Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-10-24

Decn cons de able Oh Sho~C. ~
the receut elections the Democratic
parry has been pretty thoroughly
thrsshed. For the second time, in
Penn v,ysnis, We have been beaten.
We vii not speculate upon the
causes which have led to this calam-
ny. The main cause was undoutted
l. scarcity Of Democratic
votes in the ballot boxes. A patty
and disatfec.ion kept enough Demo-
ats sway from the polls to insure
an opposlt" n triumph. The vote, when
it comes to be summed up, will be
found small, and the democratic
vote very small indeed. There were
manfc,t signs Of reactiona'y move
ments IN our ranks, and at ono time
We hsd hopes that good turn out
would secure us the victory, but that
turn out did not take p ace. The
election news from ve'ywhere IS very
much alike There is no chance for
any county or State brap ging OF what
i. has done over its neighbors. The
witty Il" Artemus Ward" advises the
Democracy to quit reajing newspa-
pers for = couple Of weeks, and devote
their attention to some light reading
like Baxter's Saints Rest. Artemus
is right. The figures are very heavy
reading for the Democrats just now
but We are not i sposed to find fault
with any body for the result. II was
to be, and is-and let us make the
best OF it. elimination or childish
lan.untstion can do US no good. Let
us begin and work for the ,nomentous
future. Pennsylvania i. yet Demo-
cratic State, and will so prove her
self when the Democracy IS tine to it.
self, aud ralIys for its great princi-
pies, as it will rally next wear. Let
the past rest, and with fresh vigor
aud spirit, let us enter upon the com
ing Presidential contest. From the
present time let erch eye be aimed at
ctorv, IN 1860, and each arm be
str, ngthened by everything consls-
tent with sound principles to Obtain
it,
Pennsylvania has always been COLI
se,vative State, and we do not believe
she is yet prepared TO endorse the
mad doctrines Of political aboli,ion-
ISM now named Seward SUI. Ii the
issue is dis il city made between a
sectional Repub lean candidate and /"
Nat onaI Democrat, We do not think
the voice o. Pennsylvania will be a
dout tiul one. Blu, to secure u victo-
ry we must work-wOrk-wolk.-
Pits6,lrg Post.
When Captain Brown, or o.
sawotomie brown, Vas figuring in
Kansas Territory, at the head of a
band Of marauders, committing all
sorts Of of noes against law and order,
be WAS the toast Of all the Black Re
publican presses and orators in the
country. No crime was committed
BY HIM but what it found ready de-
fcLce even in the Senate Chamber,
and in the pulpit where the three
thousand preachers were i'll the hab-
it OF uttrring political discoulses for
the edificat'On Of theii flocks. Ac
cord'ng to these authorities, Brown,
when burni' G, pundering and muir
der,ng IN Ka s-s, was dong God,
ser, ice, aud it ha' m had GENE to b m
he would have been canoniz,d as a
martyr IN the cause which they pro
70 q 10 have 90 murh at heart. Blu,
Brown made good his retreat from
that Territory, and we now hear Il
him on new theatre, but in no way
improved in hi morals or his lre-dis
potion to ing abou, bloodshed and
murder. The telegraph has electri-
fed the country with accounts Of his
app, arance at IIarper's Ferry, Va, 81
the head of q few whites and some
tree bla ks, connecting and assisting
in an ,n>urrcct on tt the slaves, and
exciting them to the murder of the
whites Ut that section the State, ex
pectng thereby to make Virginia and
Maryland free States. As vet, We
have only the reports of the telegraph
neccs, arily imperfect and obscure i'll
the details, aud We shall wait for All
thent G accounts before making up All
opinion as to the outside influence:
which governed Brown in this move.
ment, In the declarations made by
himself and his party, subsequent to
their capture, it is asscverated tina,
they took counsel of no one out
side of themselves, and this may have
been SO. But this event is hand
writing on the wall, to tell the peo-
pie of the slave States what they are
to expect from the fanatics OF the
North, so long as this question Of giv
ing freedom to the Stare is made the
absorbing one in the pulpit and y,
the politicians in the free States. |,
is, also, a question for the consdera
ton of the right-thinking, and the
conservative and patriotic portion o
the people Of the Free States, how
long they will tolerate q species 0
phrenzy-countenanced in too many
instances by their public men ane
their pulpit politicisns-which threat
ems to carry rapine, murder and des'
olation into fifteen ofthc States of thu
Union, for no other reason than te
give freedom to serviIe race wholly
untitled tor it. This, be it observed
Is no domestic nsurrection-it is no,
an uprising OF the slaves against Their
masters, caused by il-treatment, o,
'ong indulgence in imaginary ideas Of
wrong lnfi cted upon them. Moth
ing Of this kind is known to have hap.
pened. Bnt it Is the incnrsion of =