Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-12-11

TUESDAY MOkNIN6.... elm. a. N0
Practical Working. Of Black hePupn'
canism in Iows.-A Nut for the "azeste
10 Crack.
Il is a tact known to most OF ou1
readers that the little settlement o.
sprngdale, in Cedar county, is made W
principally Of niger thieves and under
ground Railroad conductors. The pop
ulatioa is largely OF Quaker persuasion,
an 20 there what time OF year you may
YOU will be sure TO end from ten to TWEEN
ty, and sometimes more, runaway mig
gers housed, fed and worked, until con
venient opportunity occurs for them 70
be run IF to Canada. In the Summer
season, this opportunity does not often
occur, FOR it Is convenient by the qua
kerr to keep this dusky friends with
them to help do mp the Summer work,
after which they manage to slide them
pickering to do so, rather than keep
them through the Winter. This, among
them, is styled disinterested philan-
thropy! Other people can call 1t by a
different name if they choose. The
transmission Of the dark sons OF Congo
To Canada is undertaken and carried
through by different persons. Some
times preacher Grinnell volunteers his
services in the work. This great Apostle
of Black Republicauism boxes them up
in freight cars, securely fastened, and
gets them through to Chicago or De-
trolt without change Of cars" and
leaves them on Victoria's soil to shift
for themselves as they best may.
Their residence at Springdale is At
tended with no little annoyance to the
sober Quakers. Hen roosts and turkey
pens have to suffer. Petty thieylng OF
odds and ends is carried on to grav-
ous extent, but the great philanthroplsts
have to stand it whether they like II or
not. But the trouble, it appears, does
not end with tbeiylng. Late deveiop-
ments have shown q more revolving
state of affairs than heretofore.
A short time since, as we learn from
q respectable citizen of Attalissa, there
appeared in the family circle of here
tofore respectable white household lit
tle stranger OF no particular age, whose
thick lips, fiat nose and woody head bore
strong indications Of illicit attempts at
the adoption Of the negro blood by
white folks. In palmer English white
woman-the wife of white husband
gave birth to snigger child For a
while the utmost attempts at secrecy
were made, and our informant says that
it has leaked out that an attempt WAS
made to strange the little haf-breed at
an early moment, tohich d,d not succeed.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
colony to stlhe the report of this revolt
ing affair, it came TO light. The niggers
got wind of it and soon began to boast
Of the matter AS circumstance highly
hsttering to themselves, and soon the cat
was ont Of the bag, aud the case be-
came generally known.
This Ve present AS ole Ut the practi-
cable workings Of the lrrepressihie Com
hies, 4 more revolving uc,3cnt Las
moi lately come % our notice L pre-
SCENTS most Lumij-,ns and degrading
aspect OF atfars--though a legitimate
sequence of the peculiar workings Of
Black Republican principles. Such a
visitation upon the heads Of the
Springdale quakers should open their
eyes, and cause them to wind up their
U. G. K. X. Agency instanter.
Will the Gazette, the Upton Advocate,
the Muscstine Journal, and other Re-
publican newspapers Of this section who
have been the apologists of the acts of
the Springdale people, explain away
apol ogize for, and put this dark matter
right before the public.