Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-08-31
Byingtun Challenges kl.kwOOd.


Byingtun Challenges kl.kwOOd.
In the last number of the Iowa City
Press We find that lie Grand Byington
is ready and anxious to 90 on a stump
ing tour in the Democratic cause, pro-
vidcd he can induce Gov. kitkwood to
take the stump with him. We trust the
cordial challenge will be as cordially &C
cepted by the Governor, and in case lie
declines, it will be evidence enough, TO
most minds, that he'd little rather not
travc! with Ellington. Read the
CHALLENGE.
To GOVERNOR 5. J. KIaKwoop In the
Presidential election of ls4s my last political
service WAS rendered at the head of the DEM
ocra,ic Electoral College Of Ohio, by your aid
ard viii Your entire appreciation, as believe
Times and circumstances have since chan ged
very essentially
Then. the party in opposition styled itself
Wig mow. it calls itself Republican -
Then. 1t ackno wledged no affinity with Aho'i
'ionism- nop, it ia thoroughly Abolit;onized
Then, 1t had q National Conventlon-n op. it
holds a sectional one Then, its candidate was
a large sav eholder, whose sole recommends
tions were laures achieved in the Mexican war
= no'c, h il an ULTRA. original, avowed, aggres-
ave AZ, Htionist. whose principal political
achievement, WAS factious hostility in Congress
TO the same war. sud " hose sole claim, accord
ing TO Governor Seward himself, is that "he
acknowledges the obligation" OF the treason
/. - ala 4
yon supported Democracy aud its cana ;.late-
ao". ala assured you have come 10 be rerar l..
Ell the foren.oa. stump advocate of tie hin
ripies, policy and meu Of this sectional oppo-
sli n party,
10 my mud this pending Presidential contest
involves consequeuce- to the American | -nion
10 grave 10 dernan ] OF every Democrat
no ever bundle, all reasonab be efforts to con-
pass Inc defect o. Your said rarity To the
accomplishment of this eud, so far as the voice
Of Iowa can avail-each of Us having now
coml eted cur some~ hat extensive grain hsr.
vest. propose 10 NEE! you in pubic discussion
IN every county III Iowa south of the Iine OF
the Mississippi aud Missouri railroad, be. ween
THE line and the election.
II THE challenge is accepted. please tender
me a list of appointments for Joint meetings or
nominate u committee " your friends, with
whom conference may be had.
Very Respectfully,
Your personal friend aud neighhnr.
LIE GRAND BYINGTON.
~. III YOU make list Of appointments,
snoui1 prefer an interval os at least forty
e'Sn' h"nrs between the different meetings
west CT heoSnk county, inasmuch asI bavs
IN i'd ton, private business to ,rans,,, in ,oo.,
OF the counties embraced within the ASST ,oed
limits 'e'
BRECKINRIDGE AND DIsuNIOS. The
Louisville journal says that Hon. James
Is. Clay. who is stumping Kentucky fo-
Breckenridge and Lane, in recent con.
versaton with a distinguished DOUGLAS
Democrat, was asked what he Womb do
vCongress withheld from slavery in the
Territories the protection demanded for
1t, and Mr.. Cla warm y responded that
lie would 90 immediately for the disso-
luton ollie Union, and that his cues.
tioncr was at liberty to make that dec.
laratlon public. Ga being asked wheth-
or this was also the position of Mr..
breckenridge, MIR. Clay declined reply
ing on the ground that the question was
not proper one for him to answer. The
40 urndt makes this statement editor
tally.
LIE bridgeport (Ct, Farmer, refer
ring to the trouble among the Lincoln.
ties, lot fear OF a union of their oppo.
nents, thus addresses them
II You vac sure that there would be no un;on
between the Breckenridge and Douglas man in
Connecticut. you would stop having the
'sshakss" over the matter.