Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-11-19

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49, Vs. - nsbel Caa1saase :
We havs always maintained that Horace
Osvslsy was right when be said tho election
-SElasSo,6 ~ conspired fos and rejoiesd
svv b. ths engineers of discussion, and
that IL ,partisans Of the President were
swrpak xksn hey represented that the re-
!. hels preferred Mcclellan. On the 10Th inst;'
two days altcr election, the Richmond Ex,
sminer in the course Of long article on the
situation before the city said:
The lines OF Richmond. furnish no news
Of dc Yankees election. The enemy'a
pichsts know nothing Of the result. They
vee1 puzzled tn understand why our men
sscheered for Lincoln" IS they did most
Justify on the 9Th. The great card Of tho
Lincoln papers in the canvass was the pre-
Veuce that the Southern people were ex-
tremely anxious that Mcclellan should be
elected-that We based, in fact, our last
hopes on McClellan--and they have not
yet been permitted TO know that Lincoln u
0rseisely AZ man sce mould chOoH for them.
On the following day the Wing added it,
views IN similar strain:
From the Richmond Wing, Nov. II.
Our information is next to positive that
Lincoln has been reelected. Few have
doubted from the first that this would be
the result, aud fewer still will regret it.
For ourselves, we feel that the great cause
for which we arc struggling has escaped Z
real peril. The policy Of Cancellation, Of
concession and cajolery which Mcclellan
would have attempted was something more
20 be dreaded than Lincoln's armies ard ma
vies. There was great reason to Apprehcnd
! thst such policy would deceive, demorAl-
Ire and dcvide the South. With Lincoln
there is no fear Of this; our people will
continue 10 stand as one man ; with him it
is united South against divided North.
With Mcclellan it might have been united
North against divided South, in which
event all that we have been striving for in
this four years struggle would have been
lost. But Lincoln is 70 continue to be the
master Of the Yankees, and the spectre or
fooonciliation vanishes forever.
And the Enquirer talks in similar man.
ncr.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. IL.
Lincoln has been re elected President oil
the United States. His first election could
not surprise anyone, for he was wholly un-
known; but his reelection, after four years
experience Of his character and capacity,
will not fail to impress the world with a
very low opinion of popu ar government.
So far as the people of these states are in
terestcd, the reelection of Lincoln is en-
tirely satisfactory. For us, he is the
right man in the right place. We would
not have had him defeated, but gave all the
Enquirer to him. Our reasons were entire
" selfish. We prefer the management Of
this war to remain in the same hands that
haze directed it for the last four years. We
prefer an ignorant brutal fool as command
er in-chici of the enemy to any other man.
He suits us entirely. Gen Mcclellan might
have given us more trouble, but we have
taken the measure Of Lincoln and know en-
tircly his entire wosthlcssncss. The four
years more war, which his election now
makes sure, would not have been avoided
by the election Of Mcclellan, but might
have been conducted with much more abil-
ity and given US more trouble than Lincoln
can possibly command. This reelection OF
Lincoln binds our people still firmcr togeth-
er, and prevents the division and d,scord
which the election Of Mcclellan might have
introduced. We know that it means con.
tinucd war, and our country will prepare
for It. There is no prospect for peace. and
it is better for us that we should know
clearly the purpose Of the enemy in this
matter tina to have been diveded in opin
ion by the hopes of peace which the defeat
Of Lincoln would have rctsed among on,
people. Let our authorities begin i'm
mediately the work Of recognizing the ar
; my, consolidating the regiments, filling up
the ranks, improving the cavalry and pre-
pairing for the spring campaign.
There have been no doubt those who be-
lieved the rebel leaders insincere in theil
oftrepeated expressions in favor of the con.
tinuance Of Mr.. Lincoln in the presidential
chair, and actuated by desire to aid the
interests Of Mcclellan indirectly. VIVA,
think such now, after the event, when with
the administration settled for four years Il
come there cannot be the slightest motive
for discrimination? The engineers o. dis
union at the South have even greater cause
for rejoicing now than they had in 1860
for then the policy Of the new President hat
not been foreshadowed. Now it is fixed
and fixed just as they would have it.
enables them to hold Mr.. Lincoln up to thci
followers as the 'cmbodiment Of the war
the author Of ell their woes" and unity o
sentiment and action in resistance follow
as naturally as water finds i,s level 1t i
now Off advantage, politically to dive.
upon this important fact but it sustain
the position which the Democracy heb
throughout the canvass, and the sooner it i
recognized by the people Of the North til
better.
Charleston umilcr Fire.