Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-04-05
xo.rEClAL SESSION OF CONGRESS.


FRIDAY MORNING.. ...APRiL 3, 1851
no SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS.
From the tenor Of our dispatches from
Washington for few days past, u
seems ially apparent that President
Lincoln does not. and probably wiz not
decide 10 convene special session q
Congress. And, what are We to lnie'
from this refusal Peace or war
since the adjournment Of the last Con
gress the conviction that special SEES
sion was almost indispensable, seemed
to have settled upon the minds OF the Ell
tire public. TWAS, by.no means, con
fined to or urged by the Democratic
press, but the. Republican Journals will
very few exceptions, were much IN IA
vor tit. II was deemed indispensable
first on account of the stern necessity
presented Of modifying the Morrill, lar
if. and secondly to empower the Presl'
dent 10 abolish certain ports OF entry
and provide for the collection OF duties
in the Southern ports by means Of rev.
enue cutters, or otherwise, as might be
deemed proper.
But We take it for granted that there
will be no special session. What does
meant The Confederate States Will
90 along and collect their revenues al
Ter their own tariff without let or hind
rance by the gctcrai government; ana
the high-pressure Morrill, Tariff being
in operation in the North, will most as
saredy drive foreign imports into the
Southern ports. to the great damage OF
the Northern Trade and to the ruinous
disadvantage Of the Treasury OF the
general government. The high tariff in
the North and the low tariff in the
south, will furnish very plausible cx-
cuse for foreign recognition Of the
Southern Coniederacy. 1t will also
strengthen the tendency Of the border
slave States to join hands with the
States already seeded. 1t will have
the effect to disarrange and weaken the
entire machinery of the general govern
ment. 1t will encourage smuggling to
an lnordinatc degree. Ii our conclu-
sions are right, we can but look upon
this refusal to convene an extra session,
as virtual letting 90 and giving mp OF
the seeded States-thus opening the
flood-gates Of secession to. the widest ex-
tent.
We have heretofore repeatedly given
it as our opinion that Mr.. Lincoln did
not intend to coercc the South
that he would not make any strenuous
effort TO collect the revenues in those
ports which lay in the seeded States;
and we are now more than ever con-
irmed in that belief. At all eveats, he
seems to be Of the opinion that it 10 best
to preserve the stutus quo liz good faith
until the next regular session Of the
Federal Congress, aud run the risk OF
any and all disadvantageous circnm-
stances. This seems to be the policy.
FLORIDA RAISING THE WIND.-Florida
las Just sold halt million OF acres Of
land to some New Orleans spectators,
at taco cents an acre. Considering the
millions of dollars she has cost the Uni
ted States while she was in the Union,
ten million mills will not enable her to
keep very large army upon a war
footing.
FAILED TO CoNNEcr.-The Iowa City
Press hints very broadly that the Re-
publicans Of that city got up lot Of
transparencies with which to celebrate
their charter election victory. The
Democrats took the persmmon., and
the transpareucies are for sale cheap.
BANKRUPTCY and ruin are staring
Eastern merchants in the face, yet these
are the good times prophesied by Gree
ley, Seward, Chase and others in Octo-
Der last. This is the oil which Lincoln
was to pour upon the waters.
The famous journal l. Unipers, which
ought to he we'll informed in American
affairs, announces that the last hours of
Lola Montcz we're soothed by the kind
attentions of Mrs. Buchanan, wife ofthe
President Of the United States.
A WARRINGTON correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, reports Senator
Wade as saying he SIS sick of politics"
We should think so, from the amount
Of political bile which comes from him.
A BOOK has recently been published
in Berlin, designed 10 show that no such
as Hannibal, Alexander the Great, or
Julius Cesar ever existed.
EMIGRATION FROM GEORGIA TO Iowa.
That there is disposifion in some