Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-18

HESRY ALTMAN,
County Central Committee.
The Inaugural Address Of Governor
kirkWOOd.
Great men have their weaknesses ant
little ones too; and it seems that the spec
tire of an unhappy African continual,
haunts the commonplace men that ig
norance and fanaticism nowadays make
the rulers of Iowa. That this is . gov.
crnment for ,chite men, and not for the
black, seems an idea wholly beyond the
comprehension Of the Republican Gov
error Of Iowa. The proper political
status Of the negro, his condition social
and moral, is at all times and in oil pla-
ces the great problem upon the solution
Of which their mighty intellects arc en-
ployed.
Last week at Des Mones, Gov. Kirk
wood, having for while left his broker
shop to assume the Chair Of State, from
which no doubt he can obtain more
extended view of the rich Jobs and fat
pickings now in wait for red.hot Repub-
licans, delivered his Inaugural Address.
1t is remarkable document, not only
for the beauty Of the grammatical style
in which it is written, but for the per-
spicuitv of its reasoning, and the truth
fulness Of his premises.
After brief and cursory view of the
state of affairs in Iowa, a glance At the
necessities Of the State, its financial con-
dition, the great institutions upon which
our prosperity and happiness depend,
and other matters that immediately and
directly affect us, he turns with evident
gusto to the wide field of Federal poll
tics and in his usual impassioned strain
OF grandiloquence, treats at length of
what he Is pleased to call "the late un-
lawful invasion" Of Virginia "by John
Brown" which he says "the great mass
OF our Northern people utterly con-
DENIM He might have spared the feel
ings of his friend, Lieut.. Gov. Rusch.
and left out such remarks, that doubt
less crate so harshly on the ears of his
German constituents to phose rote he is
indebted for his election. He should
have recollected that here in Scott coun-
ty, where he receivsd SO large a MAORI
ty, on the day of the execution of this
unlawful" John Brown, many of hi.
constituents wore badges of mourning
for the old sinner, and hung the Ameri-
can flag, shrouded in Grape, at half mast
in honor Of his departure to the place of
eternal uncertainty. He should have rec
objected that the German Republican or
gan here, Der Demokrat, rejecting the
sentiments of that portion of his constit-
uents, not only applauded John Brown a
martyr and q hero WORTHY of oil
praise, but said that other and similar
attempts to Browns raid would be soon
made, and that they would be more
successful-and it is to the German Re.
publcaus that Klrkwood is indebted for
his election. Why then denounce their
pet hero of Harper's Ferrys He how
ever expresses great admiration and sym
pathy for the thieving old murderer,
hoping no doubt that it may prove q
salve to the wounded feelings Of his Ger
man friends. In the most ludicrous
manner imaginable, he compares old
Brown to Andre, the spy Of the Revolu-
ton, whose sentence of death he savs
was approved by Washington, and whose
grave was believed with "the tears OF
many of the best and bravest of our
Revolutionary sires." The only COM
ment we have to make on this is. that
the comparison is extremely unfortunate.
and the rhetoric exceedingly highfaIutiu.
The most astonishing part Of the Gov.
ernors Inaugural, however, is the di.cov.
cry he makes ~ to the true cause Of N.
attack Of John Brown on the State Of
Virginia. He says that it was all OWING
to the Kansas Nebraska Bill and Pre,i.
dent Pierces Ubiquitous conduct. He
lays the foundation of the evil there; but
Gov. Kirkwood forgets that noble Mrs.
Brown, the wife Of that affectionate