The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-10-21
LOCOFOCOISM-ITS PRACTICAL Re-
SHIFTS

La the predatory remarks 81 an afucss
thus entitled, descriptive OF the mooocra'le
interruptions Of Whig meeting held ~
This place. we made few statements
, which from their startling character o.
their rrefutable nature, have brought aoWf
apop Us the full force Of the Locoiocopres.
in this region.
We assumed the position TINT the ten.
dency Of the principles Of the Loeooco far
,lty was 10 render men corrupt and immoral
Trusting that n eoodly number OF our read
i ers are Democrats who are now acting viii
1.-The Lqcofoeo party, and who have no.
made themselves sufficiently acquainted
with the marked difference of the principles
land their tendency, Of the two parties, we
sit down 10 have few minutes converse
lion with them upon the subject
We have few mediums OF ascertalnlna
the practical result OF I.ocofoeo principles
when in free ascendancy, but from the IN
stances presented we learn that their ten
dencv is to the abridgment OF liberty Of
j though, and action.
! The States .f Virginia and New lamp
:. shife have been longest and most complete
lis under the control of the Locoteeo party
nd therefore furnish the trnest result Of
lie consequence of the Supremacy q inc
principles ol that part. IN iha afie siale
We siad that wha, i termed the property
qualification IS, or has been. in force. a
law reqnilag a man 70 possess 4 certain
amouni OF property in order 10 tie entitled
TO the right OF suffrage. In Tho other, where
Locofocoism feigns nndisPaled, we find noi
only this law in force, but another still
more intoerant, which prohibits members
If certain church from holding Office
We have never introduced this question IL
its theological aspect, but we are no. So
bigoted as TO wish to deny any American
citizen this right because his religious
views do not harmonic with our own. II
involves wrong and as such we oppose II
| South Carolina is the hot.bed of those
Itrai;orous sentiments which Involve a dis
solution OF our Uaion--she Is largely L..
coioco But we will not multiply examples
/ of this kind, but speak more particularly q
The corrupt tendency Of Locofoeo principles
| We would not assert that dishones, nnd
corrupt men are confined to the Loedluce
party, but We do say that The mass Of them
are there found, and il the tendency q
their principles, il not to make such men.
L cannot be delicd that il attracts them
Why this is so we leave others 10 iaYesti
gate aud content ourseIf simply with III,
Itaet.
Horace Greeley says, md i has stood
"a record . long time and no one has at
tempted its rolulation. because il is unde
uiable, that .'point wherever you please t
an election district which you will pro-
nounce morally rotten--given UP in ereai
part To dehauchery aud vice ~ hose voters
-ubsst mainly By keeping policy -oiiises
Iambliag houses, grog-shops, and darker
lens Of infamy- that district will be
found at nearl} or quite every election Civ
ing large majority for that which SIS les
Itself the Democratic party. Take all
I
the haunts Of debauchery in the land, and
you viii find nine -;euths Of their master
spirits active partizsns OF that same De
macracy.' What is the Instinct. the sym
pathetic chord, which attaches them so un
rmiy 10 this party9 VIII you cousider2'
We instance the Five Points" and The
8 Hook" OF New York, the "Texas" of Gin
\ cnnati and The rotten suburbs and filth,
deus Of ST. Louis, Natchez, New Orleans
and all those portions Of the prominent Gil
les of the Union where vice most does con
gregate.
Drunkenness is not all confined to th
t.ocoiuco party, as prominent and uprigh
member of the Democratic party in TN
city was heard to assert. but in nine case
sui Of ten you viii find drunken men ih
noisy advocates OF Locoforoism. Go int
sur cities and canvass the ignorant and un
/ informed, ne well as The degraded, and tei
ps, are not the great mass members Of ID
Locofoco pariyo Why is it, can you an
swer? Why. on the CONTRARY do you fin
hist tho great body Of The merchants. me
1 chanics, manufacturers, the reading an
!. thinking portion Of community, are Wings
Go to our educational Institutions, our col
eges, our benevolent establishments, wheI
ever there is found concentration Of ia
teligence or morality, snd you will Their,
! invariably find large preponderanco G
Wings. Are not with an occasional eA
!, cepiion, and we have yet to meet with III
first one--are no, all the preachers Of III
Gospel in sentiment Wings? WHY is this
Who are the great advocates Of Temper
ance principles 10 our Union? The Wing,
Why, let Us inquire, do three iourlhs Of th
Young men raised in this country vote tn