Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-01

Our Republican NeighbOr on DisunlOn.
After having for the last four years
done all in their power to rend asundcr
the bonds Of the Unlon-aiter their
press and leaders have by every possible
device striyen to SOW discord and strife
between the North and the South-as
the Presidential election approaches
and they perceive the great conScrVa-
tive mass of the people taking alarm at
their incendiary course, we find the
Abolition Republicans suddenly infected
with an indefinite vague sort of an at
tachmcnt to the Union,S which is only
manifested by the application OF the
word Dsunionsts to the National De
mocracy.
Taking their cue from the great iuge-
man OF their party, the New ork Ir-
bunc, all the minor country journals,
among them the Davenport Gazette, raise
the cry and charge the prominent Dem
ocrats throughout the country with
being favorable to Disuniou.
Our Abolition Republican neighbor OF
the Gazette, who all along secretly sym
pathized with John Brown, and dep
recated the execution Of that infa-
nous old scoundrel and his mongrel half
breed associates who constantly sneered
at the Union demonstrations of late
made at the North by the National
Democrats, Native Americans and
Old Liuo Wings, is now filling his col
umns with daily reiterations of the ab
surd charges OF the New York Tribune,
that tho Democratic party is favorable
to Dislnion. Unfortunately, we yester-
day read in one of those milk,and- water
dutions that cmanate from the Gazette
sly led ealers,t the following blood-thrsty
paragraph.
REQuuuIoS FOR Corrio--llIs FiICnr.-We
were Informed last week, that the Governor Of
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or Of Iowa for the person OF Young Coppc's'
brother. who was engaged in the liarper's
Ferry affair, fled 10 Canada. and afterwards re
turned to Iowa when the body Of the brother
executed al Charleston. was expected home
We understand the requision WAS refused Oh
the ground OF some informality necessary To
be corrected. Coppic has been at his Inothers
a few miles from West Liberty. 4 friend OF
Copies at Des Moines. hearing of the requisi
tion sent him word of il. This, with q mes
cage fgom Iowa City, whether true or not we
do not know, that party was forming there
to take Coppic without the aid of the law III
dncei him to fly to safer quarters, and we
learn that he passed through this city las,
Tnuts.ay II ght on his way 10 Canada where
he drchably is by this TINE Had he remained
from what we have long known of the feelings
of his neig hbors, without respect to party.
they never would hive permitted Coppic to
be taken without the shedding Ct blood
From this it would seem that our
neighbor implicitly counscls and ap.
proves Of resistance to law. 1t says,that
were an attempt made to arrest young
Coppc for being implicated in the Har-
per's Ferry invasion it would by resist>
ed by the Brown Republicans out in
Cedar County where the Gazette has an
extensive circulation, to the point of
bloolshed and that there ,coula be an
armed resistance to the Federal process.
The wish is evidently father to the
thought-and though the Gazette open
iy lays down for the members of its par.
y ont in Cedar this reasonable pro-
grammc-though it speaks on the sub
ject authoritatirely and positively. vet
We find not one word Of disapproval or
condemnation of such course in ;,s
columns. And query, what stronger ey
idence can We find of ,Lan's being
disunionist than that Of counsellinc re-
sistance to the United States laws
What act would tend more to provoke
Disunion than such resistance ?--I
young Coppic was one Of the Harper
Ferry conspirators he should have beer
sent back, tried, and punished. II b.
had been innocent, he would not have
fed to the free negro Colonies of Cana,