Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-21


country. Asd the Rcpub.ican leaders
were all the me furnishing h'm VII"
tue sincws Of war to carry on this SUI
premely infamous work. The clergy
were az, with few exceptions, com
pl. tcy absorbed and constantly 'mPor-
tuning their congregations to shell out
their contributions for bleeding Kan.
sas."
Tia. wicked and contemplate farce
was n: length played ont. Now the
whole thing has returned to plsgnc its
inventors. Old John Brown happened
to tail in bin last effort and OF course me
is ;usaue- a fanatic-a monomaniac.
lie never was Republican, or anything
else, but fool or madman." That Is
the wav thew talk now. He did not
succeed, because his cowsrdly crew OF
ai,!ers and abettors did not :" come to
time" as they agreed, and help him cx.
ecute the plan they themselves had
helped lay out. lie Tough. aud killed
AS long as he could, aud then goes into
C ,urt ard Gets up the hish"syman's
plea that $: he never did intend murder,
or treason, or the destruction OF proper
". or 10 excite or incite slaves To rcbcl-
lion, or to make insurl ectlon," Tut only
meant "to free slaves" as he had done
before "witLo 1t the swapping Of gun,
in Missouri.
The Republican leaders are now
changing from the position OF "abctto's'
to apologists lor Browns rash act. The
Boston Alas and Bee thinks he is too
GOOD man to die. We think him too
bad man to live, and should have sui
fered death long ago. lie made short
speech before receiving the sentence OF
the court, which the Ati0s aud bee says
is "thc most remarkable that ever tell
from the lips OF man. 1t reminds us OF
Pau's speech before Agrippa. 1t is in
tinitely superior to the speech OF Robert
Emmett before the Irish Judge" Prob
ably the atlas and bee thinks it is far
ahead Of the sermon on the mount. 1t
had better have pocket edition pub
ished for daily reference. We pro
uouncc it, all things considered, the most
Infamous speech ever uttered. 1t shows
its author to be the most abandoned and
hardened wretch that ever existed. a
man who can stand up and plead the
Golden Rule in extenustion Of the crimes
of which old Brown is guilty, by his
own confessions, has sunk to a depth o
depravty hardly possible to conceive Of
We have As much repugnancc to tax
ing life as any other man. But the goo,
and the safety Of society demands thai
all such men IS old Brown should b.
removed from the world.-Dover (N
H. Gazette.
OLD JOHN BRowN-HIs Mission rt
KANsAs.-While we presume it is mo-
the intention of the Republican press t.
lefend old John Brown, or vindicate hi
conduct at Harper's Ferry, yet We regIe
to know that they have done go in thu
past in regard to crimes infinitely more
damnable than the Harper's Ferry trag
edy, aud now they have the wickedness
to say that CHS mission to Kansas wa'
peaceful one" and that sit was the Vi
olencc committed upon his family aut
home which made him the demon he is.
In our article of last week VIC statet
that old Brown came to Kansas late il
tho aummer. or in the fall of 1855 tina
he came armed, and i'll a peculiar man.
ncr; that those arms were furnished hin
in the State Of New York; and tina
their supply was made the condition o
his coming here; that he showed E.:
bloodthirstiness peculiarly his own du
ring the Wakarusa war, in December o
that year; and that nowhere in hi
whole Kansas history do we find par
ticle of evidence that he desired to cul
tivate the principles Of peace.
| 1t is urged that he came here peac,
man. Do peace men emigrate to I
country carrying with them only broad
swords, navy revolvers, bayonets, mus
kets, pixies, &c.s Do peace men cal
from their dwellings at midnight thei
fellow citizens, and cut them to piece.
with broadswoyds ?-Layrence Kan.
Herald of Freedom, Nov. 5.
| OLD BRowN NOT OssAwAToMII
BRowN.-The cognomen of "Ossawato-
mic" has very generally been applied t,
Old John Brown, though incorrectly
Brown was never resident Of Ossawat-
annie, but resided some eightmiles above
that place, on Pottawatomie creek. Thu
title, originally, was applied to o. G
Brown, Esq, resident OF Ossawatomie
aud one Of the projectors Of that settle
ment, and proprietor Of the town site
Presses and politicians are continually
confourding these names Laurence
Herald Of Freedom, Noe. 5.
The POPULATION OF kANsAs.-Ac-
cording to the most accurate returns We
received from Kansas, the vote Of tina
Territory on the question OF accepting oil
rejecting the Constitution, was not lcs1
than sixteen to eighteen thousand
Assuming these figures to be correct, an,
the improbable theory that all the cleo
tors were at the polls, We do not SC,
how We are to fix the population Of tn.
Territory much if any below the mum
Der named in the "English' Bill, equa
to the ratio for Representative in Con
gross.
But since it is impossible that all tn
electors could have voted, and since i,
fact it is understood that almost the en-
tire population Of the Pixies Peak region
| al ct o;s1ol f~cro .,o<:cr. ..x.,.t l.