Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-14
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE Is NOT
SAUCE FOE TEE GAEDER.

We have contended, and still contend,
that Grant has no authority to go into South
Carolina ard suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, and send troops into that State TO
arrest citizens without preseniment or in-
dictment of grand jury. But as he will
exercise this authority, which he claims has
been delegated to him by Congress, we in
sist that be shall show no Partially, but
treat the Northern States the same as he
does the Southern. If the suspension of
the writ of habeas corpus and wholesale ar
rests witt It warrant BY FedtrI troops,
be the kind Of treatment which
South Carolina is 10 receive,
e a Northern State presents record not a
whit better, then that State should be
treated in similar manner. Now let us
see what IS the condition OF Indiana, SC
cording to Radical testimony. We copy
from tine New York Tribune Of the Sth
inst. tho following;
The recent execution OF moo vengeance
upou. /. rec negroes cU.dined in the jail Of
nun .er Of the Park family, vas the subject
Of a vigorous charge 10 The grand jury, Of
that county the other day by Judge
Durham Of the Criminal Court.
The Judge remarked that within four
years there had been sixteen cases of
lyncbing in his judiciSl circuit, more than
the whole number of legal executions inthe
entire State since its admission 70 the Union:
and he congratulated himself thai the hang
ing Of these three negroes had "at last
brought 20 y Executive Excellency sense
of duty. sgd 81 the first time, after the
murde, If thirteen white men, this mob
bin. ui iE.n5 negroes had called out an
exe-ui' protest againstthese transactions"
1t is pretty clear that Judge Durham has
pIeiudices on the subject of color, and is DO
Asfterer Of Coz, Baker; but to account for
the severity with which he attacks the Gov
cinoT in this strangely inoppOTtUne manner,
we must remember the unfortunate con-
Gition Of affairs which for Seyeralp years
has prevailed IN parts Of Indiana. When
four men Of the Reno gang Of express rob
bers were taken from the jail al New Alba
nv, inthe next county to Clark, three years
ago, and hanged by mob, a great deal Of
attention was directed TO tie condition of
Indiana justice; but the excitement was
barren of results. We then learned thai in
certain counties Of the State there was no
security for life or property, and no conf
dence in the courts. Prosperous rogues
owned Judges and manipulated juries. The
law was used for the protection of crime,
and Lie machinery Of justice became an
engine Of oppression. a sort Of BAN
ditti, directly or indirectly connected
with many reputable families. held the COM
munites in terror, and gTew bold enough TO
threaten the bench and intimilate the grand
jury. We have proof now that there has
been little change for the better. Judge
Durham states that he had been ''admOn-
ished 10 speak with caution on this subject"
and mentions a report that some of the
grand jurors themselves had been concerned
in the lynching of the negroes 1t
seems now that the negroes who suffered
for the Park murders were probably
innocent, and the tragedy of which their
execution furnished the closing scene was
only one of a long series OF Jutrages charge
able TO All organization 10 better than the
Ku-Klux Khan. 1t has nourished in South
ern Indiana for several years, and it is -four
ishing still. When lynching be-
comes fashionable, it is fair to assume that
the laws are not honestly executed, and the
courts are not pure. 1t is because judges
were believed to be corrupt and tmid,
prosecutors unfaithful, OF jIries in compile
ity with the criminals, that Indiana mobs
took the privilege OF punishment into their
ow hands; and whenever and wherever JUS
tiee is similarly pr0stituted, we shall have
murder u5uTping the functions Of the law"
Here We have ONE facts stated to which
we wish to direct particular attention.
When four men Of the Reno gang were ex-
ecuted three years ago by a mob, The 9rib-
aRe confesSes to have '9earned that in GER
tain counties of the state there wss 10 Sc
curity for life or property, and no confidence
in the courts" The course Grant has pur-
sued toward South Carolina argues the eX-
istence ola similar state of affairs in nine
counties Of that State. The Tribune has
approved, or at least it has not condemned
that extraordinary and dangerous assump-
ton Of power on the part Of the President.
Now if the Tribune approves the Presidents
policy toward South Carolina, WHY does It
not insist on the application of the same
policy TO Indiana # whal that paper saws
as true Of Indiana, was true Of Georgia.
would il not demand that the President in
teryele to protect life and property there?
We presume there is not a man
in all this broad land who
would question the course OF the Tr;b-
S7, in that event. Then it is fair TO as
sumo that if Indiana has been a ''Rebel
State" during our late civil war, the Tribune
and its party would demand Federal inter
ference in the local affairs of that. State.
There is "no security for life or property"
IN Indiana; there is "no confidence in the
courts; prosperous negroes own Judges
and manipulate juries;'' the law is "used for
the protection of crime;" and "a sort of
band4tti, "a "no better than the Ku-Klux
R2u," "dlyeoly or indirectly eonnected
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