Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-07-26

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vnrnAY MOANING. -. - -. July 3s,vo6l.
Cnanoo = rsss Dsvn ssssA.
Oss q he most Sabid and boastful
sssssslqp psPsss u ~, INA wss the
New Oflsass ztxs Data. II has oac1-
pied : Leading position in helping along
the e,esssiaa ndvsttset And iostituting
active was measures. bat It seems that .
ssdden change ~ been wrought II IT.
tone end feeling. The work Of tesring
down the old Union, which il 20 strsnu-
e,sly sdvossss1, proves difficult task,
and il nov eounsnsss 10 look abeot .
little at future prospects and Inevitable
vssslts.
Speaking Of the Confederate Con.
sress, IL ssys. From what Il has a.
ready doss, in IL secret sessions and
occult committees, no very sanguine
.pticipstions Of the future are Inspired "
This il very broad hint that the peo-
pie are not exactly satia6ed with the
course Of JEFF. Davis and his co.workers.
There i not 70 much unity Of action ss
there might be. It says:
sThe people tbemselves have, up to
this time, in spite Of the ignorance and
cupidity Of local, and the passiveness
d general authority, done all that the
greatest zeal and intelligence aud Iiber-
sliay could accomplish, bat they cannot
continue doing 20, while, too, they see
their substance daily lavishly wasted,
and their material resources squsndcred
without spything to show for it."
The financial condition Of the State
Of Louisiana il thus alluded to-:
III this State is to be taken a. q
ssssple Of he ssay thissgs have been
condncssd. ssk0t do sns ~? a treasu-
~, wAich ts,o months ago s0as full to
yepks;oa, nose collapsed, a great city
comparatively defeneeless, q people fslI
Of chivalrous feeling discouraged, an
ardsss and jealous local militia disap-
pointed and disgusted, and while all this
is notoriously 90, the imbecility that has
produced il 10 perpetually taxing it's in
genuity to devise some new expedients,
finding fresh pretexts for rewarding
hangers-on Of disgrsceful antecedents,
OF efcte and useless appendages Of the
old militia system. Originating in this
inspiration the stupidity called camp
Was formed at Carrolton, where God
knows how much money has been
thrown away, to the infinite vcxation Of
the gallant soldiers who have allowed
themselves to be quartcred there for the
edi6cstion Of gubeInatorial camarilla,
and the enchantment Of their immacu-
late encourage. Surely such criminal
trifing, while our city is exposed to the
insults OF an audacious invader at 90
many points, cannot fail to impress the
minds Of citizens with the most gloomy
fore6odings, for what can be more dis
coursglng than to see means, SO greatly
needed for absolutely indispensable
works Of defence, scattered broadcast
among . set Of impudent and shameless.
sycophants, who have made the guber.
Material Office seem az if 1t was admin
istered by commission aud not by ,
citizen elected tag stha.. pnEnafsaiHy cal
awaken the people to a trne sense Of III,
imminence Of the psrils which cncom
pass them.
Should New Orleans tall, seven year.
of war would not compensate the South
tor the disaster, and yet flippant impu
dence in high places declares, in reply
to earnest cntreaties, not to leave her
exposed and helpless-"Oh, there is No
occasion for alarm; yon are more
frightened than hurt" Making perma-
nent Presidents, laying wires for lifelong
Offices, log rolling tor enormous jobs, are
oil, no doubt, very important considera
tons to politicians in and out Of the
provisional government; at this period,
however, other matters Of gravity de-
serve attention, and when the provisional
Congress meets, it would do well not to
ignore or disregard them.
Further along it reminds the Confcd-
crate Congress that without popular
scarrant 1t has constituted itself the gov.
ernment," and declares that =
The men seA0 haze naunaQed to act
the country into the ,car have sho,on
themselves incapable Of carrying /.
safely and ho'sorab!y through it,"
After reviewing the measures which
it had recommended at the outset tor
securing the friendship and aid of Eu.
rope, it continues:
with these measures as the compli.
ment Of free trade Legislation and an
earnest Of large state.ma nship, these
States could have avoided the humilia-
lions incidental to the pilgrimage OF a
commissionership trinity, and aafely left
commercial Europe to operate upon its
governments.
Had this been done instead OF being
shut in herlnetically by the cruisers Of
Lincoln, We should have found thou
sands in k0rOpe - eager 40 we could
desire to undertake our work of priva-
teeriogs and Who, without risk or ex.
peose 70 %, would have swept Northern
commerce from the face Of tho deep.
Instead Of this, what has this much
6eslo6ersd provissonai authority, which
has Kindly undyiaken to relieve he
people Of the care Of 9oueynmsnt, done ?
Why, they undertook to impose an ex.
port duty, not on our auqQestiOn. of two