Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-26

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Grafton pronounced BY the Rev. George
w. Bethune. d. D., on the morning Of
the last Fourth q July, st the ioangurs-
ton Of the " asblL gtes Statue h Unisn
Square:
God made Washington, and gave
him to W, in himself the type Of what
our republic should be, in oil bic elo-
ments great, even eonsistent-each Wig
orous 10 it, own action, yet all held in
harmonious balance BY the unity Of .
single purpose. No wosder his work
survived him. Survived him ? No.
He still lives, though his mortal fame
has long been dust. God, who gave,
keep that life with rs! for when that
shirt is lost-when our elements revolt
from their oneness, and, like maniac
amoug the tombs whose devils were le.
pion. We cut and tear ourselves-this
fair confederacy will soon lie beneath
the Heavens the most mangled, loath-
some corpse that ever polluted the
breath ofhumanity with it's putrefac-
ton. Some of the devils are in US nov.
Oh, for the God Of our fathers to drive
them out and down into the sea OF an
infamous oblivion !''-Harper's Maya.
aiae, Sept. 1855.
A "FUNNY" SuBJEcr.-Some of the
papers laugh at the alarm and excite.
ment in Charlestown and its neig hbor-
hood. Cowardly and foolish fellows
that they are, says some Black Republi
can paper; what reason have they tor
excitement! Three or four of the jurors
in Browns case have had their barns
and wheat stacks burnt down; there is
evidence in the hands Of the Prosecuting
Attorney that rescue is meditated, as
would be exceedingly natural on the
part of Browns sympathizers the 1fi-
June's correspondent at Charlestown is
believed to ofiiciate as q spy !; drawing
of the prison and it's surroundings, pub
lished in that paper, is supposed to have
been intended a. one of the directions to
the rescuers; Governor Wise is receiving
threatnlng letters, some Of which no
doubt come from Abolitionists; yet,
under the circumstances, there should be
neither alarm nor excitement, nor any
precautions taken against the happening
Of further mischief, nor any attempt
made to punish those who have commit
ted the mischief already done. Barns
and wheat-stacks Of offending jurors who
have been guilty Of obeying their oath,
and discharging their duty, are no doubt
easily fired; and when on fire have elc-
ments of combustibility which insure
their immediate and complete dcstruc-
ton. So. also, the compactly built
towns and villages of New England,
composed - they are Of frame houses,
would be as good finder boxes as row
of wheat stacks. Suppose, now, that q
gang Of Virginia robbers had been
caught in taagrante delicto in some one
of those villages, and had been duly
convicted Of their offenses. Then snp-
pose that shortly after the dwelling
houses of the jurors had been fired and
that the flames should be breaking out
every night or two, and spreading de-
struction among the pleasant homes Of
Lynn, Haverhill or Worcester. Would
all the inhabitants there be lmperturba-
bly, composed Would the newspapers
there pass on these outrages with scarce
ly a word Of recognitionl Or W, uld
there not be alarm and excitement!
II, indeed, there would be no nantes
tation on the part of the sufferers and
their neighbors, we admit that the
journals which represent the people
there have right to laugh At the eek
element in Virginia. But if, as we
have no doubt, there would, under the
circumstances, be just as much disturb.
ances of the general equanimity among
those people as among any other por-
ton Of the great American community,
We cannot we'll see the place where the
laugh at the expense of the Virginians
ought to come in.-St. Louis Repub.