The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-26
Powerful Government.

TUEsUA7............JANHARY uas, 1850.
sour Powerful Government. s5ss
Judge DauxNoNp, Of Iowa, the son, live
are moi. missaken. d. one Of those northern
Method;at preachers who have done SO much
in reducing the country % It's present de-;
ploraelese6sditiono land who even ION yes
terdayghad a delegation OF their number
before ths Reconstruction COMMITTEES ops
posing the compromise offered BY the VIZ
ginia committee), has achieved as much
reputation in his etatess sound constitu-
tional lawyer ss 7UsDERwooD has in vir-
ginia. He, no doubt takes his ideas 81 the
reweraaof the Federal, Government from
"the ola man, !" as UNDERWOOD gets his from
the loyalists Ia this State who, desire 10 get
into ofices7oThs twain will do all they can
to bring the Federal Government INTO
disrepnse In; the States which they re-
spectivelyl honor by their luminous 9udi-
cial decisions. - whist ,UsDERweop : i i'
everlasting the, State courts in Virginia,
DRuMnosps Is laying down the iawtto the
same class II tribunals in. Iowa. The one
will disgust every decent man in lowe With
his consolidation theories, as the other has
already made the District Court Of the
United States q by-word and 9 reproachhS in il
Virginia. These judicial quacks may not
do unmitigated evil by their course. They
may do something to open the eyes, Of the
blinded partisans Of, the Union who have
sung praises to their idol whilst it was rob-
bling them Of their dearest rights, and thus
aid in restoring the rule of q party which
will administer the Federal Government
aocordingto the Constitution. AS to UN--
pEawoop. 1.-THE Senate Of the United
States has now before it a bill, re-
ported last, Saturday from the Com a !
mistee ON the Judiciary, which provides
that section three Of The act Of Congress of
April 9, 1866, to protect all persons in the
United States in their civil rights, shall be 80
construed as to confer jurisdiction on United
States courts Of all criminal offences com
mitted upon the person or property OF per-
sons who are denied in the courts Of the
States where they reside any right declared
and secured by section one Of said act, but
not Of cases wherein both parties are denied
such rights, or in civil cases. And perhaps
DRUMMoED may ere long attract the atten-
ton of that august body in Washington
which now controls the legislative, execu-
tive, and judicial departments of "the
best Government the world ever Saw N ?.
Theffowa case is this. In certain suits
brought by foreign creditors upon railroad
bonds Issued by certain counties in that
State the Supreme Court Of Iowa decided
substantially that the county officials did not
have the right to fasten this debt upon the
people, and that a ndndanauS could not be
issued to compel o tax for the payment Of
the interest upon these bonds. Judge
DRUMMoNp, however, by some means or
other, got the case into his court, and de-
cided the cases directly the other way, and
S1an TUG WINS VI ftuftuuHtuo 'dehCu loA 3
although there is provision in the consti
tuition Of lowe which limits the per centum
Of annual taxes, and although this limit
has already been reached in one Of the
counties concerned in the suits. The gu
pervisors, holding that to levy the tax would
be to violate their oath Of office, refused to
levy it. Whereupon Judge DRUMMoND
ordered them to be arrested. We quote
now from an Iowa paper-the Davenport
Democrat: '..1
ION these questions will come the tug CT
judicial war between the Federal and State
courts Of Iowa, and 1t will be seen whether
the judges of our State Supreme Court will
manifest enough stiffness in their spinal CO
lumns TO protect the supervisors of Lee county
against harm by Judge Urummond for obey
ing their own official mandate not to levy the
tax which Judge Drummoud's court ordered
them to do, and for not doing which Judge
Drummond promises TO arrest and punish
them. ~.-.
III our State judges NOW back down, and
permit county supervisors to be arrested and
carried beyond the State TO be punished by a
Federal judge for obeying the mandate of the
Supreme Court Of Iowa, issued by themselves,
they Willie guilty Of an act of moral and oth-
cial cowardice which ought TO consign them
to the everlasting contempt Of every citizen of
the Stats who recognizes the proper dislinc-
tion between the lawful authority of the Fed
eral and State governments. It is an arrogant
assumption of power in the Federal court,
which,fnot only does not legitimately belong
to tt, but Is absolutely dangerous 10 the lib.
erty and prosperity of every citizen Of the
State of Iowa" 2t~
We feel perfect indifference as to the up
shot of the affair. These Iowa simpletons
thought7they were doing God seryice''
when, they sent down their soldiers to sub
jugate tho eouth. They did not know that
they were thus subjugatiDg themselves. But
so it is. State courts are no longer re-
spected since the war was so gloriously y
concluded. The fruit they eat is of the
tree they planted, and which they watered
with their own blood. Let them repent the
wrong they have done us while they suffer
as we do from the Entertainments of the
Federal Government, We are not at all
sorry on account Of their troubles. ssE--~s