Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-07-26
G.incoln's ElecffOM...Whnf ~ In
vOlvcd Four Years Ago and
what "a Would Involve
Again.


re election tie New Yoc, TmeS, edited by
Hemy J. Raymond, Chairman Of the Re
publican National Committee, has nnqaali-
ficly .eclare, that, had ME-. BRICK
fNRlDGE. OR Mr.. Dot Gi.AS, OR MIR
BELL BEEN ELECTED. THERE WOULD
HAVE BEEN 80 REBELLION
Jus. after Nj Lincoln's electlon in Ic6o,
Horace Greeley wrote in one OF his elabor-
ate papers in the New York Hlependett ::
1.-the election of Lincoln " AS DESIRED,
DESIGNED, CONSPTRED FOR, REJOiC-
ED OVER BY TIE ENGINEERS OTDIS
UNION" Again, Oh the 17th day Of last
month, ten days after Lincoln nomination
for collection. Horace Greeley wrote in hi,
Trijune and declared: The GREAT, roy-
sPIcuors, ABrNDaNTIy ESTABLISHED FACT
THAT THE ENGINEERS o. TIE REBEL
LION DESIRED AND LABDRED FOR
THAT VERY REPUBLICAN, TRIUMPH
or 1860 WHICH IS HERE MADE THE CAUSE or
REVOLT. 1t was to this end that they forced
through the Senate Of that year the jeff
Davis platform whereby Mr. Douglas and
his friends were virtually read out Of thc
Democratic party. II was to this end that
they deliberately and determnedly coml,lct-
ell the overthrow of tina. party by boiling
from the Charleston Convention and noini-
mating Brcckinridgc and Lane against Doug
las and johnson. ALI THROUGH THE CAV
vAss, WE REPUBLIC Ans RECOGNIZED
AND TREATED THE BOILERS ASUuR
VIRTUAL AND POWERFUL ALLIES
And when THROUGH THEIR AID, WE
HAD ELECTED LINCOLN AND HAM
LIN. OUR TRIUMPH WAS NOWHERE
MORE GENERALLY OR OPENLY EX-
uLTED OVER THAN IN CHARLESTON.
THE FOUNTAIN AND FOCUS OF TIE
REBELLION"
Now it follows from these declarations OF
the authoritative expoundcrs Of Republican
doctrine, that the election Of Lincoln brought
on the rebellion, and that without it the Sc
cession leaders must have miserably failed
in their work. And after ''nearly four wears
Of Abolition war" as Thurlow Weed SAYS,
Lincoln is again brought forward for cleo
ton to again play into the hands of the zen.
ginecrs Of disunion." Do not the rebels
regard him their ally now precisely in the
same sense that they regarded their ally
four years ago? We will let Mr.. Raymond
in the same Times article from which we
have already quoted, answer He says
1.-The uniform representation of the South
crn leaders has been, that this war upon the
South was mainly the doings of Old Abe
and little knot Of despcradocs around him
~ go greet .tacf src must aocer fg,got, tApt
abraham Lincoln stands berorc the .Soutb az
the embodiment .t tie war. IL is hatr Aied
hds mode 1t easy .yor tie Souhcra leaders Ia
present nm 10 he pcoplecs the a1ttao,' or oyy
their irccs." That's i exactly. So long as
Lincoln stands at the head of our eoyerp
mcnt as the embodiment Of the wa--th,
abolition war which has been raging 70,
nearly four years-so long as The Southern
leaders can keep him ut Washington ard
hold him up to their people as ''ihe aut,,u,
OF oil their woes" just so long we shall have
what Thurlow Weed ap;ly terms it, "an in
terninablc conflict" There is-thcrc can
be no question about this Il is not Ia bp.
man nature that any people placed in the
position o! the South would do otherwise
than fight on and figh. ever Srainst surb .,
abolition war as has been wagcd agalns,
them, as Thurlow Weed saws. for nearly
four years. DO the people want to continue
snch Kilkenny cat fight over a negro O,
raw Tour years longer? If they do let them
reflect Lincoln. The joy in hell over the
ia'l Of the righteous is but faint approxi-
nation to Whist will be the cxultation in Tho
heart Of the rebellion il Lincoln triumnhs ~
the polls in November next