Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-02-18


II 10 enough to bring the blush -
the cheek OF any American citizen
even though but indifierently educated,
to read the silIy, sickening twaddle
enunciated BY the President elect -
he hastens on to occupy the Presidential
chair. Hear him - he speaks to the
Legislature Of Ohio, and read carefully
what he says:
A,,o.;oo has been made to the interest
fe,t n relation to the policy Of the new
administration. On this have received
from some . certain degree Of credit
for having kept silence. From others,
come depreciation. ! still think ! was
right. In the varying and repeatedly
shifting scenes Of the present, w'thonta
precedent which could enable Ne to Judge
by the past, it has seemed fitting that
before speaking upon tie difficulties OF
the country l should have gained view
Of the whole field, to be sure after all,
being at liberty to modify and change
the course Of policy, AZ future event'
may make the change necessary. have
not maintained silence from any want o.
reality. Ii is good thing that there Is
no more than anxiety, for there IS noth
ing going wrong. 1t is consoling CIR
cumstance that when We look out tnete
il nothing that really hurts anybody.
This is = most consolng circumstance,
and from it we may conclude that all We
want is time, patience and reliance on
that God who has never forsaken the
people. Fellow citizens, what l nave
said have said altogether uePremedi-
tated, and / will now come to close.
Think Of it. Mr.. Lincoln-ths head
Of the Nation--afrsid to proceed to
Washington by direct line, see-sa~s
about the country blabbing to the peo-
pie like an old maid at a-party, and
at the same time telling them that
nothing is going wrong" that " moth
ing really hurts nybody.' Let US hope
that this latter assertion is true,
for then the public will be at ease a. to
anything he may say or do. NotA'ng
is going wrongr' Six States have al.
ready seeded from the Union, and have
raised armies, spit upon the Constitution,
adopted a provisional government, torn
down the stars and stripes, detied the
general government, are collecting and
appl,inc to their own use the national
customs, refuse to give up the monies
of the nation, have taken torcib.e pos
session Of the nations forts, navy yards
and arsenals, have dared the govern
ment TO raise its hand to touch them,
hal c rent the Union in twain, and still
"Mere is nothing going acrong." Pa
trlots who loved their country better
than life, are bewailng the sad condl-
ton Of affairs the leading men Of the
as,s;ss, '..>s~..s."'i lip~Ste avsS' .ap-.sssd'ee
every fresh movement with breathless
anxiety -fearinl of the awful result the
entire civilized world is shocked and as
founded at the present phase of affairs,
yet nothing is going ,crong )" In
onr National Congress there arc vacant
chairs, at the National Capital stand
ing army, Washington City is under
martial law, government vessels have
been fired into BY forces of seeding
S,ate, still :" sill there Is nothing
acrOng.
Could human folly be carried to
greater extent than to make such fool
ish assertion? and coming as it does
from the President elect, what are men
Of Common sense to think Of it?
Hear the newly elected President's
closing remarks: He declares that
wi at Re has said was unprecedented.
1t vas extemperaneous hadn't
written out or studied it over At ell.
Wonderful announcement How great
ly relieved must the Senators and Rep
resentatives Of the Buckeye State have
felt at this announcement. They might
have thought, had Mr.. Lincoln not put
in that statement, that he had spent
months in his private laboratory con-
cOcting the same.
We leave the subject as one too boy
ish to be censured by the merest sprout
thatOrnaments the we'll whitfield benches
OF a country school house. Verify, the
fool killer has neglected to visit Spring
field within the last fifty years.
Col. FoRNEv writes from Washington
to the Philadelphia Press as follows
'Although Judge Douglas received but
sixteen thousand votes in the Presiden-
tial campaign in Virginia, his friends
constitute one-third OF the members Of
the Convention which assemblies at Rich
mond on Wednesday. The Bell and
Everett men have elected eighty of the
one hundred and fifty delegates and
distinguished Douglas Democrat, now
At my side, assures that they will remain
IN the Union n":'l all hope is lost, and
that' In any event, they will never 90
with the South Carolina madmeu."