The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-27

mitted it. If Lincoln had been in the
White House no man in America would
have doubted that there would have been
an honest count of the votes actually
cast" But Grant was there, and Robson
was his trusted henchman. On the morn
ing of the 9th of November VIM. II.
Kemble known to fame as Bill
Kemble), General u. s. Grant and Don
Cameron met at Drexel's banking house.
in Third street, Philadelphia, and the tele-
gram was sent thence to Europe on that
day that Hayes's election was in doubt. and
depended on the vote of Florida and
Louisiana. Many wise men think that
the conspiracy to cheat an honest people
out of an honest count was concocted then
and there: and it was fitting thatit should
have been done at banking house, and
not 10 the nations capital, where a too
con6ding country had placed Grant, the
central figure of the banking house con-
ference. What need of the proclamation
which followed the next day. so apparently
surcharged with horror at fraud? We
we're to have a fair count of the votes
actually cast" Is there even pretense
that we got it in Louisiana or in Florida
No! No!
The conspiracy went on. VIM. Pitt
Kellogg, and Jim Casey, the presidents
brother-in-law, scarcely wait till
they are asked before their return
f ing board, by a gigantic but swift
, system of villainy, count out
5000 majority for Tilden and count 10
Hayes by satisfactory majority" The
great bill of rights complained of a great
3 standing army, and the people of Ameri.
ca are asked to writhe with grace and
/ groaD in melody when bayonet is thrust
{ into Wade Hampton's face and before
] every freeman for thinking he has been
\ elected governor of South Carolina and
for peaceably asserting his rights under
D the law.
In Florida the returning board reflects
2 the political rascality of Louisiana, and il
/ is no wonder the people cry out in theil
! anguish, us this a government of law OF
? government of men?"
The great and good Republican leader
Charles Sumner, and one of the simple
f great ones, gone forever and forever by,
f warned us of our danger four years ago il
these memorable words from his place il
the senate:
1.-THE present incumbent Grant knows
little of our form of government By
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1 represents the idea of force, Nor is h
e any exception to the rule of his profession
which appreciates only slightly govern
ment that is not arbitrary. The time fol
g the soldier is past.
: What the people ask, and upon thu
0 they insist, is that the presidential Gompli
! cations shall be settled by both houses o
! congress, without let or hindrance from
: the executive. Why this suspicion o
: danger which haunts the public min,
0 asleep or awake? Is it because there ma
: be something in the prophecy of Genera
= Frank Blair that Grant would not go on
: of the White House willingly so long a
b he lived? We do not believe in the gal
G liant Blair's prophecy; we would be sorry
4 to believe it. But we do believe that Gen
:, eral Grant, if he wants to give peace Il
the public mind, and not add to the dis
y tress which to-day paralyzes industr!
r everywhere. will shun the RobesOn's anC
o Don Camerons, and let what Lincoln
IS Concluded on next page.)