO injurious to the
best interests of the whole country, and 80
especially damaging 10 the speedy and
honest reconstruction of the entire south, as
TO exact from Virginia now any other OF
further conditions than those prescribed In |
the act of congress of A prIl last. Have not |
some OF us forgotten or failed to Realize and |
appreciate the real object OF the war and OF |
the reconstruction legislation which followed |
that war? He must be blind indeed to the !
sources OF human motive who does not I'm T!
derstsnd that the relgning aaimating pur
pose OF the nerican people was essentially
to preserve the geographical integrity and
political unity of the United States o:
America. There was never an hour
from the repulse at Manassas to the sur
render OF Lee, but had you asked any citizen
of the republic, from the president in his
high place TO the soldier who helped to
garrison frontier fortress, the question,
Nv hat will you do with the south when you
have conquered it?" You would have re-
ceiVed the same answer, differing in phrase
perhaps, but identical in idea; and that
answer would have been, ave will give to
that rebelious people, when we have sub
lugated their armies, precisely the same
rights and the same privileges that we en-
of tbar, +b, 4
and the same obedience that we concede
We will demand of them the same securities
which are demanded Of US; no Law shall
apply to them which does not equally
apply to US no tax gssherers shall Visit
them who do not visi. US; no benefits shall
rain upon which do not descend III equal
showers upon their heads"
We cannot give the VIII lie of this admira.
bic speech, but We have quoted enough 10
show the line of argument. Able speeches
were also made by Earnsworth, Bingham,
and many other republicans, to the same
effect and all claiming that Virginia had
complied with every requirement of the law
of congress and that the honor and faith OF
the nation we're pledged to her readmission
without any new conditions. But Mr. Haw
ley, in his speech on the subject showed
that he was not In favor of pacihcaton, and
did not want the Union restored by restoring
peace and good will between all sections of
our country. He said, page, 48O-
81 say, for myself, standing here to day.
| will have further guarantees from Virginia
If my vote can secure them"
This was the doctrine of hate and perse-
cution, and direct violation of the pledged
word Of congress-neither of which the PEG
pie of this district or state iDdorse,
How different is his course from that OF
Hon. Horace Greeley, who said in the New
York Tribune:
i've do most earnestly nope to see iae day
i'm mediate agents of filling the land with |
widows anc orphans. The cause of the ter
ribIe calamity tina, befell US, the injustice |
the oppression of classes, the sectional hatred |
that led to it, we would wipe out forever"
How different, too, from the course of
Gen. N p. Banks, at the late Cincinnati |
Commercial Convention. He there met Gen.
At the Burnet House. The /
two had not met for ten years They We're
young members of congress together fifteen |
years ago. They are old friends. One
wore the blue, the other the gray. Both |
were leaders In the great civil! war, but on I
opposing sides. They met, after ell the vicis
STUDIES of the last decade, cordially, and
Banks vent with Breckenridge to his home
III III nsucky, as his guest. The illustration
Is as pleasant as it is instructive, and ought
te snow the red hot chaps that there is not
nearly go much FIRE and birthstone. hell and
dsmnation among sensible people a. they
think. Ten. Banks is q most auiabIe and
accomplished man, and as will be .een from
the following extract from his speech al the
Cincinnati banquet, a most liberal politician.
He said
81 wish to say that the people, acting in
their individual representative capac;,v
ought to remove all political distinctions. Of
whatever character, growing out of the great
contest which We have passed through.
Cheers And. with sublime indifference
to the events of the past, | expect TO see,
too, here. with one voice, one acclaim of the !
American people, 'let the past be buried in
oblivion. 80 far as the misfortunea of the
country are concerned (Chsers,l Let
the sction Of our brethren, whether on one |