Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-17
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE II
PARALYsIs--CHANaEs--DECAY.

During a season Of unusual drowtl,,
when the burning Sun HIS dried up all
feebler plants aud shrubs Dependant,
upon shallow or arid soil; We often see
the most beautiful inland lake lose it,
volume Of chrystal waters that once
rolled and frolicked with the summer
gale, and become shriyelled ia dimeu
ATOMS, aud unsupplcd by water from
r'vulets and springs, grow stagnan;,
green, and fctid, so that every torn y
life IL destroyed in its bosom, AMI ~
cry form Of disease initiated by the
miasmx exhaIed from its putrid element.
Human life shuns it with drcai in
stincts, and dcsolation cncirclcs it FIR
miles around. What il was, will be
remembered by all whose souls paIplta
ted with pleasure in the culoymcnts
which il bestowed, and the dreams Of
beauty 1t inspired within. it, bosom
once bore dancing boats frelghtcd with
manIiness and beauty; now it is an ob
ject Of loathing and disgust, and shum
ned by every creature but the toad and
lizard.
We have seen large and stately
elm with pyramidaI trunk and archinr
boughs giving shelter 10 the thousand
fcathercd songsters Of the forest, and
shade to host Of happy hearts gait
cred beneath for holiday amrscmcnts
And We have seen the filthy worm
slyly ascend to its beautiful fo,iagc. am
speedily strip it of every attractive
ornament, aud, leave il fry and IA
kcd skeleton. For 30 years it ha
stood there in all the pride Of its posi
ton, and escaped injury from the ferry
Of the elements, but the loathsomc
'rorm had destroyed it in single sea
son.
So have we seen the old Wing party
growing in the luxurant soil of ratri
Otism, nurturcd bv the dcws ot loiiv
purpose Of national good, strengthened
by spirits like CLAW, Webster, Adams,
and their noble compecrs, whose every
desire was rs pure, every aspiration n
honorable, and every scheme as com
prehensivc ~ that Of the greatest pat
riots Of any age-and we have seen
this party vying with another party in
reverence for the Constitution and love
for the Union AS it is, battling for pc
litical asccnlancy, that certain meas
ures believed TO be- eypcdicnt m ght be
exPcrimcntally enforced, and We have
respected that party, believed in the
purity Of its great Leaders and oppose
only the policy Of It's measures. Hui
that great party stood only thir,i
years when the ~ rms of miiiShHcSS
treason, disunioq, fcHllitg and crin,
crcpt into it with their deadly poIsons
to blast and destroy il. Giddiugs,
Chase, Seward, Greeley and Weed,
early in their career commence the
work of its destruction hy crawling
through it with their sectional, fanat;
cal and anarchical slime. Webster
and CLAY saw the whitening of its yer
due and the decay of its beauty with
irrcprcssiblc anguish and died in dcs-
pair. That old Wing party, with all
its national men and measures, was
tumblcd down into ruins hv these
Worms before the goIlike Webster had
been long cntombcd. 1t stood disrobcd
Of all its loveincss and is now sleeping
in the grave with the Statesmen who
gave il life and power. Upon the spot
where it grew was erected a monstros-
ity not easily described. 1t was am
phibious in action, assuming To be
"A merican" in secret dens and lodges
and TO be "Republcan' in the political
assembly. 1t was chameleon like, in
its hues, aud too much ashamed to
svow its reasonable proposes for ica.r
Of alarming the timid. 1t lived upon
the defamation of heartless demago-
gues, scxndalous falsehools coined in
Kansas, a personal rerencon,, in the
Senate Chamber, and the combustble
character Of the masses; and relied for
support upon the mistakes of the Dem
Ocratic Administration, because it had
no plan or platform of its own upon
which to rally the thoughtful anl pa
riotic masses of the American people.
But these ,eorms have gnawed away
their own support, and Republicanism
10 ~ dead As is their victim, the Old
Wing Party. Everywhere we hear
these des, airing creatures urging their
dupes to rally and organize for fight.
The dupes enquire "what for.' The
creatures reply, for the spoils." The
dupes refuse to fight il such protitless
cause. Many Of the smaller Rcpubli-
can journals have disappeared since the
election in November last. Rats de-
sert sinking snip. Living creatures
Zee from fetid lake whose stagnant
waters are pregnant with death. The
great N. Y. Times, one of the three
Metropolitan journals Of this country
-has anticipated the total destruction
Of this Republican organization, and
has withdrawn from its ranks. Itssw
the necesaitv ofhecom;no u;ra.pan.