St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-23
Washington Correspondence.

! w ASlllNGToN, ~. u, Aug. it, 1860.
The Democracy are beginning to
see and acknowledge the election of
Lincoln as fixed fact. The Balti-
more sun, one of the leading admins
tration organs, a few days since, adj
mitted that there was no hope of their
being able to prevent it, and the Star
of this city says that of course, the
South will submit quietly to his ad
ministration, unless he should cndeav-
or to administer the government upon
the abolition basis and ideas, as though
any Republican had ever thought of
such thing
suppose, of course, you have
heard of the tyranny in Virginia,
which caused the cutting down of the
Lincoln pole there, By The military sent
by the Governor to protect ii and of the
maltreatmcnt of the owner of the
property on which it stood, for daring
to protest against the outrage.
In this city, also, the same spirit is
manifested by the administration ard
its hirelings. a short time since, APP
plication was made to the Superin-
tcndcnt of Public Buildings, for per-
mission to erect liberty-pole and
Lincoln flag on one of the small pub
lie squares, and which permission,
though granted at first, was rescindcd
on the same day, and the Rcpubli-
cans very condesccndingly Informed
that doubtless they could have the
privilege Of erecting it on pirate prop
erty! This is almost as refreshing as
the Presidents permission, granted in
his late stump speech, allowing the
citizens of this great republic to vote
as they please. And it was probably
just about as honest, too, for we have
good reason to believe that even if
the Republicans were to erect Il pole
even on private property, the admin
istration tools would cut it down
and so, too, when the President said
to Democrats that they could vote as
they pleased, it was with the under
standing that they must please to
vote as he wished, or their heads
should pay the forfeit.
But about the most ridiculous thing
of which | ever heard, occurred here
last week. A gentleman formerly
from Boston, but long a resident of
Washington, by the name of Hen
shaw, avowed himself publicly as
Republican, whereupon an effort was
actually made to have him arrested
for using incendiary language An
application was made to justice for
a warrant, and after hunting up two
witnesses who actually heard him say
he was Republican, the justice APP
piled to District Attorney OuId, to
know whether it really was a crime or
not. But that functionary, being pos
sesscd of little common sense, grave
~ informed the justice that he thought
Mr.. Hcnshaw had the same right to
call himself Black Republican that
he had to call himself a Black Demo
crat, though he might have added that
there would have been far less pro-
pricty in it.
In conversation with the leader of
the Douglas wing day or two since,
and whose name you can readily
S"'"S, NtiouSH may HOt mcntlon ii
publicity he frankly admitted that
Lincoln's election was q sure thing
in fact, said he, a foregone conclusion.
And may add that he did not appear
to feel very badly at the idea, either.
He added, that after what had hap,
pened, Douglas could never return to
the Democratic party, and even if he
should, his friends will not.
Notwithstanding ali this, there is a
settled determination on the part of
some of the South, to seccde if Lin.
coin is elected and they are busy
maturing their plans for that result.
How we'll they will succeed must de-
pend upon how many at the South can
be induced to join them and there
are men now in this city, who are in
their secrets, and are cooperating
with them. This know, and hence
the New York Herald had good
grounds for its sensation articles re.
Gently published on that subject
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