Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-14

ions, and al state legislation to the same
end, are condemned by the Judgment of
this community.
ResOtced, That, in view of what has
recently occurred in the Commonwealth
Of Virginia, the citizens of Philadelphia
disavow, as they have always done, any
right or wish to interfere with the do
mestlc institutions Of their sister states.
Resolved, That they reprobate, in the
strongest and clearest terms, all attempts
whether by invasion, secret instigation,
or PRONUNCIATION in any form of fanat' cal
opinions, to excite servlle Instruction,
or to arouse those who are lawfully held
in servitude to violence and boodshed.
Resoired, That. looking merely to the
pas, they deliberately express their ap-
proval OF the recent administration OF
justice in the Commonwealth Of Virgin.
ia, by which, according to the forms Of
Isw, strictly observed, the commission Of
a great crime has been .judiciallv proved
aud the punishment awarded by law to
that crime has been inflicted.
RESOLVED, That it is simple matter
of duty to express the sense which the
citizens Of Philadelphia have Of the en-
ergy and fidelity with which the cxecu
tive authorities Of Virginia have dis
charged, from first to last, the painful
and responsible duty which the e,ner-
gency imposed.
Kesolced That the executive Of Penn
sylvania, in promptly surrcndering, on
the rcquisiton OF the Governor Of Nr-
sinia, those fngiIivcs from justice, who
sought refuge within our borders, dis
charged his duty to the constitution. and
for doing so merits, and has received our
hearty approval.
Resolved, That the prompt suppress
ion, in the first instance, of tie Harper's
Ferry outbreak, is now, and it is hoped
will always be regarded as = most
marked illustration of the value Of the
Union, and the efficiency Of its cxecu-
tive authorities in furnishing, on the
spot, and at moments notice, the mill
tary means to suppress local and dan
gerous revolt, and relinquishing to the
state authorities the vindcation of the
violated law.
Resolced, That earnestly assuring our
brethren Of the south that there exists
among the people of Pennsylvania de-
termined spirit to asset and maintain
the constitution Of the Union, and the
rights of the states under it, we ask in
return confidence, and that dignifed
moderation which confidence aud pat
riotic sympathy inspire.
Resolred, That these resolutions en-
bodying the sense of a vast majority OF
tho citizens Of Philadelphia, without dis
tinction of party, signed by the officers
of the meeting, be published in the
newspapers Of Philadelphia and Wash
ington.
The Abolition organ in this city, 1--WE
mean the Davenport Gazette, not the
Der Demokrdt in the wake which the
Gazette is an humble follower,) has, on
more than one occasion, recently sneered
at the sentiments expressed in the Phil
adelphia resolves. Deeply ,mbued with
abolition feelings, this same Gazette has
adopted the ruse of more able cotempo-
raries, by ridiculing the idea that there
exists any cause Of alarm. In the lam
guagc of the great orator and patriot,
RUFUS CHoATE, "they tainted us with
being Union savers" To such as the
Gazette his reply is to the point:
81 never thought that a sarcasm of the
first magnitude" said he, "but as men
but do their best, let it 60 for what they
think it worth. take for granted, fell
lowcitizens, that you, that all Of us,
despise cant and hypocrisy in all things
the feigning fear not felt, the cry of
peril not believed to exist, all meanness
and all wickedness Of lalsehood in our
dealings with the mind Of the people,
But take it tor granted, too, that we
are above the cowardice and immortality
of suppressing our sense of a danger.
threatening precious interests and posi-
bic to be arrested, from the dread OF
jokers or of jokes and that we are
above the folly of yielding that vast ad-
vantage which deep convictions give to
earnest men in the dissensions of the
Republic. THINK WHAT THING 1T
WERE TO WIN THE PROUD AND SOUNDING
NAME IN REALTY, WHICH THEY BEsTOW
IN DEKlsIos. Suppose, only suppose it
ST. for the argument, that there is danger
over estimated, perhaps, by the eollci-
tude Of tiiial lovc,-but real or proba-
bic and less or more mote,-supposc,
merely for the supposition, that Wash
iDgton had reason to leave that warning
against this kind OF geographical COM
blnations, under all projects, and that
this one comes within the spirit and the
terms OF warnng,-suppose it to he SO
that We arc right, that vehement pas
sous, eager philanthropy, moral emo
tons not patient nor comprehensive of
the indispensable limitations of political
duty, that anger, pride, ambition, the
lust Of sectional power, the Jealousy of
sectional aggression, the pursuit even of
ends just snd desirable by means dspro-
portioned and needless and exasperatinp
the excess and outbreak of virtues bv
rhich, more surely than By vices, a coun-
try may be untlone--that these all work
ing in an unusual conjuncture of affairs
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