Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-07
CAMPBELL GOES FOR VEST.
Tlattons the Puko c,Isar
Out.
Shows him how Essy It
IL to bo
Cursed Fool From
Cnoioo.

CHrcAGo, Dec. 27,-Judge Hugh
Campbell, who was appointed UNI
ted States attorney for the territory
of Dakota by President Hayes has
addressed q communication to Sem
ator Vest, of which the following is
the substance:
TO Hon. George Vest, United
States Senator-Sir: / have this
day, for the first time, been able to
obtain an authentic copy Of some
remarks made by you in the senate
chamber personal to myself. In the
course Of these remarks you took
occasion to indorse, with the weight
of your official position As senator,
certain charges against me IN the
following paragraph, which | quote
from the Congressional Record for
Dec. 10, page 207: "a gentleman
who in recent events in the state of
Louisiana distinguished himself as
a partisan Of the Hayes administra-
ton, and who was rewarded by the
appointment as United States attor-
ney for the territory of Dakota for
his jealous and oyer-scrupulous eff
forts on behalf of Mr.. Hayes-thls
gentleman. carrying his revolution
airy principles to the territory of
Dakota, now figures as the chair
man Of this committee" This
short extract contains two serious
misstatements with regard to my
self, which, if | did not correct now,
in some proper name would, per
| haps be construed to be admitted
by me to be true. As to my char
acter, 10th as a judge in Louisiana
and as United Jtates attorney in
Dakota, for
HONESTY AND UPRIGHTSRss,
| can safely refer you to the people
in both states who have known me
best in both capacities, whether they
be democrats or republicans. My
only official act in connection with
the election is this: As judge of
the Fourth district court, a number
of witnesses, whose testimony was
taken before the examining board,
were sworn before me, and | also
drafted a form of an affidavit, in
conformity with the law, at the re-
guest Of the republicans. In non
Of these particulars did | do a single
act which could be amenable to
your charge of unscruplonsness, nor
was | in any manner directly or iu-
directly q party to or concerned n
any act which was not strictly hon
est and just in every sense. | did
not receive my appointment from
Mr.. Hayes as a reward for any eff
fort of mine in behalf of Mr.. Hayes.
have always understood that it was
my brief on the laws reflections in
Louisiana which introduced me to
the notice of Mr.. Hayes. The 9TH
er charge that you make is that |
have carried my revolutionary.
principles to the territory of Da-
kota. My first lesson as to the
character and results of revolutions
against the United States govern
ment was taught to me on the soil
Of your state. / was a soldier in
the Union army under Lyon and
at Wilson creek received a bullet
from some one of
YOUR COMPANY,
who was trying to enforce f'reyolu-
tionary" ideas. Not a mar in Da-
kota is all advocate of revolution by
force nor Of armed resistance to the
general government, The pecrle
Of Dakota are fully as law-abiding.
peaceful and loyal to the Union as
the people Of Missouri even, or of
any state. They are thoroughly
opposed to any scheme or plan even
in support Of their legal rights that
would involve forcible resistance to
the national government. They
know, however, and have been
taught by high democratic author
ity, by democratic presidents and
congresses, supreme courts and even
democratic senator's, and they have
some legal rights as citizens of the
United States, that one Of these
rights is the right TO form their own
state government and be admitted
into the Union whenever their num-
Der, condition and resource render
them capable Of self-government;-
that it not a matter Of grace at your
hands, but a matter of right which
they al demand; not supplicate
from public servants, not arbitrary
rulers. They have been taught by
the decisions of the United States
supreme court in the case OF David,
Scott VS.. Sanford, as announced
by the great democratic Judge, Chief
Justice fancy, that the congress of
the United States has no lawful
right to perpetlate territorial gov
eminent indefinitely, ara. that the
people Of the territory have a cons
t~itutional right to form q state
government and be admitted into.
the Union when they have complied
with certain conditions. They have