Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-16
For God safe Drive Careful.

itatir friends, or of near aud dear !, II.
tlycs 10 care OF those ua9.rg Charge III
Pablo conveyances. Whetuer II be b4
vehicle, by railroad train, by ship er
scan vessels, it is all tie same. To Il G
eaver, the engineer aud the cap an, as
freel u lrelgtt i gwen ~ char4 ,
ne farlng admonilion II. 'for GOD S
slLe dr're caretui." In the account
gwen ~ The editor 0. the Co@sttt0tfoH-
otst Il the great Dongas demonstrate
= tn city last TUESDAY, we tind the ioi-
owing Incident, which transpifcd after
tie speaking:
81 pou bis carriage passing III It tte
gate the horses became slightly tlet4l,
aad The earnest "For Gods sake drive
eare.uIs which burst from the lips Of =
score Of sturdy farmers, showed how
completely the orator bad won the
neads OF the people"
a the youth starts ont il life full Of
ic aud yIgor aud buoyant with hope,
his prospects br gut and his iututo W IT,
out d passing cloud 10 shade it, AID ees
tai I'd by TIE apparent eyeahcs, and
stta gntness Of he road to give rein 70
bis DIS res, il is wei to whisper IN lis
car, "For Gods sake drvy careful"
30 with the merchant, the pioteasion
a man, and indeed with al who NIX
aud have dealings with the wo.ld. Tas
! i, cD.pi.atlcaly fast age, ana there i
: nov done a vast dea! Of lat .nd car tss
nix NJ 10 c.cgy day lie and III ! tie
basin, - relations Of life politics Is
vel as business. lut { tue driver If
vehicle with oac la o. 4 doz-n pc SOFAS
i II, should be adm shed, "For God
Ike drive csreiul; y how much more
important f5r the caution T. be given
10 the railroad and steamboat engineers,
ard add the Sd p captain, IN whose care
there arc ottrnumes hundreds, perhaps
/ tapGsatd~ OF lives, and hundreas +
taou-Ands Of dollars worth Of p, pcrty.
| I'll! may those on board, rs wei as tue
friends thog leave link i they IL not
/ " h tie drls,r, "hJr God'y sake drlue
cu.ful"
Bat jast now, in these exciting, ilnet
penIons tunes, when our lo.tlcal affairs
wear - menaelng an a~pcct, the elacna-
.on "for Gols Sahe, drjec curJui."
Fts peculiar poIiiica. signilica &c. JAS
au@ hangs upon the movems nj Of al,
but particularly upon the movement oi
PROMINENT men and parties, the destlnies
4 over thirty millions Of people, and
enc OF the most magnificent empires The
I'm ever shohe upon; and not only %!
> Of !.
Ut unborn. aad OF otncr other ration,
at yet established If the lie ot Ste
ph,n i. Douglas t the HIVES Of hun
irces, ana even Of thousands II people
travelling by any Of The modes known to
nS, oali for the cauiion- wordS, "tor
Gods sake, drive careful how much
more important that they shonl Be
ttUndercd IN He ears # those who,lo. r.
wou.d cad pub ic opinion, aal oi al who
are "a authority III towns, c,tlcs, State,
aud the fea,rai Government, where
nIiiot OF lives, aud hundreds of tAous
ands Of millions Of property, IN the
pre. ent and future are at stake How
important, ust now, that these Leaders,
our Mayors, our Legs aturcs, our Coy
rrnors, our Couts, our Congress, AMI
our President, should have pressed upon
them, earnestly the admontion, "roh
Cons SAKE, DRIVE CAREFUL"
No one knows the peril that lies b.
fore u. TIE country is in imminent
LANCER, which all intelligent men see,
but hardly know how 10 avert. Des
4erate men are determined, if ii thor
power 10 do so, to produce iiss luton
Of the Union. These men rumber but
4 few thousands in the South, but ieiv-
ing on the impulses of our common ma
tufe, they know that they vii be able 10
involve men ten tines their number,
aga nst their wills, and who even oppose
hsr schemes. Let US all, then, in our
ladlvl4nal capacity, say to ourscye-,
''tor Gods sake drive careful J" and il
our relations as citizens, and mmuui-
| ~, where cur opinions and actions may
ntHcnce others, let all be even more So
cltous ia tieasuling the aduonition.
"FoE GODS SANE DRIVE CAREFUL. y
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