Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-11-17

THS TsUTH PLAINLY ssokxs-Tus
BALrnsnR1 EIacr1os.-Te Colunbe
SosA ClroHetas thps s'aaks d.
recent violasiqn Of tie 1sctts tam hi,e
in Ballimeee:
ut can in no wise b called ~ election
and did the proper spirit prevail in the
Redepal House q Representative, seish~
er Davis nor Harris would be permitted
TO occupy seats 70 which they are in no
respect more entitled than sny rowdies
in that hopslbl city. Tho condition Of
distraction and rowdyism to which Bal
timors has attained, should inspire the
decent and respectable citizens through
out the United States, particularly in the
towns and cities, to take IN early stand
against frauds and corruptions in elect
ions. It seems that ell the previous or
CARNATIONS and arrangements Of the re,
formers we're unavailing. Unfortunate
", court, mayorality, and police system
are under the control Of the rowdies, so
that the bulwarks to which society looks
for protection hav, been converted into
engines for the protection Of crime and
disorder"
The RElIGIoUs Pass ON OLD BRowN.
The New York O1server, organ of the
Old School Presby terians, takes strong
ground against pardoning old Brown
Assuming that be Va guilty Of murder
and insurrection. it argues - follows
Punishment in the government Of
God and man does not spring from q
spirit Of revenge. II i the fruit of
love. Love demands that one who has
made war upon society shall die. Phi
lapthropy, the love OF man, the love Of
the human race, the love of the greatest
number requires that murderers Be puns
ishcd, as God, who il love, ordained
And We tremble less in view Of Browns
mad freak than we do in face Of the fact
that there is. abroad in the land senti-
ment that would shield him aud others
from the just consequences Of their
crimes. When those men embarked in
this war upon the State, when they pre-
pared guns for the white men and =
thousand spears for the blacks to be
used in barbarous slaughter, when they
imbrued their hands in bleod BY taking
the first victim ian honest colored man
who made no resistance, but Vas only
seeking to escape from their hands, and
numbering him in cold clood; when
they refused to lay down their arms af-
ter being overpowered, and continued
their murderous work, they threw away
oil claim to compassion and put them
selves on the hazard Of the revolution
they had begun. If others can find any
cause for pardoning such crime we can
not
The New York zribnne publishes !
long letter from the notorious James
Redpath, one of the vilest Of the pack of
Abolition emissaries who were active
with the pen and not the sword in the
Kansas troubles, the object Of which is
to attack and weaken the testimony
given against John Brown by the editor
Of the Herald of Freedom, in the article
lately published in that paper. He un-
blushingly avows that he was one Of the
members Of the sSecret oath>bound Or
der" referred to in tina article, whose
password was "Lane," and whose OBJ
ject wss the cold-blooded assassination
Of unarmed men. He also avows that
old John Brown had no hand in the
murder Of Doyle and his companions,
and assigns as reason that he has been
told so by . man who was one of their
murderers, and who cosefessed to hinp all
the particulars Of the .transaction. -
What reliance is to be placed on the
statements of man who thus acknowl-
edges himself the associate and conf
dant Of assassius !-Rttsbury Post.
Hon. Joshua Giddings is one of the
two members at large" Of the Republic
can State Central Committee Of Ohio.
It is important to state this, 40, since the
attempted servile instruction at Harp
er's Ferry, the Black Republicans have
attempted to deny his connection with
their party, just - they attempted to re-
pudiate Ossawatamie Brown.
Some Of the ministers in New York,
who are preaching the abolition of slav-
erv instead Of Christianity, find them
selves getting into : bad way for want
Of means. Rev. Geo. B. Cheever has
made an appeal to the abolitionists OF
England to help the "cause of Christian
abolition" He speaks despondingly Of
his efforts.