The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-15

For Secretary o. Sfett,
ELIJAH SELLS, of Muscatlne co.
For dsditcr Of STATE,
JOHN PA1TEE OF BreRer CO.
NJ. d. MuKxI OF Polk co.
For .afterstg Gea<r4i,
SAMUEL A. hlGk, OF Mahsska CO.
c CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
sr-Reprsssststips.
TIMOTHY DAVIS, Of Clayton County.
WHY GERKAHs BECOME REPUBLICANS.
All over the country, and especially in the
iarger cities, New York. Cincinnati, Chi
caeo and Boston, the Germans are forsa.
king the sham Democratic party which has
given itself up exclusively to the support
and extension and slavery, and are allying
themselves to that other party, upon whose
banners are inscribed the principles OF h5er.
" and true republicanism. MOI is this nat
ural. though very desirable movement
confined to the large cities. II pervades ,he
continent from Msine to Iowa,-in the
towns and villages, and among all the ruFsi
German populations. the same changes are
discovered, the same correc. sentiments are
prevailing. i. is not tha, the Germans are
actually changing any Of their hfe-cherishes
principles. They have always believed IN
true Democratic doctrines, but they have at
length found out that the present leaders OF
thu so-calied Democratic party, have be.
trayed al the essential principles Of Democ'
racy. and that the same leaders have been
and are again striving to use the Germans
only for the sake Of advancing their own IN.
diyidual interests, and concentrating the
plan. Of the slavery prspagandists.
We are far from denying the very pleas
ur.hle emotions with which We regard his
revolt Of the German mind agains, the die
tation OF corrupt psrtizans. But while we
find in it a very important auxiliary towards
The formation of that overwhelming force OF
freemen, who are 10 restore the admiaistra-
ton Of the country to its original and prop
er purity, it can never be forgotten that The
Germans themselves will be among those
most benefited by the restorative revolution
which We anticipate. The interests OF no
class of American citizens who are seeking
homes for themselves in the fertile prairies
OF the West, can possibly be more advanced
by keeping those prairies open TO the pos.
session of freemen, than the interests Of
those Germans who are already here or
these who expect to come.
But il slavery be allowed to fasten It's
bsneful influence upon Kansas, what wiiil
there be to hinder it from possessing itsei
of all the central as well the choicest por'
tom of the continent The day is neal
when all the arable portions of the north
western territory win be occupied Unles:
then the compact be enforced which re
served to freedom and free men that choice
expanse of central country, for which th'
contest is now being waged, there VIII D.
no place left this side Of the Rocky Noun
t.ins, where the instituio ns Of freedom cal
be planted, or on which the prosperiues Q
free men can be founded. The incubus G
slavery will prey upon ii like a yampyre
and THIS holding a commanding position i
the very heart Of the country, the dig
.rchi,ts who own and contIol il, can carr
ont at their leisure, their favoEite design g
converting the fair fabric Of our gosernnen
tai system ~ founded By the fathers, int
tina, most gross anomaly of a gigantic slay'
republic.
For it must always be remembered tina
wherever slavery exists, free white laborer'
are inexorably excluded, except they sub
init to the diress necessity. or to terms .
wbich the feelings Of . free man instructive
revol,. We have now before Us 4 lette
w,t,en bv a Texas resident to q friend /
Ohio. which states that in Texas a fart
.,.ye can be hired At $40 per month. and
white Isborer for the same wages. Bein
placed upon this kind Of equality, the lordl
.~l.yeholder regards them both with tn
same degree Of contempt-or rather b
gives the preference to the slave, as the ON
Who is more completely submissive to hi
commands or to his caprices. Large nsm
hers of Germans have already settled ii
Texas, for the most part in colonies b
themselves. 1t has been limited that the
intend endesvorisg to form a free State i
that usrt of the country which they own an
occupy. Bot whatever hope there may hav
been for that contamination, would be Ut
,arlv blasted if the slave power is permitte
to triumph in Kansas. That triumph woul
cattle The fate of the Germans in Texas
aud spy wishes they had INDUCED or plan
hey had formed for the establishment Q
free institutions, would be as remorselessl
crushed by the triumphant slave power, a
were ever any Of the efforts of the patio,
by the tyrants of the old world.
On the question, then, whether SLAYER
be established in territory which belongs I
freedom, hangs the issue, whether the con
manding and mott important position o
the continent shall be surrendered 10 srisie
Gratis or to republicans, andits w~ide-sweeF
ing fields of inexhausible fertility be lie
open to the cultivation of free iaborers, 9
be doomed to echo TO the clank of the chat
and the crack Of the whip. Permit SLAYER
10 be established in Kansas, and Mr.. Toomb
could congratulate himself that ne had take
a long step towards that Bunker Hill monu
ment, from which, he has predicted that h
will call the roll OF his slaves. Permit sla
very to be established in Kansas, and fire
laborers would soon be preremptorily es
cluded from having any share in the remain
ing garden spot of the country.
Kenneth Raynor, Of North Carolina, d.
clines the nomination for Vice President
rendered him by one branch Of the Kno'
Nothings. He would have been q know
1911 &c baua done pthpFulsp. VIC