American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-03-31

of FIVE dollars to his deputy or depu'
ties. for each person, he or they may ars
rest and take before such Commissioner,
with any such other fees as may be
deemed reasonable by such Commission
ers in general for performing such other
duties as may be required on the preml'
ses. All these fees are to be paid out oil
the Treasury Of the United States, wheth'
er there is conviction or not. but IN case
Of conviction, they are to be recoverable
from the defendant. 1t seems to me un'
der the influence Of such temptation bad
men might convert any law however bene-
fetal, into an instrument of persecution
and fraud.
By the eight section of the bill, the
United States Courts, which set only IN
one place, for which citizens must mis-
CRATE, with the Marshal and District At
,orney, and necessarily with the Clerk
although he is not mentioned, to any
part Of the District. upon the order OF the
President, and there hold Courts for the
purpose of more speedy arrest and trial
Of persons charged with violation Of the
act. and there the judges and officers OF
the Court must remain. upon the order
Of the President, the time therein desig-
mated.
The ninth section authorizes the Presi"
dent, or such persons as he may en-
power for that purpose, to employ such
part of the land and naval forces. or OF the
militia. as shall be necessary to prevent
the violation and enforce the execution
Of the act. This language seems to i'm
ply a permanent military force, that is
, to be always at hand, and whose only
f business is to be enforcement Of this meas
l ure over the vast region where it is in
9 tended to operate.
}, do not propose to consider the policy
OF TINS Dill, 10 me Tue ue'als VI 'ne o'''
! are fraught with evil. The white race
y and the black race of the South have
= heretofore lived together under the re-
S lation Of master and slave, capital own
: ing labor. Now that chat relation Is
changed, and, as to ownership, capita
!, and labor are divorced, they stand now
), each master of ITSELF In the new rela
:. ton, one being necessary to the other
u there will be An adjustment, which boil
q % are deeply Interested in making harmonl
d Gus. Each has equal power in settling
= the terms and, il left to the laws tina
}, regulate capital and labor, it is confident
u ly believed they will satisfactorily work gu
n the problem. Capital, it is true, ha
i. more intelligence, but labor is never
10 ignorant as not to understand its own 10
'e terest. not 10 know its own value, or nc
II. to see that capital must pay the value
=, - This bill prostrates this adjustment, an
re intervenes between capital and labor, an
ne attempts to settle question OF politics
10 economy. This agency of numerous Of
III fcials will be interested in fomendng di
-, cord between the two races, for, as tt
he breach widens, their employment wi
as conliaue, and, when it is cleared. the
Sc occupation will end. In all our histor
,is in all experience as people, living u
'ar der Federal and State laws. no such sy
I'll TEN as that contemplated by the deta
n of this bill has ever before been propose
he or adopted. They establish laws +
~ the security of the colored and again
ar. the white race. They interfere with Il
all municipal legislation Of the States. wi
or relations existing exclusively between
nc State and it's citizens, and between
Wy inhabitants of the same State and a
an. sorption and assumption OF power by t
ne general Government, which, if scqules
the ed in, must necessarily stop and ultimate
VA destroy our Federal system Of limit
&c. 60 power, and break down the barrie
has which preserve the rights of the Stat
will 1t is another step or another stride to ee
the traliza,ion and the concentration Of all Il
'er, islative powers in the national Cover
,,ua =, ment. The tendency of the bill must
all to resuscitate the spirit Of rebellion, and
and arrest the progress Of those iniuen
his which are more closely drawing arou
the States the bonds Of union and pea
, .ho Ny lamented predecessor, in his p
ow- clamstion Of January LIST, 1868, orde
her and declared that all persons held
ion slaves, within certain States or parts
tent States, therein designated, were,
'lo tbeuceforth should be free and, furtl
ON that the Executive Government OF
the United States, including the military
ing, naval authorities thereof, would recog'
rom and maintain the freedom Of such pers
the This guarantee has been rendered e
and cially obligatory and sacred by the amt
sort ments to the Constitution abolish
AIRY, slavery throughout the United States.
II therefore, fully renognize the obllga
"i to protect and defend that class or
Itps ME. whenever and wherever it shall
al. f,.n