The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-01

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ederates of Tennessee toward Union Dem
,crats like himself. He also relied lasge.l
" upon the influence which his friends in +
the Democratic party Of the north could
exert in his behalf. But
HIS MAIN RELIANCE
vas in the behavior of the Grant admins
tration towards the south. He said that
he 'knew Grant better than did the
the young men to whom he was talking on
this occasion, The October elections, he
said, had made Grant mad and as conse-
quence he had told Williams to put more
steam on the outrage miH. The Novem-
Der elections would make Grant nader
yet and then he would begins to squeeze
the south worse than ever he had done
before. This would make the confederate
element realize that they needed all the
help they could get and would make them
willing TO court alliances which under 9th
er circumstances they might repel. 10
short, Mr.. Johnsons main r lance in the
emergency which confronted him was the
brutality and stupidity of Grant" in
which he expressed his
MOST SERENE AND ENTIRE CONFIDENCE.
The event proved his sagacity. De
Trobriand, when he expelled the FIVE
Conservatives from the Louisiana legisla-
ture at the point of the bayonet, elected
Andrew johnson in Tennessee. That
act showed the confederates how utterly
incapable they were of working out their
own salvation unaided. 1t impelled them
to heed the counscls of the Northern
Democracy. 1t constrained them to
strike hands with the Union Democrats
in their midst. And it taughht them the
folly of keeping up the confederate war
cries which had been loudly sounded in
the compalgn just before by Gov. Potter
and his friends. This accession to his
chances was not lost sight of by Mr.. John
son, and he made all due haste to define
himself with respect to the issue sprung
by the president. His twenty eight orig
inal supporters of course stood firm. The
thirteen who leaned towards him as q
second choice began to lean still farther II
his direction. @ So
al AND GOV. BROWN,
Whose whole course for the last four years
has been marked by consummate tact and
craftsmanship, prepared to accept thu
inevitable with the best possible grace
|, There is now no doubt in the minds Of tn
!, well. informed that Gov. Brown saw tn,
. fatality Of electing confederate as a con
. federate, immediately the President opene,
|. his guns on Louisiana, and that while h
j was willing to test his own strength in
y fair field against Mr.. Johnson for fe,
n ballots, he was yet secretly determined
% do all in his power to elect him, Tina
/ this behavior will result in the election c
% Gov. Brown two years hence to succee
= Cooper is almost a foregone conclusion
" provided our form of government is not S
changed before that time as to make elet
re tiUns obsolete in Southern states. 1t ma
l. not be amiss to state here that Mr. Johl
"a sons position upon
THE QUESTION OF FINANCE
10 Is Objectionable But the weightier que
d. tons which Grant has forced upon tt
e. country so far overshadow that issue th'
o. it don't make any difference what kind
VI money man believes in or what he pr
10 poses to do with the national debt, until
Is is decided whether the money is to be Gu
r. rent in Republic or in an empire, al
ne whether the debt is to be owed by natl,
Az of sovereign people or by community
,ht subjects. Upon this al! absorbing que
tIOtl anu upon the cOIlatGTal QUESTION
VI personal honesty in the discharge of pub
III duties, MIR. johnson is as square as q
ms us Masonic emblem and as perpendicular
''- a plumb-lne. His election has alrea
mad the effect
TO OBLITERATE ALMOST UTTERLY
Vi The differences between the confedera
Ct and the Union wings cf the Tenness
7n' Democracy. And though the handful
my Republicans in the legislature voted
ne him to a man. the result of their votes
10 been to wipe out the last vestiges of
ng + minlsti ationism in Tennessee. A nor
- ago the ultra confederates were demo,
icll cling the obnoxious Andrew johnson
MS a week ago it was the irrepressible \
ay, johnson" Day before yesterday i: v
,ou our interchangeable ex president A
vas to- day it is our distinguished citizen Il
'ln' senator elect Hurrah for A. j. y,
' nn week Tennessee will bring him out as /
Gu candidate for the Democratic pre- sider
-, nomination in 1876,