The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-10
plailn argus.
Monday Evening, January 10, 1870.
A aRRHF LEGGED REPEATED.

From an ancient legerd Of the Greeks, we
learn that Sisyphus was doomed to roll .
heavy stone up to the summit of mountain
and, that no sooner did he reach the crest
with his burden, than it slipped from his
grasp and rolled laundering to the PLAIN
below. This the weary toiler was forced 10
do again and again through all eternity
How fully Sisyphus and his stone 'SPines
the condition of Georgia to-day. For nearly
Eve years the Southern Sisyphus has been
hea,ing his stone up the rugged steep of
Radical reconstruction, under the stimulus
Of the trescherous promises of Congress, that
when he reached the top his task should be
considered fairly finished and he be admit
ted to the Union. Many times the weary
toilsr has rolled his burden to the promised
height, only to have it pushed down again.
How many times must the pitiless task be
done over again? Whatever Southern
State may do, the Radical party viii never
keep faith with them.
at is vain attempt
10 piuu IN AMBITIOUS ana UNJUST hy treatleb
These they elude Thousand different ways;
Or, if they cannot find a fair prete1t,
They blush not in the face of Heaven to break
them"
Georgia is now merely military depend
sncy Of the country, and her hsrrassed and
oppressed people are again at the mercy OF
their Radical taskmasters. The rights of .
sovereign State have been iniquitiously
usurped, and people that have once gone
through the mockery of reconstruction are
thrust back to be governed by bayones rule
ana the iron hand of . military dsspotism.
Nine thousand million dollars were ex-
pended to prevent the Southern States from
breaking up the Union but no sooner did
they lay down their arms aud accept the
situation than they we're thrust out of the
coufederacy and held as . conquered people
by the Radical oonspirators. Terms were
to be imposed and conditions accepted be.
fore they could assume their former equality
in the brotherhood of States. The terms
imposed were dictated by partisan malice
and without any regard to those principles
which underlie the Constitution and upon
which the whole fabric Of liberty rests.
Humiliasing and calling al they were to a
sensitive people, they were accepted by the
people of Georgia in good faith. On the
strength of that acceptance the State was
RECONSTRUCTED heaven save the MARYLAND
readmitted. The machinery of q State
government was erected and put in opera
ton; but scarcely were the people through
congrstulating themselves upon their escape
from military bondage than their hopes ver'
blasted and their reconstructed fabric 0
government overthrow. Honest, fsir-deal
ing Union men pause in their surprise sne
ask, why !, this ? We snswer that Radical
ism does not feel safe, aud it demands new
guarantees for its perpetussioH of power
Shall they have it, is the question for 81
Intelligent people to answer. II certainl
seerGs to US that Radicals will reach thu
length of their sether by and by, and Their
is dsy of fierce reckoning in the future
The day is not far distant when the scaie
will be removed from the eyes OF the A meri
can people. Then they will see the nake'
deformity and inbred corruption Of tina
party by whom they have been deceived AMI
betrayed. Then they will arise in vi-.uou
Indignation and hurl it forever from power
We may say of such men as Sumner, that
They have gone beyond
Even their exorbitance of power, and when
This happens in the most condemned .nd abje'
States, stang humanity will arise to check It."