The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
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On Monday last, Messrs. Thos. Keith,
Qawyer,) NJ. J. L. Hoy, merchant, of
the nm of Russell & Hoy,) and Eugene
Carlton (public school teacher,) well
known citizens of Newton County, were
arrested by Daputy U. s. Marshal Reed,
and brought to this city and confined in
Jail until released on bond to await the
fiuding of the Federal Grand Jury,
on the charge of violating the ku Klux
Act, at the instance of one G. S. Swami,
carpet-bag Clerk of the Circuit and Chan
Gerry Courts of Newton county. The
charge is that they were guilty of band
ing and conspiring together with others
to Cypress and intimidate the said Swami,
with intent to deprive him of his privi-
leges as a citizen of the United States
Mr.. Keith has no knowledge whatever of
the specific grounds of his arrest, having
had no intercourse or dealings with
Swami. Mr.. Carleton, as public school.
teacher, having claims for services, in
sisted on his right to inspect the
county school warrant book in the keeping
of Swami, which had been removed from
the office as Carleton believed, for fraud
ulent purposes. He (Carleton) brought
the conduct of Swami IN removing and
Board of Directors and in the course
of his observations to the Board stated
that he would bring the case of Swami to
the attention of the grand jury of the
county. No threats of personal violence
were used. The conspiracy and intimi-
dation consist in this action of Carleton.
The case of Mr.. Hoy is of piece with
the other. He had redeemed some lands
and claimed cancellation of the deed,
or receipt for the money he had paid,
which was refused. Some sharp words
were interchanged in the course of which
Mr.. Hoy remarked to Swami that she
would slap his jaws" if he were not under
bonds to keep the peace. Hoy is five
feet four inches, and weighs ninety
pounds. Swami is about five feet nine,
and weighs about one hundred and seven
ty pounds Neither Carleton nor Hoy
were armed when these occurrences took
place, as they can prove. There are un-
Improbable witnesses to all that hap
pened.
1t is upon frivolous charges like these
that citizens are dragged, under Radical
Federal law, from their homes and occu-
pations to be arraigned for trial on ca
parte testimony before Federal Court.
Was there ever such mockery of law
and of Justice? But of such is Radical
ism
The Leader publishes, under the head
of 60 Shameful outrage committed upon
the person of Mr.. Wade" letter from
mulatto carpet-bagger named Julius A.
Wade, telling how he was prevented by
the clerk from drinking from the water
cooler on the steamer Lucy Kearn, and
for which he has sued the boat in the
United States Court, for twenty thousand
dollars: If we mistake not, this fellow
Wade was of the party of colored carpet
baggers who thrust themselves among
the white people at Angeles Hall, last
winter, and who, upon being put out,
attempted to get the colored citizens tc
hold an indignation meeting, but failed.
The Secretary of State, James Lynch,
was invited away from the ice factory
opening entertainment, by prominent
carpet-baggers, not many weeks since
why does the Leader not publish an ac-
count of this Z" shameful outrage? The
particulars can be found in Tazwell Jones
card to THE CLARION. Why has not
the owner of the Lucy Kearn as much
right to look into carpet-bagger's face
=" to tell the color of his skin as have the
prominent carpet-bag ushers of the ice
factory entertainment above referred to ?
The Leader wishes to know what THE
CLARION would have the Governor do
when Mississippians are being prosecuted
by the general government on account of
their political opinions. We would have
him do as Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania,
Republican, did, when the United
States authorities usurped the functions
of the State officials: protest against it.