Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-21


he should bs called old. unless it be old In in :
tegrity, and old in Republican principles.
IAN individual with decided Seward pro.
clivities. inquired Of the speaker. Why Seward.
if SO good. WAS not nominated, and otherwise
boisterously interrupted the speaker. The
crowd wanted him put oul. The speaker. who
10 evidently . whole souled. good fellow. OBJ
jected to this. saying it Was free country that
the nsn didn't know what he vas saying, dc.
IndividuaL-Henry Clay. John C. Calhoun,
and VIM. II. Seward. Im an old Henry Clay
Whigi
Crowd of with him. take him away.
Mr.. Foster.-No. no, don't trouble him. By
George. II he is an old Henry Clay Wbig take
care Of him.
Voice-We won't hurt him.
Mr.. Foster-Now l said was not going to
make . speech You can supply one from Vir-
gnis. God bless her the mother Of Presidents,
and the home Of Washington. Cheers Nov
with such man a. Abram Lincoln, il you do
not succeed 1t will be your own fault, net
mine. You are near him. brought into imme.
date contact with him; We know him by his
history. and We on the extreme shores Of
the Atlantic. will give the vote of that little
State to Lincoln Of Illinois, and Hsmln Of
Maine. by at least 5000 majority. You recol-
Iect the struggle through which We have psss-
ed in our little State; sftruggle of the greatest
violence against the pow srs Of darkness; mean
BY that. the money Of the Democratic party
aud Mayor Wood Of New York We take your
Lincoln Of the great West Kthe Republicans
do their duty, We shall put into the offices for
which We have nominated them, these noble
Statesmen, and thus administer the death blow
to the sham Democracy which has so long mis-
ruled the country.
did not intend or expect to make . speech,
and would not have come here tonight. but
that it does me good to you all enthus-
ticaly engaged in the cause Of freedom, and as
l cannot make speech l will give way to
those who can.
Judge Foster was repeatedly interrupted,
both by fresh arrivals and individuals IN the
crowd. and his speech was, as consequence, .
running commentary.
Mr.. Collins announced that on Monday the
Republicans Of Rock Island hold q grand rati-
fcstion meeting. to which all are invited.
After three cheers for the Republicans of Vir-
ginia. Mr.. c. introduced Mr.. Underwood, Of
Virginia
Mr. Under wood said IL thank you, gentle
men, for the mention made Of my good Old
Common wealth of Virginia and of the Repub
icans of that State. l suppose you think we
have suffered so in the cause down in Vir.
ginis. l assure you, fellow citizens, it costs
something to be Republican in that State I'll
tell you what We do there when we first make
up our minds to be Republicans: the fret
thing we do We write our wills. Although
our late Governor, Wise, who is not a very
wise Governor, though, it was best to put them
out Of the way by violent me ms they have
been growing some In 1856 went to Phla-
de phia was able to find only two to 20
with me as delegates, and we hardly dare say
our lives were our own. Now We have had u
full representation at Chicago, and We intend
to carry many counties for Lincoln and Ham.
lin. Cheers
Gentlemen, l find that the Democrats of Vir.
ginia consider the sentiment Of Jeffei son treas.
on. I'll tell YOU: good Quaker minister hsv-
ing published hi. sentiments on the subject of
slavery. was indicted for writing and speaking
incen iiary language. Well, fellow citizens,
when the trial came on, it crawled through the
hair of the Commonwealth's Attorney that ev-
cry word in the indictment which was indicta-
ble. was taken from the writings of Thomas
Jefferson The only difficulty was that the
minister had left out the quotation marks. On
his being acquitted told him he was no. ir-
Gicted for incendiary language. but for plagiar-
ism Laughter | do not really suppose
that it they had known the language was that
of jefferson, they would have indicted the
minister. If so. | would suggest that they dig
up the bones of Jefferson and Washington and
tar and feather them. Laughter
But we have had delegation Of good men
and true in this convention from the Old Do
minion. and although divided as to a choice be-
tween those great and noble statesmen, VIM
II. Seward and Abram Lincoln; on the third
ballot they. seeing the preference Of the great
and mighty West in favor of Abram Lincoln,
cast the entire vote fer him. man who,
am told sprung from the peop'e nobler and
truer man never lived. Gentlemen, they cay
he has been eres at splitting rails.
A voice.-Och. how many can he split in
day!
Mr. Underwood.-They say he can split
more rails and maui more Democrats than any
other man in the Union.
=
was asked. as l came along through the
free States, wheth .r l thought, ii Republican
President was elected, that the South would
dissolve the Union. l told them no. have
been talking with some of the disunl ,nists
lately. and come tonight to tell you that
think they have made up their minds that they
wont dissolve the Union just yet They have
seen John Brown. Cheers They Say they
are q little afraid If they should dissolve the |
Union that the lsborug men 0. the North q d |
the Yankees would not let it stay dissolved |
Applause. This threat is one OF the most
nonsensical that ever was uttered. Especially |
since John Brown went down to Harper's Fer |
ry-I suppose you have heard of Harper's
Ferry? [Applause With dozen men he
took possession of one Of our towns sup
nose Won knO On that thew did not shou . 0roat
deal of fight. Applause and cheers | do
not wish to disparag. the manhood Of our
people. for think they are as brave as other
meu, under other circumstances, but the insti-
tuition Of slavery makes them weak Any so
ciety founded in wrong 10 weak. Why. sir,
whenever . report Is raised Of insurrection or
my fficulty among the negroes, each white
man has to run his fingers into q wooley head
and hold on for dear life And men thus stu.
Ated talk about dissolving the Urion! What
becomes of their Fugitive Slave Law? Why,
,ir. it would bring the Cansds line right down
to the borders of the Old Dominion, and ell
that negro would have to do to be as free az
his master. would be just to step across the
line. Applause
They merely want to frighten you Northern
men into measures-becsuse they think you
ove the Union. Now tell you what these
threats remind me ola little occurance which
will re ate. An old .gentleman had deep
we'll. which becoming foul. he went down to
slean 1t out When he got to the bottom, he
found it filled with deadly gas He had
strength barely to call for the rope which was
et down to him. He fastened it around his
body, and juet sufficient strength to make the
gnal to be drawn us. He become in sensible.
they pulled his head bump against:the wall.
md when about halt way up, brought him to