The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-09-28

uOtn, anu lis stripes tue ctUUteNC ~ IcSI-
wing servitude-catch the approving gales
of your appreciation, to sustain its dropping
folds? Will you send supporting hands to
brace its leaning staff? do yourselves no
such wrong. Enter nj the portal Of your
own Senate Chamber the earnest and in
dignant protest Of men who love govern
ment for its protection, and not for its plum
der; who sustain its institutions for tho
benefits they confer upon the people, and
not Tor the pelf Of official station; who give
to it obedience aud conformity, and ask
from it mmunilies and rights; Withholding
nothing Of respect TO it, just mandntes, bu,
nbn,ing never jot or title Of these indie.
feasible reservations, without which, an
elective government lives but in the
name.
But leaving tho pnsi, let us look to tic
future. On the seventh day ot November
next you IRE to make choice Of, from three
candidates now fully before tho country. n
President Of the United States. TO which
YOUR preference shall be given should be
the subject OF your candid and careful
thought. Let us examine the representa-
tives Of these distnc, and conflicting prin
cipIcs. First ia the order Of repusion to
the cardinal doctrines and policy Of your
party is Lewis Cass, the nominee of the
Baltimore Convention. A veteran place
man Of nearly forty years standing--a re-
cipicnt pfover sixty thousand dollars from
your treasury in extra charges, over and
above an ample saIary--a bold and success
ful gambler for the post he now occupies,
you are asked and entrcatcd TO confirm the
action ola packed Convention, md ratify
to him by your suffrage, the gift Of power
Whit arc his claims? We answer not one.
An ar'iihesis in politics, Al once the zenith
and nndir Of our political systematic Inns
but single governing and guiding scnti-
ment, and tina, is the appetite for power.--
The defender Of our lamented Harrison
while living. mud his dcinmcr. when dcnd
the pnnegyrist Of Louis Philippe in power.
and his reviIer in adversely; tho advocate
Of tho Wi'mot Proviso when introduced,
and its enemy when opposition could bribs
southern support; voting for River and
lIarhor improvements, nnd sustaining the
President who vetoed them; the ndvocnte
Of territorial extension by conquest; the
leader Of the war party in the SENATE; the
unhesitaiing defender Of every net Of di-
picity and usurpaiion committed in the
cabinet or legislature. and pledged to it,
"plniform" ii elected: his success would
be but n further impulse on the descending
grade Of national degradation aud dcbase-
mcnf
Scarcely less obnoxious to you il Martin
Van Barcn, the candidate Of n now organi.
zalion based upon geographical limits
The champion of Stree soil, free speech
free labor aud irc men," Brave words
soul stirring issues! Aud yet the cxpo-
nent Of these life giving watchwords is the
.'northern man with southern principles
Of 81 and 40; the father of tho sub-trcasu-
ry; the ..inilexiblc and uuconpro,nirinc OPP
poncnt "f any attempt on the part Of Con-
gress to abolish slavery 10 the District oi
Columbia the founder and leader of this
same loco loco party against which we have
warrcd for years in oil its forms oi political
enormit; the President Of an ndninistra.
ton whose annals nre black with the rec
ords Of pccnlaiion and mallcasance
ded with the details Of delalcniion and en-.
bczzlement. But more antagonisticnl than
this To his prcscn: position, il his whole
course upon the question, upon which tho
rally for him is made. As Vice President
Of the United States, he gave his casting
vote for bill, more IRRESPONSIBLE ~ free dis
c,isson and free thought, than any that
ever received the sanction Of that nugusi
body--n bill giving TO every petty official
Of the Post Office department the functions
Of judicial station, to examine, canvass
and decide upon the character Of matter
transmitted. and il inccndiayy, 10 suppress
and retain in his own custody that, which
By the spiri, mud meaning Of the Inv crca.
ting his existence, he was only TO transmit
or deliver. Aud again, MS President in
80, when fifty three Africans, captured in
the Spanish schooner Armistad, by one ol
our National vessels, were demanded BY
their Spanish owners, M murdcrers, he
sought to interfere with the action If the
highest tribunal Of the land; and sent an
armed vessel TO transport them, for trial
beyond the reas. They were not slaves
either by the laws Of Spain, the laws d
our own country, nor by existing treaties
between the two powers. They had com
mitted no crime. known IN fl,e iurisdicfion
in which they were claimed. They had
shed no blood except for rights common n
the whole human rncc. But. with full
knowledge Of all this, he attempted TO with.
draw from them tho protection of '.free
~ol''-strovc 10 deprive them Of the shield
&c nlr free constitution, and 10 deliver them
up to their Spanish task-mastcrs, rs male
factors, for performing those same nets, for
which our own ancestors will live in the