Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-02-07
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ALFRED SANDER, ro,roE
p..venpor,, wednesday. Fob. !, 49,
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A. tae times are nregiy dlll rom the re-
reetri fsi.urc of the E~st.sn mal.. and cur
old fauy neishbor scfoss the street. Is too
commonplace u get up anything stifrihg'
with all his legal adiuncts, we boldly assam
,he n,,an.om ism whose soubriquet tops this
disquisition. In the ith resolution passed
by the assembled wisdom constituting the
aDemocra,ic,' party of Sect county, We ma
II stated as their opinion, tha, "the doctrines
OF the Secret s. ciety. styled Know NO
,h;ars, are contrary to the spirit OF our
C.,nst,,u,ien s.nd L. VS., that it is the iegit-
mate .hild OF b;sotfy and faction; that We
refuse all utilization with them, and regard
no enc rs faithful and consistent Demo-
crat who sympathizes or untes with taem'
wa.s,eered rounds the above resolution
I, US, a nautc i, If MT classical, phrase OF
the legal gentleman who showed his ears I'd
,hs las, number Of the mirror over the way
In our late "dia,rbe," in order disjunctiveiy
10 give il thu, pcrsp;cuity which its imPor-
.src. demands. And now We say, without
,he far Of successful contradiction" that
,hatyery sentiment above qaotedwas thrown
ont 20 binder. in ORDER TO deceive those
crmans and Irish in Scott county who had
becun 10 take exception 10 the .Democrat-
&c" party from its afEilia,ion with the Know
Nothinss. Aware how intimately the
democratic" party of the Union was iden-
tiled with this secret org anzltion, ,eh'ca IT.
se,f is tie i,oitinsat. fruit Of d. fiction in tie
rssss of Democracy" they thought by get
tinru, the cry Of ..stop thief" To throw their
Ir;sh ana G ,rman friends of the Scent
How well thew have susceeted, 1T tine h'-
the ara,ter. II was the tyranny q patty =
the Demo n atic' ranks tat Id - the Or
g.r,,z ton of this secret society. IN ih
force I'll words Of one who STANDS ''sh
tbs editorial p-3fsssior.. IN n long sh1ck'A'
in the bonds Of sham D Democracy, as merc
0rss step resolved themselves into secret
oeo.nissfion.r AMI thus orig ited thir
crd r., whs, puari'e Leaders openly declare
hostility to It's nets, while secretly they
endorse them.
The great question Of the day is S'arery.
Il 10 the elem mt which, in some phase, en-
tiers INTO the very corner stone of the plat
forms of the two great political parties o.
the Union. The Wings have taken the
ground Of opposition, in whatever form il
may present itself for extension. Among
those electors of foreign birth who inhabii
orr country, the Germans as people have
taken decided stand against the further
encroachment of the peculiar institution Of
the South. Upon that, now the leading
question of the day, they stand side by side
with the Wings. Now is it to be supposed
very moment when foreign element suf-
fciently strong to defeat their opponents is
at I'd ,ir option, to push i. aside and organize
themselves into 9 secret conclaye, whose
every principle is denunciatory of foreign
ers. No, this is the first sad sign of pro-
test against that tyranny which the Admin
istration exercised over the Democratic
party.
Opposition to tyranny always first dis
plays itself in secret organization. III was
50 in the colonies-it was 60 in 80 in
France, and it is so now in this country A
party having the numerical strength is not
the one TO originate any new scheme to az
grandize to itself greater powers. That is
always left to the party in the minority
Hence, the Wig party at time the most
opportune to success that has ever dawned
upon il, is not going with suicidal hand to
shear its own strength. The Democratic"
party. on the contrary, ruled with high
hand by its leaders. corrupt, disorganized
and in the minority, is the very enc to re-
sort TO such schemes to bring back it's SUI
premacy How fallacious then the argu.
mcn,, that Know Nothngism is fungus on
,he Wing party, when in reality it is a le-
git;matr branch of democracy" Allsuch
attempts as the above to "tiIrow dust into
the eyes of the people, 81 time when such
hurricane OF popular sentiment IL sweep
ing over the democratic" party, will but
result in the particles returning into the
eyes of those who so yainly cast them up
ward.
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