Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-10

to the middle Of next week, bat We are
the frs. people ever knew who were
knocked into the mid lie Of last year"
[Great laughter We must make more
Of business Of this war. We can Just
as we'll take kiohmood in sixty days As
10 elk years. l will guarantee that the
Democrats will take contract to put it
through in sixty daya. Great applause
The fresh recruits in America fight q.
we'll as the disciplined soldier. You can
Just as we'll eend half million OF men
to Richmond in thirty days as thirty
years. After we get to Richmond
have suggested that we call halt. !
am IN no particular favor At the south.
| used 10 call them . great many hard
names, which thought they deserved,
and they used to couple the name OF
Van Buren, with that Of Seward. When
l was down at Sulphur Springs they
used to walk around me precisely as II
BY going to Buffalo would become
bison aud they dared not be seen with
me. II it had not been for the ladies
Of the South should have felt solitary.
They had more courage and did not
run, and they showed more lasts.
Bot I would not violate Constitu.
ton under which they have liveo for
eighty years with their telaser. l
would not arm blacks. / would not arm
the slaves of the South-a brutal, igno.
rant population-to be turned against
unoffending women and children, and
effect crimes at which manhood shud.
ders. In such case the country could
only ask me to remain neutral, for 1t
would be my inclination to join in the
protection Ct the women and children.
| Applause Let me cay that do not
believe that there is any danger OF for
eirn Intervention until we violate the
rnlcs OF Christian and civilized warfare.
meet q great manv contractors VINO
are very patriotic, and cry that this war
must 90 on while there 10 a cent in the
treasury. Laughter Then l met
bold Brigadier, ("Bustecd'') and the
question to him is whether he shall con-
tlnue with his forty.five hundred dollars
year, or go back with me to the prso-
tice OF the law, with his poor five hun.
dred. ("How are you, Richard ~ and he
ga, 3 to me, "Our people are not awake
to this crisis-I am going to stump the
| State to show them that they must 60
on till the rebellion is crushed and the
last man killed." Well cay, you 60 on.
l[Laughter. line. a white neck clothed,
pale. faced man tho other day-a rank
abolition st, and be said: "Your names,
Van Buren,. | believe 7" | told HIM |
thought so once, but had been called
so many names that had almost begun
to doubt it. [Great laughter swell"
said lie, 81 understand you want to stop
this war" Says !, mot immediately"
"Bu,, says he, sometime" | told him
I thought it would be better to stop 1t
sometime. "Well," said he, "you want
to make terms with traitors. You are
not willing that this rebellion should be
wholly crushed
| told bin | thought in every war
there must come a time when the par
ties could make terms. SWELL" said
he, "this is the most nefarious thing
that was ever undertook. Most afro
clous thing ever wasp Says |, "that
S SO when did you get back ?" wv hen
did get back from whereof said be.
"From the war, of course" said |. "Ob,
have not been to the war;! "When do
you 90 Z" said l. ooh, | shan't be able
to 90; nv wife isn't we'll, AUDI"
"Well," said l, "do you think it is
good thing for you TO be sending men
down to this war when yon cit here like
the contractors, who are urging US to 60
on to the South while they stay at home
and steal!' | should 90 tor halt at
Richmond, but if others desire to march
further let them 60. lshould say, gallant
Greeley ADVANCED L.ughter.) For
ward theblack brigade" (kenewedlaugh-
ter) "Penetrate the heart Of 5. Carolina,
and for fear OF future uprising stay there
forever" Everybody knows that where
people fight each other good and bald it
begets mutual respect. NOBODY knows
that better than the old Barnburners
and Hunkers. (Laughter.) He,o are
some spared monuments. Never were
thew better united. The South sup
posed this idea of seeding would be
entertained by the non-sIaveholding
States. That is fallacy. They must
not 90 out without calling convention
TO get US to consent to it, and If they at
tempt il they must be whaed back
again. They see it is going to be done,
and fifty years from now Virginia will
not stand where she stood when THIS
war commenced. So toe, the North has
been deceived. Ispeak particularly Of
those persons who have been engaged
in melting the war. Those who though t
it would blow over in sixty days, those
who thoaght 1t could be pursued against
a timid, trembling, fleeing foe arc all
greatly mistaken. Ger. Scott was not
OF those men. Great applausc.)
II we meet in convention, and after
that the war is to be renewed, we shall
know what VIC are doing. We have
some saveholding States in the Union
now. Make the Supreme Court say
what the Constitution ir on the subject
of slavery, ana require the consent of
all the States to alter it, aud in my judg.
ment Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and Arkansas will adhere to the
twenty-three States. Then suppose the
other seven States still refuse. You
must haze the full navigation of the
Mississippi. The western people will
take it. You cannot have any treaty