The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-22

or Dy tOrce, 1ntlmluaIOny OF tureat 10 proven
any citizen OF the United States lawfully emit
tied to vote from giving his support or advoca
oy in lawful manner towards or In favor o
the election of any lawfully qualified persol
as an elector of President or Vice Presiden
Of the United States, or as member of tn
Congress of the United States, or to injur
any such citizen in his person or property oil
account of such support or advocacy, eacl
and every person so offending shall b
deemed guilty of high crime, and
upon conviction thereof in any distric
| or circuit court of the United States OF
| district or supreme court of any territory o.
| the United States having jurisdiction of SINH
| lar offences, shall be punished by hne not les.
| than FIVE hundred nor more than i've thousand
dollars, or by Imprisonment, with or without
hard labor, as the court may determine, for a
period of not less than six months nor more
than six years, as the court may determine, or
both such fine and Imprisonment as the court
shall determine. And If any one or more pers
sons engaged in any such conspiracy shall do,
or cause to be done, any act in furtherance OF
the object of such conspiracy, whereby any
person shall be injured in bis person or proper
iy, or deprived OF having and exercising any
right or privilege of citizen OF the United
States, the person so injured or deprived OF
such rights and privileges may have and main
tain an action for the recovery OF damages oc.
casoned by such injury or deprivation OF
rights and privileges against any one or more
of the persons engaged in such conspiracy,
such action to be prosecuted in the proper dis
trict or circuit court of the United States,
with and subject to the same rights of appeal,
review upon error, and other remedies provi>
ded in like cases iu such courts under the
provisions of the act of April ninth, eighteen
hundred and sixty.six, entitled "An act to pro.
tect all persons in the United States in their
civil rights, and to furnish the means of their
vindicatiOp.n
SEC. 3. That in all cases where instruction,
domestic violence, unlawful combinations, 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 such State of any of
the rights, privileges, or immunities, or pro-
lection, named in the Constitution and secured
by this act, and the constituted authorities of
such State shall either be unable to protect, or
shall, from any cause, fail in or refuse protec-
ton of the people in such rights, such facts
shall be deemed denial by such State ofequal
protection of the laws to which they are en-
titled under the Constitution of the United |
States; and ia all such cases, or whenever any |
such Instruction, violence, and unlawful COM
bnati0n, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct |
The laws of the United States, or the due exc
,ution thereof, or impede or obstruct the due
course of justice under the same, it shall be
awful for the President, and it shall be bis
If the militia or the land and naval forces of
he United States, or of either, or by other
means, as he may deem necessary for the sup
preston of such instruction, domestic violence
IT combinations; and any person who shall be
lrrested under the provisions of this and the
preceding section shall be delivered to the mar
hal of the proper district, to be dealt with &C.
'ording to law.
Sec. 4. That whenever in any State or part
It State the unlawful combinations named
n the preceding section of this act shall be
rgauized and armed, and so numerous and
powerful as to be able, by violence, to either
gerthrow or set at defiance the constituted
authorities of such State, and of the United
states within such State, or when the consti.
uted authorities are in completely with, or
ball connive at the unlawful purposes
i, such powerful and armed combina>
ions; and whenever, by reason of either
r all OF the causes aforesaid, the convic-
ion of such offenders and the preservation of
be public safety shall become in such dis-
ordinations shall be deemed a rebellion
gainst the United States, and during the cons
inuance of such rebellion, and within the linz
Is OF the district which shall be so under the
way thereof, such limits to be prescribed by
reclamation, it shall be lawful Tor the Presi-
ent OF the United States, when in his judg-
,ent the public safety may require it, to sus-
end the privileges of the writ of habeas cor
us, to the end that such rebellion may be over
brown: Provided, That all the pro.
isions of the second section of
u act entitled "An act relating
0 habeas corpus, and regulating judicial pro,
eedings in certain cases." approved March
nird, eighteen hundred and sixty three, which
elate to the discharge of prisoners other than
risoners of war, and to the penalty for refus-
Dg to obey the order of the court, shall be in
all force so far as the same are applicable to :
be provisions of this section Provided, That
be President shall first have made proclama-
on, as now provided by law, commanding
lch insurgents to dispense And provided
tso, That the provisions of this section shall
OF be in force after the end of the next regu-
tr session of Congress.
SEQ b. That no person shall be grand or
etit juror in any court of the United States
pom any inquiry, hearing, or trial of any suit
roceeding, or prosecution based upon or aris
'g under the provisions of this act who SHALL
! the Judgment of the court, be in completely
18th any such combination or conspiracy and
very such juror shall, before entering upon
ny such inquiry, hearing, or trial, take and
aoscrloe an oath in open court that he has
ever, directly or indirectly, counselled, ad,
ised, or voluntarily aided any such combina-
on or conspiracy; and each and every person
tho shall take this oath, and shall therein
wear falsely, shall be guilty of perjury, and
lall be subject to the pains and penalties de-
Jared against that crime, and the first section
the act entitled can act defining additional
auses of challenge and prescribing an add,
onal oath for grand and petit jurors in the
nited States courts" approved June sevens
zenith, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be,
nd the same is hereby, repealed.
SEC. =. That any person or persons having
nowledge that any of the wrongs conspired
, be done and mentioned in the second
'ction OF this act are about to be committed,
nd having power to prevent or aid In prevent.
lg the same shall neglect or refuse to do, and
lch wrongful act shall be committed, such
erson or persons shall be liable to the person
jured, or his legal representatives, for all
amages caused by any such wrongful act !
hich such trst-named person or persons by
'asonable diligence could have prevented,
nd such damages may be recovered in an ac-
on on the case in the proper circuit court of
he United States, and any number of persons
utility OF such wrongful neglect or refusal may
. joined as defendants in such action;
rovided that such action shall be COM
enced within one year after such cause of {
,tion shall have accrued, and if the death of
ny person shall be caused by any such wrong
Il act and neglect, the legal representative of {
Ich deceased person shall have such action
Ierefor, and may recover not exceeding ,
1000 damages thereon for the benefit of the
idow of such deceased person, if any there
}, or, it there be no widow, for the benefit of G
e next OF kin of such deceased person.
SEQ. Z. That nothing herein contained shall
'nstrued to supersede or repeal any former
It or law except SO far as the same may be
pugnant thereto; and any offences hereto