Date: 1886
Emboldened by the success which attended their first attempts at lawlessness, no pretext or apology seems now to be deemed re quisite, nor is any class exempt from outrage ; all alike are set upon by the self constituted theocracy, whose laavs, or rather whose conspiracies, are framed in dark corners, promulgated from the stand of tabernacle or church, and executed at midnight, or upon the highways, by an organized band of bravos and assassins, whose masters compel an outraged community to tolerate in their midst.  The result is that a considerable and highly respectable portion of the community, knoavn from the Atlantic to the Pacific, avhose enterprise is stimulated by a laud able desire to improve their fortunes by honorable exertions, are left helpless vic tims to outrage and oppression, liable at any moment to be stripped of their property or deprived of life, without the ability to put themselves under the pro tection of law, since all the courts that exist there at present are converted into engines and instruments of injustice.  "For want of time I am compelled thus to generalize, but particular cases, with all the attendant circumstances, names of parties and localities are not wanting to savell the calendar of crime and outrage to limits that will, when pub lished, startle the conservative people of the States, and create a clamor which avill not be readily quelled ; and I have no doubt that the time is near at hand, and the elements rapidly combining to bring about a state of affairs which avill result in indiscriminate bloodshed, robbery and rapine, and which in a brief space of time will reduce that country to the condition of a hoavling wilderness.