Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-19

This Union of ours, 80 glorious
and grand; promising everything which
human heart could wish; Boosting Of its
thirty three strong arms Of power; its
inviucible forces 10. matches states
men; its pr ofound jurists and able coun-
Gil, lie, We fear, falling upon strange
times. Disanson and discord seem an
euitabtc. That the country is to be d.
yided there seems scarcely room for rca-
sonable doubt, and while this is the
case, while preparations tor defence, and
il need be bloodshed, and all the horrors
Of intestine war, are taking place, while
the Geniu. Of our Government and oar
institutions, on Bonded knee, is implor-
ing high Heaven to intercede in behalf
of the Union, while the noblest patriots
ofthe day are stricken with fear that
that band Of Republican cen1iarie.,
known IS Wide Awakes, jubilate and
illuminate with torches and tranpari-
cnces and rejoice over the success Of Sec
tional candidate glory over the cause
which is fast producing ruin. And as if
in defiance TO the marching and coun-
ter-marching and mimic limitations of
triumphant victories Of war, on the part
ofnorthern Wide-Awakes, the "Minute
Men" of the South marshal their forces
aud parade their banners with all the
pomp and circumstance Of vigorous de.
fence.
Let us submit it to calm and conser-
vative minds, If this rssping and cxas
pera,ing business Of the Black Rcpub-
lican party has not been carried far
enough. Is it not time that such dem.
on.trations which tend only to excite
the feelings, arouse the animosity Of the
South, be dropped and that 10
lien thereofthe attention OF the entire
people be turned owards some wise ex-
pedient to keep together and maintain
the Union of the States, rather than to
make use Of every possible means to
cause the breach already made, to wild
en- and deepen Are such demonstra-
tons as these which are now taking
place among us, the part of wise men
who counsel with peace and harmony,
rather than disunion and suicidal disrup-
ton? The time has past when we may
look npon the demonstrations of the
South lightly. Disruption and disunion
seem almost inevitable. The muttering
thunder heard in the South should not
be treated with derision. 1t portends
a storm. Whether or not the South
has cause for secession, she will not
longer consider. That time has past.
Let the people Of the North take coun-
sci with reason, whet' er they discover
that quality in their Southern brethren
or not.
Who among US have not friends or
relatives there I! Who among us are
not bound by bonds of cousanguinity
and friendship with those, whom these
Wide Awake demonstrations tend to ex-
asperate 2 In the sacred name of friend
ship, then, if for nothing else, let these
demonstrations cease, and let us turn to
reason. Let US not, Nero like, grow
merry aud jubilant while the flames are
already kindlIng at the foundation of the
temple of American Freedom, and
threat ening, unless speedily quenched
by patriotic effort, to lay that fair fabric
in ashes.
A New and Terrible Arm Of War.
Chloride of nitrogen will, it is pre-
dicted, soon be turned to account as an
implement of War. From an account
which we have read of the villainous
stuff it would appear almost certain
that its general use in warlike opera
lions would deal speedy and final
death blow to all war. An English
gentleman by the name of lsham Baggs
announces the discovery made by him
self which, taken in connection with
James method Of balloonng, will be al
most invincihle. He proposes to carry
up his s-1caling composition into
the air 10y means of James system Of
balloon'ng, aud when directly over an
army or city or fort, as the case NAV be.
drop sufficient quantity to the earth.
where it will do up the work of exter.
mlnation IN hurry. "The very men,
ton Of this compound" he goes On to
say, "as proposed element in modern
warfare, may possibly provoke smile
among chemists, who know that the
most accomplished of their numbe,
would scarcely dare to experiment with
it in quantities larger than a grain O
mustard seed, and even then, onls at .
respectful distance, and under guard al
the moment Of its defamation. And We,
not one of these chemists will be bold
enough tn deny that, with two or three
chemically clean carboys of this terrible