Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-06-02
TIE AGITATION IN xxe1Axp.
Prem In. Daily News, May ~

Of London has been hailed as an assurs nc
| Of success but in general they have al.
| lowed themselves to be waited for. In the
Reform bill struggle, the men Of Birming
ham complained Of the difficulty Of moving
| the citizens OF London; 10 the Anti Cor n
Law struggle similar complaint was made
| by the men Of Manchester. 1t 10 not that
our sagacious citizens are less libersl in
| their principles or more timid in asserting
them but the enormous magnitude and
completely Of their mercantile operations
absorb them SO en- tirely that they are apt
TO restsatisied with expressing appreciation
Of any political movement, and to leave 1t
| to Others 70 take the laboring oar. This
habtual wariness and hardness imparts
tenfold weight to the city demonstration Of
Saturday. The necessity must indeed be
urgent with spurs such men to initiate a.
agitation. Whoever was present in the
to be struck, not only with the class Of
men who crowded the spacious hall, but
with their apparent uges. To those who
viewed the meeting, looking down from the
gallery, few Of the men who composed it
appeared to have numbered less than five
and forty years. The opinions and senti-
ments expressed by the speakers and en-
bodied in the resolutions must therefore be
regarded as those Of mea who have eutIived
the excitablity OF youth, and whose en-
gagements are such as effectually to pre-
clude their taking part in any movement the
objects OF which they do MT feel TO be Of
life and death interest and certain Of attain
ment. Government, Psrlis ment, and the
nation may rest assured that havidg laid
their hands TO the plow, nothing on earth
can oblige thes, men to turn back until their
ends are accomplished. Where all 8 oks
well and to the purpose, it might seem in
div idious to single out any one for approving
comment, and yet we believe we only echo
the sentime nts Of every pers present when
we say that the opening address Of Mr.. Nor
ley, the Chairman, SO full Of weighty mat
ter, 80 temporarily firm, SO devoid OF all
mere oratorical trick--lett upon his au-
diencs the impress sion that he had caught
reflection of the spirit Of those intellectual
giants who took the lead in tina great
struggle of the 18th century-all whose &C.
tons were spired by profound religious
conviction, and regulated by surpassing
practical judgment. Nor must an incident
Of the day. which has a moaning beyond
what at frat appears, pass unnoted. So
numerous were the applicants for admission,
that the surplus who could not obtain ea-
trance sufficed TO form another crowded and
most respectable meeting in the Guildhall,
the use OF which was promptly and liberal.
~ granted by the Lord Mayor fer the pur-
pose, at the FIRST application. Our memory
recalls nothing SIM ar TO this in the history
of popular movements, unless perhaps at
the banquet in Manchester which originated
the An,i-Corn Law League On that &C.
casion the night was far spent before half
the speakers had been heard but the en-.
thusiasm of the company was undated. and
the worthy chairman proposed that the pro-
ceedinys should be adjourned till next even
ing. The proposal was eagerly caught at
mot the less eagerly that there was some.
thing piquant and amusing in the idea OF
IN adjourned banquet" The experiment
was triumphantly successful, for the inter-
est Of the second nights proceedings fully
eaua!led that of the first. We accept the
some what analogous incident OF Saturdays
double meeting ~ an omen that success.
equal to that which crowned the efforts OF
the League, awaits the labors of the Adj
ministrative Reform Association.
The London meeting on Saturday has
given articulate voice to thoughts and feel
ines which at this moment fill the minds Of
men in avery quarter oil the land. re-
Spouse of loud and encouraging adhesion
will forthwith be heard from all the prov
inces. Indeed the mere announcement
that such Il meetin g was to be held enabled
US to announce in our impression OF Satuf-
day that private meeting Of influential
gentlemen had been held at Birmingham,
with 4 view to adopt measures for cooper
alton with the metropolitan movement to
promote Administrative Reform. On the
the same day we reported, more briefly than
we could have wished, the proceedings Of
a meet ng at Derby, on the mismanagem
of the war, attended by both of the borough
members and by two other members of the
House Of Commons-Messrs. Heyworth and
Bass-at which the views expressed were
in perfect harmony with those OF the Ad-
ministrative Reformers. And even before
the l. ,ndon movement commenced. demon
STATIONS II the same cause had been made
at SHEFFIELD nd other important centers Of
productive industry. Tho nation is rousing
itself for great effort in spirit Of calm
but inf sxibe resolution. The exc lusive in
capables, whose superclious defiance Of
the public opinion has raised the storm, must
10 nd before il, or brave il by their own un-
lied strength. As in the Reform bill con-
test, il is the nation against frivolous and
effete olgarchy, Then the struggle wac
for the infusion Of more popular element
into the Legislative Councils Of the State
now il is for the infusion of more popular
element into its Administrative Councils
In 1891 the people conquered the privilege
of exercising a more direct and immediate
surveillance and ontrol over the aristo-
crstical monopolists Of executive office
within year or two at the most the people
will conquer the privilege Of nominating Tor
the choice Of theCrown administrators more
capable and trustworthy than the old family
coteries Of place-holders and Place-hunters
can afford. The exclusives betray their
consciousness Of this by their csnvulsivs
pts to smile derision at the movement.
The demonstration Of Saturday has struck
them with bewildering CONSERVATION only
| inferior to that which disturbed the soul
Of Belshazzar when he gazed on the mystic
| rious words-MEKH, MINE, rEKEL, uPHARsIH.
| GuspowDER.-Some Of the effects Of ig.
| ;,aJ ro,Ydep nYa wOndprful When il ia