The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-16
Saturday, November Is. 1873.
The Last Feather.

1t is the last feather which breaks the
cameps back. The kind and gentle
hearted Mr.. Hayes. who by the grace of
fraud and the forbearance of the people,
holds the Office of President of the United
States and enjoys its salary and perqui-
sites, and who has been credited with a
policy termed Cancellation Of the South,
is reported as gradually loosing his amiable
docility and showing symptoms OF DOMINIC
the party war paint. These symptoms
have been carefully observed BY the rad
ical leaders, chief among whom old Zach
Chandler and Don Cameron have laid
aside for the nonce their contempt Of Mr..
Hayes gentleness and docility and have
visited the White House with intent to
encourage the executives kinding wrath.
A solid South is the phantom
which awakens His Excellency's
alarming fears and against which
he proposes to direct the terrible engines
of the attorney generals Office and to en-
force submission to the party's behests.
When those two illustrious patriots and
Incorruptible statesmen, j. Madison Wells
and Thos. E. Anderson, whom he had APP
pointed to lucrative offices as a reward
for their honesty and integrity and their
supreme devotion to his excellency's des-
perate fortunes in the hour of need were
beaten at the polls by an overwhelming
majority of votes at the hands of their fel.
low citizens, the equanimity of their Noble
Patron was!sorely tried and his faith in
human nature at the south rapidly de-
clined. Surely if the maRnanimity of the
presidential heart could cover with the
broad mantle of charity the short
comings of this brace of knaves and see
such sterling qualities of personal worth
and exalted virtues as wholly over
Swallowed their lesser qualities o.
perjury and scoundrelism, then the
people should forget and forgive the
wrongs and injuries done out of reverence
to the presidents Doble policy Of conciia
ton and peace. The president,so far as il
him lies, has condoned their crimes, anC
future ages will be lost in wonder and as
constituent that the stupid people did no
endorse the conformation. The presiden
and his honest tribe of louisiana knave
have lived too soon; the presidents lOvinl
kindness is lost, in that having loved thes
honorable gentlemen Overmuch his grea
and loving kindness has not commende,
itself to the approval Of those who sufere
by their monstrous wrongs; the two heav
Williams are none the less despised by hor
est men because they have made vic
seem the better part and have sold tn
rights of the nation for executive favors
and the age has not yet come when vic
and virtue are synonymous in honest pee
pies estimation,
The presidents dream has sadly var
ished. He dreamed of the past and of tn
glories Of whiggery. He dreamed that tn
colored men would rise up full-fedge
and intelligent wings; his vision shove
him long array of white men resurrecte
from the past aud marshaled anew as OLD
line wings; he saw the immaculate an
virtuous carpet baggers teaching the Pc
pie the ways Of whiggery more perfect.
Yea, and above all, he beheld the immol
tai heroes Of returning board frauds, tt
the apostles of New Reformation, leadir
the host his Cancellation" had called in
service onward to victory and renown.
was only q dream. The colored race ha'
discovered they do not belong body al
soul to the republican party-they oy
themselves and their votes, and refuse
do the bidding of their selfappoint
masters. The old wings have failed
hear the resurrection horn though blow
by Hayes with fearful fourishes; the ca
pet baggers have fed from the wrath
come; and the people of the south ha
vindicated their manhood in scornirg Il
services and leadership of such ignot
frauds as ]. Madison Wells and ThOs,
Anderson.
Perhaps after all ut was not all
dream"