Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-04-06

son, managed to make good their escape
last week by use Of IN iron bar which
was passed in from the outside by some
one.
Tx p. O.-E. G. David assumed
charge OF the p. y. on Monday, but so
far has met nothing but difficulties. The
clerks demand, as condition Of stay
|ing to initiate their SUCCESSORS. that
they should be retained a year. This
condition was not complied with, and
several Of them lett. What the result
will be, it is impossible to tell.-Du-
duque Herald
DENIES IT.-Tecsdalc, of the Iowa
State Register, is charged by the Bnrl-
ington Hawkeye with having amsssed q
fortune Of $4,000 out of the State print.
ing, which, the Hdmkeye thinks, ought
to satisfy him without now putting in
his oar for the Post Office. Teesdale
denies the charge and apparently proves
that he is not as fortunate, by several
thousand, as the Hdwkeye man would
make him.
Tnz gross receipts Of the Keokuk d
Des Moines K. X. are said to be $4,000
per week.
LEGAL.-Thc State Register says that
some 400 cases in the District Court
will be tried by referees during the va
cation Of the Court. This judicious
course will clear the docket, save costs,
bring about speedy justice to litigauts,
and relieve the county from divers
onerous burdens in the way Of expense.
This process of expediting business is
not usual in the West, although prac-
ticed extensively in the East.
INSANE AsYLUM.-Ihe insane are FL
ing into this institution steadily.
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The Morrill, Tariff.
The man or party that supposes that
the ireemcn OF the Northwest will, for
auy length Of time, bear the infamous,
odious, and outrageous exactions Of the
Morrill, tariff, will be awakened as if by
the grumbling Of an earthquake. Thepeo-
pie of the Northwest are overwhelming
ly an agricultural and consuming peo-
pie. They are willing and proudly able
to pay their equal and just proportion Of
the tax necessary to an economical adj
m,nistration OF the general government
But they will never submit to be made
hcwers of >wood and drawers of water
tor Eastern capitalists and cOtton-spin-
ming Nabobs. They will not consent to
be robbed of their honest earnings to
fatten Eastern manufactures. They
know we'll that the whole tax imposed
by q tariff comes off the consuming
classes and that by the most odious OF
taxes they are compelled to pay three
times as much to the Eastern manufac-
turers, as bounty, as they do their gov
crnment. They are not such nunskul's
as to suffer their common government
to compel them to pay All annual trib-
ute of fifty 70 one hundred millions OF
dollars to Eastern capitalists. New
England NAV deludc us for season by
the everlasting negro she may dissolve
the Union by her insane dogmas and
reckless prosecutors but she will find
terrible reckoning to meet when she
attempts to take millions Of tribute from
the pockc:s of the hard-fisted farmers
and laboring men Of the Northwest.
They have stolen q march on us in the
midst of the great "nigger dispute" by
their Infamous "bil of denominations :"
but their victory will but seal their doom
forever. The West henceforth will de-
mand tariff un Injuries alone, and re-
fuse to have her labor pay tribute to the
East under the flimsy disguise Of tar
it. The East hereafter must support
itself a. the West does-on its own
money and its own labor. They need
not hope to tax us to do it.
The old WORKOUT and threadbare
sophistries about high tariffs making
low goods and the bug bear OF "direct
taxation" will move us never an inch.
The world has grown largely in the last
twenty years; and such out-of-fashion
garments will no longer fit. We may
expect the Chicago Tribune and other
journals, which take every inspiration OF
| ife from Massachusetts, add the thous-
and and one petty sheets which can be
bought up by the money of the manu-
featuring interests OF the East, to blath-
er and bleat about protecting home in
dustry but this will only render the
tariff still more odious. We mean to
protect our home industry from all ex-
actions, not only from Old England, but
all other Englands and our shome
industry is the industry and labor Of
the Northwest" We do not mean to
call Eastern labor our labor and then
protect it by making Western labor pay
it money to fill its pockets. We do not
desire to be protected ourseles by taking
money out of the pockets Of Eastern Ia
Dor, aud putting it into our own ; nor do
we intend to let them rob us. Nor will
the West be humbugged by the cry Of
"lircct TAXATION" We prefer to have
QUE dollar taken honestly and boldly
out Of our right.hand pocket to support
our government, than to have chloro-
form clapped to our nose and five dol
lars stolen out of our left pocket.
The great battle of Western labor
against Eastern monopolies and boun-
ties has now commenced in earnest. The
"free labor" Of the Northwest will soon