Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-08
gailp Argus.
Independence Day.

| AS usual, sne only formal celebration 10
be made this day in New York of the ma
lions birthday, as We have rather inaccu.
rsteiy come to call it, will be made by the
Democrat party. The Columbian Order.
or Tammany Society, dating back to the
great days of the republic, aud bearing on
its rolls the highest and must honored
names of them who founded our free insti-
tutions, will fiIly commemorate today the
times which tried mems souls, and the men
whose souls being tried were found not
wanting. This eommenoration, never a
mere lip service with the thousands OF sin-
esre and devoted Democratic believers in
republican institutions who have never
bowed TO the knee Of the Federal usurpa
lions and the vulger imperialism of the pass
ing law, has peculiar vitility and signi6-
cence to-day. For to the Democrats of
New FORK belong the signal honor Of chas-
Using and putting down corruption at home
before going forth to assail aud to suppress
corruption IN the country at large. The
Democratic leaders who will summon
Grant to judgment in Baltimore on Tues
day next have earned their right to the ma
tons confidence and support by their vieto-
ry over Tweed in New York. The scan
dAls to which Democratic New York has put
al Gnu IN uSI DuHClpdl duAlF5 were lQenIeAl
10 kind with the scandals which now deform
the Federal Administration at Washington.
The telegraph on this very morning announ-
ces that the officials of the War De partment,
upon proceed ng under an act of Congress
10 take over into their own cnarge the at
fairs Of General HowARD's Freedmen's Bu.
reau, have found those affairs 10 SO confused
and so suspicious a state that they refuse to
tha-paritnoa Ganar.I
ard, the head of this Bureau, has long been
an object OF spiclon to well-nformed per-
sons at Washington. General Hooker
not perhaps the best authority living in re-
gard to certain delicate points of character,
and certainly not the best authority living
on military matters, but as brave a soldier
as ever crossed horse-has not hesitated
to charge Howard with poltroonery on the
battlefield. A soldier whose conduct and
bearing make it possible for a brother SOL
der thus to brand him-wheiher Justly or
unjusty matters little-cannot possibly be
a man of such clear aud ehivAlric temper
as to be pat above all suspicion of financial
weakness or worse. If the intimations this
morning given out in our Washington des-
patches are confirmed by thu Investigations
upon which the War department for it's own
sake must now enter, We shall have smother
illustration at our own doors Of thu lines OF
PORE:
What can ennobls knaves, or f0cs or COW ards F?
Alas not all the blood OF all the Towards
The "rsmmany Ring last year shattered
by the Democrats of New York was but the
image here of the more monstrous Ring
which has been formed in the last decade BY
the conf ined action Of centripetal servility
and centrifugal dishonesty around the
"hesdQusrters" of our military President al
Washington. The balefll influence of that
Ring psrvsdes every department of the pub
he service, eats out the conscience of the
people, deerades Us in the ewes of foreign
= nations, and if it be not checked at onct
aud decisively will soon leave nothing of oul
institutions but their hollow and forms
shell. At such 8 season ia oug history tbs
celebration Of Independence Day ceases L
be q mere form or an idle jubilee. The
1 dangers which threaten our freedom s1d
- our self-res pect to-day are the same 10 kind
with the dangers which our ancestors. nearlY
8 century ago, bound themselves TO one
another and to their country to resist BY
= their lives, their t rtunes and their sacred
honor Capitalization then wore the like
ness of kiBEly croWn. sat on throne be
yond the seas, wore the wig and babbleI
with the THICK speech OF aauoVerlan mon
arch Of England. Capitalization no ride
n IN q bright yellow dog-cart, with negr
varlets in white aud silver livery. smoke
/ gift cigars in gilt cottage by the sea, oil
gsuizes plans with aides de camp and war
-, politicians for pIuuderiog toe commerce c
the coontrY, stsres With the stoiii stare an
=. is dumb with the insoent brutality Of sue
cessfuI soldier. But Capitalization is tn
- same under all its DISCUSSES. and all its di;
guises alike is the deadly enemy Of prigst
~ right and the public veal. If We do nc
mean that the victory which our fathers vo
over it shall be made Kissing aud re
pro&ch to heir degenerate defendants, W
must feel and know that we are called thi
:. day not to glorifv ourselves in their names
bot to revive their virtue, to renew thei
oaths. and to com piete in a later age aud o
8. our own soil the triumph Which they bough
4, so dear-Ne1c YORK. World july 4M.