Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-08-08
T1R TRHAOON CASE m BOSTON.
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Much has been said ssto hodiog tseis
si,h the government - II thsIe Va
somo peculiar saoctity in It.
Have ve arrived 1t such . state that
no one must 6ud fault With any action
or omission of the government or any
member Of it, without having treason .
imou,ed 70 him? Cannot you, or
Capoo. II ], for example, bsve the
m;.,o,tops 70 thisk that Nj. steward, oor
Or,.eut Secretary Of State. IL MT 1T, 50
= sl.teman, to isdsx the pspsrs Of The
late S,Iss Wright. However little be
m.y be Affected by my tbooghts, l do
tb,uk bis want of sense-sober sense
has made bim the laughing stock OF
Europe! think that be IL . ANAL
ward ADD county politician, who writes
ike a sophomore and acts like . STOCK
jotber. Every time he speaks about
what will happen in sixty, 10 '''"e.y
days! he puts me in mind OF . coIo
.tone broker. clustering over the aP.
uroscbiue maturity Of DUBUQUE note
{ think such men haye been advanced
10 important places in this cono'ry
.I.out :. often rs they will be, add can
not help rejoicing TO think that Mr.
seward will probably be the last OF the
Li.l,po,i.os. May not say 30! ha'
Mr.. Phillips taken ont . patent tor tue
a .pI,cation OF first rate abuse to second
ri. m.ns Aud must l be tried for
treason if l unsucce. siuIly attempt to
Infringe i'll Agsio, do not worship
Mr.. sumner. cannot admire person
who is so SIMPLE as think It finer thing
TO pretend to be a fanatic than TO be .
dbl. but honest man. There is fine
old Geruan story c.l,ed 1.-THE sdven-
lures Of Reyoard he Fox" in the illus
OF which animals Of different
are represented IN the attitudes
and with the expressions Of men. The
are very good, aud from the
we'll known tact that meo often resem
tle certain animals in curious and IN
manner, their effect is high
W amusing. 1t is particularly 50, It you
happen by any chance to be reminded
,,v them Of any particular person. Now.
must l suffer death II l say th"t l never
looked at thoee pictures without think.
iu1 OF M. Seward aud Of Mr.. Sumoer ?
and that | never hear the names OF MI.
Seward or Of Simmer without thinking
OF the ii, ture OF the Fox and the pic
lure of the GaGder!
And what if l am frank enough to say
that am SICK Of the ewagger'ng imbe
City with which the government has
,pansged this war Of life and death ls
hat ,reasonable9 Shall my government,
that is to say, my servant, my crea
ture-was,e my money, and even let II
be stolen, and stop my paper, and inter
rupt mn business, and violste ny con
s,ilutou, and s,arve and kill my sol Tiers
out Of pure neglect, aud gain only dis
as,er and defeat tor me by AL this folly
And shall Say nothing? Ill am to pu'
up wi b this, and more, and say nothing
or else be shut up by order OF w. IL
seward, want to know, seriously ane
calmly, what shall fight jeff. DAVIS for
What worse can be do to me than Sew
ard or Stanton have done already
What, indeed-wheu their want o
sense and want Of energy have made
him everything that he is Lost money
may be rega,ned, lost armies may b.
replaced out Of our swarms OF men bu
who shall give US Jack the time we hav'
"foo'ed away" before the dirt heap
of Manassas? Expose . cup of cles
water to the frost. Observe it, and, ever
when the cold begins to fill it's transpa
rent substances With beautiful spicalt
of ice, if you agitatc the mass it will no
Immediately freeze. But give it IN tha
condition a very short period of res
and it becomes a rock, hardly yielding
to the energies Of gunpowder and Ere
So have we found the South. The,
we're once undecided. Time aud tn
stupidity of the government have con
-olidated a hesitating into hostile
people. Yet Mr.. Gordon is traitor
ne calls TOOL fool.
No, sir-trcedom Of speech is no
quite gone. 1t "still lives" in Boston
This mean prosecution is not TO affect i,
The respectable members OF the Repuh
lean party think, aud say plainly whs
they think about it. Those that l haI
pen to know Of them are gentlcme,
they do not agree with me in polite.
when politics existed, but they sgre
with me now in dc>pising that petit
prosecution Of laborcrs aud mechanic
for their opinions, which was the re
proach of the old Wing party, an
was one Of the causes Of its fall AS grea
and respectable as that party was. The
say with perfect truth that the Who'll
moral effect OF our unarimity depend
upon is notorious freedom from cor
straint, and that it would not only b
lost to US, but would he used against n
with tremendous power, if it could b
shown for one moment to be produce
by fear CT BY force. And agree wit
them most fully. Ii We cannot hol
our own against one or two secession is,
in a whole State here without force ,wh,
are We to do with the armies OF Stone
wall jackson?
If the leading Republicans, howeve
abandon their own principles to tx
vengeance for.op'nion's sake, / can te
YOU that they will not leave 20 great
matter in the hands OF any such person
As the prosecution in this case. The
Gill not conde -c-nd to sirink from III
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