The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-12
The Aai1f AArgns.
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otism and one of treason. While such
men as Mcclellan, Hancock and Franklin
live, the lie will die. Is it too late to forget
who helped fill the ranks Of the Union
army. or who. aided to fill the exchequer !?
Our radical friends 10 their extremity for
get that such men as McCook, and Rous-
seau, and Custer, and Crook. and Mere
dith, and Ewing, and Steedman,and Blair,
and Slocum, and Granger, and McCler-
nand,. and Couch, and Averill. and Davies,
and Wilcox and Williams, and Warren
and Mott, and Runyon, and Smith, and
Crittenden, and Patrick, and Gillem, and
Bartlett and hundred other gallant lead
atty upon the banners of the republic
Cheers .-....... -.
Yet the Hon. Mr.. Burrows comes from
Michigan to tell this people that the, Re
publican party put out the fires with their
rivers Of blood! he cannot make you for,
get the vote given for Douglass and Bell
in 1850, nor that the majority OF the ma
ton voted by million against Radical rule
in that year.
SECESSION. DID NOT CONTEST HOME RULE.
I am no apologist for secession. My re-
cord is made on that. I voted and spoke
among the first to denounce it in congress
but there is one thing to be said, not in
extenuation, but as history and philosophy,
The southron sought to break the federal
bond. 1t was the Union he declared
against. It was not a disruption Of the
social or political order of his state. He
meant not to overturn property, liberty,
Jaw. The charge is that he was too de
voted to one kind of quasi property. But
The laws OF his state, the organization of
county and town, the courts and councils,
went on with the war; Marriages were
celebrated and judgments rendered; prom
.rty bought and sold. and children born
and reared, under legal sanctions; aud
| who that cares for human order against
iemoniac chaos can truly charge the fell
spirit of the communistic pretroleuse upon
an assertion of state independence and
| fresh federation No, citizens! if this
kind of wild spirit which is the fear of
| the timid and the spectre of the rich, has
| prevailed south to the detriment of indus
try aud trade. and the degradation OF peo-
| pie of all races and colors, you must look
rather to imperial causes than secession eff
forts. They are dated after Appomattox.
they are the effects produced by rump
Congresses. They spring from the ALLAN.
:e between black illiteracy and white va
abondage. They were fostered by bought
ballots, freedman S bureaus, and oyeraoWed
bacon by promises Of mules and process.
es of the military. They came from the
greed of the spoiler and the ambition OF
the ruler. They make up the gospel OF
anarchy-the volume of discomfort. They
spring from the third term, and the in
sane thunder of its one hundred guns! |,
is not by such means that Connecticut l..
been made tranquil and pros. ferrous. II
has been by opposite methods. Would
that some philosophic Buckle could pic
lure the history of your wonderful civilza
ton Would he not find it in these ele
nents of local freedom so outraged south
Why are Louisiana and South Carolina
children of the sun-fruitfui in the prodi
gality of nature. rich in soil and balmy in
Innate lying dormant and dead ? Ask
Spain why she walls and suffers. Whcr
| st. Ferdinand conquered Seville from the
Moor, and bore the conquest to heaven
he fable says that the Virgin desired hel
hampton to ask any favor for Spain
The king asked for a fine climate aud /
sweet sun. They we're given. For brave
men and beautiful women. Conceded
For oil, wine and all the fruits and good
If the teeming earth. Granted. Then,
said the king, WILT please the Beaute
> ,us Queen of heaven to grant unto Spail
good government? may, nay. Tha
can never be, for the angels would ther
desert Heaven for Spain" That angelo
advent will never happen to any stat
whose government is that of a gang o
custom house DULLES, adventurous spoiler
) and miscegenated voters, protected i
theif wrong and usurpation by the bayo
nets of the federal government Not a
The sun, sky, climate, streams, product
and men of the south can give prosperity
it good government be wanting,
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