The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-24

When the rebellion in Massachusetts va.
put down, did. that put Massachusetts out ol
the Union and destroy the State When tlse
rebellion in Pennsylvania was put down. die
that destroy the State aud put it out Of ths
Union? So when the recent great Rebellion
was put down and the Constitution and law.
of the country restored, the States engaged
in it, the Rebellion being crushed, the Law
restored and the Conetits6ol acknowledged
in them, stand in the Union, constituting 4
part Of the glorious and bright galaxy oi
States p Presidents Speech.
As many Of the more youthful and some
even of our. older readers may not be famil-
lar with the Rebellions alluded to above by
President johnson, we will briefly give them
the requisite information.
"SHAY's Rebellion as it was called, orig
mated in the western counties of Massachu-
sets in 1856, in consequence Of the hard
times and the heavy taxes, and its object
seems to have been confined to the preven-
tion of legal proceedings for collecting debts,
or for collection Of taxes. The insurrection
was simply against State laws and State au-
thority, and it occurred before the formation
of the present Federal Government
under the Constitution adopted a
year after this insurrection. The Congress
of the Confederation, however, fearing that
the insurgents might attack the public Arsen-
al ordered the levy of 1900 men, which were
never called into service because the prompt
movement Of the State authorities quashed
the movement, even before the preliminary
motions were perfected for getting these men
in the field.
DANIEL SHAY had been captain in the
Revolutionary war. and under the disrontents
growing out of the hard times which succeeded
the war, was enabled to rally some two thousand
men to resist the enforcement of the laws
and prevent the session of the courts. Bow.
DolS the energetic Governor Of Massachu.
sets, in accordance with the action of the
Legislature, called out four thousand militia
under General Lincoln, who marched in the
midst of severe winter weather in January
1877, in pursuit ofthe insp-e~-4 80 neo ou
h,, approach. They made FINAL stand at
Petersham where they were unexpectedly
threatened by Lincoln's force, and thereby
utterly surprised and dismayed.
Most of them skedaddled and many we're ar
rested and some we're tried, but as no body
had been hurt, and much sympathy was felt
for the sufferings OF the Insurrectionists, no
body was punished.
twas mere State affair stimulated by
Democratic demagegues, and suppressed by
State authority, with which the Congress OF
the old Confederation had nothing whatever
to do.
"The whiskey insurrection" in western
Pennsylvania during General Washington's 9
Presidential Administration in 1874, origina-
ted from the grievance Of the excise or
Federal tax on whiskey recommended by
Alexander Hamilton, the, Secretary of
State. The discontents excited by the tax
were stimulated by Democratic demakogaes,
hostile to Hamilton, in order to make party
capital The people, however, went further
than these demagogues designed, and finally
inaugurated armed resistance to the collec-
ton Of the tax, and arrested some of the
Federal officers and burned the houses OF
others, and in the course of numerous col
lisions of the kind several persons were
killed. The disturbances extended over sew
eral counties, and at one Of the gatherings OF
the insurgents, it is said, seven thousand per-
sons we're present Tire Democrats famed
the fame in the start TO- make political capi-
tai, and now the Federalists magnifed the
numbers and the evil deeds Of the rioters fol
the same purpose. Some fifteen thousand
militia were called ont from the eastern por-
ton of Pennsylvania and nsighboring States
and marched over the mountains. Dele
gates from the scattered Insurrectionists mel
the army, made mitigating representations 9
their motives and their conduct, declared
that there was no longer any armed resist
ance to the laws, pledged themselves to fu
ture obedience, and in consequence the great
er portion Of the advancing force was orderet
back. The smaller portion remained in tn
ssinfected district during the winter an
arrested many of the accused, goodly mum
Der of whom were tried, but in only two IN
stances were convictions obtained, nnd on
of them was for Arson, but none for treason
And SO ended the rebellion in Pennsyl
vania on the field, although it remained
fruitful theme in the political arena, and !
partisan pamphlets and newspaper article
for years thereafter.
SIGNS OF REUNION.
Last week the New York Conference Of th
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