Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-29

by its fruits. Fana,icism is the opposite
Of true morality and true religion. In
every age, since the first dawping o.
christian ty upon the world, there have
been those who, misconceiving the OBJ
ject Of the mission Of the Saviour OF man.
kind, have run so far into extremes rs 10
throw odium upon the religion he came
establish, and thereby rendering them.
selves stumbling blocks in the way OF
the anxious seeker of truth.
In this, the nineteenth century, ana 10
this. our own land, we have as conspic-
uous exanp plies of the extremes OF fanati-
cism, as can be found recorded upon the
pages of history. The devotees of Pa
gan idoIatry do not afford more striking
illustrations Of wretched infatuation,
than We have now around us, in the per-
sons of the crusaders against the people
and the institutions Of the southern
States Of this confcderacy. We refer, as
confrmatory Of this statement, to sill.
gle example by which whole case may
be Judged. RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
speaking Of the traitor and murderer,
Brown, uses the following blasphemous
languay -" The saint (Old BROWN
whose fate yet hangs In suspense, but
whose martyrdom, if it should be per-
fccted, mill maHe tie gaiiors as glori-
ous as the cross" The abominable SEN
tinent Of the foregoing extract is that
which gives life to Aboltionism, and
which enters into and directs every
movement of that organization, which, in
itself and through the aid Of sympathiz-
ers, now menaces the government of the
country.
TO slow that the Republican party
cherish this sentiment, and looks upon
old Brown in no less light than that OF
martyr whose blood will serve to build
up and strengthen righteous cause,
we append the following extracts from
leading Republican journals:
From the Norwich Bulletin, Re-
publican paper:
On the I'd day of December, John
Brorn dies u martyr, not to the cause
OF emancipation, but to the cause of
truth and Justice 4
TO the cause Of fair dealing and hon
est justice; to the cause which true men
love, and which at the last Will conquer.
We accept the issue, and uelcome tie
arrepressible conflict achich eoery day
brtngs nedrer."
The Winstead (Ct) Herald, Re-
publican paper, speaking Of Brown, says !:
lie is honest in his principles, cour-
ageous IN their defence, and we have vet
to be taught reading from that book of
inspiration we all acknowledge, how and
wherein old John Brown is a transgress-
or. DO with him as we will, his ashes
will some day be gathered to hero's
tonic, his name will be written with the
WinkIereids, and Tells, and Washing
tons of history, and the American school
boy shall yet be taught to listen with
molstenlng eye and beating heart to the
story of Old John Brown"
The New York Tribune, the chief
organ of the Republican party, says:
We leave this work Il. e. 'execration
on the memory OF Brown IL Coz to the
hit hands and tongues of those who re-
gard the fundamental axioms of the De
claratlon Of independence as 'yItterino
generalltles.' Remembering that, if Their
fault was grevious, previously have they
answered 1T, we will not by one reproach-
fvl word, disturb the bloody shrouds
wherein John Brown and his compatri-
OTIS are sleeping. John has since walked
up but still we have not a 'rcproachful
word from the Tribune on him or his
Abolition hackers in this diabolical
scheme. They dared and died for what
they felt to be The Right. though in a
manner which seems to us fatally wrong.
LET Their epitoph remain unuritten IN
III the not distant day mAen no stare
shaH cianh has chains IN the shades of
-uo"tscsllo, or by the graves Of 1Noumt
Vernon"
The Bangor Wing and Courier, the
Republican echo of the N. Y. Tribune,
says:
1--WE hope that Brown may be par
doncd. or his sentence be committed to
Imprisonment. lie has shown a shirt
"orthy eta better .tate than that award-
ca htm-even "a acknowledged by south
efn men themselves. He has sacrificed
h'mseT for the freedom Of his tello,c
men-ond no more than that did Leon
adds Of DID,"
But we have evidence nearer home ot
the endorsement Of the sentiment q,
Eme'son's Fraternity lecture. These
Republican organs may not approve Of
tho figure of speech used by Emerson
and might suggest another sinaile than
that of the "cross,' vet the idea of mar.
tyrdom is the same in the one as in the
other. The Chicago Press d. Ti6un.
OF the 26th inst, contains the following
editorial:
WELL DONE, OLD BRowN.-A few
days ago, "Mlnister of the Gospel''-
one of that tribe of Pecksniffs who de.
fend Slavery on Biblical grounds-oue
whose salary is paid by the labor
whipped out Of his fellow beings when
II Is not gathered hv tho salo oftho ,,or