The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-05
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each Radical clutchcd his battle blade"
"And like prairie lions bayed,'
ba nj Ia

anu iIhe pr nuns poJeu,
"To join the Niger brigade"
The colored troops have voted the
"mongrel' problem is solved-move on
there, white trash! Room there, if you
please, gentlemen, until Flat-Nose Kinky-
Wool has voted Rock Island breathes
easier. The Pill of Equality" has slipped
over her gullet. Go for them, Pomp! Kick
open the doors of the social. sanc.ums of
society The "cullud pussun" is the noble
man of the realm Let the drawing.room
of the city now see the woolly heads sand
wiched In wiki the fair skinned Caucasian.
The blue-eyei, h-xen hsired blondes, and
the ebony brunettes, are sisters--are rivals.
From the nursery must come the chime of
the delicate, silvsry laugh and the loud
gutfa. What a picture is there, my country
men
And all this, at this time, in direct viola
ton of law. 1t is true, the President has
announced the ratification of the Fifteen th
Amendment, but until the official copy is
received at the State Housa, the laws of
Illinois are positive upon this point, and by
what right do Rock Island judges of election
receive Illegal votes 1t is but a small
question of time, yet it is one principle, and
as such should be so considered. The word
has been given, the race has begun-who
talters We hear of Democrats who say
they will not vote. Now is the time when
their votes are needed-now, if ever before
RadicAlism has taken its las, ssep-snd
now is the time for Democracy to step in
and defend what remains of the old Consti-
tution-snd repair and preserve and he
who does it not, is not true TO the end TO the
principles he Processes.
What not votA-yield up your oerth-right,
because interiors are forced up to your level
By the majority of day! No, rather let
the situation be accepted and improved. By
work will we taken from Radicalism all the
strength it has hoped to gain by this step.
If i: be wise one, why needlessly, foolishly
spite ourselves, If it be wrong and imprsc-
ticsbe, time Will tell, and when the verdict
is rendered, we will be there, ready TO take
advantage of the situation. 1t is but an
experiment at best, and unless history be-
lies herself, it will prove dangerous one,
for nowhere on her pages from the Republics
of ancient Egypt down to that of TO-DAY, can
an instance be found where the formers Of
governments and the trainers of constitu
tions have ever taken one of this race into
their counsels, or asked him to rstify their
deliberations And Radicalism, has this day
done both, all for the hope of the coiored
vote of the south that it might perpetuate
its rule. We may go still farther, and scan
the libraries of the world, and can you, any.
where tn all the stores of knowledge, find
one iota that has been contributed by this
race-not line, yet of such material. has
RadicAlism attempted to make rulers. 1t is
certainly an epoch of our time, and of all
past experience, one we would mark we'll.
Gentle, delicate nerved Radicals OF the
fine haired kind, if you can stand the odor
you have invited TO be your equal, others
certainly oan. and it Ill becomes Democrats
TO say that the elegant Sambo and the
gushing Diana are not July your equals.