Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-06-17

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IS evel porthek and western State
ths)s "a bsees growing organized sfii-
hited 6ciettb Of Abolltionlsts, sidiag inI
thc escape 81 negroes, battling pursuit,
or Wrestling the law to defeat Southern
aighss, plotting Itsspcs's Ferry martyr
dome, acting upon the elections, and at
last imposing on the Union an Aboii-
zionist President. In these very men,
too, the Southcrners saw the usurcrs,
niddle-men, attorneys and agents who
had continued to eat up their substance,
tp'bear of the profits Of their produce,
to swallow up their plantations in ire
deemable mortgages. To crown all,
these "blood-suc kers," ''crsfty aud sniv-
cling cxtortioners,' as they regarded
them, had managed 10 impose tarlff
upon the South which taxed them Tor
the protection and monopoly OF the
North to the amount OF ri least forty
millions sterling a year IN diheren'ia'
duties. Could there, can there be two
opin,ors about the policy OF secession
from such q lob sided Union whenever
L orc was opportui Can there DC
two opinions on the subject OF the pro-
babiilies OF the ro.uIt ot the struggle |?
What can the South possibly lose by
the dissolution Of partnership IN which
the whole capital OF the firm was brought
to the concern by one partner, and mys-
teriousIy transferred to the other, who
began with nothing, aud who had SO
kept the books that he made it out the
moneycd partner had greatly ovcrdra"n
his account, and was q tyrant to all the
servants OF tho house. Did either Eng
land or America lose anything by tue
Declaration o. Independence! We
we're denuded of Territory as large aud
productive as all Europe. Is our pres
tige, our greatness, our glory, III the last
impaiIedl
BY what logic is it argued that our
colonies, our foresworn sui tie, were
justified IN throwing of Their allegiance
to George the Third, While sovereign
and Independent: States have no right
to disavow President Lincoln Is IT
only the subjects OF Old Would dcspot-
ism that are cnt ted to choose Their own
rulers, while self governed Republicans,
independent severe On States, arc rebels
and traitors for prcsumlng to elect their
own administration England made
Massachusetts pay taxes on tea and
stamps. Everybody says Boston did
we'll 10 seccde from President Guelph.
NJ ssscbuselis, Pennsylvania and New
York impose upon Carolina and Lous-
lana di6ereLtisl duties ten times as hca-
w, and not for the general service ct
the Commonwealth, but for the sciiis h
monopoly OF private interests. Need
we carry out the parallel farther! Have
VIC forgotten that. when the landed in-
ter, j. refused TO reform Parliament, We
were within few hours of a rebellion
Do we forget orr AntiCorn Lav meet
inys, Of whi.h ID sracli saii, "this is
not Free trade, it is revolution 7" DID
not lancashire petition to manufacture
in bond, and to lie allowed To barter
American brcad.siutls for calcoes and
prints, Offering to give up the Custom
OF our agricutulais,s!
The fact Is the L;nceln war is Bunkum.
1t IS not to reclaim tho South to the
Union, bat to appropriate to the North
the whole properly Of the Republic, aid
to make the Sonth pay It's share OF TIE
Imperial debt. George the Third had
a better army than Liaeoln's. lie had
a Navy ten times as large. Yet lie
could not conquer the coionists, ana
they laughed at his blockade. Why is
Lincoln to do 20 the South-twe've
millions strong what England conld
not do to The five millions OF 1880 |!
The Slave States form majority OF
those which constituted the Union oil
Washington and Franklin. THEY have
better title TO call themselves the
United States than the Yankees. II
President Lincoln could succeed in con-
bucriug the seccders back TO the Union
the very genius Of the Constitution re-
quircs that he should conccde to them
their original representation in Sera,e,
and Congress, aud suffrage or the Presi-
dency, which would prove the run Of
the Republic. IT lie robbed them o.
sclf-govcrnment he would justify their
reason and rebellion, aud utterly de-
slroy the elementary principles Of the
Federation. To MS it has from the be-
ginning been perfectly obvious that no
power on earth would reclaim the Sc
cessionists back to the Union; that they
could not be bayoneted, she.Ied and
shotted back to their allegiance and
that, whether by negotiation or by gun
powder, final and successful separation
was the only possible solution OF the
nodas, and the Inevitable result OF
events.
The North is we know in very grea!
passion. There are citizens of the New
england States now in Liverpool who
out OF their own pockets have sent ct
Whitworth guns. fitted out ships anl
armed them, consigned cargoes Of am
munltion TO Boston and New York
They had even tho folly to declare j
high treason for Unionst to rctilt
his acccptanccs to any seceder-rebel
lion for man to pay his debts? They
in fact, look upon the detection Of til,
planters rs an usurer or midd.emal
wonld regard spcndthrlft who hae
suddenly reformed, put himself in tn
hands OF his friends, and resolved to re
new no more bills at cent. per cent. an,
jewellery. NJ Seward may iiod al lasttha
the very best thing he could have den
, was to accept Of tho mediation OF " Al