Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-01-19

We Respectfully DeeDins.
We ~ Teqassssd 70 publish the re-
el1tess pa6ssd = he late Rspablisan
Cosposatioa Convsation, bat with I'll due
ds6srs1os % ,ths gentleman who made
The pe9ssst@ - No. decline to do 20.
Wa.eaa = well lsy before our rsaders
The subject nattsr Of The whole batch
in ; very lev worda Notwithstanding
they occupy the spscs Of column, the
whole gist thereof l. found iata few
words, to-wit: I'VE soiA not bulge an
inch from the Chicago Hayorm-the
USsos skav u pvsssrvsd." That u Ill,
when simmersd down 70 proper coasis
tsncy. There. ass two distinct and
separate propositions. The 6sst con-
templates strict adherence 70 Posision
antagonistic to the Union the second.
that the Union shsll be kept in existence.
Bat how 2 Why BY feeding it on the
Chicago Platform pIaOks; BY forcing
down it, throat sectional food. The
idss IL TOO prepostsrous TO disouss.
The meeting was stsict party meet
ing. One Of the most applsuded speak
ere declared that be didn't want to meet
any Democrats or any Bell men in that
Convsution didn't want them to come
under the shadow Of the Republican
wing; but wanted them to hold Con-
vsptions by themselves. He would
fight for the Union-but no Democrat
o. Bell man could take any part 10
Convention Of which he was member
though that Convention was called for
the preservation Of the Union; and his
words we're sspplsuded to the echo.
This was the style 10 which the Repub.
licans hereatouts intend to preserve the
Union-to do il standing on the Chicago
platform-without any help or co-oPera-
ton from anybody. Unparalleled self
reliance. Singlehanded they will pre-
serve tho Union with no other physic
than the Chicago platform-with n"
other physician than those Of the Re-
publican school. "There is spec Of
war down South" the same speaker
said. Let US inquire il when that Con
vention meets whose presiding officer
wears two epaulets whose Vice Presi-
dents are not Supervisors, but Colonies,
Majors, Captains, Lieutenants and Ser
gcants, whose corpus l. not made up of
the rabblc, but of straight, uniformed,
muskct-bearlng men, whose voice comes
not in the shape Of "ayes" aud "noes,"
but in the laundering of "villanous
saltpeter !" whose arguments, instead OF
windy speeches, 60 forth in the shape Of
switt-wlngcd bullets and cold, piercing
stceI-let as ask the people who composed
that Oonvent;on, If they sciN then con-
sent to tolerate Democrats and Bell men
to stand side by side 10Th them wiH
make IL still a strict Republican Con-
venti0n, or ViU sAey make a Union
Convention out Of Hs VA those
1,s4e, 2OS men ,cho voted for Lincoln,
demand the r;yht 10 fyht the battle-to
burn the ponder alone Val then
deem the 2,s2O,ssl wh0 voted against
Lincoln, as ruled out Of the ringy Ger
tainly. The Republicans want no help
no fellowship with the Democrats or Bell
men-the same men who voted faye"
on the resolution SO declared. They
wish to fight their own battles on their
own platform and ask no help from any
one. That privilege is granted them.
Let them 60 into the war Of revolution
which is 80 nearly upon us with Black
Republican commander, Black Rcpubli-
can colonies, majors, captains, and all
staunch Black Republican privates.
They want no union of Republican
with Bell men or Democrats they shall
have none.
We decline, we say, to publish the
resolutions in all their wide expanse OF
useless veroiage. That Convention
which declared they would have the CO.
have alton Of no Democrat should never
Operexpressed wish to see those reso-
lutions in any other than Republican
sheets.
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Tho Ranks Wavering.