Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-08-01

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q osssa fhsie recorded laboss endure for
IN SanA end Ore ~ popular hsast With
I'M ed hate just 10 proporsisn - their
ussssancss ass dictated BY virtue or vice.
Tssachseus psss and bad tongues have
bssa ~ bans Of the American people, and
tssth and Ievs md charity have He'd before
tAsls vielsat assaults during every great
period Of public ezsisemsnt.
The dine has come when The tongues
aad psss u good cad great men should
oahs conquest in America more glorious
than that Of Alexander, more extensive end
sadsssne Than the empire Of Napoleon. Let
every psess and fostrum in this land re-
sound With . proclamation Of the great
truths underlying our republican system.
nov % shauslsssly crushed aud violated ~
reckless fsnaticism. Let some Burke step
forth, whose immortal genius shall raise .
moral break water against those gigantic
dsngsss, those waves Of hate and strife,
which threaten 10 sweep over and engulf
everything dear and sacred 10 our institu.
tions. Thus Eagland was saved whom her
great statesman. whose name We have call
ID aad whose genius We have invoked, in>
ssspossd his brain and pen between his pso
pie and that awful revolution which swept
the continsas Of Europe, and WAS about to
hurl its torrent Of wild and disorganixing
opinion spon the shores Of England.
Truth, liberty and civilization never laid
out greater work to be accomplished by
patriotism than now, through the instru>
mentality Of the pens and voices Of grave
end heroic statesmen. Let the coming Of
The great National Union Convention in
Philsdclphia mark the commencement Of
that period when the brains and hearts Of
patriots North and South, East and West,
shall impress those mighty elements Of
power. that yet sloep in the womb Of The
nation. with truly American spirit. Az
With the blast Of 0abricl's trumpet, let the
proclamation 20 forth that the dead virtue
Of this land shall rise up from tho tomb 10
which political sin and folly had consigned
u. Let the rotten bulwarks Of Raiicalism
fell before tina, blast, like the walls Of
heather Jericho before thr trumpc.s of
Joshua, the leader Of tho ch ,sen people Of
God.
Tho work to be accomplished is grand
beyond conception. To rescue our doomed
country from destruction, would be like
founding nos empire. There are difli>
oultiss attending the task. But who ever
yet succeeded in overthr. wing wickedness
and corruption withou. IN arduous strug>
glcs And yet tho undertaking is not 40
great ~ that one man might not accomplish
u. even - Peter, the Hermit, accomplished
the crusades, and Martin Luther the Prov
tsstant Reformation.
Tho glory Of restoring this Union, Of
bringing back our Government to the puri-
", Justice and freedom in which il vas
founded By our forcfsthcrs, would consti-
tute . triumph that would survive tho
psoudest monuments ~ marble or bsass.--
Let patriots rouse themselves to the effort
Let them, led by the President Of the Uni.
esd States, sound the bugle for . charge
which will result in the most splendid vic
tory ever won in politics.
No IMrln on Wool.
After session Of seven months, congress
found no tire to ''pro! cct" the wool grows
era Of tho country. The bill 10 increase the
duty on wool, for the passage Of which our
Iowa farmers - ardcntly coveted Is an cv-
idcnce of good will on the part Of their rep
rcsentatives, was lost in the Senate or the
the fate intended for i. by its congressional
friends The tariff on wool, therefore, 10
unchanged
A tremendous trcshct exists q present in
the Kentucky river, its banks being over
flowed, and in many places the crops,
fences, and even trees have been carried
Away by its mighty current. In Owen
county this residence Of Mr.. Noel was swep,
away in the night, the house containing
NJ. Noel and al his far lily, consisting Of
nine persons. who were drowned, not one
surviving TO tell the sad tale.
THs President has appointed. and the
Senate confirmed, the following gentlemen
% commissioners on the part Of the United
States 10 the Paris exposition Lewis
Agassix, Massachuss it's Samuel b. Rug.
glss, New York; John Z. +. erickson. N.
Y; VIM. Sladc, Ohio; James II. Bowen,
Illinois, J. p. Leslie, Pennsylvania; John
p. Kennedy; Henry Failing. Oregon; J.
Lawrence Smith, Kentucky; Henry J. Gig.
ny, Michigan.
In France three hundred and fifty politi
cal papers are published, Of which sixty.
three arc printed in Paris and two hundred
and sixty seven in the departments. Sew,
On hundred and three zen political papers
ere daily printend in the metropolis and
elk hundred in the departments, besides
the political organs above enumerated.
The New York Journal Of Commerce. says
u be- intelligence Of a:.::rsliable character
that the peach crop in Maryland. Delaware
and Nov Jersey, the only source whence
New York gets her supplies. will prove .
decided failure the present season.
The ssmi-annual statement Of the condj.
ZION Of Wisconsin banks, on the Let Of july,
makes the following showing: Capita
$4,000; c,rc ,lasion tas.lOe; dcposits
o9.ele.S59; specie $47.94s; cash items
oslS,ss4; public securities 81, 900.
On bic journey through Vermont, Major
Go. sherman paid his respects to the
widow q Col. Truman B. Ransom. who
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