Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-03
THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 10Th at
12H.
The Judges of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia in revising the new
code prepared by the Commission to Codify
the Laws of the District, have ordered that
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mission TO the oar be stricken out, thus
opening the way to women to practice in the
courts
The Rhode Island House has refused, by
vote of 10 to II, to restore the death penalty,
but adopted provision that a lifc-prisoner
who commits murder shall be hanged.
The new charter for the city of New York,
adopted by the Legislature at Albany on the
18th, provides for the election of Mayor
and Aldermen on the 2lst of May. The
voting for Aldermen will be on the cumula-
tive plan. II vests in the Board of Alder
men all legislative authority and executive
power TO appropriate money for city eX-
penditures. They also choose four Commits
soners out of the five of the Department of
Public Works, Park% Charities and Finance,
and six of the Department of Public Safety.
The power OF the Mayor is greatly restricted.
At a meeting of the Liberal Republicans
held in Memphis on the 10Th, a Congressional
Committee was appointed, and delegates
were chosen to the Cincinnati Convention
The following is the message of the Presi-
dent, transmitted to the House on the 18th,
relative to the alleged Ku-kluX Outrages in
South Carolina
In answer to the resolution of the House Of
Representatives, of January "a, have the honor
| to submit the following, accompanied by the re-
port OF the Attorney General, to whom the resolu-
| tion was referred. Representations having been
made to me that in certain portions of South
| Carolina condition of lawlessncss and terror eX
| listed, | requested the then Attorney General
| Akerman, to visit the State, and after personal
examination to report to me the facts in relation
/ to the subject On the 18th of October last he
I addressed n communication from South Carolina
| in which he stated that in the counties of Spar
! tanburg, York Chester, Union. Laurens, Newbury,
Fairfield, Lancaster and Chesterfield there were
| combinations for the purpose OF preventing the
free political actions of citizens who were friendly
United States, and of depriying the emancipated
class of the equal protection of the laws. These
| combinations embrace at least two-thirds OF the
| active white men of those counties, and have the
| sympathy and countenance of the majority OF the
| other third They are connected with similar
combinations in. other counties and States, and
no doubt are part of grand system of criminal
associations pcryading most OF the Southern
States. The members are bound to obedience and
secrecy by oaths, which they are taught to regard
as Of higher obligation than the lawful oaths taken
before civil magistrates. They are organized and
armed They effect their objects by personal vio-
lence, often extending TO murder They terrlfy
and sometimes in the Courts of the United states.
Systematic spying is one of the means by which
prosecution of the members is defeated. From
Information given by officers of the state
and the United States, and by credible private
citizens, ] am justified in affirming that the in
stances of criminal violence perpetrated by these
combinations within the last twelve months, in the
above named counties, could be reckoned by thou,
sands. received information of similar import
from various sources, among which were the JONI
Committees of Congress on the southern Outrages
the officers of the State, the military officers OF the
United States on duty IN SCUM C9ronha, tae
United States Attorney, Marshals, and other ON
GERS of the Government, repenlant SUD aD'ur'
ing members of these unlawful organizations,
persons specially employed by the Department oi
Justice to detect crimes against the United States
and from other credible sources, Most, II not all
Of this information, except that l derived from
the Attorney General, came to me orally and was
to the effect that said counties were under the
sway of the powerful combinations popularly
known as the Ku-KluX-Klan, the objects OF which
action NJ Rot in accordance with the views Of the
members TO deprive cOlored citizens OF the righ'
TO bear arms, and of the right to free ballot
to suppress schools in which colored children
were taught, and to reduce COlored people 10
condition closely akin to that of slavery. Th9
these combinations were organized and armed
and had rendered the local law Intellectual to pro
tect the classes whom they desired to oppress; tina
they had perpetrated many MURDERS and hundreds
of crimes of minor degree, all of which were un
!. punished and that witnesses could not safely
| testify in Courts there unless the most active
members were placed under restraint i, O.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 10th April, 1872.
The New York Times of the Goth has Tho
following semi-oGlcial utterance from Wash
mgton on the Alabama claims; cit is now
very generally understood here that the GOV
eminent insists upon maintaining IT'S origina
position, for the sole purpose of securing al
arbitration of the principle involved. Th'
magnitude of the question, and the grea
gain to be obtained by its decision, hav,
! seemingly been overlooked in the discussion
of the case. A decision disallowing tn
claim would really be of more advantage t.
this Government for future emergencies thai
any award of damages, for the purpose o
having this principle arbitrated and settle'
for all time to come, so that IT might be
precedent in future complications. Their
is no doubt that this Government would con
sent to waive any payment of money dam