The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-22

II ought to be surprising TO the Amer
can people, in an emergency which APP
nrpxjmaies a. civil war, that man Ike
Franklin Pierce should be President OF the
United States, and Wilson Shannon the
Governor of Kansas. II everything is true
which we have heard from Kansas, We are
on the borders Of civil war; God gran,
that it may not happen. We have said SO
much about the difficulties in that Territory,
We have heard so much abou, them, thu, we
almost seree with our readers that the sub
ject 10 stale. But the Importance 81 the
subject forces itself upon our continued at
tention. 1t 10 dangerous novelty when
the possibility OF civil war occurs IN our
Republic We have been trying to improve
on ali the governments recorded by past
history. We have boosted Of ourselees on
every recurrence Of the Fourth Of July, that
We were superior 10 all other nations. Many
men have made political fortunes by vooit-
Grating that idea in every Term OF gfandiio-
quent eioquence. II is in fact wonder
that all the feathers have not been torn OF
the American eagle; few birds could have
withstood such extensive pucking.
But, TO be serious, even the least idea OF .
ciyilwaris dangerous enough 10 alarm eli who
have any regard for the good of their coun-
try, or any love for those Republican insti-
tutions which were established by the blood
Of our fathers We do not like 10 be alarm
is,s, bot We do not think it right TO aycid
speaking the truth when il is necessary &c
speak tru,hfully. The course pursued BY
the men who, unfortunately for the country
have been placed 81 the head Of affairs, has
been such as to place Us in dilemma dam
gerous, difficult and dissgreeable. It's sur
prising and disgrseefui that majority OF the
free and sensible people Of this Republic
should have go long submitted to the domi-
nation of a class which neither believes IN
nor prsctises any Republican doctrines.
The longer We observe the Inconsistency
of these sham leaders Of ieluded Demoe
rscy the stronger is our faith that the mum
Der of their followers will become less,
Present facts are suspicious OF that result
Il il known to every one who reflects on
present political facts, that the people Of
this country have never been more grossly
deceived and betrayed than BY the present
Administration.
Before the CONNIE neement OF Mr.. Pierce's
government, We were, comparatively, con-
tented and united people. Since that in
auspiciou. era, the scene has changed
Political gamblers who had stretched all
their faculties in telling the people that the
Missouri Compromise was canonited in
their hearts, and that that Compromise had
an origin akin to that of the Constitution
the same men who spoke thus. were also
the men who originated the sbrogstion OF
that Compromise, and brought The present
ailEculties uPonathe country. A proVerb
handed down to us from the fret ages, ssy :
that"those whom the Gods intended to de-
s,roy they first make msd,"-and certainly
the truth of the proverb was never more
clearly illustrated than by President Pierce
and his oosdjutora.
But. gloomy as may be the presen nj aspect
Of affairs, We have consolation IN believing
that the people correctly understand who
are the authors of cur present Politics
evils, and tina, they will sPPly the proper
remedy. Believing thus, we await Tie fu'
ture without any feelings Of doubt or alarm