The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-27

: any right or privilege of citizen of the
United States, the person so injured or
: deprived of such rights and privileges
may have and maintain an action for the
f recovery of damages occasioned by such
injury or deprivation of rights and priv
E leges against any one or more of the per-
sons engaged in such conspiracy, such ac-
f tion to be prosecuted in the proper Dis
f trict or Circuit Court of the United
Il States, with and subject to the same rights
of appeal, review upon error, and other
q remedies provided in like cases in such
II ccurts under the provisions of the act of
, Aprii 9th, 1865, entitled AN act to pro.
J tect all sperscns in the United States in
Z their civil rights, and to furnish the
! means OF their vindication
i SEC. 3. That in all cases where insur-
Erection, domestic violence, unlawful com
binations, or conspiracies in any state
shall so obstruct or hinder the execution
of the laws thereof and of the United
States, as to deprive any portion or class
of the people of euch state of any of the
rights, privileges, or immunities, or pro-
Election, named in the Constitution, and
secured by this act, and the constituted
authorities of such state shall either be
fail in or refuse protection of the people
lin such rights, such facts shall be deemed
la denial by such state of the equal pro.
ltection of the laws to which they are en-
i titled under the Constitution of the Uni
TED States; and in all such cases,or when
lever any such instruction, violence, un
lawful combination, or conspiracy, shall
loppose or obstruct the laws of the United
States, or the due execution thereof, or
Impede or obstruct the due course of JUS
| tice under the same, it shall be lawful for
the President, and it shall be his duty, to
take such measures, by thu employment
of the militia or the land and naval forces
of the United States, or OF either, or by
other means, as he may deem necessary,
for the suppression of such insurrection,
domestic violence, or combinations; and
any persons who shall be arrested under
the provisions of this and the preceding
section, shall be delivered to the marshal
Eof the proper district, to be dealt with
according to law.
e. SEC A. That whenever ia any state or
part of state, the unlawful combinations
named in the preceding section of the
act shall be organized and armed, and so
numerous and powerful as to be able, by
violence, to either overthrow or to set at de
fiance the constituted authorities of such
state and of the United States within such
state or when the constituted authorities
are in completely with, or shall connive at
the unlawful purposes of such powerful
and armed combinations and, whenever,
by reason of either or all of the causes
aforesaid, the conviction of such offenders
and the preservation of the public safety
shall become in such district impractical
bic, in every such case such combination {
shall be deemed q rebellion against the
Government of the United States, and
during the continuance OF such rebellion,
and within the limits Of the district which
shall be so under the sway thereof such
limits to be prescribed by proclamation ]
it shall be lawful for the President oil
the United States, when in his Judgment
the public safety shall require1t, to sus.
pend the privilege of the writ of ha6eds
corpus, to the end that such rebellion may
be overthrown, provided that all the pro-
visions of the second section of an act en-
titled, can act relating to ba6eos corpus, ]
and regulating judicial proceedings in
certain cases." approved March 8, 1868,
which relates to the discharge Of prisoners
other than prisoners of war, and to- the S
penalty for refusing to obey the order of {
the court, shall be in full fozce as far as
the same are applicable to the provisions t
of this section; provided further, that the !
President shall have first made proclama- t
tion,as now provided By law commanding t
such insurgents to dispense; and provid-I q
ed, also, that the provisions of this section t
shall not be in force after the end of the |
N 11o7. If ~ i 3
SEC. g. That no person shall be a
grand or petit juror in any court of the I
United States upon any inquiry, hearing t
or trial of any suit, proceeding or prose-
cution based upon or arising under the L
provisions of this act, who shall, in the +
judgment of the court, be in completely +
with auy such combination or conspiracy |
and every such shall, before entering upon i
any such inquiry, hearing, or trial, take /
and subscribe an oath, in open court,
that he never, directly or Indirectly, a
counseled, advised or voluntarily aided L
any such combination or conspiracy and v
each and every person who shall take {
this oath and shall therein swear falsely,l
shall be guilty of perjury, and shall bel'e
subject to the pains and penalties declar- t
ed against that crime and the first Sec "
ton of the act entitled can act defining q
causes of challenge and pre- a
scribing an additional oath for grand t
and petit Jurors in the United States
courts, approved June18, 1862, be and
the same is hereby repealed. Wv x6 Esd b
gs SEC. 6. That any person or persons
having knowledge that any ofthe-wrongsl
conspired to be done and mentioned In 4
the second section of this act are about to G
be committed, and having power to pre- a