Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-09-24

hair consCicnCes ! xney are n'1neE-IaW
men. They 'insiststbat the contest 10
vhich No are engaged - 40 irrrepres:-
BILE one, and thst, therefore, the south
.ould not avoid il, unless they were will
no At the outset to surrender oil that I
.boluiou,sts demanded. To declare
Ina, this contest is ire sssible, declares
'h.t our fathers formed . government
wh;ch could not stand. Are such men
The proper guardians Of this govern,
meu.. Have not their speeches ana
acts given strength to the rebellion,
and have they not also enabled ITO lead
ere to prove to their deludsd folio weis
that the contest was an irrePress'oIe
onel
But their leaders have not only assert
ed that thi. contest was irrepresslble,
unless the South would give mp what
extreme Republicans demand their To-
cal institutional, but those in power have
done much to justify this rebellion 10
the eyes Of the world. The guilt OF the
rebellion is determined BY the character |
of the government against which It 10
arrsyed. Tho right Of revolution, IN
the language Of President Lincoln, is
sacred right when exerted against bad
government.
We charge that this rebellion is most
wicked because it is against the best
government that ever existed. 1t is the
excellence Of our government tina,
makes remittance crime, Rebellion is
aot necessarily wrong. 1t may be an
act Of the highest virtue-it may be
,ns Of the deepest depravity. The re.
be.lios Of our Fathers is our proudest
boast-the rebellion Of our brothers is
the humiliation Of our nation, our nation.
al Disgrace TO resist bad govern
ment is patriotism resist good one
is the greatest guilt. The fret is patri
otism, the last is treason. Legal tri-
bunals can only regard resistance OF
laws as q crime, but in the forum Of
public sentiment the character of the
government will decide If the act is
treason or patriotism.
Our government and its administra.
ton are ferent things but IN the eyes
# the civilized world, abuses, weakness
or folly in the conduct Of affairs go far
to Justify resistance. have read to you
the testimony Of Messrs. Greeley,
Weed, Bryant, Raymond and Marble,
charging frau !, corruption, outrage and
incompetency upon thoee in power
Those who stand up to testify to the in
competency of these representatives Of
discordant party to conduct the affairs
OF our government are politically oppos
ed to 10. Bear in mind that the em.
barrassments Of President Lincoln grow
out of the conflicting views Of his polit,-
cal friends, and their habits and princi.
ples Of characterization. His hands
world be strengthened by . demo.
cratic victory, and if his private pray ers
are answered We will relieve him from
the pressure of phiIanthrop'sts who
thirst Tor blood, and who call for the ex
termination of the men, women and
children of the South. The brutal anc
bloody language Of partizan editors ano
political preachers have lost as the sym
patty of the civilized world in con-
test where all mankind should be OF
one side.
Turning to the Legislative department
fo". .>~~.~,.c"~. ..h"t IL, mo .nn p
10 the history of the decline and fsl! o
nations, there are no more striking DIS
PLAYS Of madness and folly. The as
semblage of Congress throws gloou
yer the nation it's continuance in ses
sion is more disastr Gus than defeat upo,
the battle field. 1t excites alike ALARM
aud di.gust.
The public are disappointed in the re
suits Of the war. THIS Is owing to tn,
dffsring objects of the people on tn
one hand, and fanst,csl agitators i,
and out Of Congress. on the other. IL
the army, thu Union men Of the NORTH
and South battle side by side, under on,
flag, to put down rebellion and upholC
the Union and Constitution. In Con.
gress. a fanatical majority make war OF
the Union men Of the South aue
strengthen the hands Of seccssionists b,
words and acts which enable them t,
keep alive the flames Of OWL war. VIVA
is cone on the battlefield by the blooc
and treasure Of the people, is undone BY
Senators. Halt Of the time is spent il
fact,cus measures designed to destroy
all confidence in the government 1t th,
South, and the rest in annoying ou
army, in meddI,ng with its Operations
embarrassing our generals, and IN pub
fishing und'gested and unfoucded scan
dal. One party is seeking to bring
about peace, the other to keep alive
hatred and bitterness by interterences
They prove the wisdom OF Solomon.
when he said {: ut is an honor to a
man to cease from strife, but every foo
will be meddliog."
| This war cannot be Thought to cue
cessful conclusion or our country restor.
ed to an honorable peace under the Re
publican leaders for another reason.-
Our disasters are ma My due to the
fact that they have not dared to tell the
truth to the community. A system OF
misreprese utation bad been practiced &C
long and SO successfully that when the
war burst upon US they feared to let The
people know its full proportion, and
they persisted in assuring their friends it
was but . passing excitement. They
till asserted that the South was unable
to maintain and carry on a var. They
denounced As q traitor every man who
tried to tell the truth and to warn our
people of the magnitude Of the contest.
Nov, my Republican friends, you
know that the misapprehensions OF the
North with regard to the South ha.