Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-17

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nav more about the negro question r DO
cause We arc not able 70 soc 10 i tue great
absorbing question that some are disposed
a make IL The question Of negro
ogaFsee 10 GOT, and cannot be made : pr
question. II IL . question the people
1ust decde. No party .olieials have any
thing 10 do with it,"
.6sincfd bss bscn whsrybe ca lear ths
opinions Of the veteran soldicry ~ they re-
turn frcsh from the battle fields, and very
naturally discovers that his party platform
comes lar short Of giving satisfaction in that
dirsssion--benee he ahsvs. sr
But concerning the assertion. that the ne
sro suFraae move is net party question,
ne feel il our christian duty to inform the
Republican man that he tells what he knows
10 be miserable, sneaking fsischood. Did
not the Republicans of Iewa in party con-
vention assembled, attempt TO assume the
lead. Did any other than the republicans
endorse iti have any ofacials but ths Re-
publican party officials had anything 70 do
that movement!
There are but two parties left in The
esuntry-and ono Of them--to our certain
knowledge. has taken no stock IN the negro
suffrage movement-and what 10 moro will
not-snd mot only vii not, hut win uso its
best sndeavors - prevent sny other party
from fbisting such ~ Outrage apsn the
American people. Tho other party has ia
ken the nsgTo suffrage In hand, and yet this
kspsblican editor declares it IL not . "psr
" question:" That is cool 10 say the least
Of IL; but the dodge will not win; the par.
ty that has picked it up will 90 down under
the weight Of it. Not one lowe soldier out
Of fifty will vote for it or for any man that
endorses the move, and this influence in tho
ceming campaign will be far reaching.
The Votes Of The Soldiers.
The Dayton co. Journal having said
~ "thc Democrats want the votes Of the
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falsehood have no depths t0'which they will
not descend" the Dayton Empire replies as
follows
We do not feel much concerned about the
votes Of the soldiers, now that they are at
home, and cah mingle with the men who
have been 50 UNANIMOUSLY misrepresented to
thom, and may read papers that many of
their superior officers were so base as to dc
ny them access to. They have sense enough
70 dslcrmine in . short time who have been
their friends, and with whom their interests
ought to bc conlidcd in tho future When
they come 10 understand that Abolitionisln
protractcd their term Of service, and caused
their suGcrings in the prison. pens Of The
South. and that now their SUCCESS "a To he
used. rather to make the negro their equal
q the ballot box than to restore the South
eln states 70 Their lori" cr position in the
cn'on when the come to see that they
n.So 'ce" airing the heat and burden of
.nc co'' est at sifteen dollars a month whist
~ patriotic stny at home gentlemen, who
have been SO vigorously pstting them on the
hack. have been counting their gains by
thousands and tens Of thousands. and are
investing their surplus profits in non-tax-
paying government bonds whilst the labor
Of the country, to which all these returned
soldiers must contribute, is taxed to pny the
enormous debt incurred by an unnecessarily
protracted war; when all these things and
great many more come to be understood
and comprehcndcd, as they soon win be, we
will have have nothing especial to fear from
the rotss cf tie soldiers.
The lives Of the common soldiers in this
war have been sacrificed with hcartlessness
and prodigalty as brutal az it was unncces-
sarv. Tho butchcry At Frc.lcricksburg is an
illustration Of tho sacrifices that were made
10 appcAse the clamOr Of the cowasdly stay.
ut home patriots for a moro vigorous prose-
cution Of the war. Virginia to day holds
brave private soldiers, whose lives
were ruthlcssly sacrificed to the importu-
nifty Of Abolitionists and newspaper poll
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control over the operations of GU. armies in
the Geld.
The slaughter Of some sixteen hundred
brave men, by the explosion Of the Sultans,
who, after surviving the thousand dangers
and liardshps ofthe battle field, had TO fall
victims to the grovcling, heartless svaricc Of
some specializing Abolition quartcrmastcr,
is unatoned Tor. We hear ofno military COM
ArA Al. cat ~
sands Of brave men-they were but private
soldiers
Il is the responsibility Of the party in
power for the immense and revolving sacri-
flee Of life and means, that resulted from
their fatally mistaken policy and the oon
trolling influence of Abolitionists, that now
rise like the ghost Of Banquo at the banquet
Of Macbeth, with Ga million) mortal muir
ders on its crown to push them from their
seats
1t is this which makes them anxious
about the "votcs Of the soldiers" and which
prompts the continued Justification Of the
conduct and purposes Of the Democratic
party.
Time will prove oil things
Negro Equality or Another Civil
WAR.
The Northrestsra Christian AIeocate. Of
June 2lst, thus illustrates its christianity
''Thc negro will be educated, and riu
eomprelendhis right IL ,tao,-s the rs, II
arns. and can assert those rights, II lie
WILL"
Wedo not see the A.lcecate, and therefore
take the above FROM an exchange, which we
presume rightly quotes y, for the sentiment
above is in accordance with all it's antecc
dents. II the remark means any hing, it is
IN invitation TO the negroes to rise in insnr-
rcction, and shoot and murder the whites.
until they concede to them political and so
cial equality. Such a procedure as this
would not shoes the humanity Of the pious
and moral conductors Of the Adrocats. The
horrors Of half dozen ST. Dominsoes,
where infants were borne on pixies BY gangs
Of barbarous negroes; where men ana wo-
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