The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-03
VIOLENCE Ayp LYNCH LAW,

VIOLENCE AND LYNCH LAW.
The reports from every part of the South
proclaim that thf entire section is rife with
scenes of blood aid violence. Robbery, muir
der and Lynch law run riot in rampant and
unrestrained fury. Citizens of the North,
uaion officers in command, and the Agents
ofthe Freedmen's Bureau have been report
ing these things for months past, and matters
seem TO be growing worse instead Of better.
Gen. Howard in his official report some
weeks ago, stated the condition of society in
general terms as one of wrong and violence !;
and the special reports submitted by him from
Arkansas, Texas and other States, exhibited
a state of things in which the murder Of
Union men, white aud black, was frequent,
amounting to hundreds of cases in few
weeks. Those reports set forth, too, that the
authorities of the South paid no attention to
the matter and never punished the perpetrs-
tors Of crime, and seldom even attempted to
arrest them.
All these statements, coming from so many
different sources, private and official, are de-
MED, and denounced as false BY the sympa-
thizers Of the North, and the most earnest
efforts are made to induce the public TO be-
lieve that the rebels of the South are long
suffering, patient, mild-msnnered people,
gentle in speech, devoted to justice and re,
voting from scenes of oppression and blood !,
shed. 1t is the Radicals, in their vocabulary,
that are the blood thirsty and lawless part OF
creation. Sumner, and Tilton, and Greeley,
are the horrible vampires who tear out the
vitals and suck the blood of the tender lamb BIS
OF rebeldom. They are the guilty wretches
who brought on civil war, and who are now
running the country by expressing our limo
cent and suffering brethren, whose ancestors
fought the battles Of the Revolution.
For the benefit of people of the North who
may chance to have been misled by such rep.
reservations we quote from message of Gov.
Bramlette, the Democratic Governor Of Ken.
tucky. And we ask our readers to ponder
these official statements Of a Southern Gov
ernor, of the condition of affairs in Kentucky,
and then imagine 10 themselves, il they can,
how much worse it must be in the Confederate
the rebels. If the fact that q man sympa-
thized with the Union cause. or fought in the
Union army, is sufficient TO incur the penalty
of hanging or Punishment in Kentucky, and
II Union whites and blacks are killed there
with impunity, what hope can there be fol
them in Texas, Mississippi, and other South
ern Ststes7
ExKcurIvE oryIcE,
FRAsKrosr, Ky, Feb. Il, 1867.
Gentlemen Of the ssnnte and House Of Represen
tatives:
The recent reported outrages and murder,
committed by lawless bands of men in some
counties, who set themselves up as "Rerula
tors" and execute Lynch Law require,
that your attention should be directed 70 the
inef6ciency Of existing laws to secure n,
punishment Of these criminals.
A band of these lawless men, claiming u
number over one hundred, thoroughly organ
lied, and assuming to take the regulation o
society and government into their own hand,
operating in Marion and BOYLE and adoin
ing counties, under the orders of "Jnde,
Lynch, have become so emboldened by i'm
punity, that they publish their orders of ban
tshment and of condemnation in the publ,
journals.
Disobedience Of their lawless mandates i
followed with speedy vengeance.
Jails are forced by them, and their victim,
ruthlessly torn from legal custody aud muir
dered. Those standing on bail, who are OBJ
noxious to their murderous wrath, are drag
eed from their homes and murdered.
They condemn without hearing, and exc
-cute without trial. The cold>biooded afro
MAD q of their truelties and murders, mus
,~+- every nan bosom, and arouse th,
X.rxdk ~ 4 sNf. IL. Al =
&58w dxys. durnc The session of the Bowie
1Circuit Court, thee nurderers took from tn,
jnRkpf that county man there confined u
answer an indictment, and hung him 20 death
within the limits of The town.
Since that another has been hung in III,
neighborhood, wae was standing upon bail.
--- Good citizens who denounce those lawles
proeeedings, are being warned by them 4
leave the country under penalty of thsi
wrath.
In Marion eouu,y many cutrages have been
gefpetrnted by them; recently they burnes
the dwelling house Of an ared and exemplar,
citizen, because his son had resisted their au
tnoritY and made successful defence agains
PsFsy cent to arrest him. A gallant sol
niIak fss notified in one OF their publishes
My 4sfs 70 leave the country; his offence havin,
s,~.- an expressed determination ID stand b,
defend younger brother against the mol
had ordered him 70 leave, under penait,
nEG1y death. These are osly instances Of man,
dosronfs- This tsrribls erininality of orrsn
! q :. deaperadoes d fearfnlly on sSs increase
unless arrested By the strong and vieos.
- Nm Of public Justice, will DESTROY indi
49, snd public security, and ovsrbsar cizi
noVNZ5Dent.
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