The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-21

The President and the South.

The President sat late at dinner on Mon
day night, and the next day was tar ad-
vanced when ''the situation of affairs IN
Louisiana was brought to his attention.
| We are told that at first he could hardly
realize that the news was true, and when
he did comprehend what had taken place
he was "passionately aroused. He said
he had done everything in his power to as
sist the south, and especially Louisiana"
and this was the ungrateful return. He
should put down this insolent rising in the
most summary manner, and teach the re-
bells lesson which they would not soon for
get. We presume he was angry that he could
not visit the seat of government even for a
little festive gathering of the Aztec Club
without being pestered by these dissatisf-
ed southerners, and he vowed in the irrita-
ton of the morning that he would do moth
ing more to help them. He feels the re-
volt against Kellogg as a personal aifront
to himself A rebellion against the au-
thorities whom he has constituted, against
the government of his selection, the mar
shall in whom he specially coDtides, the
collector who is actually his own brother
in -law,is a crime nothing short OF leze maj
esty, and it must be met with swift and IN
relenting punishment. Ii MIR. Penn and
his comrades had studied the Presidents
character, they would have foreseen VIC
lent outbreak of temper at the White
House as the lnevitabie consequences Vi
their proceedings. ueh' ofan' has always
resented remonstrance against DIS poiicy
at the south, and chosen TO regard every
complaint against his southern faVorltes az
a scurrilous attack upon his own character.
When the taxpayers OF South Carolina
| asked leave respectfully to lay Their grey
ances before him, he turned the delegates
out OF his presence with every marx VI
rudeness aud irritation. When the citi'
zens OF Louisiana begged Tor hearing AT
the outset of the Kellogg usurpation, he
sent word that they might spare them
selves the trouble OF the journey, Tor moth
ing they could say would move hun. lie
has no manner of doubt that he is the best
! possible Judge OF what Is good Tor the
south. 70 oppose his Judgment is insubor-
dination to critlcisc it is lngratltude,
He has done everything in his power
''to assist the south. lie has given it
Spencer, Moses. Brooks, Baxter, Kellogg,
Durrell, Casey, Patterson, Packard, Pinch
hack. and Poker jack. He has filed its
legislatures with thieves. adventures,
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dence men. He has put up its Offices to
the highest bidder. confscated its lands,
impaired the value of its real property gen,
eralIv, r1ined It's credit aud brought its
business f. such a pass thatin some of the
richest regions of the South nothing can
be bought and sold except votes. The
highways are secured by gangs of masked
merauiers The hush il filed with armed
negroes in ambush, South Carolina and
Tnuisiana are RELEASING into barbarism.
and nine years after the close of the war
, the south is not vet at peace.
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