Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-11-27

ANO StotS ~ SoO S"'No "~@ y
blasting results Of the present war more
fearfully than Missouri. In the outset
there was a strong determination on 'ht
part of the Government to secede iron
the Union. while a. the same time there
vas among portion Of the people yer,
strong and unyieIding Union sentiment
This division of feeling III that State ha'
borne the most bitter fruits. Within
its own borders opposing parties have
sprung up bearing to each other tie
most inveteratc and deadly hatred
Hitherto peaceablc ncighborhoods, be-
came divided among themselves, and
acts of onense and defense have been
carried on in the most persistent style.
The Federal Government. as III duty
bound, sent troops there to protect the
Union abiding citizens, and to counter
act that influence the rebels ordered
their troops forward to protect their
Missouri friends. The awful result IS
before the people Of that State. The
horrors presented, says the Republican,
no pen will ever describe in their full
extent and terrible blackness. Thought
full men prophccied before tho war set
in, awful scenes, without probably com
pretending tithc OF the distress, voc
aud horrors which were in store for our
scourgcd people. II one will open the
pages OF Edmund Burke, and scan the
picture nc has presented OF the war In
the Carratic he will have faint idea OF
the waste and ruin, which have DESC
lated 80 large part of our afflicted State.
Read anywhere the history Of the civil
broiis which have in different ages and
among different people, set ncighbor
against neighbor, and given field OF
employment for the robbers and ravag-
ers OF property, and the assasslns OF rep
utalion aud he-which have covered
almost every square league OF the terri
tory with hostile camps-"hlch have
split the blood oil citizens in battle Oh III
murder-which have carried terror over
whole districts and Into the bosoms ot
inuumerabIc holnes-whlch Lave sci
brother against brother, father against
son, in mortal STRIFE, aud FAINT idea
again may be gathered OF the dreadfn
condition to which Missouri is this day
T. auc.d. Her own children imbruc
their hands in each others blood, anu
tic each others dwellings !; While enc
mics from without, who come in painting
to glu, revenge which Is atlabic,
rel oicingly assist IN this dev,llsh work
and add To- its horrors and aLominatlors.
To day, a Union leader, rs was Cook IN
the western pat of the State recent, ,
will be Sc zcd and lis lite taken on the
spot; tomorrow, Judge Of one OF the
Counts, who sympatbiZed with the
South, Will be murdered, while close
prisoner IN the hands Of the head OF an
armed force, who has swoln to protect
him, tut cannot make good his pledge,
and The case seems almost hopeless.
There is no balm in Gilead, and no
physician there. Missouri has within
her borders no men who can, as Nilsson
rians, stand up, and facing those dread
ful exigencles, tell her people how they
could be met, and what is the remedy
There is mutua, hate and distrust. No
man helieves another honest in any
course of pacification that either may
recommend Men are prone to think
and believe the worst of each other. 1t
is a time when every private enemy can
CRAFTY his revenges; for there is nothing
that malice can invent which will not
be credited by one man Of any other
man who even SO much az differs in
opinion from HIM.
At such time, this distressed and
harrassed people ought to welcome,
even from without. any administration
which promises to govern with a wisdom
adequate to the emergency. We have
a confidence in the power now pending
there,a i we cherish hopes that through
the justice and discrimination OF it's ex.
erc'se, some relief may be promised fol-
this unhappy State.
DAvIE TOP the Union Governor elect
Of Onio has prohibited thu circlla,io
or sale ut tie Cleveland UgruM, on ,h.
NJ +honing ran road,ot which be IS Pres
ident, bceau-e It dates TO criticize tn,
acts of the Government a,d it's
agents, aud thus, as the as utc I'd IN
d.rstands it, "g,ves aid aud comf,r, to
our enemies." We think Mr.. Tod has
made an Ass OF nlmset without any ,ea
s,nablc compensation therefor. - CHI
cogo Tribune.
The Herald is Republican paper
hence IT,. sI,ee, o the Tribune 1T the &C
ton OF Coy. Tod. Il Democratic Jour
nails presume to probe the acts of the
Government and nnmask Adm,nistrat,v.
errors, they bling down whole 10 ties O
wrath and maIed'c'ons from Republican
quilt drivers and are denounced Al se