Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-11
Grant and his Marshal ST Il G "a
Kindness to the South.

The Savannah Republican asserts, on in
d" of Wednesday last, from airty to one
d" hundred special United States Deputy
&" MarshGls acere secretly SacOrp in and
&" furnished with blank acd1wdnts to arrest
" any Of O1o' citizens they might regard
g as interfering aoiM the freedom Of cleo
" lions, anader the 0meadnerts."
These men were appointed secretly, and
bore no external mark of being United
States officers. They went there as spies,
ard doubtless as instigators and promoters
ofriot, and yet, were clothed with unlimited
power. 1t was only necessary for one Of
these men to take from his pocket
warrant already signed, and to in
sert therein the name of the best citi-
zen in Savannah, and he was without
remedy or redress. This act of iEterter
ence in a State election is an outrage SO
gross in its character, and so dangerous i'll
its tendency to the rights of the States and
the liberties Of the people, that it ought to
bring down upon the administration that
orders or countenances it perfect storm
of indignation. This single act ought to be
sufficient to seal the fate of General Grant
and the party that supports him.
But this is not the only instance Of the
use of blank warrants by United States
officers i; nor is Georgia the only State
whose people have been thus outraged
In North Carolina and in South Carolina,
also, the use Of blank warrants has been
substituted for Martial Law. Ever since
Congress took from President Grant the
power to suspend the writ of HaJCGS Cor
puS, and indeed before, United States Com
nissioners have issued, and United States
Marshals have executed blank warrants
in plain, palpable and known violation Of
that clause of the Constitution Of the United
States that declares /" NO WARRANTS SHALL
ISSUE BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE, SUP
PORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE PLACE
TO BE SEARCHED, AND TIE PERSON OR
THINGS To BE SEIZED"
But in these times an outrage that is a
week old, is too stale to talk about, SO we
will pass on to one fresher and nearer
home.
On the day before yesterday fifty citizens
OF Pitt county were brought to Goldsboro'
in the custody of an U. S. Deputy Marshal
on the charge of obstructing an U. S. Com
slOner and Marshal in the discharge of their
official duties. After long and patient
hearing the parties were all dismissed and
the charges pronounced contemplate by
the U. S. Commissioner who tried them. |
These men were carried from their homes |
a long distance, and at considerable ex-
pense, upon charges so frivolous and I'M |
founded that even brother L. S. Com |
missioner pronounced them contemplate, /
ana yet there is no remedy or redress for |
them.
United States Marshals and United States
Commissioners did not feel called upon to
Interfere when Major Lyman and BODY
OF negro troops went to this same county
OF Pitt, killed Riddick Carney's son, muir
dered his son-in-law, a prisoner in their
hands, and then burned the old man
up awe Ia his house after having plum
dered and robbed it. These are specimcns
OF Federal Interference in Southern affairs.
and yet we are told that we have received
nothing but Justice, tempered with mercy
from the Federal Government!