Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-01-18
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WAsa.ssrss Cfrr. Jan. 10, 1885.
| There has been an unusual amount Of bus
tie and excitement 10 the Metropolis this
week, in consequences Of the meeting Of
very large body Of the soldiers Of 1872.
bringing with them : great concourse Of
spectatsrs. They met ie convention on the
9Th inst, the Anniversary of the Battle Of
New Orleans, and escorted by the Military
L egion Of the District, marched through
Pennsylvania Avenue in procession. TO the
Presidential Mansion, whore they were in
trodaccI to the President Of the United
States, aud from thence proceeded to the
Washington Monument, and various other
places Of interest. Their meeting here is
with view TO induce Congress to do them
justice. by placing the survivors, and the
widows and children of those who were slain
in battle or have sincs died, upon the same
footing as the soldiers Of the Revolutionary,
and Mexican War, as regards pensions and
bounty land. Every section of the country
/ is fully represented, and many interesting
meetings have been held since their arrival
They command universal respect, and are
made the recipients Of all the civility and
hospitality Of the City. Washington was
| the theatre upon which the British display
ed the extent Of their civilization. by firing
the Capitol ofthe United States. and plum
dering and destroying the farm houses upon
the waters OF the Chesapeake on their re-
treat They were finally brought UP at New
Orleans, and taught lesson they will not
soon forget.
A great proportion Of the business in
Congress since the close Of the holidays,
has been directly or more remotely connect
ed with the subject OF Knox Nottingham.
A bill has been introduced to prevent the
landing oftoreign criminals, paupers, luna
tics, idiots, insane and blind persons upon
our shores. This measure may not be fully
appreciated by citizens of the Western
States, as they have not been made to suffer
by the grievance complained Of For years,
Foreign Governments have made the ship |
ment of these classes Of persons to our coun-
try s,ins qua non in their system Of political
economy, and landing in the Atlantic cities, |
the helpless become an immediate charge |
upon the charities Of those cities, and the
professional convict finds an open field fer
his deDfedsiions. This unpardonablc out
irage upon our people, is about to receive a
rebuke that will preventive repetition oft
Mr. Kcit, of South Carolina following in
the wake of Mr.. Barry oil Mississippi, renew
ed the attack upon the Know Noihings, by
speech marked 70, its bitter invectse.-
, The leaders Of the democracy in the House
/ il seems, determined some time since that
some dem onstraton or extraordinary raovs
was necessary TO save the bulwark OF democ-
racy, Virginia. from those terrible, mysterl-
Gus, Know Noihngs, who like the Northern
invaders we read Of, march upon and over
whelm their enemies, without signal or
warning oftheir approach. A bold aud daring
course wasdeemed the most efficient, to retain
| the present office holders in the ranks, and
friabteu the timid partizans and numerous
erpsctants, from joining the opposite party
| Open ..war to the knife. and the knife to
the hilt'' has been declared, as the last dying
effort, to save the struggling party in Nir-
gina The speech was made therefore, to
correspond with the tactics determined up
on, for conducting this perilous campaign.
Mr. K denounced the order, for its 'proscrip-
ton and as invading the rights of con-
science" and "cvil and religious liberty
and then like other S. Carolina statesmen
drifts il TO the Gulf stream oil State-Right
distractions
These topics having been so often des
canted upon, and charged as objections 70
the doctrines ot the Know Nolhinss, the
impression made was not very deep. The
new order have declared time and again,
that they are the true, and only true and le-
climate friends OF those great rights, and
: also the champions Of freedom of thought,
opinion, and private judgment Without
dec idng these NOTED points between the
beligerents, it Is enough for NE TO say, that
) the charge of"proscripIion" comes with
; bad grace from Mr.. Keitt, or any other
democratic leader. as it is we'll known, that
for twenty or thirty years prescription
has been one the cardinal practices of the
. eo-called democratic party, excluding the
Wings from any Of the offices OF honor or
proit in their twn Government, as effee,
ually, a. though they had been unnatural
lied aliens. Mr.. Sellers Of Maryland re-