Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-03
Oiagusting.

We appeal to the good scnte OF e''
cry American citizen, be be Republican,
American or Democrat, If what be saw
yesterday, as manifestations ofsympashy
for John Brown, was not DIS
notwithstanding IN the extreme. A
felon was executed as penalty for the
commission of high crimes against the
peace and well being OF society. The
execution of that violator Of the laws OF
Heaven and Earth is concentrated as
the death OF patriot and martyr The
American Flag is desccrated by berg
festooned with the lugubrious emblems
Of sorrow. The badge of mourning is
rnblushingly exhibited by the sympathi-
GERS for the condemned criminal. The
Negro portion Of the population assom-
bic, to express their chargin that their
friend and the friend Of their race had
not been successful in the work of blood
and rebellion, aud that his attempt to re-
enact the bloody scenes attending the
revolution in st. Domingo had thus
teen ignominiously terminated on the
scaffold. Whites and Black. commin-
gle their tears over the tate Of Il traitor
aai murderer. La view of all tins, we
cannot imagine that any other feeling
will pervade this community, outside Of
those who are blinded and impelled by
the grossest fanaticism, than that Of con-
tempt or disgust.
These outward signs Of an inward
feeling OF hostility to the law and its
execution, are unmistakablc proofs that
there exists in this country class Of
men, who are anxiousy awaiting q
hoped-for state OF things, which will
warrant revolution, and subve.sion Of the
government. Many ofthem have brought
with them from Europe the widest thco-
ries, and the most dangerous political as
we'll as religious prnciE les. Having arr.v-
cd at the dignity of American citizenship
they adopt the rule Of action here which
they had meditatcd against the despot
isms from which they fled. They do not
discriminate between loyalty to govern
ment Of the people, and to one in which
the great body of the governed have
no voice. These remarks onl y apply to
that class Of Europeans educated ii
the schools OF revolution and rebellion.
Their hostility TO tyranny in the coun-
try of their birth was not censurable, but
here, in the country of their adoption, the
institutions and laws Of which they have
sworn before God to support, any pro-
mitigation Of rebellious sentiments is des.
picable, and ought to be ftowned down by
every good citizen.
Der Demokrat Of yesterday makes an
inccndiary appeal, saying "this as a day
of ssourning for as, and for the entire
GERMAN population Of this tom, and
zoe belieUe Of this State and the whole
Union :" just as If the Red Republican
Germans meditsted a remodeling of our
system to suit their own peculiar views.
We have fought the Know Nothings from
the beginning, but if anything under
Heaven could make US one, it would be
the impudent assumption of such as Der
Democrat and those it represents, that
to them, as Germans, is committed the
task of reforming our Institutions. If
they ever try that in this couutry-ifthey
ever organize as distinct body to over
throw the government here, as they
medtatcd the subversion of those from
which they were driven, they may find
other uses for their badges of mourning
than this display in memory of the trail
tor Brown.