Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-10

ing Grape on tnelr mats Tor three months.
This called forth Q warm and animated dis
cussicn, when the following amendment wa
offered:
To strike out all after the word resolved, ant
insert, That while We deerly sympathize with
John Brown suffered, we must express our un
qualified disappfobstion Of the means By
which he sought to accomplish his object.
! The vote OIL the amendment was by the
Chairman pronounced tie but as he declined
giving the casting vote. division Of the house
was called. when the amendment was lost.
Mr.. Hardie offered the lowing:
Resolred, That as Slavery is cotrary TO the
laws Of God and the rights CT man. and ough,
to be Immediately abolished therefore, we ex
press our strong and irrepressible hatred oil
the barbariauism which makes traitors and
criminals ot lnen who are willing to risk their
lises in teha: Of the weak, the suffering, the
down-irodGen and the oppressed
| The above were passed
TIE following we're offered By Jas Brown
lie, ard passed unanimously:
Eesoig-d. That liberty ought to be divorced
from slavery, a it is evident the two caBnot
1--we 10 ether III peace.
ReSol ed, that copy of these resolutions be
furnished TO each Of the several papers pointed
in Davenport with a request that they publish
the same A. j. EMIEs Chairman.
H. j. NEAL, Secretary
EE The remains of THOMAS +.
MARSHALL, the famous orator of Kentucky
lectured, or as he chooses to say, "dlscoursed'
before a small audience in Metropolitan II al
on Thursday evening last. Abou. one hun irea
persons witnessed the Uarlequinade, "a gro
tesque but melancholy spectacle. Tom Mar.
shall was nee an orator and gentleman he
is now far, very far from either. We recollect
him pioneer in the Temperance cause be-
fore Cough had gained village reputation
he was a celebrity in Congress, when men like
John Quincy Adams were in the House, and
even Calhoun and Clay borrowed dignity from
a seat in the Senate. Gen. Marshall in his
discourse" ran parallel between Washington
and Buchanan to show the degenerAcy of
American Statesmen, but we can point him to
an apter ilustration-let him compare the
Thomas +. Marshall of 1889 with the Tom
Marshall OF to-day. He need not seek better
illustration. Let him remember the DAYS
when he commanded n battalion Of gall ant
Wings, and then look at himself as he stands
"a tifer for Black Republican, recruits There
has indeed, General MARSHALL, been woful
decline in American Craftsmanship ia the last
twenty years Enough Of him as a man; let
US look at him as a lecturer
The people of Davenport are not fastidioua
nor exactipg, but they have few innocent,
preiudices which it is about as well for those
who seek their favor to regard. They have,
for instance, slight dislike to the twadde of
drunken men, ard prefer to be a ldressed by
gentleman who does not find it necessary to
rub his eyes every few minutes, in order to
keep them open. Had Gen. Marshall been
aware of these facts, he would not probably
have favored us with his discourse"
They have, moreover, some scrupes as to
the propriety cf using profane language in the
presence Of ladies', and cannot see the wit, the
hnmor, or the eloquence OF such remark as
this: II wis., that door was locked with an
key, SO tight that ali Hell couldn't open it --
Are speeches like these characteristic Of Ken
lucky gentlemen ? Is Gen. Marshall in the
habit Of treating Ladies to such vuigarity as
that? if he be, then We need not wonder at the
beggarly ace ount Of empty benches which met
his gaze aud provoked his ire on Thursday
evening.
We beg respectfully TO enter an humble pro
test against another habit in which Gen. Mar
shall INDUCES. We alude to his constant fir
gerng of part of his person. to which it is
not usual for lecturers in Iowa to attract the at
tention Of ladies. If il be mere inadvertency,
he will thank US for bringing the matter TO his
notice: if it be something worse, he desery es
to be Kissed and pelted from the stand
1t is true that We have few orators IN Iowa
and no very erect standard Of eloqu ence, bpt
t strikes us that if speaker be too much
fat; gued to stand, the audience woui much
loll upon the d. SIX, or lie upon it, n.msy as u
rag, and almost as inanimae, and then in
dicate his vitality only by squirting stream
Of saliva over the desk, at the risk of hitting
suppose that he is in the back. woods, and that
our people consider the matters We have a.u.
ded to as indie atoms of G MUS. but we beg to
assure him that he has much mistaken the
character Of our population. We have aeen
gentlemen on the rostrum, and believe that he
is gentleman, in those rare intervals when he
is sober enough to respect himself and his
audience, but by his conduct last Thursday
he insulted his hearers disgraced himself, and
ruined the reputation he brought with him to
this city. We have said nothing as to the na-
ture Of his discourse, for we should be sorry to
judge Of his logic or his learning by thss melan
choly exhibition he made Of himself on that oc
casion. We believe him capable Of something
infinitely better than "the trifing, second
hand remark the old diseased, putrid thought"
which were the staple of his rambling bar
angue. Even in the ashes Of the orator of Ken
tucky there must live some sparks Of the
wonted fire. lie is STOPPING. grovelling in the
Gust, whilst he is content to retail TO hearers
at twenty-five cents per head, the stupid
commonplaces of Black Republican slang
whangers.
These remarks are not intended to wound
Gen. Marshalls feelings in his sober moments. he
will admit that cur structures are deserved. We
regret for his sake that they are necessary. but
We should be wan ting in our duty to the pub ie,
were we to permit conduct like his on Thursday
evening to pass unrebuked.