Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-24


more fair ndtruthful article, with some
slight exceptions, Of course,) than the
one which We give below, and which we
copy from the New York Herald. The
nomination of Old Abe, the mauler OF
rails; and the slaughter Of Seward, has
created great sensation in all parts Of
the country-one which is far from ia
vorsble to the Republican cause. Read
the following:
The conduct Of the Republican party
in this nomination is a Remarkable indl-
cation OF small intellect, growing small
er. They pass over Seward, Chase and
Banks, who are statesmen ard able men,
and they take up fourth rate lecturer,
who cannot speak good grammar, and
who, to raise the wind, delivers his hack
neyed, illlterate compositions at 5000
piece. Our readers will recollect that
this peripatetic politician visited New
York two or three months ago on his
financial tour, when, in return for the
most unmitigated trash, interlarded with
coarse and clumsy jokes, he filled his
empty pockets with dollars coined out
of Republican fanaticism. If, after he
becomes President of the United State
the public finances should fail, he can
set out upon a lecturing mission through
the country, taking Horace Greeley
along with him. He may thus rcplcnish
collapsed treasury. Ifpcople will not
exchange their loose dimes for the in
struction or the pleasure derived from !
his eloquence, they may be induced to
part with some Of their cash in the
cause OF patriotism, and to save the ma
ton from bankrnptcy--an event which
is very likely to happen if the Rcpubli-
cans get hold of the nations purse.
The only other thing for which Lin
coin has been distinguished besides his
itincrant lccturing, is his defeat by
Douglas in his own State, at time when
the ticket of the Republican party had
five thousand majority over the Dcmoc-
racy in Illinois. In his anti slavery
opinions he is the most ultra and revo-
lutlonary of all the candidates whose
names were introduced at Chicago; and
IN the campaign in which he was beaten
he gave utterance to the most violent
sentiments, and went into the irrcpress.
IDLE conflict before Seward himself.
At such nomination the Democrats
have good reason to rejoice. They have
clear road now before them, and moth
ing Can arrest their onward march to
victory If they are only true to them
selves. Their stars are luckicr to them
than they deserve. They have the game
IN their hands, if they will suppress their
insane quarreIs and unite upon single
candidate, be he Douglas, Dickinson or
Lane, but not Guthrie, Hunter or Brock
lnridge, or any Southern man. The
candidate must be man who will run
IN the Middle States, and he must be ia
ken without any platform on his former
record in regard to the South. There
Is no need Of any platform. The Rcpub
licans have made the issue, and that
must DO met, not by sidewinds or alb
stractions, but by direct negative
Their principles involve the dissolution
of the Union. Their policy is to over
throw the institutions of the South, by
force or fraud, by legislation in violation
OF the Constitution, or, if necessary, by
fire and sword, in the face of this for
mldable position, to split hairs about
squatter or popular sovereignty in dis
tant Territories, is like Nero fiddlirg
while Rome was burning, or the marin
ers in gallant ship disputing about her
measurement, or what ought to be the
form Of her rig, while the vessel fast
drifts on lee shore, to the imminent
peril of all on board. II those who un-
dertate to navigate, the Demo cratic par
ty will abandon from this moment their
senseIess Jargon, and set about working
the ship as practical mea, they will |
weather the storm and made their des-
tined port in safety. by the discomfit-
ure OF Seward at Chicago, and the NOM
nation of such man as Lincoln, even
the State OF New York. with its thirty
hive votes, is lost to Republicanism, and
with it the hopes which the party cher
ished, if the Democracy know how to
take advantage Of the blundcr that has
been made, and rally around "a single
banner, Inscribed with these words
UNITED We stand, divided we fall"
IT is somewhat amusing to Democrats
to hear members Of the Chicago Conven-
ton berating and cursing old Simon
Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, for being in
strumental in getting up the story that if
SpMard sras A. II L