Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-06-20


The Rev. Moncure ID. CONWAY, editor Of
Chas Summers organ in Boston, the Gom-
monuealh, is now in England where he has
been for 4 year past. ir Conway will be
remembered rs the ambassador sent out BY
Sumner and the New England abolitionist5
t. negotiate with the rebel envoy IN Lon
don, Mr. Htspn, fpf recognition Of the Con
fcderary on the basis Of emancipation. lie
pledged The abp.tioAisfs of the United
States to oppose the war and to force the
administration to make peace on the DISCO
luton and emancipation basis. Mr.. Mason
.purncd the offer and exposed Conway s
reasonable intriguing By publishing the
Whole correspondence, the reproduction of
which here Is unnecessary as everybody re
members it. Conway remains in England
afraid to return 20 the uitcd States lest the
people, aside from the abpitlonl,'-, should
demand thu, hc be proceeded again,; under
the laws relating to holding rrespondcnce
with an enemy But h. ne, trthelts !naac5
hi. voice heard through the columns OF Mr..
Sumner, paper, and in 4 late letter came
out enthusiastically for msceycnation. -
Hear hun:
l,u al. 50 long ~ the North believes that
iilerc'ls All instructive anilpathv - the ne
gro IN the white breasts, SO long will there
be lave drivers in Georgia And Bankses in
New Orleans' Now mn testimony. from a
twenty -thrc. wears observation OF the rcla-
tionsiip between whites and blacks in Nir-
giiia and Maryland, has convinced me OF
the yiew e,.acl} opposite TO that of DR..
Howe. | am co,lylnccd that there is an in
Stnctlvc af'tactioa between the two wher-
ever there IS anything like an equal range
OF faculties. For instance, it is well known
that negro children, up to the age OF IA OF
so, arc particularly bright. Now, upto that
time the white children prefer playing with
black children TO other companions. In al.
ter years many Of the strongest friendships
are between mistress and maid, man and
body servant As to sexual antipathics
the statistics of Southern misccgcnatlor
may tell what truth is in that Ny convc
ton has always been lsince my cmancipa
ton from belief in slavery that when tina,
institution was ended in the South the two
races would get along in the most friendly
manner; that they would, in the course o.
time, intcrmarry, Al d that the. modification
t.ereby pro,iuc,d ,rouH be az ercelient one
5" yon may write me down many years
believer in miscsyenation It takes all races
in my opinion, to make man /: an.l ~. Il,
cords and segmentary cba-~ 'eris'lcs OF ma
tons are, in my h-'ici, aue 10 the act that
IN Tie abse'- 9! ceftdt" ofoods man sey
IS not get man.
There arc many people who affect to be-
love that there is no purpose on the part
of the Republican leaders to encourage and
preach the doctrine Of miscegenation and
debauch the youthful mind of the rising
generation by farnilarizing it with negro
equality and negro attraction Yet they
see this reverend editor of the Boston Com-
m""~eat'h as the reverend editor of the
New York Md,p5adent and score of other
modern phllanthropists had done before
hun, advocating intcrmarriasc between
whites and blacks. They see negroes mar
rying into the families of Republican cdi-
tors and federal oilicials-ncgrocs figuring
rs delegates in Republican State and Ma
honal Conventions negroes made the Oh
Jert OF the war and the whole power Of tho
government pledged in presidential procla-
nation to ''rccognize and maintain their
freedom" when that freedom has vet to be
acquired negroes everywhere and mixed
up with everything pertaining to our gov
crnmenta and social fabric so far as the
Republican party has power to introduce
them.