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

great speech ON Tuesday evening, at the
Old Tammany Democratic ratification
meeting, thus humorously and eloquent
Iy spoke Of the recent outbreak at Hal.
per's Ferry:
have very little to say concerning
the miserable men who have entered in
t, thi, "ilrepressible conflict in earnest.
upon vi om the law has laid its hand
! will leave them there. But | have
much to say concerning those Who set
tho ball in motion. This Brown, whom
they now turn their backs upon, was re-
Gently hero. His name was borne up
on every breeze, and mingled with the
loudest shrieks that came from Kansas.
He was not only John Brown, but Ossa>
wattamie Brown, Capt. Brown, Major
Brown and Gen. Brown. Applause and
laughtcr.) But now that he is in the
hands Of the law, he is called "crazy old
Brown" and left to his fate. What W
assert is that the conduct Of Brown and
his associates 10 the natural and legti-
mate, if not necessary harvest from just
such sowing ~ year after year the Re-
publican party has made.
This slavery question has been sgita>
ted without any cause under heaven. -
So far from slavery advancing upon the
free states, the free states have been adj
vancing upon the slave states, and not
a single inch of the Territories Of the
| United States, either of the old or that
recently acquired from Mexico, was ever
adapted to slavery for there is not a
rod Of it upon which negroes could raise
hemp enough to hang themselves. 1t is
so i'll adapted to slavery that if the slave,
did not run away from their masters, the
masters would have to run away from
their slaves. Laughtcr.)
Nevertheless, the public MUD was
excited, and Republican pulpits, presses
and firesides were redolent OF Kansas
and slave territory. Every reasoning
man knows that in the beginning we
were all slave states; that we were such
when we entered into this federal COM
pact to perpetuate the blessings of libcr-
ty. They knew that one by one we be-
came free states, until we had at the
time this ''irrepressible conflict" was in
augurated majority Of sixty votes in
the House of Representatives, and six in
the Senate Of the United States and
every day the free states were growing
stronger and the slave states numerically
weaker. Some of tho slave states, too
stand ready, whenever this Republican
pressure shall be removed, TO abolish
slavery in their own way end in their
own time, AS we in New York have done,
and as has been done in New England,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The Democratic party is party Of
"let alone" in everything except sustain
ing the constitution. 1t believes our
sister states are our equals in right, not
only upon paper, but in sprit-ichecrs)
not only equal in theory, but in prac-
tice; that they possess all the rights we
possess and enjoy. The highest duty of
both slave and free states We hold to be-,
to have kind regard for each other in
all their varied relations under the fed
eral compact, which that compact sug>
gested in its original adoption. But the
Republican party proposes to wage, and
does wage, an ''irrepressible conflict
against the slave states. Look at the
Republican press during the past ten or
fifteen years-see its pages recking with
exciting language and hostile denunca-
tons Of slavery. Hear their incendiary
orators during that time. And even
this day the very same tone Of denuncia-
ton is going on.
Is it to be wondered at that when 50
many are preaching, some should be
found to practice,-that Brown and his
associates, with the aid and encourage
ment they had received, should attempt
this insurrection in one of the states OF
this confederacy? They are not to get
off by saying it is "Uld Brown" s'mad
Brown" or ''crazy Brown" Who,
ask, in the name Of truth and justice, fur
nished the material, the sinews of this
terrible war! Old Brown, ''crazy Brown -
and his associates did not. No crazy
man ever laid that internal plot. 1t was
done with murderous deliberation.
Every step, through all its devious, dark,
winding way, it was done with murder
Gus deliberation.
Who furnished the spikes to be placed
in the hands of Infatuated blacks at
midnight, to murder their masters and
mistresses Who furnished the arms
and munitions, and sped them on their
way to inaugurate this irrepressible
conflict! These questions will have to
be answered to tho satisfaction of the
American people. Att'la the Hun, who
was denomlnated the scourge Of Goo, by
reason Of his black and brutal ferocity,
declared that no green grass should grow
where his horses feet had tr0ddeD.-
Hydcr Ali upon the Carnatic, left moth
ing behind his trail but ashes and blood.
But Attila the Hun, and Hyder Ali
upon the Carnatic, will be regarded in
the great day, honester men in the sight
Of God aid man, than those who
iuaugurated that irrepressible conflict in
Virginia.
MISCELLANEOUS.