Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-13
THE IOWA REBELLION.

THE IOWA REBELLION.
1t is very evident that portion of the
people of our neighboring State of Iowa are
fully determined upon rebellion against the
laws and government of the United States,
and it may yet become necessary, if their
words take the form of actions, to call out the
army and navy in order to suppress the
reasonable designs of the faction in ques-
ton.
On Wednesday last a State convention of
so-called Republicans was held at Des
Moines, which was largely attended by dele
gates from all parts of the State. A man
named John Irwin, of Keokuk, was called to
the chair temporarily, and made most in
fammatory and incendiary speech, calculated
to awaken the spirit of rebellion among his
hearers. He is reported to have said:
1t is time for the Republican party to say
we say with $4,000 bayonets. 1t is tor us to
say to the South, ''Thus far shall you 60 and
no farther The sword decided this was
nation, not league, and we will not cease our
work until every man North or South recog-
nizes this principle.
These sentiments were cheered to the echo,
and subsequent speakers reiterated them
with more or less emphasis, the general
opinion being that resort to arms would be
had if necessary to enforce these extreme
and unpatriotic views. The same ideas,
clothed in somewhat different language, were
incorporated into the platform of the party,
while that instrument was, to say the least,
heretical. The convention announced as it's
platform general denunciation of the Dem
ocratic party. It declared that this country
is not confederation of States, but ma
ton; that the policy of the Democratic
party has amounted to a declaration that
South ought to be condoned. Yet
it does not attempt to prove that any of the
rights due to citizens of the United
States, black or white, have been denied
to them. It proceeds, however, to declar-
alton that the denial of this right has given
the Democrats the predominance in national
politics. 1t further proceeds to denounce
the attempt of Congress to repeal the cleo
ton laws, as being an effort to subject
the voters to the domination of bulldozers
North and South. We deny the conclusions
of the platform, but are not aware of any
constitutional provision that prevents or pre-
cludes Congress from repeating any law that
may seem to interfere with the liberty of the
citizen. The assertion of the convention
that such repeal is contrary to the constitu-
tuition or the spirit of the government is very
far-fetched.
The assertion in the second resolution of
the convention, that the Democratic policy
has resulted in the commission of outrages
upon the colored population of the South, is
simply falsehood. The Democratic regime
in the South has resulted in the elevation of
the colored race, not in its degradation, and
proof to the contrary is challenged.
There is, perhaps, no law that prevents
men from making idiots of themselves.
Probably the Iowa Republicans took advan-
tage of this omission in the laws to perpe-
trate the following resolution:
The government of the union could not be
beaten to death, and it cannot be starved to
death. The financial policy of the Republican
party is approved, and it's results are source
of pride. The public debt has been reduced,
SO that from the highest amount to the amount
it will be on the LIST day of August, when the
refunding operations will be completed, there
will have been saving of annual interest of
$67, 203, 919, and a reduction of the principal
of 1858 8S6,594.
We agree that the government of the
union could not be beaten to death, nor can
it be starved to death. But the assertion
that the financial operations of the govern
ment have resulted in the reduction of the
debt requires more evidence than tho Iowa
platform can furnish. The truth is that the
interest bearing debt has increased little
over ninety millions of dollars within the
past year, even giving credit for the reduc-
ton claimed by the Iowa Republicans.
By denying to Congress the privilege of
repeating laws passed by itself by asserting
that the Republican party alone represents
the. sentiments of the people of the
whole country by claiming that the Demo
cratic party, which now practically controls
the government, is disloyal, the Iowa Repub-
lioans have placed themselves in the attitude
of rebels. BY threatening to enforce their
views by force of arms they have arrayed
themselves against the government of the
United States and the people at large. If
they are sincere in their desire to interpose
fifty thousand bayonets between themselves
and the contamination of the Democratic
purpose, they have that privilege, but they
ought understand that it is an act of re-
bellion which they contemplate and that they
are regarded, under the laws of the United
States, as outlaws, deserving of no consider
alton whatever.
MR.. KNOTS REPORT.
Mr.. Proctor Knott, chairman of the judi
ciary committee of the House, has given to