Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-04-09

A" Quaker gun" il = log so painted
as to look like a cannon. Those who
are endeavoring systematically to bring
ridiculo upon our army Of the Potamac
have reported that this is the character
Of the guns that the rebels had mount.
ed on their Notifications at Centreville
and Manassas. But, according to the
Buffalo Express, these "kuns," like
every thing else have history. That
paper says: eve learn, on excellent
authority, that the logs Of which they
we're made we've lying around loose, as
fire wood, when the works were first
occupied by our troops; and that they
we're never mounted until the miscbeiv.
Gus soldiers Of Captain Lees company,
2lst New York regiment, put them IN
place and blackened them for the avow.
ed purpose of selling the civilians 1t
proved very successful SELL"
There has been a singular conflict Of
statements as to the rebel Notifications
and ordnance at CeutreviIle and Manas.
as. Some of the correspondents said
that the ,ntrenchments we're sham, and
mounted with these painted logs instead
Of cannon. Persons likely to know
said that the Notifications we're formida-
hle, and that there we're no "quaker
guns" Rev. DR.. Bellows who has
been on a visit to Centreville and Ma
nassas, said IN an address in New York
on Monday evening, that the CORES.
pondent. "put what they saw and heard
" of in the same paragraph without Ia
/" being either" lie probably hit very
near the truth. He said that for bis
own part che did not see any of the
"long guns, or quaker guns He
" hoped that those guns really bad ex-
:" listed, for else there had been an enor-
" nous amount Of !, ing for some one to
" answer for"
Tell the " hole Truth.
From the N. Y. Express.]
The Tribune, in a controversy with
the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, Gays:
"In the State Of New York-which
is by no means so liberal in this respect
as several negroes can and do
vote-always could vote, even when this
was slave State; can hold Office if they
get a majority Of votes, and can 6 i've
testimony in any case whatever"
But, to vote, he must be rich negro
"a negro owning $3.50 freehold estate,
over and above all debts and incum-
brances, and actually rated and taxed
thereon. Angel negroes, few aud far
between, 10 New York Site, "cdn hold
Office" to be sure-but if one of them
were given printing stand, even in the
Tribune office, all the white printers
would fly therefiom. An immense
majority at the last Presidential election,
over 100000 we think, refused to
change the graft upon the State Consti-
tuition.
"ln several of the New England
States" continues the Tribune, "negroes
have all the rights before the law Of
white men,"
Not one Of the real rights Of the white
man! No right to sit as jurors! No
right to handle . musket IN the ranks
with white men! No right, living, to
worship God, even, in the same pew
with the white man; or, dying, to be
buried, even, side by side with that white
man. Don't be cheating Kentuckiau.
thus with any delusive social rights Of
the negro in the North, for, living or
dead, his color, his caste, doom him to
poverty, wretcbcdness, misery. The
negro North is a social slave; South,
chattel slavc-and that is all the differ
ence.
T:uthfully, though mournfully, adds
the Tribune
I'm this State the negro population is
decreasing, in spite Of its comparative
freedom"
Because We actually starve negroes
to death. We drive them out Of all
trades but mere caste employmeots-
and, unable TO find the means of living.
they perish for want Of food or clothes,
and in the mlasma Of cellars, garrets
and holes. Exactly what Dur father
"philanthropists" did to the original In
dian occupants Of our soil, we, their
are doing to the blacks import
ed an MS extcrm'nating them BY
rum, H. ~, by starvation even.
IN the outset Of the secession agita-
ton We end Ex-Governor Adams, Of
South Carolina, holding the following
language:
1.-THE sbolitionists are our best friends.