Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-10-15

what 10 tho Trouble, Great
West :"


There appears TO be cbargin, NORTH
cation and disappointment prevailing the
western country. The trade the Miss-
issippi Was 10 have reopensd for II does
not come; is noAtiSg palaces return
clean to Its basbors; not = coil, not
stain, not an odor Of sugar, tnolasses, or
any thine else Which usually, 10 the past,
was 40 rcdoIent Of brisk and remunera-
tive commerce, now regalss or ofients
the nostrls Of the watcher for the re-
turning wealth. Before Vicksbufg fell
We warned our western iriends OF the
gricvous disappointments in store Tor
them. For the moment their vexalion
finds pieasnresin seeking victim to
their Indignation, aud Secretary Chase
is tempting mark for their barbed AZ
rows, whether rightly or otherwise, the
official journals are qualified to speak.
We. know that the wosk Of sttetly De;
stroyibg proasc.ion iSi our Loser VaI
ley goes triumphsnily Oh, that 10 Lou
isiana, after sixteen months military oc-
cupatiou, the national forces command
tho land they occupy or what the tire OF
the gunboats control; that last year We
we're thought safe to tie intrnsied with
Representatives iu Congress, aud, IS
consequence OF their election, were gfa-
ciously rev arded with exemption, IN the
Presidential proclaim alton only, from
wholesale emancipation, while this seas
on it is considered unsafe and that the
charges OF all kinds npon hogsLead OF
sugaf, made within thirty miles Of this
city on the Mississippi river, exceeds
thirty dollars before its producer touches
q cent Of its valve. But what is there
n this truthful statement to disturb or
distress the great West Does il ex-
pect to have the apple and eat it too !!
to embark 10 the roofing out OF the pro.
ductive and creating wealth Of these
States, and yet receive the products as Of
oIdl You are all-East, Wet aud North
bent on the extirpation OF the great
evil, 1.-THE darnnable curse, ~ you call the
institution Of African slavery you are
determined to make the negro the social
and political eqaal Of yourselves; Why,
then, snarl and growl at Chase, who
cares not pinch Of snuff about You Or
your bowls. when you are yourselves the
canse of the ruin yo1 will not contem-
plate, and the existence Of which you
deny Mr.. Chase probably thinks that
slavery will be cheaply got rld Of il it
costs no more than the ruin, removal OF
ex.irpation of the white population OF
these States; and you cheeriully furnish
the means Tor accomplishing these ends;
why, tbsn, express disappointment or re-
greet, because in the carrying out OF this
programme the East 10 to be currently
enormously sgrandized by the expcpdl-
lures it necessit stes,' while You Of the
West get the empty shells for your palms,
We, who never were secessionists, and
abhoy abolitlonism, because we desire the
unity of our country Justly and fairly
maintained above all the convenience,
profits or wealth commerce can procure
or bestow, and, indeed, above all other
human considerations, can truly mourn
over the seneeless ruin we see 10 being
every where inflicted and we do so all
the more sincerely end from the Utmost
recesses of our heart, because we are
thoroughly certain that such practices
can neither restore the American Unlon
or ever sgain make united, contcnted,
homogeneous people. This view OF ours
lie not, however, the one taken OF the
country by the West; they, the people,
fall into the conviction proclaimed to an
innate eastern fauaticism, and think or
act ~ il they thoaght that the best, II
not the only way Of re-establishing the
nation is to destroy one half Of it by the
sword, and the other by loss of it's lib
erty and the pressure Of an insupport-
able debt. Be it 90 the majority rules,
and the minority has no rights entitled
to respect like the southern people, the
way to punish them is to make their ru-
in indiscriminately complete. In . few
months more there will be no exchang
able products in the South; nor sufic-
lent 10 tempt the oupiditv Of the lowest
camp followers, or the most pro6igats oil
the swarm Of political mendicants who
are now to be met in hives over the face
Of the country traversed BY Federal ex-
peditions; then, never before, will the
entire free states be able to survey with
complaceucy their achievements and es-
innate the cost Of the work they have
had done. Let the West, then, be advis-
ed by us, and abstain from the outward
exhibition of the weakness Of Niobe
BY and by, more serious studies will
force themselves on it, attention, and
the lower river trade, in their absorbing
Importance, will sink into utter insigni6.
canoe. He must be fool who cannot
see the turning point to oil this stupidi-
ty, senseless ralignity, and ruinous ig-
norancs; think only. then, great, noble,
ohivalrous West, how this IL to be
reached, and what shall be the part you
will then find it necessary to perform to
rescue the people from destruction, and
nation from dismsm berment and anarchy
PoisorED Notwithstanding to
the Troy Wing, the United States Gov.
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