Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-07-24
Plain and Truthful Language.

The following paragraph, which we ex-
tract from an article in the Boston Atlas,
tells the truth plainly. We adopt its ideas,
and commend them to the CO consideration OF
our readers:
aNor must il be forgotten, that while our
| ancestors were engaged in the establish
/ ment of the government, 1t was universally
/ admitted that slavery required apology, and
I was hostile 10 the genius Of those nsti,u-
lions which we're contemplated. From the
very beginning il was source OF discord
ard distrust. There are those who repre-
4 saut hostility 10 slavery as an emotion OF
4 modern origin, but readers of our early his
tory know better than this. While, in the
(. infancy of the republic, slavery made i'm
porfant demands ard freedom no less i'm
por,art concessions, was felt by both par
los that the existence of serfdom was its
sole defence. Il was LEFT in the States in
+ ,yhichii was already established, but every
\ thing tends to show that lis extension was
not anticipated and still less designed
I That. indeed, was an after-project sugges-
ted by the increasing love OF emigration
\ and 6y the bitter barrenness which slavery
+ everywhers entailed upon the old States IN
/ which it existed. Tie world knows our
| history since Ii knows how steadily the
! Southern States Of this conlcderaey, IN all
! The blaze Of the nineteenth century's illu-
| mina,ien, have insisted, not upon the devei.
orment and expansion OF the greatideas OF
4 repuhlieansm, which are to US precious
heritage, but upon the introduction, into
new CommoRM ealths, OF system oil vas
salqre similar, in all its essential character
is,ics, 10 that which prevailed in Europe be-
fore religion had touched the heart, before
4 learning had expanded the understanding OF
! man. To promote this most extraordinary
enterprise, it has seized upon the govern
1 mcnt and controlled its domestic and for
/ eirn policy. Il has named the Presidents;
+ il has organized the Cabinets; II has ap-
+ pointed the Judges; it has don.ineered over
/ Congress; il has acquitted new territory BY
4 conquest; il HIS trampled upon the laws; u
+ has broken sacred compaets; it has claimed
] the army; it has crowded the navy-in
every department Of public service, civil,
military, judicial. it has made itself felt and
I felt for evil We do not complain OF It's
/ seepless vigilance. We do not wonder at
/ its constant jealousy Of freedom. Ihese
are natural, Just as slavery Is unnatural
But We do wonder that northern men, who
+ know the value Of freedom and the utter
/ worthIessness of slavery. should be found
willing TO talk Of geographical parties"
i when the men Of the free States seek 10 ar
rest this lapse of the Republic into bar
barism unworthy OF the middle ages. Have
we no stake in this much vauntcd Union!
Have we not something to preserve! Are
we TO content ourselves with n moekery and
deIusion, ARE we to talk Of freedom when
there is no freedaml- we, for the sake
Z Of temporary peace, to b. dragged downto
decay and ruin! All history cautions u.s.
the experience of the race speaks 10 US
pet-tongued-science warns us-rea-
son calls to us-religion demands Of "
manly defence Of two or three propositions.
which are heir-looms of freedom and have
come down to us as sacred traditions. And
we must hold cur peace, because protest
would disturb few pensioners upon the
public treasury. Does history tell Us Of a
cause so great resisted by agents SO utterly
contemplate"
BRtrlsH DEgEar IL AFR,cA.-Adyices
from Sierra Leone to the 81 ult., announce
the defeat of British expedition against
native chief on the Mallaghea River, under
taken for the purpose o. enforcing the pay
ment of certain indemnisies due to English
merchants for depredations committed upon
them by that chief in the latter part OF last
year. The troops, it appears, had partially
destroyed the town Of Hallaghea, and on
the I'd of May were proceeding TO complete
the work, when they ware surprised By
thousands Of the natives, overpowercd, aud
driven fro the shore with loss OF Ts mea
of the Isl and 2nl West India regiments,
(ou, Of 100 rank and file sent out on the eX-
pedtion) in Killed, missing aud wounded, .
with eleven others also wounded, who sue
ceeded in getting Off to the ship, Besides
these several officers both military aud
naval, as well as number Of seamen, were /
killed or wounded; making u total loss OF
%. Ola party Of forty men who entered
the town first, bat five escaped. Eight OF
the prisoners taken by the natives were
subsequently delivered up, bat the majority
of those taken were cruelty mardered.