The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-29
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From Brick" PomerOy'S ~. Y. Democrat
Indiana is loyal State majority OF her
voting population, as election returns show,
being Republicans, and, therefore, members
in good standing of the God and Morality
party. In the vicinity of Seymour, Indiana, for
a long time has existed band of fdesperadoes,
thieves, robbers, house breakers, horse-steal-
ers, plunderers, and gatherers up of the pro-
perty belonging to other people. At last the
citizens of Seymour and the Surrounding
country organized thems selves into vigilance
committed, and determined to do for their
protection what the law could not or would
not do.
The result has been the hanging of thirteen
persons charged with various crimes, the
hanging being done by the committee, without
putting the county or State to the expense of
trial and board for convicts in prison. The
effect has been to purify that section of
country, to purge it most completely of the
characters which 80 long have infested ii at
the expense of honest men. At times loyal
paper mildly protests against this attempt of
the citizens to defend their property and their
lives, but, as general thing, few are the words
said by the radical papers in condemnation of
this outrage upon law.
In the South, which is now, as it has been
for long time overrun with thieves, black
and white, natives to the soil and former resi-
dents OF New England-if citizen or a num-
which governed the people of Indiana in their
determination to protect themselves, defend
themselves and their property from these
robbers and plunderers the entire loyal press
of the North sets up howl about the Ku-
Klux Klan and calls for military interference
mot, mind you, for the protection of the
people, but for the protection of the robbers
Loyal Indiana men may hang citizens who
may or may not be guilty; law may be set at
defiance; the dignity of the State may be
trampled upon, the fair name of sovereignty
be blurred blotted, and marred, but there is
no demand for troops to be sent there
In the South it is different. First driven
to war for the preservation OF constitutional
rights and liberties; then stolen poor by the
minions of tyranny, who W re- there wander
ing with arms iu their hands and murder in
their hearts for the purpose OF plunder; then
placed under the heel OF military despots and
unprincipled adventurers, while q horde of
black and white thieves by nature and pro-
fession were let loose upon them-for an honest
man to protect himself, his family, and his
property from those who pray by day and
prowl by night, is crime, and one that calls
for more despotism, more interference with
labor, more transportation of troops to
annoy and wrong poverty y-stricken people,
more chances for contractors to make
money, more OF demand for that
reconstruction which brings not peace
but disc0fd and suffering IN It's train. hun
dred citizens of Indiana, masked and armed,
hang at time one or more persons who have
been robbing them, and it is all right But
for one man, assisted by his wife and family,
to fire upon band of black and white negroes
in the South, or attempt defense OF his life
and property at the hands Of midnight ma
rauders, is a crime; and not only himself, but
his neighbors for miles around, and even the
| States where this defense of the right is made,
must be punished by the despotic party now
| in power.
With thieves and robbers in Office, with
paid murderers wandering over the country in
the interests of the Republican party, with bad
men, reckless, unprincipled adventurers, to
make laws, with the army and the energies of
| the nation to defend those who war upon the
| right for the benefit of wicked men, IL is no
wonder the people are fast losing faith in a
| republican form of government. rt
Congress is now but den'of thieves. The
| lawmakers there are but set of unprincipled
towards. The army Of the United States,
created for the protection OF the States and
| people, has now, under the management OF
the Republican party, become most terrible
engine of oppression. sa0i rsao .Iel
Will those who make arguments against
Democracy and in favor OF Republicanism
| please tell us wherein lies the justice OF all
thisi And II they tell us that 1t Is right for q