Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-02-08

Ob00t Ob0GbC0Cew ~ OYuosVSs
Every day we are more deeply i'm
pressed with the tact that there is
powerful and radical revolution taking
place in the Republican party. It is to be
noticed in Il Senate and in the House
at Washington, in the turning about OF
the leading men Of the party from the
defiant non-compromise position, to
espouse the doctrine Of Tesee and bar
mony. 1t is to be seen in the Legisls-
tive Halls Of every state in the Union,
wherein a General Assembly has been
convened. In Rhode Island, with a
Republican Senate and House, the Per-
sonal Liberty bill Of that State, was
wiped from the pages OF the statute
book; in the Massachusetts Legislature,
We see Republicans arising in their seats
and denouncng the acts Of that body as
beng in opposition to the perpetuity OF
the Union; in that State, too, We see
the leading Republican press dcnounc-
Ing the MULTI, ing acts Of the Assembly,
and asking that compromlse may DC
made for the perpeluity Of the Union.
There, too, we see Abolitionists crushed
out by popular sentiment and RePubll-
cans joining with Democrats and Bell
men to raise their voices sgsinst the
radical Republican policy and for the
perpetuity Of the Union as it is. In
New York, too, we find strong Union
element in the Republican party, which
has a defender 10 Thurlow Weed and
William Seward. So, too, in Pennsyl-
vsnia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois,
the Republican party has many members
which speak out strong for the COM
promise policy as being the only method
by which the Union can DC held togeth.
er. In Illinois, only few days since,
the Republican Legislature refused to
send COMM sioncrs to Washington.
The Democrats plead for II, and some
few Republicans seconded their efforts,
hut the resolution was voted down, but
finally some Of the more Influential
Republicans outside Of the Assembly,
came into the ring and got the Com.
missoners appointed.
50 it goes. The Republican party is
in bad fix. Some of its members pu,
on stern, sanctlmonious couDtcnanct
and pirate about slavery" and "barbar
ity" and cage Of progress" and kincree
"stuff,' but no two seem to agree. l
ANYBODY thinks Tie Republican party i
unit upon the course to be pursue'
in this crisis, they are most sadly mis-
taken. Some Of its members are 70
coercion, others are for doing nothing a
all-lcaving matters to take their owl
There are s"ch in this city; a good,
s'.~'n coo. hose kcpubli
cans who favor "coercinn," under tan,
that term in kitlerent WAYS. Some sa,
it means to whip the seeding States il
al al hazards others say it onl,
means 10 repeal acts creating port.
Of entry. And those in favor q
compromise are not agreed hv any
means As 10 what the method shall be-
Some say take Critteudeu- Others tn,
Border state plan; others stl, some
thing else.
Verify that party is in a deplorable
condition. Trouble on all sides and nc
way to -, out OF it, except to drol
their heresies and come out for the
Union. These differences of opinion
small though they may now appear
are the entering wedges by which The
Republican party is to be split in frag
ments.
The Chicago TrIbunc's Assault upOu
Rel ubIlcan Statesmen.
How ARE THE MIGHry FALLEN =
Ii any oae had animated to Mr.. Sew
ard, three months ago, that his course il,
the ynlteo States Senate would be such
as TO seal the mouths of his best friends
aud TO elicit the aborcd culoglcs of SC
ultra pro-slavery and disunion sympa
th'ser AS the chicago Times, he woulo
doubtless have answered, Is thy scrvan,
dog that should 10 Tins thing! Yc
that Is precisely what has happene,
within three months after the great Re
publican vic,ory"- Chicago Tribune
Monday morning.
AkLLoaa.- he people OF the 4tl
Congressional District, in this State
have heretofore been ulller The impres
sion that they were ,cpres, n,ed by
Republican. They will think so L.,
more. Whatever Mr.. Kellogg ma,
have been at the time OF his election
he is not Republican now. He ha
gone hook and line, bob aud nkcr
lie has deserted his colors in the face O
the enemy, betrayed his constituency
and sought tor more congenlaI poli,ica
associations. Ia Introducing into III
House of Representatives a resolutio,
TO incorporate the Breckenridge platform
into the Constitution, he reached at
single step the lowest depth OF politica
degradation. - Chicago Tribune, Mon
day morning.