The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-25


attSntfoh from the MOdoe Hcr-or-.IFhe Col
orsd Procession and "Fraudn Douglas.
Lydia and her Aggregation.
WAsmSoToS, April 81, 1873.
TOallay the prevailing dissatisfaction
caused by sundry Of the Presidents ac
tons, grand glori6cation had bee
agreed upon, at which his successes wer
to be lauded, and especially his peace poll
ey was 10 receive unqualified praise. Had
they put the affair through twenty-fou
hours sooner it would have been a success
but unfortunately for the prepared speech
es, the day before the laudation brought
news Of how the nations wards had
pro6ted BY their Y. NJ c. A. instructions
and justified o. O. Howard paternal love
Now, If only those pesky newspaper,
had kept quiet all might have been well
but they would tell the whole story, anc
then the people, instead of piously looking
up and saying Thy viii be done, felt ac.
tually aggrieyed, and in their perversity Of
heart called the Presidents wise measures
id nonsense, while in other equally
unsanctif,d terms they insisted on having
summary justice melted out to the offend
ers, and a vigorous war-policy inaugurated
toward all of the same stamp,
To nsophisticated minds these de-
mands might seem unreasonable, but how
arc the bear-leaders, who have made their
little fortunes heretofore out of Mr.. L.O, to
fill their pockets in an equally easy way if
this is abolished? That's the real stone
over which the nation stumbles and drops
its pocket book.
To draw off attention from the Modoc
insanity the truly loil'' papers boil over
with righteous wrath concerning the riots
in Indiana and Colfax. wonder what
could be expected of place with such a
name p They urge strong measures in
that direction, and would ike to see mar.
tial law established forthwith but as our
citizens know thing or two of the 'mau
and brother, they find little sympathy
here and will have to work upon the feel
ings Of those who have had smaller doses
ofinsolence from that quarter
Our colored citizens blossOmed out in a
procession on the l7th the 10th having
proved too wet for the occasion and made
regular fizzle of it. The car happened
to be in was obliged to stop at the foot of
the Capitol to let the crowd pass, conse-
quently ] had a perfect view of it First
and foremost came the p'lice, mounted
then Fraud Douglass and other Ora
tors then political and military organi-
cations with a heavy sprinkling of Doug.
lass, marshalls, scarfs and ribbons, and
wedged in between these two wagous-oDe
bearing a bevy Of black, brown, and yell
low girls in white, to represent the States,
and surrounding goddess of liberty equal
in tint to the one doing penance on the
dome Of the Capitol and the other having
a second goddess-yellow, with an awfully
big nose-supported by the Army and
Navy in the shape Of two little imps, who
held on to the wagon like grim death
It's the rage now to call everything
aggregation ~ well, that was an aggregd.
ten, no mistake about that.
Lydia Thompson and her aggregation
were here last week, and left the majority
of the masculine population with decided
symptoms Of leg on the brain One Of
the Sunday papers is disguised with this
state Of affairs and protests that it is
waste Of enthusiasm as they were, like
ballot-boxes, stuffed.
There, that's about all the naughtiness l
can think Of just now. LIZ NARD.