The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-31
Wants the War Kept Up.

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hate of sections. IF the northern heart
can be kept full of anger and prejudice
against the people of the south, attention
will be withdrawn from the enormous
wickedness of Republican rule, and people
will keep on voting the Republican ticket.
They will forget the gigantic frauds contin-
ually practiced upon their revenues, and
continue to pay oppressive taxes in a
thousand forms, for the benefit of Republi-
can ring thieves. And IN order to keep
up this feeling Republican newspapers and
Republican orators bewail the growing
feeling Of friendship between the north and
the south. Here is sample of it, from
the Rock Island Union of Sunday morn
ing. Speaking of the failure in the decor
alton ceremonies in Moline, on Saturday,
that paper says:
1T is not SO many years ago that the
feeling given expression to on this day
was living, sentient part of every true
Americans being, claiming a higher place
than love of mother, wife or child; stimu-
lating the most noble self-sacrifce. the
most heroic deeds. Now it has faded from
the heart-has gone out OF fashion. 1t
does very we'll for holiday use. 1t serves
for the foundation of an ad 1ress, poem
and a song. but there is nothing real about
: it. The new fashion is to forget the days
of internicine strife, forgive the men who
caused the bloodshed and award as much
praise and honor to those who died with
1 arms uplifted against their country as to
!, those who fell in their country's defense:
j. False sentiment has usurped the place OF
: the true and reconciliation is courted at
y the cost of patriotic duty and gratitude.
J. Time has softened the Nervousness OF the
CRIME, and though the nation yet bends
under the burden placed upon it,traternlty
O to living rebels has taken the place OF fra
= ternity to dead patriots, The north is de-
voting Itself to healing the wounds OF the
, war, and is slowly dissipating the cloud Of
sullenness which covered the south.
Why has Decoration Day faded ?
Why has lit gone out of fashion,? Be
;. cause it is run in the interests of party
y The G. A. r. run it.-and the G. A. K. i
run by Burnside. Logan, & Co. in the in
terests of the Republican party.
=" TIE Union says: False sentiment ha
usurped the place of the true and reconcil
iation is courted at the cost of patriotic du
ty and gratitude" Is it false sentimen
to urge that our people, north and south
- shall he reconciled and become friends
" We were all pledged to that, during tn
~ war. Over and over again Mr., Lincol
and the leaders of his party asserted, dul
ing the entire war, that all we were fgh
ct ing for was obedience to law; that as 500
IL. as the southern people would lay dow
to their arms and submit to the Law
es of the United States, they shou
d. have all their rights restored, Now, aft'
n ten years of robbery and persecution
on the people of the south, the Union say
n. False sentiment has usurped the place
'ct the true and reconciliation is courted
t? the cost of patriotic duty" The tnat
tie wants no peace, no reconciliation.
ed Equally absurd is its gable about "p
RS triotic duty" In what does PATRIOTS
ut consist? In love Of ones own count
mt and it's institutions. The Rebels
Its l776 never exhibited greater 10
for their homes and Of hon
rule than those who fought for home ru
i ho and home rights in the south during t
late war. They had just as good right
fight for home rule and home rights as h
the rebels of l776,-the right OF revolutic
ar And they exhibited the very highest ty
NE of patriotism in the fight they made.
'er was our right and duty to resist their
forts to establish new government. '
- had the most men and means and the
s. fore we succeeded. But as to patriotism
X we have no more to brag about than the
We won. They submitted to the pow
8 of numbers. Are we never to have peac
3 1t is the duty Of the yictors to be magma
nous. We did not fight to make serfs
4 portion of our countrymen. We prom
: ed them peace aud reconciliation of tn
: would submit. Ten years hayc pass
= since they laid down their arms a
it ~ submitted. How have they be
. 10 treated? They have been den
,o t equality, denied the right to choose tn
1aa own officers or make their own local LAY
they have been compelled to submit to-
fal- rule of lot of carpet baggers and thiev
RI and have been robbed daily for ten yea
70 Is it never to end? Not il such papers
j. o. the Union are needed.
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