Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-02-04
CLEARFIELD, Pa.
MONGREL MISRULE.
The Beauties Of Reconstruction.


Carolina:
STATE or NoRrH CARoLISA,
ORANGE CouSrY,
SUPERIOR CouRT or LAW. Fall TERN, 1865.
To the Hon. A. w Towgee, Judge
Presiding;
The grand jury for the county of
Orange, called from the body of the
people, as custodians and conservators
Of the public peace and security, are
gratitied to be able to report that good
order and security prevail throughout
the county.
They congratulate the Court and
the country that the unconstitutional
and oppressive military tribunals un-
der which the country has so long
suffered, and the rights of the people
so long languished, have been removed,
and the people are at last RENTED to
their guaranteed rights under the Con
stitution, prominent among which arc
freedom Of speech, freedom of tha
press, the right TO bear arms, the
great writ Of civil liberty, the hdJeaS
corpus, and the right to be heard in
open court, to prosecute or defend
before q sworn jury Of their peers and
under the instruction of judges who
should be learned in the law, sworn to
do right, and responsible for any NAL
feasance in office all of which have
been denied them for three years.
But while there is much TO call for
congratulation, there is much which,
in the judgment Of ihis grand jury,
calls for severe animadversion.
lst We present Lieut.. Crockett, of
the United States army, who, stand
ing among us rs a Bureau officer, was
guilty of high crimes and misdemcan.
ors, as well as acts Of despotism,
which Congress itself could not iusti-
fy. Among his acts Of despotism was
his arrest of Chief Justice Ruilian, an
old servant Of the people and the State,
one who, for half century, has rem
dered valuable services to both. This
venerable patriarch and jurist (whose
judicial opinions have been quoted
and relied upon in every State in the
Union and even England } was, in the
eighty-second year Of his age, summoned
TO appear before the government OF
the United States, in The person OF
Lieut.. Crockett, of the Twenty-ninth
Ohio regiment.
Isaac Rullsan. freedman, complain.
ed that the Chief Justice had not paid
him for services rendered. A writ OF
summons is placed in the hands of the
freedman, commanding the Chief Jus.
tice, living in The county of Almauce,
to appear in the county Of Orange, TO
answer the complaint. The writ, in.
stead Of being served by the Sheriff OF
Marshal, was served by the freedman
entering the parlor Of the judge with
q pistol in his bosom and executing
the process. The Chief Justice attend
cd ond non-suited the freedman, even
before Crockett, by showing that he
had been fully paid. Nor was this all
Chief Justice Rutlian was again
summoned by another Bureau officer
to appear in the town of Greensboro
to answer a like complaint made al
that temple of justice. He attended
and non.suited the complainant, but
recovered no costs in either suit. The
bureau threatened to tie up the com
plainant by the thumbs for his false
claims, and there ended the matter
with the Chief Justice. But il jusr
began with William Faucet, one oI
ourneighbors. Lieut. Crockett order
cd him to give up to Antony Faucet
Q freedman, a thresbing machine anC
two cows; and threatened TO arres
and send him TO Raleigh unless tn,
order was obeyed-and all before b,
had heard but one side Of the question
William Woods, another neighbor
was ordered by said Crockett, of tn,
Bureau, to give up his son, a boy o
ten years Of age, TO Mrs. Betsy Brown
These things being done in the nam,
of Congress and the United States. th,
grand jury do present Crockett, CJH
gress and the United States loih tieS
crimes against Girl liberty and the Con
Stitmi0n.
I'd. We present, as dangerous to lib
erty, as secret political organizations
whether known as Loyal League, Ku
Klux Klans, Red Strings, Heroes o
America, or by whatever name the,
may be known, or for whatever pur
pose they were organized.
3D.. The grand jury do further pre-
sent an editorial article in the Ddil
Standard, of the 10Th of Septembe
last, entitled "IVork," and certail
printed address signed by cighty-eigh
members Of the Legislature, including
the Lieutenant Governor and th
Speaker of the House Of Represent
aiivcs, aud extensively ciroulatcI
among the people OF the State, an
said TO have been written by Judg
Reade, Of the Supreme Court, as inta
nous productions, calculated to incit
to rape, rapine, plumber murder an
arson, on such 0 SCALE as the min
recoils from with horror inexpressiblC
And the grand jury have TO deplor
that already, in a aneighboring county
as they have been informed, and as
direct consequence Of the suggestion
contained in those and similar doot
ments, acts of violence, even TO th
barbarous cutting off OF mems ear
have been perpeirated in retaliatio
b upon the ignorant and deluded black
, who have but carried those suggei
. tons into effect
I The grand jury deprecate and s.erI
" donounee all such acts Of yiolonc
but, while they do so, they feel pr
!, found sympathy for the betrayed an
ignorant sufferers, in that they hay
= been made and will be left to suffe
8 while the guilty authors and circul
n r.