Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-05-21

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promise, when everything bat force
proves futile, then let force b used, and
The Democratic party to : man.. will
bow his body to the work.
The following admirable article from
the Cincinnati EnQuirer sets forth the
position Of the Democracy in . most
truthful manner. We give it entire:
Il Is now evident that the people o.
the Gull States have been laboring IN
der the deIusion that there are many at
the North who, if they did not join them
10 their efforts TO break up the Union.
would inte,po by force, If necessary
to prevent the Government from exert'ng
it's pow ers to preserve it. They canno''
therefore. understand the mighty ana
universal uprising Of the people
of the free States to preserve the
Union. They cry out that they have
mo friends here that We are all their
enemies, aud wish to make war 90
them. They little understand the feel
ings and motives OF the Northern peo-
pie.
What are these feelings aud motives!
The Northern people are devotedly at
tached to the Union. Under it and its
liberal Constitution, they have witness
ed, with exultant pride, our advance
ment among the nations Of the earth,
and have enjoyed the utmost prosperity
and freedom at home. They have every
reason to love and be proud of the
Union and the Constitution. They have
every reason to make the greatest Of
sacrifices for their preservation. They
feel that disunlon will bring upon us
the contempt OF the civilized world
will cast reproach upon popular Gov
eminent everywhere-wil strengthen
the nm of despotism-will destroy our
internal prosperity, and lead finally to a
radical change in the form and charac-
ter ofour Government.
Now, when many Northern people
saw their brethren Of the South laborlng
as they supposed, to secure their rights
under the Constitution, they sympathiz
I'd with them and stood by them. They
showed their devotion to the Union and
their deep anxiety to preserve it in its
integrity, by their untiring efforts,
through cancellation and compromised
satisfy the senslbilities OF the South.
They we're jeered and sneefed at as
"Union savers" on account OF their ex-
treme desire to do anything within rea-
son to avoid the risk of even an attempt
to dissolve the Union. They denounc-
ed with just severity the anti-slavery
feeling at the North, that was willing to
put the Union in jeopardy, rather than
yield one jot or title to Southern APP
peals. They wanted the faith that their
fathers pledged themselves to over the
original compact" maintained by the
children of both sections, and they
were, therefore, llberal-too much So
Drobablv-,in their indulgence Of South
ern haughtiness and demanus. Ihey
had, however, no sympathy with seces-
ion movements. Their whole heart was
for the Union, for its preservation and
continuance; and for its sake they were
willing to overlook and forgive much on
The part of the South. 1t is that love
tor and devotion to the Union that has
now stirred to its inmost depths the
whole North. They have witnessed all
their Efforts to preserve the Union by
kind appeals, by concilation, compro-
mise and forbearancc, iail, by the fault
Of the extremists OF the two sections.
The affair at Sumter showed to every
body that there was an end of all efforts
at Cancellation.
As all their efforts had been to pre-.
serve the Union as the fathers made it.,
they were not going to relax their de-
termination to save it, because the mode
hey had adopted and tried had failed
What was their duty before, is their
duty still. They labored to get the
South all lis rights under the Coustitu-
ton, in the Union, and they did that
from their love OF justice, and to pre-
cent dissolution. The success of the
seeded States will be the destruction OF
the Union. The seeded States
are not laboring to preserve the
Union, they are laboring to utterly
destroy 1t. They are not striving for
constitutional rights in the Union, but
are in arms to overthrow both Constitu-
ton and Union. Can we Of tn. North,
who have labored 80 assiduously thro'
evil and good report to preserve both,
now sympathize with those who are
doing all they can to destroy both
We can neither sympathizc with them
nor aid and q sist them, but arc bound
to do all we can to prevent them from
accomplishing their purpose. That is
our first plain duty, with the perfor-
nance OF which no past associations,
no party attachments, no private friend
ships, no business interests, can or will for
q moment, be allowed to interfere. The
Union must be preserved at all hazards,
and at whatever cost and sacrifice. This
country Is in the crisis ofits tate. 1t must
go down into The eternal night of despot.
ism, or be rescued from the mad designs
OF the seeded States. The DemocI atf
and Union men Of the North did theil