Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-06-19
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News saeM Tm. gsnsr sEGi-
AGnIs At AACon lsTH.
THEY CAPTURE PRINTING OFFICE.
r n EY ISSUE 4 PAP z y /.
Extracts and ThiSgsI
Last svssings mail brossht ~ .Oss WAs'
Jhios; o. s1s A;ssssri Rsgisssr," Of the loth'
pablishsd BY the printers Of the 1st Regiment ei
Isws volustssu, and - it contains infosmstioa
| Of importance, W extract sopioasly. The hrst
Special Order No. I.
HsADQuAsrsRs lsr REG'T Iowa v0lA,
MACON CIrY, No, June Is, 1851.
Secession printing office, press and materials
havisg been ssissd at this place, nov. therefore,
orders and for other purposes, it 10 ordered that
the pabliestion Of Daily Paper be Immediately
commenced. +. b. Wilkis il appointed editor,
Cy. D. Fletcher, E. n. Nswcomb, foFsmsn, who
will bs assisted BY Geo. II. eallou, Saml !. Orr,
Emerson g. Uphsm, Thos. J. Marsh, 0. p. Eads,
y. w. Bennett.
J.. +. BArss, Colonel.
Next comes Wilkes Salutatory, in which :
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| We have invariably regarded salutatories - .
bore fearful bore, both to the readers and writ
eu thersof-bvt - every editor, upon assuming
the tripod, feels called upon TO make his bow Of
introduction, lay down his Platform, and append
his name thereto, We suppose we must do Likewise
| at least we shall TO some extent.
Upon arriving in this plses, We found fns
printing once 'laying around loose." and not at
all fulfilling the great end to which oil printing
Offices destined. The proprietor and editor, ~
We learned, had broke for some neigh boring tim
| bsr-or, perhaps impslled BY the exigeneiss Of
some passing necessity, had dspasted-no one
knows whither-leaving Types and Presses mute
| and disconsolate.
A printing Office has NO more right to remain
| idle than pretty woman han TO remain un0ar.
ried and particularly should the press be active
when there are wrongs TO be righted, information
disseminated, truth separated from fslsehood, and
rightful issues presented in contra-distnction to
false. Such . state Of things was in existence
here-henss one reason why the idle press should
| be started.
Again, We feared that the interests Of Macon
City might suffer when it became known that no
| newspaper WAS in being. What Western town
claims to be town unlsss il has its newspaper
| its hebdomadal issue, which dwells mainly upon
3hs policy OF the European waf, the "Balsnee Of
Power We editors like to talk Of big subjects,
even if We don't understand them, and which
suOW tne ltumous0 eOv2ut8&c VI tu0 SOWu IN WHICH
tits published over that Of all others. None I!
And, knowing this, We determined that Macon
| City should be represented in Newspepsrdom-
should have ito powerful "leaders," its due quota
Of editorial "we's" and "our's"-4hould not suffer
| for the want Of home editorial wisdom-should
still be able to sustain homo enterprise.
And, again, We fear that our predecessor has
wandered politically astray, Is he seems now to
have physically away, and, mayhap, lost himself
to his millions Of readers. Fearing this, We deter
| mined to rlaoe his paper upon that strait and
narrow way which leads to life everlasting" (po-
liticsily -another reason for our present course.
Again-editors owe each other courtesy which
political differences diverse nationalites can
| destroy. We saw his paper lying idle, himself
absent, his business suffering, and. as . brother
Quill. We rushed to his rescue. We do it to pre-
sorve the reputation of his sh es to keep it in cir
calation-to preserve the balance between his
business an his abseuce-in short, We take his
place, conduct his paper during his absence, and
preserve so worthy sheet ss the KEGisrER from
dying out and being forgotten. To be sure, We
have slightly altered the name Of his sheet-per-
haps little the tone, possibly somewhat its ap-
pearsnce-Otherwise it is the same sheet, with q
diff rent editor.
Friends, these are the reasons (along with some
few others) that have induced US to continue the
publication Of the RsGIsTgR, alias the UNION,
during the temporary absence Of its respected
editor-Mr. Johnson. Are they not sufficient
Dc they not show that We feel for . brother ia
distress, and are willing, BY oil means in oul
power, to advance his interests, and those of his
native place?
Desming yosr answer, Good Hearts, to be q
kindly and cordial affirmative, We shall consider
ourself introduced, and, with many hopes for q
better acquaintance, We subscribe oursef
The EDITOR.
Next comes the article about /" Flag Raisng =
The boys thought there Was IN alarming necessi-
tp fer an American Flag 1t Macon. The patriotic
ladies buised themselves in getting up the nag
the soldiers meantime, erected . huge
high pole near the camp and Maj. Porter marched
company to receive the Asg, which is thus des-
cribed:
First went the music vigorously developing that
time honored melody, Yankee Doodlee, then
came arm in arm Major Porter and an elderly
couple, in whose heasts were yet echoing the
music born Of other days, in the olden, pa
triotic time-next came the Flag borne on eith
side by twenty ladies and several old gentle
men-who had determined 70 rally at least once
their fathers. themselves and their children had
been born and reared and msny had died.
Arriving at the embankment, the ladies and
etisens took posseasion Of it, chain of sentinss
keeping the crowd below On either side. The
preparations were soon completsd-the Flag was
Of fair hasds, he'd seised the halliaris, and
the next instant its long folds sprssd out grace
fully upon the breese, and it rose slowly up up
amid the roll of drums and the frantic cheers 81
Thousands, till at length high in the blue ether it
rested.
One Of the ladies, in brief, pertinent address,
then made . formal presentation Of the Flag to
the First Regiment, which WAS received BY the
crowd With enthusiastic hussas- Henry O'Con-
nor, private in Company 4, was then called up
on for . response, and in short address, the
whole poetry Of his nstare gushsd in answer =
this beautifal aes Of sympathy from the mothers
and daughters Of Missouri tostrangsrs.
When his thoughts run back the stream Of rem
insscences, and he recalled The days when that
glorious Flag waved in proud triumph everywhere
-hated by tyrants and loved BY freemsn-whep
he recalled the days when the men Of Iowa and
those Of Missouri and all the States from the
North and South stood shoulder TO shouldss like
brothers, 70 sepsl common .f0s-Whsn he rscall-
I'd the days when the vo1en of the revelation
gave their all their husbands, sons and brothers,
are nov 1ehtine eva>-ws Say, when be recalled
al these in the impassioned sorrow Of the mourn
ing the loae ef grest possession. the feelings Of
his audience wers wrought mp to IN extent that
burR forth into tsass. Tsars-tsass straight from
the deep fountains Of the heart rsined in torrents
from the eyes to which the mists Of sorrow had
long bsen stranger and particularly ansag the
lold nm uho eans totteliae alosg With the Aag
10 render one last act Of devotion - the waoLS
COUNT NJ, Was this emotion visible.
Alas! alas who veadees that stroag men wspt
ss they contemplated With vivid Imagination .
ruin compared to which that which voald level
the jaspst wallis and smits to fSagnsnts the pala.
- ef the Etanal City, were scarcely les 10 bs
dsplosed.
After the sopalusion Of O'Coosor's aps rsnasks
the whole crowd joised in sinsing the Star span
gled Banles. With discovered hsads and We doubt
not that echoes were borne away till thav ve,e