New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-11
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
Mississippi.


On the seventh instant Governor Alcorl
sent message to the Mississippi Legisla
ture, in which he says:
In gathering up the wreck left by the De
m0cracy of the public trusts of the State
YOUR attention should be directed especial,
to the subject of the Chickasaw school fund
He sets forth that the land granted for tina
purpose amounted to $4,000. OF the pro
ceeds of sales there was loaned to the Mis-
sissippi Central railroad $4,000, Mobile
and Ohio railroad 100000, Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad 100000, New Orleans
jackson and Great Northern railroad $500,
600. Suits have been brought against these
companies by the State for these moneys
and since his inauguration the suit against
the Mississippi Central railroad has beer
decided in favor of the State and have APP
pealed the case to the Supreme Court. He
asks that he be allowed to employ counsel
to assist the attorney general in prescott
ing these suits, and that not exceeding $40,
900 be placed at his disposal for that pur.
pose. He also sent in a message relating to
crime. He says:
Our statistics of crime have recently come
before me in direct relation to our moral
character and material interests The actual
facts embraced in those statistics are, am
glad to say, by no means so shocking as
they have been made to appear, but they
are, nevertheless so painful as to demand
at our hands earnest consideration with a
view to remedy
Some of the murders committed since the
Inauguration of civil government in this
State are, have no doubt, chargeable to
the cowardly banditti known as Ku-Klux.
Having found the powers conceded at the
last session insufficient to bring the parties
engaged in the crimes of those assassinations
to punishment, | call your attention
earnestly to the fact that YOU have not vet
supplemented those powers by giving me
authority, in certain cases, to change the
venue, and by giving me further powers
asked for in my annual message of last
January. | trust your honorable bodies
will not fail to pass, before your adjourn
ment, such laws as shall enable me to draw
the ku-Klux assassin from his hiding place,
and when so drawn to hand him over to
certain justice.
He charges some of the sources of murder
upon dram-shops and the custom of carrying
deadly weapons.
He recommends that the preliminary ex-
animation of homicides and Ku.Klux be
held before chancellors and circuit Judges
TO remove such cases 50 from the good nature
or the timidity of an ordinary magistrate,
to magistrates whose learning will prove
foil to thatsOf counsel, and whose dignity of
position oyerawe the agencies of intimida-
ton"
A further cause of crime among lis lies in
the ridiculous practice of posting" Such
mock heroism might very well have passed
away among people educated in the stern
chivalry of war. If, however, the manliness
of public sentiment has not learned TO laugh
TO scorn this routine of cheap gallantry, the
law must come to the rescue, at all events,
of decency and order. Bloodless though
this posting" usually is, it adds sometimes
to our list of violent deaths, and as it should
be dealt with, therefore. in examining sources
of the calendar of crime, recommend that,
being in some instances an overt act of felo-
NOUS intent, it be declared in express terms
a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment