Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-18

The LATEST BLACK REPUBLICAN
OUTRAGE!-OUcHr SUCH IHIN0s TO BE BORNE
MIR. John P. Cook, in his address to the
pioneer settlers of Scott County, declared it
great error to suppose that border ruffian.
ism originated in Missouri, and claimed that
it first saw the light in Iowa We believe
him. From the Hawkeye state it strayed
into Missouri. and from thence to Kansas
it has now returned to Iowa to plague its
inventor When Frederick P. Stanton, as
Secretary Of the territory of Kansas. made
an appointment Of that territory under the
census of 1857, tho whole Black Republi-
can press was loud in its denunciations of
the gross injustice done by giving counties
of sparse population the same number Of
Representatives as the most populous coun-
ties in the territory. That some inequali-
ty may have been permitted by Mr.. Stan.
ton is very likely, and we cordially approx
ed the condemnation which the public Wis
tied upon him. We have now unfortunate
ly to denounce the grossest injustice Of q
similar character, not in Kansas, but in 10.
wa. Topeka is not dsfranchised, but Du.
buque. The Black Republican Senate
of Iowa is about to apportion the State into
Senatorial districts, without regard to pop
ulation, and in SO partial. unfair and unjust
a manner Us to render our system Of repre-
sentative government a perfect farce. We
are threatened with the old rotten borough
system of Great Br tain. This county Of
Dubuque contains q 900 inhabitants. and
the county of Lee has as many to each of
those cou tiles. one Senator is given. The
county of Cedar has but 5000 inhabitants
one third as many as Dubuque-and Ce-
dar has Senator. Polk county. with
scant 5000, has Senator; Louisia county,
with a scant Q 1000, has Senator also.
In the interior Of the State, there are six
counties (Black Republican of course) whose
aggregate population is about one thousand
less than the aggregate population of Du
buque and Lee. Whilst Dubuque and Lee
have together but two Senators, these six
Insignificant interior counties have six Sen
ators. The coul ty of Dubuque pays one
thirteenth Of the taxes of the State, and
has but one f,rty-second part Of the Sena-
torial representation of the State. The fel-
lows who, by some strange dispensation Of
providence, are permitted to misrule this
state, afford, by this virtual disfranchisment
Of the best portions of the State because
they are Democratic, conclusive evidence OF
their regard for Republican institutions =
Cedar county, being Black Republican,
balances Dubuque with three times her
population. and 5000 Black Republicans in
Louisa county control 81 900 Democrats in
Lee. such is Black Republicanism. The Vi
lest outrages on popular rights in Kansas,
have been re enc cted by the Black Repub
licans in New York and elsewhere. In the
whole history of gerrymandering, we defy
the most earnest apologist of this infamous
Legislature, to present parallel to the rank
injustice and brazen impudence of this
proposed apportionment Tee authors of
this swindle may seek to perpetuate their
power by hoppling the masses, but
they will not succeed. Defeat is the
inevitable doom of 1.-THE gerrymander.
and the popular will will not be repres-
sed by these tyrann,cal apportionmentaI-
The people viii not bear It