The Rock Island Argus

A democrat that is too good a democrat to cast a vote for the defeat of the republican party is too good to wear the robe of democracy, and should at once dress up in a bloody shirt and shake himself.—Pike Co. Democrat.

[From the Fulton Telegraph]

The Globe Democrat, the Republican organ of Missouri, is in the habit of slandering the people of every Democratic state in the West, and especially the people of Missouri. That paper recently said:

"Missouri is thrown away back in the progress of things, and her case socially seems almost hopeless in some parts. St. Louis is about the whole of the state; our Missouri population is to a considerable extent emigrating into Kansas and further West. In return we are getting no emigration that is worth anything. Violence, lynch law and outlawry have blasphemed some of the finest land in the world, Kansas is filling up with a magnificent population, and to the hopeful minds of men is what Missouri ought to be—it is the new Missouri."

Not satisfied with slandering Missouri, the Globe-Democrat says the rascally population originally "came from Kentucky and Virginia. Where disorder is so much ingrained it is very hard to tell when there will be an enlightenment. It will be many years before Missouri comes up to the security and character of Illinois."

Yes, the notorious Rande and hundreds of other cases that we might name of a similar character in that state is the character of security that Illinois affords. The Nathan murder, the stealing of the corpse of A. T. Stewart, the Beecher-Tilden affair, the Sprague-Conkling affair, the Hull-Cox murder, the Kalloch-De Young affair, the assassination of President Lincoln, the hanging of Mrs. Surratt, the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward, the inauguration of a fraudulent president, the Pittsburg riot—the war of the Orangemen in New York, and thousands other of such cases that have "blasphemed some of the finest land in the world," and all done in the loyal North. Now tell emigrants where life and character are safest—North or South.

If it is repudiation that has retarded the progress of Missouri, both Kansas and Illinois should have been not only ruined, but utterly wiped out from the face of the world. Kansas has already repudiated $5,547,000. Sixteen different counties and nine towns or cities in this great model of a Republican state have refused to pay the interest on their debt, which aggregates the sum of $5,547,000.

Seventeen counties and five cities and towns in the great state of Illinois have refused, and still refuse, to pay interest on their debt, aggregating $8,517,000.

Here is a total of $14,000,000 repudiated in two Republican states.