The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-10-07
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THE lOCOFOcO RIOT.

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Mn, Ep1roR: - notice ia The Banner d
Today, column or Two devoted 10 review
4 your article Of yesterday 10 relation I
The Wing meeting lately held =, the Coar
House.
Were il no, that the signature Of citi
zen Of Ddreaport, invests the filthy etfu
sion with on importance that would per
haps cntiile il to some degree Of credit, il
tho minds Of those who were no, presen
II the meeting, should be perfectly con
tent to pass il by as the idle wind.
Blu, no, only your own character for We
racity Mr.. Editor, and the credit and honor
Of the Wing party, and its jealous defender
on The aforesaid night are called in qaes
lion, but the credit Of the whole city is in
yolved. Her character publicly slandered
and her citizens held up to the gaze Of the
stranger as the aidsrs and abettors OF .
mob Of trucking panderers to the behests
Of braaling demagogee.
But as | said before, with this have
noihiug to do, but claiming TO be one OF the
law and order-loving citizens Of Davenport ;
having at heart her welfare, both political
~ and socially, am ever ready TO sta md
up for her character, either at home or
abroad.
That the citizens Of Davenport are i
peace-lovine, law-abiding people. no one
has shadow Of doubt. But the finest gold
10 no, without ALLOW. And that there i
ies,ering beneath this glittering surface
an under current Of the silest cor
ruption in the shape Of hangers-on TO the
poIiiica. skirts OF certain demagogaes, To-
do their dirty work, and ready al any mo-
men, 10 break forth al the bidding of their
petty lords, TO blacken her fair fame with
deeds worthy OF the bloody killers Of phiia
de!phia-must since the occurrences OF the
evening Of the 22d inst, be equally plain
to every person Of common sense. And
that a person protesting 10 endorse the
proceedings of this mob Of sycophanis in
their attempts TO siihe The voice oil truth,
and trample under foot the sacred preroga
tive of the liberty of speech, should dare t.
sign himself by the euphonious title OF a
citizen of Davenport, and then fling forth
T 10 the world his Infamous mass Of vitaper
s,ion and abnse,-and that too through the
columns of a journal protesting TO sustain
the banner Of Democracy 10 our Common
wealth! Thus giving the public to under
stand that the citizens OF Davenport upheld
these adv Gates oil modern Jacobinism in
their rietous attempts at the peryersion o.
| law, and common decenev, is loo gross 81
Insult to the character and standing Of our
people. Too glaring misrepresentation
e their sense Of justice and principle, 10
be passed over in silence. And if there is
still left an American heart, to swell the
bosom of an American citizen in this town,
it must leap with Indignation when be
reads tina, scandalous libel on the charac
Ter Of patriotic American citizeos.
! have lately been 10 the east, and
know tina, the city Of Davenport occupies q
prominent position ia the eyes of business
men and capitalists there. Her faclilie.
ior trade, for railroad transportation, for
bridging The Mississippi, The beauty Of her
situation, &c, arc looked upon there, as
being unequalled by any point north Of 81
Louis. Aud all concur 10 the opinion that
she mus, at no distant day become the
Queen City Of the great Northwest.
would not therefore have her bright pros
poets darkcned b. character Of vice am
anarchy which must naturally attach itsel
to her name, from such publication as lht
one now under consideration
TIC correct the erroneous impression thai
may have gotten abroad in regard to it,
will say 10 the stranger who may read ihi,
communication that The sentiments con
tanned in the statements of the Banner,
correspondent, are not endorsed by ihs
citizens Of Davenport, but were made sim
ply for the purpose Of pandering 10 the ap
pe,ites Of a vile NIB, who are not realI'
citizens of this place, bat ready at the cal
# any Of their corrupt leaders to migrate
TO any particular quarter they may see f
10 command them. And the writer, in
stead Of being really what he signs himself
| l. doubtless one of the coierie, who formed
The body guard Of The miserable drnaksr,
who interrupted the proceedings Of peace
able meeting Of Wings, and prevented hi
receiving his well meriied punishment Q
being pitched head, neck and heels int
the street.
i The gentleman, If be deserves the nam.
lprolesses to deal in truths. Nov let US e,
famine his statements, and see how far the
accord with truth. lie says 10 the fir
place, the meeting wss not called as
Wig meeting. Now is any one silly enoug