The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-06
The Ohio Safe Convention Pro-
gressive Democracy Erium-
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plant.
We had no doubt that the Democracy of
Ohio would follow and outstrip Kentucky
and Pennsylvania; but fact is better than
expectation, and the resolutions OF the Ohio
Convention, passed yesterday, ensbls us to
substitute a record for our late prophecy.
We care not how much, or how little, inhu-
eDce Mr.. NsilAndigham may have had in
shaping the Ohio resolutions. 1t is enough
for Us that che resolutions are such as we
oan endorse, and 80 long As be exertS his
talents for leadership in this wise direction,
We have no disposition to obstruct his mia.
euce or impair his credit. Mr.. EAIIanulgham
was on the committee OF resolutions, and
his characteristic bodness is stamped on
the declarations of the Ohio Convention.
When he is constrained TO yield to the force
Of truth aud what is called the logic of
events, the cause Of the reActionists ia lost.
Il is manifest that no able man with the
possibility of q political future is any longer
willing TO lead them. Jefferson Davis has
nothing 10 tie to but "the lost cause :" and
being such sn utter political wreck that he
eau neisher be repaired nor inl used, he is
welcome to fling himself into the surf 10 be
again dashed against the rocks. It concerns
nobody but himselfthst his broken tim bora
are still further shivered. A cause must be-
desperate indeed which can find no better
advocate than Jefferson Davis he predicts
= revival OF the Lost cause. But ha also
predicted, with equal confidence, that the
Western States would joIG his Confederscy
that England would never ecquiesce 10 the
blockade; that his armies would be victorious:
that the South would, If necessary, coutnue
tle wax Tor twenty years in Virginia. Con
sdering that ell Eis past predictions went
by congrarles, il does not very well become
him 10 utter new ones On what ground
eau be expect 20 be believed?
We ask the Southern people to weigh the
prophecies Of this bankrupt politician, this
laundering old man, against the resolutions
a. The Ohio Democracy, auu against growing
and now almost complete unsnimity of she
oemoorRJlc party in discsrding 5ygone issues.
This dIsoredited politician rivals the good
Mrs. Psrsington, who attempted with her
mop to keep back the rising tide of the
AtlsDtic. The ocean WAS more than 6 match
f,r ihe foolish old woman and her mop The
Democracy of New York defined their posi-.
ton long ago they viii have thirty three
votes 10 the democratic National Convention
The democracy OF Pennsy lvanis have taken
the same ground they will have twentv-six
votes in the National Convention Yester-
day the democracy OF Ohio defined their
position they will have twenty votes n the
Convention. Kentucky, which has also re-
pudIaIed dead issues, will have eleven votes
and Missouri the same number. The democ-
rRcy of Michigan end of oil the New Euglsnd
States only await an occasion TO declare
taensel yes IN the same sense and they will
heye altogether torty-seven votes in the Ma
tIousl Convention. We regard it as quite
certain that the democracy OF every other
Northern State will equally accept the situa-
ton. The Southern people should therefore
$50 that when Mr.. Davis anchors his hopes TO
the lost cause, he resem bles that epoury phGl
man in the days of the flood, who, when the
submerged hills and mountains were dissp-
posring from sight, ard the windows of
heaven still continued 10 pour, set up for
prophet and concluded there would not
be much OF q shower after all" Jefferson
Davis now initiates that last of the ante
diIuvians for the second time. IT, after
hls preposterous predictions from 1861 to
1860, sach prophet can stiN have
any honor IN his own country, let the
Southern people compare his late
speech with the uniform declarations of ali
the recent democratic state conventions
W hen even Kentucky drops dead issues
when even Mr.. NsllaDdinghsm proolaims
that living party must not be bound to al
old corpse, what faith can the Southern
people put in a revival of the lost cause on
prediction made By noted false prophet
who, on former occasions, so egreEiously
deceived and msed them to their own ruin
Whit Morton promised,in his malice, aud
broken old JEFF Davis prophesies in his dot
age folly, the democracy Of the country will
BE- very careful nat 10 fulfil.
The Ohio convention yesterday was one
OF the most respectable bodies of demo
cratic delegates ever assembled in that
state. lis presiding officer was George II
P6udetun II nominated as its candidate
Tor Governor General McCook, one of the
most vigorous and intrepid lighting generals
taat served IN the armies Of the West. &c
mas brilliant military record, Hs every
history OF the war attests. The resolutions
after some debate on the FIRST two, which
uneQuiv0COii7 sCceps the fourteenth and
l:.eeash amendments, we're adopted by the
very large acriiy Of 375 yeas l29 nays
tast IS 70 ssy, majority Of three TO one.
AL honor 70 the vice and enlightened spiriG
OF the Ohio democracy
Z. S.--"I. never rGiDs but IL pours.n
Tennessee has made haste 10 wheel into
..us with other democratic states. Her
democratic state committee publicly pro-
claimed yesterday their scquiegeencs in the
new amendments Of the constitution, and a
convention OF inc democratic editors OF the
state resolved to fling sside dead issues and
accept tho situation. SO that precious brace
Of proDheta Oliver Morton and Jefferson
Davis, have abundant reasons to clothe
themselves with sackcoth and feed upon
ashes, in good scripture fashion.-Netc York