Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-10-23
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me Issue and Its Effects.

The RETURNS from tue lueci'os 49, n,
reach US slowly, and it will be Week =. ~
lays probably before wo shall learn .'1on
the official statement, embracing the entire
State. what is the precise result oi-'Ae elee.
ton. Enough intelligence, however = Us
come to hand not only to ascertain the VT
umph Of Judge Pollock, but to justify the oe-
lief that he will have a majority ot twenty
thousand over his opponent, II, indeed ms
vote does not exceed that figure. tvs also
pre,ty clearly indicated that the State w'il
send a strong anti-Ncbraska delegation 10
Congress, and that the lower branch OF uur
Assembly will be chiefly composed OF mem-
bers re Or, sen.iny the Wing and American
sentiment Of the Commonwealth. In tne
Senate the Democratic party will retain IT'S
predominance.
The opposition press is lamenting bitter
" over the disastrous disastrous defeat sus-
tanned, and in the very effort to conceal, 10
betraying its deep modification and disap-
pointmcnt. II affects to regard what IS
manifestly great popoular movement, ac-
tuated by eminently rational and patrlotic
motives, as miserable ebullition. Of fanati-
cism and bgotry, whose aim is to violate the
National Constitution in those provisions
which relate to the civil and religious rights
of the citizen. This was the allegation
made through the canvass, and It is adhered
to now partly for the sake OF consistency,
and patty because it affords the best pre-
text for INDUCING that resentiul and angry
spirit which an overwhelming discomfitur
has excited. It is very remarkable that ina
who have claimed it as one Of the most DIS
tinguishedtenets of their political creed
that the majority should govern, are exhibi-
ting now so rebellious disposition against
that principle.
The will of the people has been express
ed through the regularly appointed method,
and to that will the Democracy should cor
ta;nly bow in respectful and cheerful sub
mission. Bat instead Of giving SO proper an
illustration OF their faith, they are dcnounc-
ing in the most violent and abusive manner
the course which the mass OF tn. commu-
nity saw fit to pursue, in the recent e.
lection, and are attribu,ing the result
to the most dishonorable and unworthy IN
fluences.
We venture to suggest that this isexceed-
ingly ungraceful behavior, and most unwlse
policy The Democratic party chose to go
into the contest on one single issue. They
endeavored 10 persuade the whole body of
cur naturalizcd citizens that there was an
organized effort making to deprive them of
their liberties: that the only security against
the designs oil such conspiracy consisted
in their uniting together as q unit and cast
ing their votes for the Democratic ticket
The effect of thi. was, to arouse an Amerl-
can spirit andforce it into opposition upon
a ground OF controversy which all moderate
and conservative men in this country have
c arnestly deprecated. The event shows
that the fore gn vote was combined as DIS
tinctiye element in the popular struggle at
the polls, more completely thanit had ever
been combined previously, and it is equally
apparent that the reasonable expectation
that it would be SO consolidated, in direct
and avowed antagonism to the native pop
ulation, produced an actual union among
the latter in resistance to the coalition
which had not, except partially, existed in
the shape of regularly concerted and un'
derstood organization. The consequence.
have been fatal to those who, from mos
mistaken estimate of public feeling, anc
for objects entirely sordid, raised cry
which brought the spirit OF nationality in.
to positive conflict with q quasi alien in.
fuence in the State.
After what has TRANSFERRED, it certainly
becomes a matter for curious inquiry how
far this issue, on which the late election
undoubtedly turned in a great measure
will continue to prevail or operate in A.
mercan politics. VIII it take form as a
broad and distinct ground of difference be-
tween parties as they are now organized.
or will it become the basis on which they
will be entirely and openly reconstructed!
Time will speedily. we think, give So
luton to this question; but, in the mean
while, it is very certain that the most ef-
fectual mode Of insuring the establishment
of an American national party will be a
persistence, by those who have provoked
the spirit of resistance that is now obvi-
ously and widely roused, in that incendi-
airy policy of rallying the foreign portion
of our people against the native citizens,
in strife for political ascendancy. The
latter, or a very large proportion of them,
would, we believe, gladly avoid any such
necessity. They have proved this by the
patient and cordial manner in which they
have, for three-quarters of century, ac-
guessed in the singularly liberal split
and provisions of our government in ref
erence to the immigrant population. But
If that very population will exhibit dis
position, nay, actually combine in body,
to use the rights they have been SO gen.
erously conceded, for the purpose of acqui-
ring an undue and dangerous power in the
government, neither they, nor those who
basely instgate them to adopt so injudicious
step, can justly complain if il is promptly
met and Indignantly resented.
The Indiana Free Banks.
A our bankers aud brokers refused the
s:whole batch" of Indiana Free Banks yes