Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-04-21

The lamentations Of tho organs Of the
Sectionalists over the prodigiously rapid
deosv OF their party, really give incress.
Cd significance to this remarkable politi.
osl phenomenon. They sound not %
much like the regrets Of friends over
defeat, % the wailiogs and shrioks thu,
attend impending dissolution. We are
we'll aware that an opposition to the De.
mooracy must alwsys sxiet 10 the very
nature Of things; but We gladly await
the passing away Of thosa organizations
that Just now sseail either flank, and
hope that the issues may soon become
obsolete, which are presented by both
the Know Nothipgs and the Black ere
publicans." The utter decadence OF the
party which based itself upon religious
prescription was seen before the Pre.i-
Dental election; and now the result. Of
the Connec,icus election gives the Grs;
outward symptom Of the extinction Of
Black ''Republicsn,sm" ss DO verv diet
ant dsy. IN. Y Ners.
kEMAHS-.-ih- late Republican
party was organized upon the Anti
Nebraska platform, 4, the sole issue
between it aud the Democracy. AZ
the commencement Of It's Organization.
j, "roped in" large numbers cf Demo
crats, hv openly declaring that the
only difference between Republicans
and Democrats was the single one, OF
the Missouri Compromise. Jefferson
aud Jackson were invoked as the Ia
theirs OF their creed upon the question
and their stump orators everywhere
hoastcd Of their Democracy, their AL
mira,ion Of Jetiersonian and Jacksn-
man political philosophy, and their
devotion to the Union Of the States.
Blu, il soon became apparent, that the
principles Of the Nebraska Bill. were
the principles underlying our political
system, and the very principle in 'ssue
in the Revolutionary war. Discussion
further developed the fact, that none
had 80 abhored the geographical line.
called the Missouri Compromise. as
did jefferson and Jackson. Then Re
politicians no longer claimed to be JET.
fersonian democrats. 1t became lut-
Their apparent that the people were
learning to admire the principles OF
the Nebraska Bill, and then the Re-
puhlicaus ceased to denounce il, and
"howled and Shrieked" about its being
disre.ardsd in the TERRITORY of Kansas.
They shifted their position IS often as
the popular breeze changed, and man
ufactured outrsges in Kansas, as the
forlorn hope OF their party in the
Presidential election. Defeated then,
they ceased to 'shrek for freedom" in
Kansas, and went back to the old Issue
OF mo moro slave Territory" The
decision Of the Supreme Court in tho
bred Scott case, has utterly demolished
this last citadel Of that decaying party,
and in their anguish and rage, these
leaders impiously hurl defiance at the
Supreme Court. and the Consultation
AC0uirmae
The Republican papers Rave directed
most pertinacicusly upon the Germans, Their
| Wholesale assaults upon the Kansas. Nebrs.
ka &C.. They have sung so many songs i,
praise Of the sacred ordinance Of 's7. tha;
such men - Kernss, Hasanrask and Muel.
Ter, who perhaps never reab either that c,
or the Nebraska act, believe The one mon
nment Of Democratic freedom. and the 9th
the re, sess. For the especial benefit o.
those German gentle neL, We copy from
both acts the provision regulating the righ'
| Of suffrage. The ordinance Of 1857 pro
vidos:
"PnoviDss, That 20 person be eligible o,
qualified 10 act - prss NATIVE unless
be shall have been, citizen o the United
States three years, q Be resident in m.
District, or unles. b. shall have resided IN
the District three yssr snA in either case he
shall likewise hold in bic owe right, in Zee.
simple, two hundred acres Of land within
the sane raovipsD, also, that freehold
/ az fftv aePAa az land IN IT, ninfPiet hsv;ns