The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-10
THAT PROCLAMATION.

Speaking of the dispatch announc-
ing the Presidents proclamation rela-
tive to the substitution of military for
civil government in the several States
of the Union, and particularly those
districts infested by organized bands
of Ku kluN-as Virginia City and
South Caroiina-the Silver State of the
9th says:
That dispatch contains grateful in
telligence for the law abiding citizens
of u State, but will be rather dis
couraging to the organized bands of
law breakers and midnight assassins
who have set at defiance both the
State and Federal authorities in Nir-
ginia City. Public officers should be
jealous in its enforcement, says the
President. The Federal Court and its
officers Il not shown themselves ut
all jealous in ferreting out and bring
ing to justice the strangers in Storey
county, and we tfustthis proclamation
of their political master will serve as
Ia gentle reminder of duties upper
formed. \ year or two ago, when a
little proceeding of an extra Judicial
character was enacted in this town by
certain persons who had not the fear
of the law at all times i'll their minds
eye, the representatives of Federal
power in this State were stimulated to
extraordinary eNertiOn in order to
bring the offenders to Justice and
proper punishment; and the Virginia
Enterprise, which is always loud in
its defense of law and order. de-
nounced the Humboldt county Ku
KluX in unmeasured terms-threaten-
ing Court. Sheriff ana everybody else
who We're slow to wrath in the premi-
SEES with Fort Churchill and the mill
tary power of the Government. 1t Is
intimated by persons who are not as
friendly to the President and the Rad
zeal powers that be, as they should he,
that the said proclamation and the law
under which it was issued. was never
intended to protect white citizens from
mob violence and murder. but that it
was only designed for the protection of
negroes and Cinnamon. so far as the
Cinnamon We're concerned. it was
wholly unnecessary for their protec-
ton, as according to the decision of Our
learned Supreme Court, the Enter
prise and the Federal District Court at
Carson and Virginia. United States
Judges were already clothed with am
pie powers for the protection of that
class of our brethren, and hence we
conclude that those persons who
think the law was only intended for
the benefit of negroes and Cinnamon.
are mistaken in their conjectures, and
that it applies t. white men as well.
At any rate, Storey county now offers
a splendid opportunity for the Federal
('Ourt to make an pNnprImpnt on law
breakers and test the scope and pur
pose of the law. When negroes and
Cinnamon are made the victims of
white lawlesSneSS. the positionsof the
Enterprise and the Federal Courts in
our State are well known, as they al
WAYS come boldly up to the defense
Of law and order and clamOr loudly
for the laws enforcement. and i'll our
judgment the only reason why they
10 not denounce and seek to put down
lawlessness when white men are made
the victims of organized. cowardlv and
brutal vengeance is. because the lives
of white mel in these latter days have
not been regarded as of much value
by their lOval masters at the head of
the Government. If it is the purpose
of the law TO protect white men as
well as negroes and Cinnamon. and
that fact can be made apparent to the
Enterprise and the Representatives of
Federal power in and about Storey
county, we will find that powerful
journal calling with potent voice for
the speedy execution by judgment of
the Federal District Court of every
red Handed assassin and midnight
murderer in the place.