The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-21
How the South Looks at It.

From an editorial in regard to Jefferson
Davis and the Winnebago disturbers of
public peace, 10 the Constitution, of
Atlanta, Ca, and commenting upon the
harsh epithets of the Inter Ocean, we clip
the following:
Because we have submitted in pain and
in patience to the disgrace heaped upon
us, as fallen toes, by an ungenerOus and
almost unchristian conquerer, we are taunt-
ed with vile names and cowardly epithets
when we ask for the rights of common
manhood We answer the demand for
reconciliation" by being recOncied and
profferng frank, open hands which were
brave brave ones in the fight and are true
ones in the peace-making, but we find the
invitation to peace Is trick and the clasp
of the hand is met by the crushing vice
like grip of the mailed. hand of tyranny
What homily do these every day expert :
ences present upon the confident readiness
of our people to do all that men may
honorably do to heal the wounds of the
past, and the savage cruelty of our late
enemies who call us near with hOneyed
words that they may once again thrust
their hands in and tear afresh our rended
sides! Let US have peace" is the decep-
tive whine of the human wildcat and Let
US be reconciled" the ironical rendering
of a new tdissez alter against the fame and
the honesty of struggling and submissive
people!
The invitation to Mr., Davis gives US all
these facts in their highest color. That
invitation is termed "a gross insult to every
decent man, woman and child in the state,
but that is matter of opinion, and for
both silly and insane opinions the Inter-
Ocean is peculiar. 1t is urged that Mr.
Davis will go TO his appointment at the
sufferance of the hangmaD," but the Inter
Ocean forgets that this sufferance is now
the monument ofevidence of Radical hate
and barbarism, aud that the ultimate re-
suit was not visited upon Jefferson Davis
because the civilized world would have
shamed forever after the American name
for the inhulnan and unjusti6ed Sacrifice
Mr.. Davis is brought into parallel witt
Tweed and pronounced the greater crimi
nal, but this will not change MI. Davis
place in the history of the American PEG
pie, we imagine The scribbler of thu
Inter Ocean has not yet been selected as
their historiographer, to our knowledge
Mr.. Davis is charged with ingratitude fol
the education given him at West Point
but we imagine that the south paid tUl
that education and we're entitled to its re
suits, for she paid sixty millions of dollars
more than did the north to support thu
governmental which the military academy
is dependence.
The Inter Ocean does mot know as t,
the result OF this performance" and say
III he persists III coming, let the ominou
silence Of the people tell him why he i
liberated" That Is not the treatmen
that Horace Greeley received when h.
went TO Texas. or that Banks experienced
in Tennessee Ii such II receipt n wer
given to Il northern man in the south
under Ike circumstances as Will attent
Nh. Davis ut Rockford, what howl wou
re,uuDd through the North! We should b.
again flooded over with the vile charges &
the past
But such is not the character Cf tn
south. We treat our guest as a gentle
man, with hospitality and the deferenc
due his fame aud worth. We do not incit
the scum to boot at and assassinate him
We do not condemn him in advance of hi
coming, and put the warrant for his exc
cutlon into the hands of the vile bigot
who attach to all decent communities! w
do not preach peace, demand the sacrifc
of sentiments and proffer reconciliation
and then practice thugging, incendiarisl
and highway murder upon those who pu
faith in our words and professions An
we will be sadly mistaken if the people {
Winnebago will follow the urgings Of tn
LITTER Ocean to do these scoundrelisms i