New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-20

induce any Omcer OF the OnlteO otaUeS u
leave any State, district or place where his
formed, or to injure him in his person or
property on account of his lawful
discharge of the duties of his office,
or to injure his person while en-
gagged in the lawful discharge OF the
duties of his office, or to injure his property
so as to modest, interrupt, hinder, or
impede him in the discharge OF his ofhciai
duty, or by force. intimidation or threat
to deter any party or witness in any court
of the United States from attending
such court. or from testifying in any mat
ter pending in such court fully, freely and
truthfully, or to injure any such party or
witness in his person or property on account
of his having SO attended or testified, or by
force, intimidation or threat to influence
the verdict. presentment or indictment OF
any Juror or grand juror in any court OF the
United States, or to injure such juror IN his
person or property on account OF any YER
diet. presentment or indictment law
fully assented to by him, or on ac-
count of his being or having been
such Juror or shall cOnspire together or go
in disguise upon the public highway or upon
the premises of another for the purpose of
either directly or indirectly of depriving any
person or any class of persons of the
equal protection Of the laws or OF equal
laws, or for the purpose OF prevent
ing or hindering the constituted au-
thories of any State from giving or securing
to all persons within such State the equal
protection of the laws. or shall cOnspire to-
gether for the purpose of in any manner
impeding, hndering, Obstructing or defeat
ing the due course of justice in any State or
Territory with intent to deny to any citizen
of the United States the due and equal pro-
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in his person or his property for lawfully en-
forcing the right of any person or class OF per-
sons to the equal protection OF the laws. or by
force. intimidation or threat to prevent any
citizen of the United States, lawfully entitled
to vote, from giving his support or advocacy
in lawful manner toward or in favor of the
election of any lawfully qualified person as
an elector Of President or Vice President OF
the United States, or as a member of the
Congress Of the United States, or to
injure any such citizen in his person or
property on account of such support or adj
vocacy. each and every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty OF high crime. and
upon conviction thereof in any district or
circuit court of the United States or
district or supreme court of any Territory
of the United States having jurisdiction OF
similar otfenses, shall be punished by a fine
not less than five hundred nor more than
with or without hard labor. as the court
may determine for period of not less
than six months nor more than six years.
as the court may determine, or by both such
fine and imprisonment as the court shall
determine. And if any one or more
persons engaged in any such conspiracy
shall do, or cause to be done, any
act in furtherance of the object of such con-
spiracy, whereby any person shall be in
iured in his person or property, or deprived
of having and exercising any right or privi-
lege of citizen of the United States, the
person SO injured or deprived of such rights
and privileges may have and maintain an
action for the recovery of damages Occa-
stoned by such injury or deprivation of
rights and privileges, against any one or
more of the persons engaged in such con-
spiracy, such action to be prosecuted in the
proper district or circuit court of the United
States, with and subject to the same rights
of appeal. review upon error and other
remedies provided in like cases. in such
courts, under the provisions of the act of
April ninth. eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
entitled IAN act to protect all persons i'll
the United States in their civil rights. and
to furnish the means Of their vindication.
SEC. 3. That in all cases where lnsurrec-
ton, domestic violence, unlawful cOmbna-
tions or conspracies in any State shall so
thereof and of the United States as to de-
prive any portion or class of the people
of such State of any OF the rights,
privileges or immunities or protection
named in the constitution and Sc
cured by this act. and the constituted
authorities of such State shall either be UNI
able to protect. or shall from any cause fail
in or refuse protection of the people in such
rights. such facts shall be deemed a denial
by such State of the equal protection of the
laws TO which they are entitled under the
constitution of the United States: and in all
such cases, or whenever any such insurrec-
ton. violence, unlawful combination or con-
spiracy shall oppose or obstruct the laws of
the United States, or the due execution there
of, or impede or obstruct the due course Of
Justice under the same, it shall be lawful
for the President, and it shall he his duty,
to take such measures, by the employment
OF the militia. or the land and naval forces OF
the United States. or of either, or by other
means. as he may deem necessary. for the
suppression of such insurrection. domestic
violence or combinations: and any person
who shall be arrested under the provisions
of this and the preceding section, shall be
delivered to the marshal of the proper dis
trict, to he dealt with according to law
SEC. 4. That whenever in any State or
part of a State, the unlawful combina-
tons named in the preceding section of this
act. shall be organized and armed, and so
numerous and powerful as to be able by
violence to either overthrow or set at def.
ance the constituted authorities of such
State and of the United States, within such
State, or when the constituted authorities
are in completely with, Or shall connive at
the unlawful purposes of such powerful and
armed combinations. and whenever by
reason of either OF all of the causes aforesaid
the conviction of such offenders and pre-
servation of the public safety shall become
in such district impracticable. in every such
case such combinations shall be deemed "A re-
bellion against the government OF the United
States, and during the continuance of such
rebellion, and within the limits of the
district which shall be so under the sway
thereof such limits to be prescribed by
proclamation. it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, when in his
Judgment the public safety shall require it,
to suspend the privileges of the writ of
such rebellion may be overthrow.
Provided, that all the provisions OF the
second section of an act entitled ian act
relating to habeas corpus. and regulat-
ing judicial proceedings in certain cases."
approved March third, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three, which relate to the
discharge of prisoners other than prisoners
of war, and to the penalty for refusing to
obey the order of the court, shall be in full
force so far as the same are applicable to
the provisions of this section. Provided
further, that the President shall first have
made proclamation, as now provided by
law, commanding such insurgents to dis
perse: and provided also. that the provi-
sions of this section shall not be in force
after the end of the next regular session Of
Congress.
SEC. ,. That no person shall be grand
or netit iurnr in any court of the United