Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-12-31


"a. ~ - aussu BsssA Ass~s 49, >Dsssos
0lsskk essss. "a I. AsthensSd 10 receipt in
SANDERS DAVIS.
5<gN nane How misapplied and sbu-
a. Qafe ssneeisg government " shs
seopjs. now used to cos<r the knavery Of
vu1ulssAsn. A usskss'shasA. . eiosa 20
hl1s defosai0, md p ieagsr Ne represent
ssina. e . se;acipls. ) Bot
.pss1osss - sleanss II = css.,
!. q 80 $500 q y SAHss;.
~. %wAy . many follow in the wake OF
cesrups Admisistrasion. fosadsd upon feaity
= slavery ana bed whisksy. But we will
u ~ 1estpn AHss spsak for W, - it sa-
prsssss or idess in better. although stron-
~ language than Ne would do. Reference
= nsds in the article TO xr Riair's letter.
shs naaesial portion OF which ws have al
rssdy pablishsd;
What Is 0sAOsiasys
we did not suppose Shst the late able
,eenr Of n. Francis r. Blair would proSe
nalatsbie TO the ssetlensn who manage the
Wsskiugton Union, but re hardly antici-
s pased the explosion o. wrath which it has
provoked. The people who rally round the
unGoKsunsts person who 70 How Pressdent,
and Sho lie, lawn and dafter IN his behalf
and their own, are too narrow-ninded and
vhits -liyered to undssstA..d that nothing so
heevmes . man a. free speech. They 60
about, morning and evening. with nussles
on their mouths If they have. BY accident,
cav opinion. they dare NO, to utter it; they
are the bond-slayes of OaReias; they chat
- q pseulsr eos@feiga1y. and dribbis out
Hnnnt% 1oRsae soot66egs about democracy,
= - - ~ ord seigios1 O. the shrill driv.
tSfUe1 haaeicjo1k- ~. The Procrustean
machine i . household article a the dwell.
ling most sst,nishingly misnomered White;
and II poor peusioner upon Executive
boanty would keep bic daily fodder. ne muss
submit to the prescrip I'D lpppiag or.saretsh-
Inn. There i no ffR62Dm Of thought a.
lowed in the DemouSGe party. A Jesuit
college, full Of pale and erouchine boys, OF
convent Of a TraDpst with its dumb and
2r,y innatss. viii aPPeE 70 enjoy an ALSO
jBss iceuse Of speech dG9eeafiment, if We
epstrlst either with close cooperation o
Dsassrssic ulice holders. Only upon thes.
conditions can : man Be considered mem
bef'of The party; be mus. swear fidelity Il
the 0oseiss Till; be must admit he righl
ofthe South 70 carry its Institutions where
ever II may please 70 carry il; be must Be
IL CONSTANT vilifer OF men who do not be.
lave Ia the bosof Of the Justice ofcompact-
breaking: hs n0ss Be ready to brswi trea-
son whenever honest voices may utter hu-
aaae and liberal sentiments. And this 10
Democracy! To this narrow and noisome
confession Of faith the great nane Of Jefer.
900. the bold thinker and the bold writer il
tangsd. This. In republican America, K
the Nineteenth century, Is the policy OF a
paFu profsssing 70 be iiheral-this frozen
ahsoluiism. worthy perhaps, of st. Peters
bsse Or fieaos. worthy Of Eldon and Cas-
tefeash. with their fossilised hearts, Worthy
ofkiAg or pope, when kings or popes dared
70 Be q bed a. possible. We thought de.
@cesscy claimed To be progressive-we
thought il professed 10 encourage liberty in
esnsy tesm-we thought its mission was to
saiee up down-trodden man, and to encour.
a9s enforcement. But this modern De.
ao0sey. this wol6sh tyranny 10 the euise
Of hbessiism. stands gloa,ing upon the past,
clinging With hungry talons to the corpse
Of old-worid opinions. managing men a
hey are managed in venal courts BY the
ministers Of debauched monarchs Why,
more iafernal Sham than this democracy was
neser Devised BY the Father Of Falsehoods,
% cheat the world wiihsi.
u would be something. if tais petty crerdi
Which the Administration has 7asnioned,
hsd IN Il the prespAxaahilis Of ,ower or the
shadow Of truth. Bot il u not only weak
- ne65. Il il sbsolately false. Over and
svss aesin IL hollcwness has been demon.
stssssd. History Condemns it, political
philosophy repndiales it. Chrisiiany losthes
4, common commercial prudence sbhors it.
II. Blair. 10 this very letter, which has kin.
He'd the wrath Of the Union. shows to de.
nesstrstion that oil the talk about State
rights, and the sovereignty of the people.
End territorial immunifier, 10 the merest
hunbug-that the principles Of the Missou-
d Coups00ise wsse recognized in the in
fancy Of the Government, and that they had
the sanetioa OF those men who created the
Constitution. What ID the answer to all
shisi Why, q iddie-fsddis palsver about
t1ewgifer's treason to Democracy. 10 this
peos stuff. about "pstricfism" and political
in6deiisy." and sblack republicanism" any
reply to Mr.. Dlsir's calm and trenchant
tsgiei Any poor bpnger about the hust.
iags can talk this stuff-is il worthy of the
organ Of the Government, Why, IL lacks
erything-srgamen force. prscedent--
Andhow long dnes the Union suppose thu,
iican keep party together BY the mere
power OF these hackneyed sentencesi Why
poor 0r. Tyler's "orgsn." in the days of It's
difest drirsi. never tumbled into such a
sioush Of soft stupidity as this which is
~ Allowing up the Pierce gazette ex,rasrdi.
nary.
Meanwhile, We have in the letter OF Mr..
Bsehsnaa, that eminent brother ofthe Dem.
ocfstic order, written in ls47, aud now re-.
yived. another illustration of the crab. like
pros's.s Of democracy. In that memoirs
Danger. Brother BucksSnssa, . ~. Il. ~ ' h;s
.agscisy, Of gbich be had respecta Die
.hsre. Goa discover nothing better 10 save
i tb,.. this same Missouri Comp o.Dise. .In
opinIon, says the Pennsylvania &c ntle.
NAE sshs harmony Of III. States, and even
me security Of the Union itself, require thai
the hne OF the Missouri Com pro mise should
De EXTENDED 70 any new territory which we
may Acquire from Mexico. Tbis roys,s