The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON.
BY Hon. SAINT. 8. Cox ofNew York,
(Concluded.)
CONCESSION,

ed 70 them I'LL IL was forced by defeat.
After running in debt 400 millions-under
the pretext Of revenue and sovereignty
they at last are forced to renounce both.
The more they labor to collect the revenue
and assert sovereignty, the more they dig
in the quicksand. The very means to es-
tablish, undermines. One honest tribute
then to Home Rule, and the Crown might
have held her magnificent poisoning
American appendage, as she holds Aus
tralia and the Canadas Dazzled but not
enlightened with power, her ministers,
like our Radical leaders the past ten
years, strove to reconstruct on unstable
foundations with rotten rock. As Eng
land, when beaten, so our Radicals, when
beaten, become all at once concessiye
When 100000 popular majority and a
Democratic congress and twenty-five Dem
ocratic states are in array against their
policies of pride and hate, at last, like
Senator Morton and the fraternzers
on Bunker Hill, they would begin new
aeon Of patriotism, with fraternity! Well,
it is never too late to be just and gentle
But what a splendid arrangement of
Providence is it that when Bunker Hill
gathers a hundred years of patriotic mem
DRY, and from their vintages pours them
as one grand libation to liberty, Massachu-
sets is blessed with Democratic COVER
nor and no state constabulary-Boston
with Democratic mayor and a city brim-
full of the rectifed spirit of l776l All
wonder at the liberality and heartiness
which such q change betokens. Is it won
derful that Bunker Hill seems to swell
with new emotion of loving kindness, and
that her monument, rising from amidst
happy homes no longer ruled abroad, points
heavenward with the pious gesture of graf
itude and love? When Boston rings with
applause for the Southern soldier, we &C
ceptwithout question the omen as suspicious
of better day. No matter if the amnes-
ty cometh tardily. The eleventh hour
the last year of the hundreds not too
late even for dead Radical Cancellation.
Let US welcome it! Mercury made the
shell of the dead tortoise sing sweetly;
why should not the authors of the Force
bill raise Ebenezers to the amnesty of the
centennial? We have great many soft
words and loving thoughts about England
now. Let us welcome them, but let US be
warned! lest when we have trouble her af-
lection may not so readily appear. She
never was entirely just to US, without con-
sideration, True, she fought and pillaged
us with paid allies'and traitorous tories, for
seven years, and that, o,when our colon
les were infants, and that too, only for as,
serting such English rights as Magma
Charta, jury of vicinage and Home Rule
But she was compelled to yield. In 1912
she began again her contest with us on
another element. She would be exclu-
sive upon common and free sea!
When beaten she was gracious enough to
conclude peace and let us sail without her
espionage. In our civil war, if she did
not foment our divisions, she was not very
sympathetic over our union. "Ah! but
she has settled the Alabama claims, u
How did she settle them? Uunder CAPT
as al respOndendunl,f from an international
tribunal; and almost under the UiG tdcti
She gave us law suit. In it she was
nearly successful, for our success was neg
atiye in true value. How has she treated
other countries? Has not Ireland beer
ravaged since the time of Henry II? Ha!
she shown any regard for Home Rule il
Ireland recently? Tipperrary sent Johl
Mitchell to her Parliament. What grace
and comfort gave she to that bereaved anC
plucky county2 What solace for the pa
triot dying for Home Rule? Twice sh
spurned the elect of the people! How
does she treat India? Four hundred
millions ruled, but not at home India i
now seeking representation in Parliament
and by some assimilation to our own fed
eral system, India might reach a tolerabl
condition Of content Will England al
loWit?
REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE.
The birth of our nationality illustrates
more than the history of any other nation
generous gain to human nature and tn
common veal. That gain first came to u
through the vices of exclusive courts an
the arrogance of legislative power; bu
every count in the indictment against Eng
independence, but it aroused the people Q
Europe. We have lately copied many G
the features of the elder systems of Eul
opean finance. Let us be warned The
made government expensive. Minister
and courtiers devised taxes SO heavy as t
outweigh the public good, and as a con
sequence the comforts and wages of tn
people were diminished or extinguisheC
Contributions from hard earnings wer
forced to support pIoflgate and hig
salaried officials. Sinecures were common
Said Gibbon: Men must have publ
minds as well as salaries or else they wi
serve themselves at the public cost
Europe learned this to her cost. she wa
driven by famine into revolt. Hence tn
French revolution and the shaking Of tn
very pillars OF society. Kings and ruler
who knew not the grippe of poverty, VIII
cared not for the homes of the poor, VIII
knew no honest rule for the homes @
others-servants Of the people intent onl
on their own thrift-were righteously tum
bled about Europe by the Mirabeaus
Robespieries, Bonapartes and others, lik
toys by mad and hayward child Tn
shaking was healthy. For the rule sci
tied nearer home, and now Franco is Re
public on the Lafayette plan.
GRANTS HOME RULE SOUTH.
H. Wherein has the present executiv
copied the conduct of George Ill
Wherein has he violated the genius an
form of local liberty? Despotisms hav
two modes of attack; by coup de main an
by sapping: The coup de main We hav
had in Louisiana. 1t is the plan of Caesar
The sapping is in the profigacy which like
C@saric disdem; not for its intrinsic beat
ty and the welfare its power may bestov
but for the pageantry and display its Pre-
fusion OF wealth may give. That rul
which reaps undeserved and inordinat
emoluments naturally seeks to perpetual
itself 1t is second or third term tina
satisfies it. 1t cries Give give and know
no Limitation on its suction. it gives u
voluntarily, no pretension. 1t is stanC
ing assertion of proprietorship in Offices
1t declines only unless circumstance
make it an imperative duty to accept"
AL great civil conflicts have resulte
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