Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-20

steady There:
We admonish the Radical organ to take
things quietly. Nervousness is a disease
thu. sooner or later overcomes It's victims.
II 10 Gdgety because the late Convention Of
the Peoples Party in this city did not AS
sume such form in its resolutions as to
create dssasisfactlon-either among the
rank and flo Of tho Democracy % shc rank
and Gle Of the Peoples Party, and, il didn't
care which. Either would serve the pur-
pose admirably.
But it turns out that no part OF the Peo-
pies Party has heoa Unaffected by the ac>
ton Of tie Convention. aud that the DE.
mocrscy Of some districts who are getting
the scales from off their e,es, and dropping
stale, worn,out issues, fall in with the &C.
ton Of the Convention This il severe on
the Radical organ. Its supplies of thunder
are cut off IN that direction. Had the Dens
o.ra,ic people Of the State condemned the
actin Of that Convonton, a. it hoped they
would, the organ would have crowea aloud
and clapped its hasls for Joy -
But it Is otherwise. and now the only stock
IN traie i, has left j. 10 ,nieavor to dive
those more reasonable radicals who have
gone into the Peoples Party, from their
posts by telling them how awful il is 10
hive the support of Democrats. This was
. iavoritc dod,e oi that paper IN the
campaign last sprlng, but it was too llmsy.
Tho radical element that has gone into the
Peoples Party have some yieAs aud piinei
! lss IN common with the ultraists 80
mogem NJ they ,ntcrtaln aoine views IN
OPP lsition 10 tho We entertained by their CO
laboror,, but in the maln ADD on the great
growing aud liTiny ISSUES of the day those
issues ihst arc soon 10 try mems souls aud
test men's poli.lcsl git witnin the next few
years, they arc INIT ms solid MS rotk,
aud 10 amount Of shallow sophsiry or bug :
a-hooug nonsense Will swertc them IN
inch. Nay, those very principles inid down
IN the excellent platform Of the People 4
Patty ARE i.st taking hold ol tie minds II
the whole people OF the land. They are
worklns silently ard quietly even as the
amp Of leayon in the fresh kneaded meal
out none tho less powerfully and positively
and the mass has already commenced "a
v,se-aimo,: i'm perceftiby ss yet-bgt
,urely-snd the day IS not tar distan,
secn the proiound reaction Will take place
Those principles lad doNn ia that pls, orm
sill soon b. tonni in the national platform
OF the most oxen Ahslmlney powerful pol,,
zeal party known III eur history
I ercioro, We sny te onr cotetuporary -
don't get too ANXIOUS shout tie breaking MP
Of the Republican party, for the day of its
disintregation ~ at hand. Great living is
sues are forming, grca; masses of de,ormin
cd voters are marshsling, and soon the
blow will be struck The old African ISIS ues
are all passing away. Reconstruction issues
are comparatively the creatures Of day,
aud towering above them all are issues
cnuncisted in the Peoples Platform that
will live aud sway the massea;afcr the suf>
frsge and reconstruction questions shall
have been uttered, grasscd over and for>
gotten.
Let our neghborg restrain lis ardor.-
The Fates are powerful. lie who raises his
hand to push them backward in their march
- onl,t,aAl
80 -
Tux st. Paul Iress speaking Of President
Johnsons amnesty proclamation, asks:
From whence can he derive authority 10
promulga,c this document Clearly not from
the Constitution, or from specially enacted
Las. lie has no legislative authority, and
10 attempt TO usurp il, brands him at once
tyrant and traitor. if, therefore, neither
the Constitution nor law sustain him. then
he Is guilty. OF criminal usurpation of pow
Or.
To which the Pioneer very properly re-
spends: I'VE will let Thad. Stevens an
swer how loyal men manage to derive
authority in cases where the Constitution
Is in the way. In his recent le,,er he saws.
Some of the members Of the Senate seem.
ed TO doubt our power onder the Cpn>titu.
tion, which they had Just rcpudisted. aud
wholly outside OF which ali agreed that we
were acting, else our whole work of rcco,,>
suucilon wss usurpation.'
InE Philadelphia -ige saws: From ev
ery portion OF Pennsy l,ania We have glad