The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-03-13

sage of the 22nd ult.. falls into this
error. Yet on the 22nd of Feb'y
1866 in public speech in Wash
ington city he affirmed that Con.
gress was revolutionary and lille
gal body: Do we stop to argue with
a high-wayman? Not unless we
are satisfied it will be of benefit;
but if we know it will not thus re-
suit, duty as we'll as sslf-preserva-
tion prompts to a different course.
Now the leaders of this ''revolu-
tionary and illegal body'' arc threat
ening the impeachment of the pres
ident, because he refuses to acqui-
esce in their revolutionary schemes,
What now is the duty of Andrew
johnson and of the Democracy,
should they SO far persist in their
schemes as to carry their threats in
to execution .s ,.t..,,. ..r .......
Plainly let it he ;understo ood that
the Democracy have no further duty
to perform toward the. president,
than to maintain him in the proper
dischsrge1of his oficial duties against
wrong and outrage. during his of
fetal term. Further than this they
cannot, and should not be expected
to 60. They never believed. o,
profcssed to believe, that that, or
any other functionary constituted
e'tbe government. ," Yet while his
only crime consists in an effort to
uphold tho constitution against the
reckless schemes of a base set Of
usurpers, every impulse of patriot
ism and duty indicates what they.
should do. .>"'.+.. "a
Congress prctends that it's course
toward the excluded States is
prompted by desire to prevent fur
thcr instructions. Nero, Tamer-
lane, Atti.la, Robespicrc, and Dan
ton as well as Louis Philippe when
crushing the people with their deeds
of brutality, and with their wicked
laws. professed similar desire. -
Laws passed by different tyrants,
with the aid Of their associates in
crime they have attempted to per-
petuatc by enacting that they were
'irrevocable. ~ yet scarcriy g-u-
Grafton was permitted to pass ere
the laws, declared to be 'irrevooa-
ble" by those promulgating them,
were repealed, and the inhuman
fiends who enacted them had paid
the penalty of their crimes on the
scaffold.' Such arc some of the les
sons of history, that should be pond
cred over by the mob Of madmen at
Washington who suppose they are
likewise enacting 'irreyocable laws
The only security against insur-
rcction and rebellion is in govern
mcnt adapted to the wants anl in
terests of the people. and whose laws
are administered in keeping With
their letter and spirit The ques-
tion Of it's pcrpctuation is one for
the people to determine, and they
will decide the question not upon
the sanctity Of ''irreyocatle" clau-
ses inserted in the fundamental law.
but upon tho matter Of individual
interest to themselves, involving Of
course, in that issue, all the ques-
tions Of good or bad govcrnmcnt.--
If the form Of government adopted
is the best and cheapest, it will be
porpetuated by the people in spite
Of the efforts Of bad men to subvert
it for any definite period, but if it is
subyersiyc Of their interests it will
be repealed, and the designing dem
agogues who would pcrpetuate their
lease of power by its abuse will be.
come the victims Of the revolution
inaugurated and carried on by them
selves.
| The National Democratic Conyen-
tion is called to meet in the city ot
New York on tho 4th day Of July.
The vote stood for New York II
and for St. Louis II. This and the
unhappy controversy in Ohio, un-
doubtedly4 settles the question
against the nomination of Pendle,
ton. An effort will illiundoubtedly be
made by the Belmont and World
faction in the interest Of the bond.
holders to whom they are already
sold, body and soul. What, the peo-
pie Of the west demand, is relief. from
tho present oppressive system .o1
taxation and debt, and If this is TO b
endorsed, sustained and upheld b,
the Democratic party Of the eastern
states, the vestiwill have little o.
no interest in the result,