Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-02-17

TIE TnUru HALF ToLD.-The State
Hsgsesr tells lAft ef Tie truth, 10 fear, in
assigning the following - among the oh.
jections 70 an immediate session Of the Leg
islaturs.
ut will d,starb the calculations Of lobby
tste who have made no arrangements to Or
ganixe the House arlier than 1867
SO Iows's assent to the great and glorious
edict Of National Freedom must be withheld
until soulless partizan, can make arrange
ments' to secure success for their petty
schemes Of personal aggrandizemcnt !!
Shame, whore 10 thy blush s-Uacenport
Gdssttc.
The Gazette will understand, We trust,
that an extra session Of the Legislature
would personally be acceptable to Us, and
70 the citizens Of Dcs Noines but We have
no desire to subserve any private or local in
terest q The expense Of apublic good. No
argument has yet been adduced, either by
the Gasstts or any other organ which seems
to have extra session on the brain, to prove
that the convocation of the General Assem-
bly, at this time is necessary or even expe-
dent Every body knows that when the
time comes wherein the vote Of Iowa will be
needed to drive nail into the coffin Of slav-
cry bv ratifying the Constitutional Amend
ment, that vote will be given promptly and
almost unanimously. There is no unccr-
Unity about our State. Iowa has teen for
too many years in the van of the hosts OF
freedom, to make any backward movement
in the great moral and POI itical revolution Of
the age. Suppose We havca an extra session;
suppose that the Amendment will be ratified
in three weeks FROM date-What then? Viii
it not be necessary for certain exceeding y
doubtful States. such as New Jersey aud
Kentucky Tor instance, to express their
Legislative assent 10 the Amendment before
the Constitution can be transformed into
an instrument Of universal freedom? The
stdtus Of Iowa il known that Of several 9th
or States is equiv. cal. to say the least Of
them. From present appearances, months
will eiapse, and 1t may be years, before the
States in sufficient numbers will signify
their assent. Then why this hot haste in
Iowa to do thing, which, when done, will
not amount to row Of pins witho t the
concurrence cfStates which are now known
to be hostile to the Amendment y-It is ur-
ged that Iowa should ratify Immediately, on
account Of the supposed moral effect Of such
action. Moral effect. in horn! There is
~ much moral effe t in knowing that Iowa
will vote right when the time shall come 10
act, as though the voting had already been
done. Ii the vote # the State should be
gwen to-day for the Amendment, We don't
see how it would accelerate the pace of
New Jersey and Kentucky on the Eighwa,
Of Progress and Freedom. There is moth
ing lost by waiting patiently until the vote
OF Iowa can be made effective in knockin &
the shackles from bondmen, and in open
ing the doors Of the prison house.
Our friend Of the Gazette has not only
misnterpreted little pleasantly in the Lo
cal column of this paper, but has attributed
to us language which we never used. Was
that paper guilty ola premcditatetl misquo
tstion when it made us say in effect that
the business of organizing the House of
Representatives belongs to lobbyistsg We
said "Third House y bu the Gazette. for a
purpose which is sufficiently obvious, drops
the word Third" and the, eupon charges
us with mercenary and despicable motives
in our honest opposition to the calling of
an Extra Session Is this editorial frank
nessi Does it even have the color of news
paper decencyg From the PERSISTENCE with
which the Gazette urges an Extra Session
against light and knowledge, and against
the clearly expressed will of the people on
this subject. We infer that somebody in Dav
export has less interest really in he Con
stitutiOnal Amendment THAI in private ak
es which seem to need grinding. 30
shame where is thy blush y"-Des Noines
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