Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-25
WEED AVN GRANT.

WEED AyD GRANT.
Those Radlcals who don't like Grant find
Il in their hearts to hate and detest Thur
low Weed mos supremely. Nay, a. be-
tween Weed ari genuine, double breasted
copperhead, they would fraternize With the
latter with pleasure in preference to the for
MFR. Anything that Weed may say-sny
new theory that be may breach. ia not only
viewed with suspi ion, but is perfec,
stencil in iheir nostrils. Let them lake =
snG II tho following extract from an article
written ~ Mr.. Weed and published in HE
paper on the morning preceding the late
New York election:
We eudeavossd, last wear, 10 assist 10 the
organization Of . National Union party, but
the effort signaliy failed. We desired. there.
fore, nov. along With the friends who act
with ~, to resume our position In the no
publican party, taking back seats aud doing
duty a. privates. But the offer Was reject
I'd BY tbs State Convention, spurnsd BY the
New York General Committee, and disre-
garded by the State Central Committee.
Hence our exemption from duty and re-
sponsiblity We shall content onrself,
therefore, with voting quietly for the Repub-
lican State, and such local nominees as are
deemed worthy Of our suffrage.
After tomorrow, n new, and We trust,
inorc suspicious canvass will De inangurs-
ted. Our friends, in this city, and at other
poin,s throughout tho State, will commence
their organization for Gen. Grant Is our
next President. The result oil this election,
be II shat 1t may. will no, interfere with or
embarrass these organizations. They will
so on, cheerfully and hopefully, until an or
gsnizstion embracing oil the States OF this
glorious Union gives assurance OF the cleo
ton of a President under whose beneficent
auspices Democracy and radicalism will
subsids long enough, at least, to enable
him to restore union, prosperity. and hap
plncss.
Not only before then, but particularly
''After tomorrow" the "auspicious can
vass' was inaugursted by Mr.. Weed and his
friends In New York City and throughout
that State and the country generally. The
movement 10 not without some merit, either
Thurlow Weed is 10 bitter hostility with
the extreme Radical wing. Ia ns extreme
acts be sees the defeat OF the patty in
power, hence his determination to inaugu-
rate and iasten upon the Radicals . more
conservative policy. TO that end he and
his kind are bound 10 stir up such an cx
element in favor Of the great General a. Il
secure his nomiu alton with . rusa and I
hurrah. IN spite Of the Radical opposition
VIII he BE- SUCCESSFULLY Horace Greeley,
the bitter personal and political enemy oil
Thurlow Weed, declares that it must not
bs. Greeley has many satellites in the land
Who support him in his declaration Of wss
- 10 plenty Of room for doubt a. to their
success. 50 far, Weed has the inside track
Grant smokcs his pipe aud talks horse
tle Il ,licsls howl end vow VOWS Of ven.
gs,ncc, but they seem 10 havc uphill work
oi il. The day of their dc 9Th draws Aigb
Tns young and sctiyc Democrats OF Con.
cord. New Hampshire. have forpsd them
selves into an organization TO he known as
the Mozart Wing Of the New Hampshire
Democracy. Il Is proposed 10 form asset
ate clubs in various parts Of the State, and
10 have mass convention in tho winter.
The par,icipatcrs in this movement ailrm
that they shall support all regular nomina-
tons OF their party, aud that they adopt
their new plan OF labor in order TO do more
extended and effective work for the Demo.
,fatic cause. We understand that similar
organization is beng perfected in this State,
with similar cnda in view. Ii properly or
ganixed there is no doubt but il y i'll be q
powerful auxiliary in the political canvass
Of next year.
TnE Chicago Tribune asks Mr.. Stevens
who will buy the land which he proposes tc
confiscate. "Thc negroes have nothing
the whites have nothing. and there is no
emigration scuthward" We will add tha,
il Mr.. Stevens is going into the ccniiscation
business he should coDfiscatc something
"N'N" ~ 'NHS AZ ~ udu thit XIV u
farm psaccaby anywhere on half this con
tinent. merely for settling IN it, ana cult
waiting 1t, he will hardly be 50 silly ~ (
boy farm with a probable lawsuit and a
CERTAIN feud attached to il. Land is too
cheap and abandan, in this country to be
cpniseated. suppose We coniiscste the air
-~ -
Tus Mctiregor Mars comes out strong for
Thurlow Weeds candidate for tho Presi-
dcncy may, IL atiirms thst every day it ID
moro and more convinced that he (Grant)
is the man; that he is radical enough for
Reconstruction purposes, and 'consery ativc
enough 10 restrain those who would build
up in the South governments based rather
upon reyengeful and transient ideas, than
those Of justice aud pcrmsnence." That's
pretty sound lick right between the eyes
Of such concentrated Radicals 40 the Mus.
cssins Journal and Davenport Gazette.
TRr St. Paul Pioneer, in On extended 70
view Of the buildings erected 10 that city
during the past year. givcs the total mum.
beg at three hundred aud forty three, valued
At over 100000. Of this there were forty.
eight business houses valued 1t sos. 800,
and two hundred and sixty -four dwellingu
valued At t27A 500. There ore nov in pro.
cess u erection lone business block TO cost
$4,000. and custom house 10 csst $780,
900, not enumerated in the above.
TINS Madison Courier says IL there had
been NO sin 10 the world, there would have
been no necessity for . Saviour. hcnce il
the burdsns which nov weigh 90 he .vily
upon the country owing to Radical rule did
not exist. there would b no necessity for
Democratic party.
j. G. ARMSTRONG, for two years past the
wide-awake editor VI the Lansing Journal
has returned to the Dubuque Herald Office,
c: which he was formerly an attache. lie
iss sharp writer, and the Herald Company
has done . wise thing in securing his SER
vices.