Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-02-14

armies for the mere accom-
plishment OF an insane idea,as to threat
en- that the work OF desolation shall 90
on, "either through the Administrations
or over it," The conclusion is irresls'a'
bic that some men of genius, If not &C
tually crazy or devilish, have go cranP'
Cd and contracted their naturally vigor.
Gus powers by perpetually thinking ano
speaking upon an exaggerated idea, a.
to heccme pigmies when they ought 10
have been giants. II is my hFm oe''e'
that if abolit,onism should rule to-day,
this war would become one OF extermi'
nation and death ali over the country
that the blackness OF darkness wouid
oyershadow the land, and the sun u
liberty g down in blood, thereby eS-
tinpuishng the hopes Of freemen Tor
Republican government, and obllterat'
mo al reasonable grounds for expect
ino the permanent sovereignty OF the
people ri
Las, year Virginia, the birth place OF
so many Chief Magistrates, who once
had swayel the des,ines OF this rePuo,
lie, and among them OF the founder Of
her Union and independence, delegated
one Of her noble sons TO the peace con-
terence at the Na,loua! Capitol. Though
10 advanced age and tickle health, ex
President Tyler, who survived only a
few months later the calamity o. his
county, did not hesitate a moment,tooe
in the foremost ranks of accepting the
cali OF Kentucky extended to all the
States of the Union. Again Virginia
took worthy place in the noble and
and great work of trying to promote re-
cancellation and adjustment, MIR. Tyler
acc pied the honor conferred upon him
by the digniftd members Of the peace
conference to take the chair as presiding
officer, when the eyes Of the whole civil
lied world were turned upon the dan.
ger of division in this glorious Repub
lie. lie urged in the most solemn words,
that patriotism might surmount the dit
ficulties, however great-that they might
accomplish but one triumph ~ the
triumph Of party "And what is par,
IT," exclaimed the patriotic President
"when compared to the task Of Iescn,
ing one's country from danger !"
Party hate however had caused that the
northwestern States were not at al, or
very feebly represented. The first Re
preventative ever delegated from the west
IN Congress Dec. 1887 was named John
Brown, end it seemed that she had since
great sympathy for men OF the same
name. The unreconcliating wrath for
white men in the South Of the rioter
and murderer in Virginia, ending his
deserved fate at the galows, had found
many party friends in the northwest, who
now refused to accept the brotherhood
Of leace and reconciliation.
The Northwest, however, had for
gotten that on the Goth of Dec, 1888,
The slave State Virginia, by one of IL e
most noble and most generous acts
known in history, had coded to Con
gress tie rights in her immense Terrific
RI North west Of the Ohio river, and
that in 1883 the same Old Dominion
had assented that this large tract of land,
without any reserve, whatever, should
be divided into three or five free States
''hayng the same rights Of sovereignty,
freedom and Independence, as the 9TH
er States
Scventy-three years afterwards dele
gates are invited from the North.we,t, to
offer helping hand in settling appal-
ing difficulties with their Southern
brethren, by means Of peace confer
ence, presided by an offspring of the
same generous slave State, who once
had offered and ceded all their land and
homes, and : : = the majority Of her
population refuses to accept the call.
: i The Northwest refuses peace
refuses compromise refuses recon-
citation.
" hen the coming storm might have
been averted, the Northwest did rot
repeal unanimously her unconstitutional
liberty bills-did not send powerful and
we'll intended delegates to the peace con
ference-dld not urge the Government
to submit to the people plan of COM
promise; 'that their voices might be
''heard before they were made to suffer
'the evils Of civil war, and desolation
land death, was carried into their
"Eoines." Like Massachusetts, for
whose sake the noble Virgirians once
crossed barefooted the mountains, to
come to the rescue OF her capital, and to
fight and conquer the common foe, the
Northwest had now totally forgotten
the great obligations she was under to
the generosity Of Virginia, who, to pro-
mote the formation of the Union, had
once coded an extent of land sufficient
by its natural capacity and enormous
area for an empire. The delegation of
the home and birthplace Of " ASKING.
ton, Henry, Jefferson, Madison and Mon.
roe, urged in vain the assistance of the
inhabitants OF her former North western
Territory, to promote reconciliation,
compromise and peace with the sons OF
her Clays and Calhouua,their misguided
Southern brethren. And now, not sat
istied that slavery never occupied so
small portion Of Territory, or welded
so little power in the national repre-
sentation, as when President Lincoln
came in power. Fanaticism and parti-
san malice goes still farther, and sug.
gests to save the Union by letting at
once four million uneducatcd negroes
rise against their masters, by disorgan.
izing and destroying the South, and by
wiplng ont their opponents by dint OF
brute force
The cry, ITO war Z! to war! away