The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-04-20
ANOTHER RADICAL VICTORY.

ing Through the House one OF the inoso iai"-
nous enactments that ever disgraced the leg
islatiye records Of Congress. In order TO
avert, if possible, the impending tate OF tneir
corrupt party, stories of outrages upon 10Y
alists" in the Southern States are concocted
and gotten up to order by the carpet-bag
scoundrels who have been plunderlng the
Southern people, and for their profit and per-
sopal gain have been engaged in stirring up
strife and melting the ignorant negroes to out
RACES upon tho whites; and under the pretext
of protection to that class Of villains bill is
passed under the title of IAN Act to enforce
the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution, and for other purposes.
No sane man, whatever may be his politics.
will pretend to assert that there has been any
violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. No
Southern State has made or enforced any law
which abridged the privileges or immunitles OF
citizens of the United States, nor denied to
any person within its jurisdiction "the equal
protection of the law" Even admitting that
local disturbances and outrages exist IN some
portions of the South, will any one make such
a display of his ignorance as to say that they
are committed under or in pursuance OF any
law passed in any Southern Statel Such dis
turbances as do exist are but violations of the
laws of the State wherein'they are committed,
and, as such, punishable under the statute laws
IL CknkN In. 70 tha a -
subterfuge and delusion, with the exception
of the concluding words "and for other pur-
poses" Those words tell the tale, and the ex-
traordinary and unconstitutional powers pro-
posed to be conferred on Grant, by the provls-
ions of sections 3 and of this Infamous bill,
sufficiently attest the desperate and trcasona-
bic measures which will be resorted to by the
dominant party in order to retain their hold
on power and place. Section coniers upon
General Grant powers which are not possessed
by any monarch in Europe, and. should the
bill become law, will make him the military
dictator of the South. Knowing no law, rs his
guide, other than his own will. the suspension
being vested in him, whenever lin his iudg-
ment the public safety shall require it," per-
sons politically obnoxious to him or To the Rad
ical party are to be summarily arrested by his
military minions, tried by drum.head court
martial, and hung or imprisoned in accordance
with the articles Of war. All State lines are
all State law deiicd. and all State
courts aud local officers of the law are repud-
ated. Grant. as supreme dictator, clothed
with powers unknown to a republican form of
in defiance OF the Constitution
and of the rights of the people and OF the
States. by the mere exercise of his sovereign
will, can tinkle his little bell and order the ar.
rest of any citizen in the South, immune him
in military dungeon, refuse him his consiitu-
tional right of trial by jury, and through his
military commissions. organized 10 convict"
deprive him of life, liberty or property.
Such Legislative infany has been enacted by
n Radical House of Representatives and it
will doubtless receive the sanction of an
equally corrupt set of reasonable scoundrels
in the Senate, who thus resort to any depth of
lnfamy in the hope of securing another lease
of power by trampling under foot the people
of one section of the Union.
The New York Sun, though Radical paper,
denounces the bill as the "joint product of
craftsmanship and hypocrisy" that nothing in
the South warrants such summary, unprece-
denied and unconstitutional proceedings, and
says:
without the slightest warrant in the Constitution
without precedent in history IL confcrs powers
upon the President which no Parliament since the
DAYS OF the First Charles has ever entrusted to
King, and the exercise Of which by that arbitrary
cost him his head.
Should such a measure ever be the product
of Democratic Congress, it would Justly
consign those who enacted it to everlasting in
fanny and disgrace, and the party would be
hurled from power attended with the curses
and excavations of the American people That
such will be the fate of those who have brought
forth this Ubiquitous measure, and of the party
approving it, cannot fail to be the case or later.
The people have endured much at the hands of
the villains who have usurped all authority and
brought the country well nigh to perdition
put there is a point beyond which forbear-
ance ceases to be q virtue" and terrible
will yet oertake the guilty perpe-
traitors Of this great iniquity
ARIzoSA.-From letter written to Mr.. w.