The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-28

er,y kno|sn to the CONSTITUTION Il the United
ssstes-the withdrawal Of criminal casea
from thesjury snd ther cohmittI to single
judges, ssppointed blythe central anthcs.sg
and armed with extraordinary powers, and
the concession to mere official suspicion,
and to Regal presumptions of part ia de-
termining the question'd guilt ortnnocencs
Of a province hitherto unknown ia Anglo
Saxon Jurisprudence. Such legislation could
only be justified Gn the opinion Of The Ma
tom by its success and It could not succeed
unless the South were occupied by large ar
miles, patrellipg the roads and filing the
streets, so that eyil-doers would be terror
stricken aud good citizens would sleep in
peace. But it is q peculiarly OF all these
attempts at pacification byforce, that after
erecting 9 terrible apparatus OF fines, im-
prisonments and hangings, regiment OF
cavalry or infantry Is voted to put 1t IN mo-
tiop-that is, about enough men to make
one county SAFE The Nation, again declar-
ine that it knows nothing Of the United
States Government, except what is found in
the Constitution and the judicial interpreted
tons OF it, concludes in these words ::
"ls there, then, no remedy for local disorder
at the South, If the State government does
not protect man, can he look nowhere else
tor redress? We answer, that II there be any
value whatever in the theory on which: :Amerl-
can polity Is based, thsseraedy of Southern dis
orders must come from, the GouaterR people,
through their experience of the folly and suf-
fering of disorder. IF this be not true, the
whole American system is a mistake, and is
destined ere long to perish. Our business IS
nou to ledue euery Southern State 10 Its o'on
people, first, because thtsis the only practicable
course, and, secondly, because is the only
pise one If they are so Semoralized that they
90 on robhing, and murdcring, and "Ku-R'u1-
ingn each other, we cannot interfere effective
ly, and had better not interfere at all The
American punishments for State which per-
mits these things are two-impoverishmeut
and emigration. If man cannot have free
dom, security, and light taxation In New York,
let him go to New Jersey; If he cannot have
them in South Carolina, let him 60 to Virginia;
# he cannot have them in either, let him so
to Missouri. Those who stay behind, on seeing
capital and population steadily leaving their
State, and their property declining In value,
will gradually mend their ways. This may De
slow remedy, but it is sure one. 1t goes
to the root of the disorder, while under coer-
cion from the outside no state Of things can
grow up, or ever has grown up. in which
coercion ceases to be necessary. or course
there is nothing in this theory to prevent the
United States enforcing the Federal Constitu-
ton and laws. This ought to be done. at ohat-
ever cost-that is, by officers, and not by bill
and resolution. If It.: be true that black men
are kept from the polls by, Intimidation, we
ought to see that going to the polls is made as
safe as going to church; but to pass bills pro-
.viding tor Lhls, without voting the men or the
money to execute them. .is a., ,wretched mock
ery,,of which the country and the blacks have
had enough : -
We firmly believe that this people, 4 left
to themselves, can work out their own sal
vation. No one proposes to interfere with
the rights OF the negro, or to curtail bis
privileges. There is no thought Of resis-
lance to the Legitimate authority of the State
or OF the United States. But the people are
determined-and the presence OF one hum
dred thousand Federal soldiers would be no
embarrassment-to agitatel agItate ag-
tate! to organize! organize! organize! un-
til the taxpayers are adequately represented
in the Legislature Of the State. This, in
deed, is our only hope. The hlow must be
struck at the pockets, not OF the hearts, OF
the swindling Radical Ring.