The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
OH Bully Argns.
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Some one-an Irishman, [ think, by the
bull-has said of horses. that some are en-
dowed with inexhaustible courage and will
struggle on long after they are completely
beaten, while others who cannot win easily
are disheartened and reuounce the strug
gle before it is begun. Our opponents are
in neither category. Trust no future, IN
less your old Democratic courage is in it.
Trust no Radical defeat of last year to dis
hearten them from another struggle. Hail
and hurrah, for the homestretch for Home
Rulel The radical party has written its
wrongs in brass. The blind can feel them.
The ruined states south show its excuses.
Barely escaping at last from Force bill
that would have riven their last YES
tige Of free rule from their homes,
they are still not altogether free. If Leg
islatures can be dethroned by the sword
at the order Of an unimpeached President
and Cabinet; if ballots can be manipulated
by rapacious adventures: if white perjury
can be added to black fraud and go un-
whipt, if rs MIR. B. H. Hill said,
"a sovereign state can be sentenced
to the chain gang by a Washington
telegram" then let us whisper with
bated breath the great Declaration! Let
the centennial year be palled in black! 1t
will be no year of jubilee to the enfran-
chised south, or for the burdened north.
1t is maxim of Democratic faith to care
for the weak, without injustice to any. All
the struggles upon our star against depotic
rule have turned to the masses of men
and their general good, as the best object
of human government. 1t is said that a
mans house is his castle, and that power
should not overstep it. 1t is written that
jury of the neighborhood shall try iber-
ty, reputation and property and life. All
wise codes resent the seizure of books,
papers and persons without warrant.
Magma charta protected alike the tools of
the artisan from seizure and the hands
that used them from manacles. Conscen-
ce has its own altar 10 home and church,
without political let or hinderance Rep
resentatives should be chosen by small
districts, without force or fraud No sol
diers should be quartered on unwilling
homes. The civil should be above the
military. All these muniments and means
of freedom and the divisions and diffusion of
power are the bristling battlements, built
with the ages around the home. They
make up the sum OF its rule; they make
the hut of the poor the equal of the palace
Of the rich.
THE ETERNAL PLAN.
They are on the eternal plan. They fine
their type in his rule, who humbletl
himself to behold the things that are il
heaven and in the earth, who raised up tht
poor out of the dung-hill that he may 81
with princes, even the princes of the
people The voice of this rule is the voic'
: ofthe higher law. Its harmonyls that of tn
universe, the least and thegreatest alike tn
object OF it's care. Its home is in the bosom
of God. This is the voice higher than tina
of king and presidents, whose fiat ,throug
: Home Rule overturns the revenue bills 0
! the naughty Parliament and tie Force bill
of the crafty Congress; and which, a
the cycles roll round with their centennial
. and millennials, expresses the best teachin
of Democracy, and brings out of confusion
and misgovernment that homely order an
discipline which is the best type {
human government and the sweetest solac
for the MOL aud toll of our lives! This
}, that voice of the people not irrevcrentl
If called the voice of God. Through sacrifice
these voices twain speak to US in our dali
J. experiences and even in our vague intim;
tions of better world and its immort
- hopes, The soul that rises with US, OF
- life's star, hath elsewhere had its settin
/ and cometh from afar. But it is fro
| afar, only to teach duty to our homes c
earth; and when we shall see the last
earth. and pass beyond the trailing clouC
! of glory to God, who is our home, M
in we be better fitted for the observance
ID ID heavenly rule where the service is its oN
il exceeding great reward.