The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-12
The laitg AArgas.
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otism and one of treason While such
men as Mcclellan. Hancock and Franklin
live, the lie sill die. Is it too late to forget
who helped fill the ranks Of the Union
army, or who aided to fill the exchequer :?
Our radical friends 10 their extremity for
get that such men as McCook, and Rous-
seau, and Custer, and Crook, and Mere
9th, and Ewing, and Steedman,and Blair,
and Slocum, and Granger, and McCier-
nand,. and Couch, and Averill. and Davies,
and Wilcox, and Williams, and Warren
and Mott, and Runyon, and Smith, and
Crittenden, and Patrick, and Gillem, and
Bartlett. and hundred other gallant lead
ers of gallant men, have written their 10y
atty upon the banners of the republic
Cheers -.---....1..- -.
Yet the Hon. Mr.. Burrows comes from
Michigan to tell this people that the, Re
publican party put out the fires with their
rivers Of blood! He cannot make you for
get the vote given for Douglass and Bell
in 1860, nor that the majority of the ma.
ton voted by million against Radical rule
in that year.
SECESSION. DID NOT CONTEST HOME RULE.
l am no apologist for secession. My re-
cord is made on that. l voted and spoke
among the first to denounce it in congress
but there is one thing to be said, not in
extenuation, but as history and philosophy,
The southron sought to break the federal
against. It was not disruption Of the
social or political order of his state. He
meant not to overturn property, liberty,
law. The charge is that he was too de
voted to one kind Of quasi property. But
the laws of his state, the organization of
county and town, the courts and councils,
went on with the war. Marriages were
celebrated and judgments rendered prom.
.rty bought and sold. and children born
and reared, under legal sanctions; aud
who that cares for human order against
iemonlac chaos can truly charge the fell
spirit of the communistic pretroleuse upon
an assertion of state independence and
fresh federation? No, citizens! if this
kind Of wild spirit which is the fear of
the timid and the spectre of the rich, has
prevailed south to the detriment of indus
try aud trade. and the degradation of peo-
pie of all races and colors. you must look
rather to imperial causes than secession eff
forts. They are dated after Appomattox.
they are the effects produced by rump
Congresses. They spring from the ALLAN.
;e between black illiteracy and white vas-
abondage. They were fostered by bought
oailots, freedman bureaus, and overfowed
bacon; by promises Of mules and process
es of the military. They came from the
greed of the speiler and the ambition of
the ruler. They make up the gospel of
anarchy-the volume of discomfort. They
spring from the third term, and the in
sane thunder of its one hundred guns 1t
is not by such means that Connecticut has
been made tranquil and pros, ,erous. It
has been by opposite methods Would
that some philosophic Buckle could pic.
lure the history of your wonderful civiliza.
ton! Would he not find it in these ele-
nents of local freedom so outraged south
Why are Louisiana and South Carolina
children of the sun-fruitful in the prodi-
gality of nature. rich in soil and balmy in
Innate. lying dormant and dead? Ask
Spain why she walls and suffers When
| St. Ferdinand conquered Seville from the
floor, and bore the conquest to heaven,
| he fable says that the Virgin desired her
hampton to ask any favor for Spain,
| The king asked tor fine climate aud a
sweet sun. They were given. For brave
men and beautiful women. Conceded
For oil, wine and all the fruits and goods
If the teeming earth. Granted. Then, "
said the king, WILT please the Beaute
'us Queen of heaven to grant unto Spain
4 good government may, nay. Tha,
can never DC. for the angels would ther
desert Heaven for Spain' That angelic
advent will never happen to any state
whose government is that of a gang O.
custom house DULLES, adventurous spoiler!
and miscegenated voters, protected il
their wrong and usurpatiou by the bayo
nets of the federal government. Not al
The sun, sky, climate, streams, products
and men of the south can give prosperity
it good government be wanting,
| ITO he contipueG1