Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-10-06


Read this extract from Mr.. Claws
speech Of May 18th, 1850, as evidence
of his hostility to the "Wilnot Proviso,"
which was neither more nor less than
the present Republican doctrine Of the
prohibition Of slavery 10 the territories.
lie said
what are you looking at The
'Proviso' abstraction always-thrust
upon tbs SouJh by the North against all
the necessities of the case, against all
the warning which the North ought to
have listened to, coming from the
South; pressed unnecessarily for any
Northern object opposed, | admit, by
the South with degree of earnestness
uncalcd for, ] think, by the nature of
the provision, but with degree OF earn
estness natural to the South, and which
the North, perhaps, would have dis
played if a reversal of the condition Of
the two sections of the Union could
have taken place. Why do You of the
North press it! You say because it is
in obedience to certain sentiments in be-
half Of human freedom and human nights
which on entertain. You are like y to
accomplish those objects at once by the
progress Of events, without pressing this
obnoxious measure. You may retort,
why is it opposed at the South 2 1t
is opposed at the South, BECAUSE THE
South FEELS THAT WHEN ONCE LEG1SLA-
TIoE UPON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY BE-
GINS, THERE IS no SEEING WHERE 1T is
TO END. Begin it in the District Of
Columbia, BEGIN 1T IN THE TERRITORIES
OF UTAH AND New MEXICO AND CALL
goRNIA assert your power there to-
day AND In SPITE OF YOURPRO
TESTATIONS-and you are not want
ing in making protestations-that you
have no purpose Of extending it to the
Southern States, wha. security can you
give them that new sect will not arise
with a new version of the Constitution,
which shall authorize them to carry
their notions into the bosoms Of the
slavcholding States, and endeavor to
emsncipate from bondage all the slaves
there SIR, the South has felt that HER
SECURITY LIES IN DENYING AT THE
THRESHOLD YOUR RIGHT TO TOUCH THE
SUBJECT OF sLAvERY.'-Append. Cong.
Globe, vol. xii, part l, p. 5sl.
Or poor Lola Montez we have this
sad picture
lola Montez is stopping at Astoria
with kind friend, but, alas in what a
condition of body and mind She is
not exactly an imbecjle, and yet what
term will more clearly express her men
tai helplessness? Physically she is an
invalid Of melancholy description. A
female friend OF mine saw her day or
two ago, and it was enough to make
ones heart bleed to note her picturesque
Inning of the wonderfully changed wo-
man. Lola was costumed in half night
and half morning robe, and she sat in a
pretty garden, her hollow cheeks, sunk
en- eyes, and cadaverous complexion
forming a remarkable contrast to the
gay flowers. She was unable to utter
an ineligible word, except spasmodi-
caIly and after repeated efforts. Her
mouth was frothing like that OF one in
partial commissions, and she was uncon-
sciously wiping it, as little boys do, by
drawing it across the sleeve of her
dress. In fact, she had the strange, wild
appearance and behavior of quiet idiot
and is evidently lost to all further inter-
est in the world around her, and it's
affairs. And so ends her eventful hsto-
ry What study for the brilliant and
thoughtless What sermon ofhuman
vanity %