Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-07-21


p~vsapsss. AsssaAy, 1sly - lass,
N ~Dxnee1ATle' 1An4y.
- -Dsapesseic" psssy sssms 20 b
ssssalaae ito Old hssass and indeed gsssf-
slly 70 b .leaviag in ceuauy fes iss coan.
ina aood.r IN soas Of IL ssronshclas i
hss hesn completely routed. and ere long i
Nil salv 10 knesa 10 hiatotz. The pas
sass Of The Maine Lac and the prevalence
81 sati-S slavery sentimcnt. win yet prove
shs death 81 n, a. wheEevsss they spread
sheis benign influence. there .Demoerscy"
10 seen TO wither and die. It was defeated
- these issues 10 lows, and although sew
essl sst4gonistic parties prevail in our
State. Il hss mot saficiency Of vitality re-
aaiaiag 10 defeat these separated interests
IL j. emphaticaliy. 10 use vulgar Phrsse,
.en i,s isst legs" and although its leaders
may call upon she rank and Gle to come TO
The rescse, their voices will be UNDECIDED
The strong sympathetic feeling that ami
mated the party, no longer exists. and with
the power no more 70 command the loaves
esa Sshes. fades she disposition to act.
That this state Of things is prevalent Ia
ssus Ssste. ws conclude from the tenor Of
ssr exchanges. which come to u from every
quarter. repeating the ss,ne story Of met
5ectuai efforts ia their several localities to
osxsaiss the ouce powerful Democratic
Party. We psbfshed in recent number
the announcement from Muscatne paper,
shss The q Demeera,ic" party no longer had
I .iocal hshisaiion and a name" in that
county. The Burlington Telegraph men
lions desperate effort to resuseitate the
"Demoerasic" party in Des Moines county.
and IN speaking Of some resolutions con
ceeted By : few individuals accustomed 10
GET their bread BY the swest Of other mems
hrows. il says that these resolutions ''are
from the miserable remnant of what was
sncc . strong psrty. and known a. the
Denocraiic party Of Des Moines county.
Iowa." etc. The Eeckuk Gate ity thus
ssts1ee % Z aDsnocraiic. gathering that
~ss e Aase como eF in shsf city one day
last week.
@The monstrous Democratic Ratification
meeting that wss 10 have come Oh night
before last, fzzled cut completely. We
don't know bot il is dignifyins the affair too
much to coll il 6xzle, for though we hunt
cd after some collection about the premises
announced which might be called "ths
meeting" we couldn't fud any body at all
rho vss willing to confess thst they had
smbsrked in sny such enterprise. The
fact 10. people feel too little interest in the
cut-and-dried proceedings Of the seheming
adsentusers who are endeavoring to gaIvan-
ire the desA bady of Democracy into little
spssmodic life for their own paltry purpo-
ZEE. have too little care what becomes of
the crazy old concern itself in the days of
in deefepitude and imbeciEiy, to trouble
themselves about il u ell. A few o6icieus
sspirarts, Who court the little notoriety and
Consequence which the assumption of
.'leaders" gives them. may rant about the
seteraal principles Of the great Democratic
parry" and eli that kind of !anfaronade, but
the araak and flc" even have taken the
gauge of>iis meaning. and they know il 10
too much Of sham. and humbug to induce
fhsn - stand around the streets on hot
evenings pretending an enthusiasm they
DO nss feel, or encouraging = few tricksters
for = bon they don't care fig. The party
10 diaintesrated and lis spirit Is departed"
From the foregoing and much more ofthe
sAne import, we infer THAI the sDemocrst-
&c" party in lowe, If no, entirely dsfunct, is
st least in . condition that will not permit
iss sesstsred members with any show Of
eonsistsncy to speak of the Wing party as
among the things that once had an exis-
tence. In abiding TO the various parties
that nos divide our Union, old-iiners of the
"Dsmocra;ie' fold should be more cautious
10 the use ofexpletives, or they may some
times uniasentioaally wound the feelisgs of
men whom they regal a. ia the bonds of
brotherhood. For instance our cotempora
y Of the Burlington Gazette when he says,
that "ths modern spirit OF fanaticism shows
,itselfin Maine-Lawism. Pope cursing, negro
stealing and other like effsryescences Of
supesabundant virtue,'' ranks a. fanatics
some Of these whom he has been, and it
may be Is, accustomed to esteem as politi.
cal friends. Democracy" however, ha.
got to 20 low an ebb and become SO entan.
1ied with the various parties of ths day, that
suspicion Turks 10 the bosoms Of its sdhe.
rents and destroys that condolences which
sfore,ime was the great secret of iis sue
cess.
s. G.. Goodrich, better known as Peter
Farley. and who has lately been United
States Consul at Paris, is about returning