The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-09-22
From the N. y. Tribune.l
ORR NEW LIVERIES.

gives description OF magnificent private
Coach, drawn by spanking bays, and with
c,achman and tootman in blue hvefles.-
From his description, one might Imagine y
10 belong 10 some foreign Minister, whose
IDEAS of political grandeur are the depression
Of the people, crushing them in the badges
Of caste, in lyeries which were originally
worn by prisoners taken in war, to mark
their DEGRADATION, and are now put by the
so.caled upper classes on the backs oil the
poor equally to mark their degradut,on, ana
show how brutally man With money may
act towards one who is without money
OF course in this country we cannot dictate
to foreigners who SO degrade Gods image,
but it is hard to respect Americans, who
pretending to be Democrats, never appear
in public without being attended by servile
creatures with such marks Of their shame
on their backs.
But curiosity may exist as to what ior-
cign minister appears SO royalty III pub
ic-The Russ j, Prussian, English, Span
ish.
The reader must not be put on wrong
track The carriage and horses, and the
liveried white seris, belong to FRANKLIN
PIERCE, President Of the United States,
selected by the hard-fsted Democracy" TO
represent and carry out the great principle
ofpolitical equality and the social elevation
of the masses.
Genius Of Humbug, canst thou farther 60!
Can the pretense OF respect for EQUALITY
political, social personal, be more COM
plete than such a display, by such person
age, Of the means by which pride tow
ers over poverty and rank over plcbeian-
ism
o We poor, trodden down and desfised
sons Of TOLL When shall come the day OF
your deliverancei When will you BE- t.
intelire MT To be the mcnials Of small law
yers. who abuse you by their profession o.
Equality and at the first opportunity betray
you to shame AMI dishonor! What is there
in this man Pierce, that he should dare to
degrade the Democracy Of the country in the
persons Of liveried menials, Who is he that
he should play sovereign at Washington,
add enter upon snob-riyalry with the
cling them in the depth OF ~ gingerbread
and the ponderosity Of his liverics! What
is the meaning Of his Jcsuitical appeals to
the people, when he sanctions the uhlec
tive yileness which determines servitude
-, rsitude not OF the black, but Of the
white-hiS equals us men and citizens!
Would he himself wear servile liveries!
No. Then by what right dare lie to
put them on other men as good Us him
self
What was the meaning of Secretary
Mareys circular 20 the Legations and Con-
sus. inviting them to leave of barbarian
trappings and rise 10 the dignity Of men' Il
their lvcrics are degrading and infamous,
equally 50 are they Oh the backs Of persons
in their employ Liveries for the Democrats
who help "a Democratic President to dis
charge his Democratic duties, and live the
Democratic life proper for the head magis-
trate of this Republic. Faugh upon such
Democracy. Let Secretary Marcy al once
issue a new circular for home use.
We shall be told, perhaps, that this is a
hard doctrine, aud that since it Is customary
for great families and rich men in the large
cities OF the Republic 10 dress their servants
in livery, We must not complain if the Pres
ident adopts the same blest privilege. We
deny this entirely. We maintain that the
President il a representative man, and has
no right to make a fool ofhimself in this way
because other people do it. Besides, he
PtottFVNH sN"t"~tHS ~ Niit "a tANi'
over his accidents, whereas the maun4tes
OF our best society profess the contrary. -
I And we put il 10 the good sense OF the
rn.2t,v n tie honest men who till their
''s'' - - -a,nrta frnm
the vices and ialsehonds OF cities, and brine
4 up their children by the labor of their own
hands, whether they regard il as fitting
thing that n republican president should ar
ray a number Of his fellow-c Citizens in me.
NAL guise and display them in public as
1 creatures Of itWcr cast: + il fitting ,ha,
4 he should ape ne ei'ete tummery OF aristo-
cratic distinctions in so base a manner, We
( think not. We hold that Democracy is
/ something real and sacred, which should
/ pervadc life md transform institutions, and
not mere set Of phrases TO figure in in
augura addresses andreples To electioneer-
ing committees. Farmers and Mechanics
what say you'