The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-11

gives me; her mother gave IL her, sald my
sweet Greta; "but I need no pearls to make
me think of you. Friend you are not angry?
You will remember Greta sometimes with kind
ness and peace?
Il am not angry" I took the little hand,
which wavered with a fainttremblng, into mine.
Il never have been angry, Greta. No; am
only sad, ,sand lonely, and very desolate; but you
have not wounded me- sweet heart | am only
as was before knew you, Greta-alone."
''Ah, no!'' said Greta, quickly, 'not alone
friend. They all love you yonder in your home
you have told me so.'
And as she lifted her dropping head with
eagerness to comfort me, the tear that had been
quiverlng on Greta's eyelash, fellupon her hand
put my lip to it hastily, and then said Clare
WELL" and went away
DISCHARGE OF FUGIT1vEs.-From the trans&
actions which frequently take place in our courts
of justice, one is almost forced to ask whether
the laws are designed TO protect the communl-
ty or rascals and rascality? The instances in
which the most unmitigated scoundrels have
escaped justice through some hair-sptting,
transcendenta] legal punctility, must have come
to the knowledge of most Of our readers in the
Il
Der of such cases now in our minds eye
'Sometimes these legal quiddities are practiced
so long and carried so far that the patience of
community becomes exhausted, their sense
Of justice outraged; and in obedience to what
they deem the behests of an inexorable neces
sity, the protection of their lives and property,
and of all they hold most dear on earth, they
rise in their wrath, and, taking the law into
their own hands, they mete out that Justice
which has been set at naught by it's professed
and sworn ministers. The case of Vicksburg
and San Francisco will at once occur to the
mind of the reader as an instance of these up
heavings of whole community Knocked with
the forms and expenses Of justice without its
substance or value. These terrible illustrations
of an outraged people, goaded past all endur-
ance by the solemn mockerles of law without
justice, are only the aggravated results of a null
titude of isolated individual cases all going to
swell the mighty slough ofjudicial distractions,
quiddities non-entities, farces, and perhaps of
judicial prostitution. The latter in this country
we believe to be very rare.
The evil lies in the superabundance, the op-
pressve quantity of law! We in the city have
suffered not a little from this source. Our read
ers know how. difficult it has been to enforce
the ordinances ofthe city, in consequence of the
tlnkering of the courts, and they know too who
suffer and who have to pay the piper in conse-
quence of the nonenforcement of the said ordi-
nances-at least those who are tax payers do.
But there is another class of cases to which
reference is frequently made in the public press;
and though they do not concern our own indi-
vidual interests so closely as those we have re-
ferred to above, they still! possess interest to the
country at large, and are intimately connected
with public order and the prevention of crime.
We refer to tugltives from justice who may be
arrested here for crimes committed in other
States of the Union. As New Orleans is con-
sldered by e goodly number of our cousins else
where as a, sort of urban Botany Bay, or crimi-
nails elysium, felons seem to think that if they
can make their way here, they may, in all
probability, be quite secure, or perhaps, become
popular, and by an extensive display of patriot
ism and much love for the dear people become
elected to oAce
Either from this cause Or some other the fact
is patent that many tugitives come here, and
not a few Of them get arrested. But cui bono?
How many of them are ever sent back to the
place whence they fled? The habeas corpus
that great boon to those who in days of agony
suffered from ghostly and kingly tyranny in
nosome dungeons, is it not abused, and made
to shield the guilty, rather than to protect the
innocent? This train Of reflection has occurred
to us by the discharge at Carolton day before
yesterday of a man named VIM. Cox, charged
with murder committed in the State of Missouri
He was arrested about month ago, charged on
oath with being fugitive from justice. He was
however brought before justice Kemper by
habeas corpus and discharged. Twenty four
hours however had not elapsed before an officer
arrived from Missouri with the official requisi-
ton from the executive of that State for him,
accompanied by the brother of the murdered
man. But the bird had flown and Justice was
cheated. 1t may not be amiss in connection
with this subject to refer to the provisions of the
law IN regard to it, as we find them in section
sxty-four of the acts of the Legislature of the
year 1856.
This section provides that when any person
is charged on oath Of any credible person, be-
fore any judge or justice of the peace with com
hitting crime in any other State or territory,
it shall be the duty of said Judge or justice to
issue the warrant for the arrest of such person..
and proceed to make the examination, and com
NIT or discharge the accused, as he shall de-
termlne; provided no person so accused shall be
detained in custody exceeding ninety days. IT.
is therefore clear that he may be detained for
hat period, viz: ninety days. And it sequa1ly
clear to us that he should not be discharged be-
fore, except upon testimony establishing his in
1ocence. This period of time was evidently
Intended to give the requisite delay to enable
parties and officers to collect the required tes-
imony, obtain the needed documents and make
he journey from the State where the crime was
committed to this State to secure the prisoner
TO discharge a prisoner before the expiration of
his time, without proof of his innocence, is
oalpable evasion of the spirit of the law
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An affair, which was chock full of dramatic .
fleet and incident, and which contained as
much genuine romance as library of ''yaller-
,ivered" novels highly concentrated, came off,
,r rather, "came to a head" yesterday 1t |
Gems that certain young female, who shall,
# course, be nameless, had ''loyed not wisely, |
,ut too we'll" and the mother of the damsel be-
coming acquainted with the real position of
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