Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-12-28
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The nrooos.ls for the New York State
loan Of a. 500 900, were opened at Albany
ON the 18th, aud the bids exceeded the
. mount required BY several millions OF DOL
hrs.
II il not improper, when We see the Ia
cilitv with which the Free States negotiate
any loans which they may require, ans 'fe
n,e m;ums which are offered by capitalists
for the privilege of taking such loans TO
contrast tina, facility with the difficulty ex-
perienccd by the Slave States in attempting
similar operations. The ST. Louis RfPua'-
can furnishes rather melancholy instance
of this difference. That paper has gained
for itself a very widespread If not very
enviable reputation, for the emo'itered ma
lightly with which it has lent It's hish Pc
sition to the purpose Of artlully as well as
ablv misrepresenting the whole body OF the
facts Of the current history OF kansas we
venture to say there is not man IN st
Louis, " no has intelligence enough to un-
ders,and the subject, and candor enough to
express his honest convictions, but who VIII
admit that the accounts OF the Republican,
were not only one sided and untrue, but
they will also admit that the course which
that paper has seen fit to pursue, IA this par
ticular, has been OF great injury 10 the State
of Missouri, the city of st. Louis and the
Territory of Kansas.
But the moral of this story, and the fact
which places the Republican in rather a hu-
initiating position before an intelligent and
quick -sighted community is, that after it has
exhausted the vocabulary of abuse against
Free State men aud Free State Institutions,
after it has given circulation to host OF
hastily concocted ISLANDERS, which derived
their chief importance from the medium
through which they were given to the pub
lie, this same Republican is now willing
mendicsnt at the feet of the money-lenders
of the Free States, and in behalf of Mis-
sour. almost piteously implores that she
may find favor in the eyes of the Yankee
capitalists, and receive little Of that sur
plus money, the accumulation of which has
been caused by the peculiar Institutions OF
the Free States. We have no disposition
to indulge in any spirit of exultation over
this contradictory situation of facts. We
should, however, think that the necessity
which it involves is rather CALLING to the
bigh-minded habitudes of the st. Louis Re.
pubiican We can easily imagine that when
that journal had been contemplating the
success Of Atkinson and Suingfe low, and
the forcible planting of slavery on the free
soil of Kansas, if any one should have hint
ed the proba bility of its wishing TO borrow
money, it would have Indignantly answer
ed, In the words of Hazael 10 Elisha, as
thy servant dog, that he should do this
thing" But the commentary on such an
indignant interogatory, which has been
furnished by the Republican, not only calls
10 mind that remarkable instance of incon-
sistency which was foretold by the prophet
lisha, but it additionally illustrates the fact
that pride and poverty are companions that
cannot agree, by reason Of incompatbility
of temper, and the sooner they are perma-
nently divorced, the better it will be for
those who have to pocket their pride in or
der to get pecuniary accommodations.