The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-11
SEEN THROUGH THEIR OWN EYES.

The author of the last Massachusetts Re
publican State Address says of Radical
Senators
The country cares nothing about the in
dividusi Senators. large part Of them do
not represent anybody He asks, Who
does Ross represent? Does ANYBODY sup
pose Jo Abbott. whiom editor of the Bos
ton Daily Bee, will maintain himself after
his term is out? Or SAWYER? Nay, what
is likely to become of Roscoe Conkling
There is no hope for the Republics party
until some man shall arise who will take
It's leadership, insth into it some degree Of
principle, and manage ii with some method
other than bribery. As for Conk,ing, Ed
munds and Carpenter, they are riugeaders
in dirty conspiracy
Here is food for sober reflection, and we
advise all our Radical readers to consider
the above words, coming as they do from
one Of their own acknowledged iesders-oue
preferred in Massachusetts as sufficiently
sound to write their campaign documents.
Think of it. The highest branch Of Con
gress-the very embodiment: Of the Republi-
can party-the impeaching power Of the
nation-is represented to US by one of the
most influential and intelligent Repu blicsns
IN Massachusetts, the home of Sumner, the
hot-bed Of Rsdicalism, as controlled by men
without personal integrity, or sufficient abil-
ity and honesty to merit the respect Of their
constituency, sDd whose methods of man
agement are conspiracy and bribery.
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whose hands the Republican party has
placed the Government of the country; we
say Government, because, in connection
with the other branch of Congress, the Sen.
etc has assumed all power, and arrogantly
dictates to the executive and Legislative
branches their metes and bounds. This is
the confessed result of eight years of Repub
lican ascendancy, viz: imbecility, bribery,
conspiracy, treaohery; assumption of undel-
egsted authority, violation Of the Constitu-
ton, prolonged rupture Of the Union, refusal
TO redeem solemn pledges to States, humili.
alton Of national dignity, burdening the
people with unprecedented taxation to
answer extrevagant and corrupt expendi-
ture. By their fruits do we know them, and
most bitter ore their fruits in the mouths of
the people. Party crimes by the ruling
power are committed under the claim Of
patriotic in.ention-of regard for equal
rlghts-of philanthropy-while treaehery
prompts the deeds, hypocrisy guides the
acts, aud tyranny ppnishes resistance. The
despotism of Congress is seen throughout
the land, in justifying a proaeriptive order
denying public employment to One half the
leboring men Of the country for exereiainy a
freemsn's night Of political judgment, and
yet more boldly IN debating the political
action Of millions d American citizens I'm.
der threats Of paAsshaasn: for d,sobedience
"a dictation which robs them Of every
attribute Of republican goyerumeut under
pretence Of enforcing the very constitution
al guarantee thus trampled upon. Can such
wickedness escape public indigDation-are
such oemAFogues rule Congress TO BE-
permitted much longer to direct the deatinies
OF these States? Or will the people awake
to the impending peril, restore the different
branches of their Government to the;, Iep;,
mate spheres Of authority and secn-e Tbs
permanency of institutions won bv this
sacrifices of their fathers?
part OF this must be done BY Won. Dem
ocrats OF Rock Island and are Won rem A,
for the work Let no other thing s.ant
IN your way when this work ia to be done
Before the dawn of 1871 your answer vii
be recorded. What shall II he !?