Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-01


naan"-was nothing more nor less than q
gigantic eulogy on the rigger. IS be calls
him. The name given the speech is any
thing but appropriate. He'd be announced
bis subjsc. - The dear Niger and my love
for him." he would certainly have com.
nearer the mark. Many who went ther,
with the expectation Of hearing
something remarkable were much dis
appointed. The thing fell dead or
the audience. Occasionally Joke
would provoke slight outburst Of laugh
ter, bu. beyond that nothing occurred to
show that the audience was pleased or salts
fed. There was no enthusiasm, no geper
al applause, no lively cheering Some few
vino think more Of q negro than they do Of
. white man, sat there grinning the whole
evening. !, tckled them hugely to have
the niger exalted above themselves Their
delight was so great that they sat with open
mouths and grinning faces, rubbing their
knees with the utmost perseverance and
satisfaction. To give the reader On idea Of
the blilliancy Of Mr. Iocke's effort, VIC will
mention few o. his most prominent
IDEAS. He said that Ham was pleased when
be found Noah drunk, and thought
he hal good thing" on the old man.
When Noah got sober and learned what
lam had done and said, he grew very
wrathy and cursed him. Henceforth Ham
became slave--a nigger. Thus drunken
ness beSot tho nigger the nigger begot
Democracy, and the two have been run
ming the machine ever since. There's log
ic for you A fine compliment paid 10 his
lady hearers, who have not vet Joined the
matrimonial ranks, was: Damsels are
heard TO say-White husbands or none a
tolersbly sure indication that they never
had an offer from white man." Quite de-
lishtful. Does Mr.. Locke mean 70 say by
lhis, that where q young lady does not got
an offer from a white man, it is her duty TO
run at oncc after . negroy That kind Of .
proceeding might suit females who share
Mr.. Locke's intensified love for kinky era
niums and protruding heels, but such, We
believe, are not very numerous about DA-
venport just now. Our young ladies prefer
to lead life Of single blessedness to ,rnak
ing Sambo their lord and master for the
balance Of their days
To follow tho speaker through al the
nonsense he utterel. and toy expose his
shallowness on many points, would require
more space than we caD;devoto to the task.
A political speech-a culogy of the black
man-A frantic appeal for negro suffrage,
do not constitute a lecture We can
read daily in newspapers much better
stuff than that dshed up by Mr. Locke last
night to his audience. Some portions Of
his speech, relating to arnalgama,ion and
mlsccg genatlon, would have been more mp
propriatc, more in their place, if spoken in .
bar room, or in meeting Of Radical black
guards But why waste words on such
small fry The game is no, worth the
powder
We cannot do better than to close with
the following remarks on this same lecture,
made by the Chicago HoH Of yesterday.-
The Post, let it be understood, is an in
tensely Radical sheet.
Petroleum V. Locke, alias d. X N,sby,
Ii We haven't got the Initials confused
!, al his creed concerning the Curse Of Ca
nssn - an asseinblsge OF the Young Men of
Chicago last night 1t would have been hard
to say in which character he appeared, were
1t not that his political sentiments were
more redolent Of the negro than Of Petro-
lenm, albeit his style sensibly suggested
the latter compound.
We r.gret to say that We cant say much
for Nasty Locke's oratory lie exhibits
most plentiful lack Of hbou. everything
which forms or conluces 10 good
speaking To very obscure style,
composed Of succession OF long in
vowed sentences, he adds . rapid. mon
otonous, schoolboy delivery. 4 speaker
canno. expect his hearers to take any more
interest In his effort than ho himself seems
to exhibit; and, if we we're to Judge the
feelings Of last nights $ audience by this just
standard, We should be forced to the con
cusion that they must have been incredibly
bored. In . Literary point Of view, the lee
ture was u tame rehash Of political COM
monplaces and stale Jokes, whose long and
constant, though somewhat weak service in
a good cause, should long ago have placed
them on the retired list e respectable me
diocrity, whose character it would be char
table TO forget while remembering impu-
ted services. Ii Locke has nothing better
to offer. lie sncud at once abandon the
platform and resume tho role OF Nasty,
from whom it would still do 10 hear once a
month or so.
CHICKEN THIEVES are at work in Rock
Island ~ we'll as IN Davenport. The Union
of this morning says that about 2 o'clock
yesterday morning policemen Bsrthslow
aud Snyder discovered two men walking
Cable street, near Judge Spsncer's, carry
ing . sack Ga seeing the police they
dropped the sack and run. One of the men
WAS caught and lodged in Jail. The sack
contained quantity OF chickens with their
heads twisted off, Alto o'clock the captive
was taken before Magistrate Connolly for
hearing, where he gave his name % VIM
W. Nelson. A complete out Of burglars
tools was found on him. In default Of 300
bail be was committed to Jail to await . trial
on the charge CT petty larceny. Nelson, il
seems, formerly lived in Iowa, but 10 now
. resident Of the lower end Of Rock Island.
The chickens, fourteen in number, were
stolen from Henry Heilwagnsr's hen roost,
on the Bluff A little Of the treatment
which he gave the chickens, would be
good thing for Nelson.
Yesterday afternoon, on further search,
another bag Of chickens Was found near
Mr.. Bcnedicts house. This was dropped
by the second of the above named men
the one who escaped.
LICENSE MATTERS. - Two men, John
Heiser and Z. Redmsn, proprietors OF the
Green Tree House, we're brought before
Squire Dittoe this morning, at the instance
of the City Marshal, for refusing or neg
lecting 10 pay their city license for keeping
what is called pigeon Hole Table," q