Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-22
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Interesting Letter from 0xfOrd-Fed-
eral COurts-COmmencement Ex-
ercises.

OXFORD, MISS, June Is, IS72.
EDITORS APPEAL-A brief synopsi
Of passing events in this section ma.
. not be amiss. rRrr4rrr-,-
Ast the headquarters of the prosecution
carried on by the United States Govern
ment against the people Of North Mis-
sissippi, and as the locus IN quo offiour
: ishing colleges and schools, Oxford ha
2 attained some notoriety as well as celeb
rity abroad, and we are assured that thu
current news of this section is possessed
I of some general interest TO tie inteili
gent reading public. b,
!, As the term notorious is always useC
in a bad sense, 1 say we have attained
some notoriety on account Of the FEEDER
al prosecutions going on here, for very
many Northern people believe we arr
the variest set of original clansmen o.
the hOrrid kuklux that v existed.
Nevertheless, not an Indictment has
ever been found against a citizen of this
county for a violation of the kuklux acts
of Congress.
The United States Court, now "a ses-
sion, is engaged in the trial of the Free
man case, charged with the arson OF an
African church, and likewise with the
conspiracy TO kill and with the murder
of a negro named Gray. The case has
excited great interest. The prisoner IS
evidently declining in consumption; is
a fraiI. attenuated man, bearing the
marks Of a gentleman in all his actions.
Refused bal, he has wasted eight months
in a dungeon, and is now upon trial by
iury mainly composed of Radicals. The
prisoners interesting wife attends the
trial and watches keenly the progress Of
the cause.
1t is said courtsmartial are organized
to convict. 1t has become proverbial
that the jurors summond by the
MarshaIs in Mississippi are brought for
ward i'm criminal prosecutions for the
express purpose of finding infavor OF the
government. AS if to apologize for this
gross misconduct, in civil cases between
private litigants a jury of intelligence
and gentility is summoned, but the mo-
ment the government calls her cases
these Jurors are dismissed and the most
violent political partisans OF the ultra
Radical school are brought forward as
the peers Of the highest gentleman IN
the land.
There can be no doubt that in this in
iquity the government is taking a direct
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Grated from Washington while the Mar
shall and an impudent blatherskite call
ing himselfG. w. Cy Wells, known more
as a lawyerling than IS a lawyer, and
holding the position ofDistrict-Attorney,
are the agents in this outrageous and I'M
generous manner of manipulating YER
diets in favor of a government that
should protect and not Oppress the citizen.
And this is the promised peace from
the administration of Grant. Let any |
witness these prosecutions, this
mOckeryof the forms of justice, and then
say whether he is not anxious and will
ing to take stock in the Philosopher of
the old White Hat, the olive branch Of
genuine peace enshrined around its silk
band, and curse the day when his
blind devotion to our cause led him to |
prefer the strife of Grant to the peace of
Greeley.
This State meets in Convention on the
twenty-siXth instant. Its action will
strongly condemn a nomination at Bal
The commencement exercises of the
State University begin next week. The
only thing to mart the pleasure of the oc-
casiOn will be the consciousness that a
carpet-bag Governor and several other
officials ct id on1ne genus, as for instance,
Warner, c. w. Clark, Ia genuine c. b
and others, hold authority where once
he great and the true tread classic halls
made illustrious by their reign. More
anon. CONSTANTINE.