Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-14

ticket for Secretary of State) who acted as
Governor two or three weeks 70 the tune Of
four or five hundred dollars. while Grimes
was opening the Missouri river, which, un-
fortunately for Iowa. he opened On the
wrong side Of Jordan, thereby throwing
thousands Of rigrsnts into Missouri. I'm
der . wise democratic administration these
emiyrauts would have found homes amongst
US. and through their clergy and industry
Iowss broad prairies and beautiful valleys
to-day, instead Of the deeolstion and ruin
that sweeps over our State like bosom OF
destruction, would have been rich with
bounteous harvests, and radiant with smil-
ing faces, conter ted and happy. But even
now methinks see from out the darkness of !
Iowa's gloomy night, little star of hope |
begin to dawn. pointing the people to the
18th day of next October. when, it they are
true to themselves and mindful Of their pos
terity, they will strike blow for democrat
ic men and measures which alone can make
her prosperous at home and expected in the
councils OF the nation.
see Kirkwood Of this city has intimated
to Davis Of Dubuque that things look squat
" for Vandever, and unless something is
done soon, Leffingwell, the peoples candi
date. will walk over the course and core in
alone is sorry that combination of cir
cumstances prevented Davis from visiting
his constituency, but forgot to say it was
the same that prevented little Jeemes, of
Davenport, from like mission, viz: fail.
ure to get the nomination for Congress; and
hopes he'll turn out and help them in their
distress. He recommends Davis to strike a
bee line for the Missouri river, (can't think
of any other point,) and back hy different
route, (of course back by different route,)
for it would hardly be safe to cross the State
twice the same way, and tell the honest vo-
tiers Of Iowa that he is stumping it for the
reelection Of the same party to office who
have been plunderng the treasury and steal
ing the peoples taxes in Iowa the last three
years, until the State is bankrupt and beg
gar, at the mercy Of Black Republican
thieves. Why not suggest to him, Mr.. Kirk
wood, to spread little, and take johnson
county in his ronte, for if the evidences Of
Black Republican rascality continue to be
divulged amongst the honest laboring class
es, there won't be Black Republicans enough
| left here on the 18th of October to bury
| their dead
presume no government in the world
has been conducted on such a grand and
magnificent scale as that Of Iowa during the
three yearspast and to that more than any
thing else, can we attribute the good credit
of our merchants and manufacturers in the
eastern markets, and the great prosperity
among our laboring classes in Iowa, which
| can be but the natural result of wise and j.
dicious administration Of the affairs by tie
black republican party. Besides nothing
could give New England SO favorable an
impression of Iowas general character for
intelligence, as to inform Horace Mana New
England aboltionist, that the black repub-
lican party to whom the people had cenfid-
ed the destiney Of Iowa, was composed of
set OF ignoramouses, not competent or quail
fed to form bit of q school law, and IIor-
ace Man was imported into Iowa,a distance
Of thousands of miles at heavy expense to
the tax payers, to do what q thousand dem
ocratic school boys in the State of Iowa
could have done as well, and better too-
| Again, last winter, there an appro-
priation Of $4,000, made for University
buildings at Iowa City. A Board of Direc
tors was appointed, (every one OF which was
a black republican, and their first act was
to employ Mr. Dean, a lawyer Of New York,
at salary of $4,000 year, to superintend
the erection Of common ordinary boarding
house. Dean never lived in Iowa two days
in his life, and yet at this time, snugly en-
sconsed in some stately mansion in New
York is drawing s., 900 of the peoples taxes
in Iowa. because no member of the black re-
publican party in Iowa is competent to dis
charge SO important trust. 1t would be
better for the people of Iowa to let out the
contract at once to the lowest bidder, for
carving on the government of Iowa Since
the black republicans have acknowledged
themselves incompetent to do it; would it
not be better to elect democrats who will
manage her affairs without having to import
New England abolitionists. to frame her
school laws, or New York LAWYERS TO build
cheap boarding houses Yet, this black re-
publican party in fact, the same officers who
have controlled Iowa for the last three
years, now ask the people-a people groan
ing beneath the load OF black L. publican OPP
pression-to elect them to the offices which
they have SO disgraced, to kiss the hand
that smites them, and hug closer the chains
that bind them in servitude, more CALLING
and more oppressive than a niger upon a
cotton plantation would wear-chains to
which nothing but willing slave would
submit Will they do it? Citizens Of Iowa
the eyes of a nation are upon YOU, and
watching to see?
The democratic watch fires Of victory are
burning brightly by all around you,-from
Missouri to Carolina, all over one vast coun-
try the people have crushed out of existence
the last vestage Of that useless, miserable
thing, called black republicanism. And
whether Iowa is less patriotic. less inte,li
that noble galaxy Of States who have Just
preceded her in the fall lection, the 18th
Of October, will be the time for her to de-
termine
But let not Iowa think the judgement Of
her bordering sister States severe, too
| harsh when they tell her that Who ever