The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-14

negroes marched on the city from scvera
roads. The citizens, partly warned tht
night before, armed and went to the de
Tense Of the city. They came in contc
with separate bodies of armed negroes
numbering from 200 10 400 each, on three
different roads, and defeated and repulsed
each body. 1t is estimated that from 81
to 100 negroes were killed and wounded,
and about thirty were captured, all Of
whom, except four of the leaders, have
been released and permitted to go home.
The statement goes on to say that the
prisoners say they came to the city under
orders from Crosby, who gave Ames as his
authority for calling them out.
THE ADDRESS CONCLUDES.
Upon this record the people OF Warren
county are willing to receive the Judgment
ot the country. From it they feel that their
fair minded fellow citizens everywhere
must inevitably conclude that for several
years past our county government has been
IN the hands Of
IGNORANT AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS,
who, with one or two exceptions, have
plundered the public treasury and set the
laws and rights Of the people at defiance !;
that these officials OF late have been so
banded together as to effectually deprive
the people OF the remedies provided by
law tor their protection, and secure for
themselves comparative immunity from
punishment for their crimes that in their
crusade against the rights Of the people,
these officials have received the counten-
ance and support Of the governor and 9TH
h1UI n uI1th h1p;t, Ia, IL,
ment; that the governor has himself iu-
vaded their rights in open violation OF the
state laws and constitution by assuming to
I'LL, by executive appointment, an office |
made elective by the people that all these
officials have been Republicans, and nearly |
all OF them Of the colored race, and that |
not one has ever been molested In his Office |
by reason Of his politics or his color; that |
our people have endured these evils in a
spirit Of forbearance until iorbearance has |
ceased to be virtue, and they were im- |
PEELED to resistance by the
INSTINCT OF SELF PRESERVATION;
that they assembled peaceably, and, as the
surest means of attaining security, de-
nanded of these iathless stewards that
.hey resign the trusts contided to them
-idt, ldlilug III tIllS, InGy reSOrtcu 10 the
'emedy by Injunction in equity, so far as it
vas in its nature available to their ease
hat these peaceablc measures on their
part were met by scheme of violence and
Jloodshed, in which:the lives Of themselves |
md their families were imperiled and they
obliged to take arms in their defense
hat IN this scheme the officials were aided, !
and encouraged by the COVER =.
or OF the state, aud through his influence
y other Ulcers OF the state government,
!vil and military; that the citizens of j.,
lcksburg, IN resisting the assault made
pom their homes, captured number of
ne assalants, aud arrested the sheriff. who
ad melted them to this riot, and out of ]
aspect to the laws and regard for human
ie no violence was done to any of them;
nat the sheriff has finally and freely re-
gned his office, and new election has
cen ordered and 81
PEACE AND QUIET RESTORED =
our county; that there is, therefore, no
'aSon why the state should be subjected
the expense Of an extra session of the C
gIslature to make laws for this county; r,
Iat our people in the trying circumstances r,
which they have been placed, might o.
ell have done more, and could not have hi
'ne less, for the protection of themselves, it
er families, aud their property.