New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-21
xART1AL-LAW IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

President Grant has determined to pu
/ . stop to the outsages in South Cnrohna
ard all Secessia is in state OF virtuou
indignation. One Of its high priests in
dulges in a little facetious casuistry O,
the subject, yesterday, by which he IS
sumes nothing as his basis, and NATURAL,
leads his reader, by his charming Undue
tions, in a circles back to the starting
point. He says of the Presidents pro
clamation and the results:
In one proclamation he orders the mag
| mary rebels TO dispense and give M thei
arms. They did not disperse, because TIE,
had never assembled. They did not give
| up their arms, because they had none
Therefore, because they could not undo
what they had never done. ror surrende,
what they had never had, they must be de
prlved OF almost the only thing of value tC
them. their political and legal independence
or what is its representative, tie right to
the writ Of habeas corpus.
Poetical justice, as interpreted by Tom
Moore, required that Mokanna should
throw himself into q kettle Of hot stuff
and boil himself to death. It is our duty
to demonstrate to the author Of the above
imposition that he ought to initiate the
example Of that other imposter who mis-
led the people Of Khorassan. In the first
place, then, it is perfectly certain that q
competent detective, if he exercised prop
er diligence, would discover in the re-
gions Of South Carolina, marked out in
the proclamation Of the President, very
respectable number Of guns, pistols and
bowie knives. Il is doubtful if the au-
thor of the assertion that the mountain
GERS Of South Carolina are without arms
would assent, for pay, to venture into that
region as an openly announced and active
propagardist Of Republican ideas lis al
most certain that no. amount Of money
could tempt him to essay the role Of
burglar in the mountains of South Caro-
lima, because he knows that every home in
that region is guarded with more than one
gun. So that the people actually have the
arms, which at once disposes of one par:
Of the imposition which our imposter has
sought to practice upon his followers. In
the next place, the President Of the
United States is presumed to know more
about the occurrences that have taken
place in South Carolina than the high
priest Of disorder in New Orleans, be-
'ause it is his duty to be better informed. |
n fact any intelligent man ought to
lnow more than this noribrnd, and |
he does; for We contend tina.
he oracle which has shown its ignorance
y denying the existence of arms among
he mountaineers of South Carolina
'lainly confesses degree of darkness
hat absolutely forbids any reliance to be
laced upon his suggestions.
There is not community in the South
nat is unarmed. There is not ccm-
lunity Of the South that is not ac:uated
y prejudice against the negroes as cit;-
ems. If this prejudice once led to the
augh:er Of large number of colored
eople in New Orleans, as it did; in
pelousas, as it did; in Baton Rouge, as
did; in Mobile, as it did; in other To-
Illtles, as it has done, what was to pre- ,
mt it from leading to the same results in {
e mountainous districts Of South Caro- |
IA: And whose duty is it to know this, q
it is not the duty Of the President?
nd CrHx cb ho
'ked for acting upon his superior in a
rmation in the matter Of keeping the e
'blic peace: /
1t was denied with equal force that O
ere was any arms or killing in North .
rolina, until Judge Bond arrested the
flaws, and jury of the country con- f
ted them. Then, the men who had
MED the evil, confessed it, and promised
make reform.
What does the suspension Of the writ of b
'eas corpus amount to with good citi- Il
IS: Mind, We are not the apologists Of "
sort Of arbitrary rule, but simply in &C
rers in this matter. 1t is the law that Ii
writ shall remain to the people until "
II own behavior renders it necessary to vi
hdraw it. 1t is a creation Of the law, SC
is, therefore, subject to the law. The nc
Ter that made it established the occa- be
, when it should cease to arrest the b,
ing arm of authority The contin- tn
ce and the ,surcease CT the writ are be
1lated by the same instrumen:ality. m:
Law that established the habeas cor wi
also provided that the President vi
1ld control it. Therefore, when We to-
s the authors Of the law, let US not a
lemn them in the same breath as pc
6 incapable of providing for its resu. tht
N. inl
ae effect Of suspsading the writ in me
hin d;sorderly districts of South Car of
! will be merely to Inconvenience ere
rowdies. The good citizens will pos
ly know CT its suspension, and would hal
ntirely ignorant if they were not told inn
afammatory oracles that their iber- inv
we're in danger because of the wick. red
&c Of their own rulers AIokanna will ces
ID his faith throughout the land Cor the
We purposes. And be VIII do it with pro
over the face Of his designs, because for
! people could see how seformed he To
he did not throw himself into kettle asss
t sta&, they would do it fo- him. glo,
W let the high priest who Gays there our'
arms in South Carolina, and who robl