The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-23

liz any, sympathy to, to either group % 2
State militia carrying the energy o
ground, the scene seems to have been changed
r A correspondent of 8 leading kentuck,
daily. writing of the ingress of the militi,
into Lancaster, says it was with difficulty TIL
Iyounger and more enthusiastic members o
the State force could be restrained from firin.
on the groups of negroes they saw here anG
there about the town. They evidently
thought it was war of the white mar
against the black. They deemed the prope
Z time to introduce determination was 70 begir
at once. This idea was not wholly origina
with that particular body-it permeates more
or less the entire State militia-gen orally
they entertain the very distinct notion that
when a fight arises it is their special bust
ness to help the whites put down the n G.
gers" regardless of how or why the trouble
hearing. the other day he guessed the only
! way to end these troubles would be to ex-
/ terminate the whole negro race.
| In Lancaster, when tho militia arrived on
the scene, squads were sent out to arrest and
colored prisoners only. The Kennedy men,
many of them fully armed. went about on
the streets unnolested The Lancaster
News, edited by an ex-confederate; says it
was a reign of terror after the arrival of the
militia, for anybody who had denounced or
opposed the burning of Sellers house or dis
agreed in a<rywise with the acts of the law
less done the day before. They were threat
citizen fed the city under this persecution
who had favored stopping the fire, lest his
own property be burned. Sellers HIM
self sought flight Kennedy's men pur-
sued him to Nicholasyille. This WAS pref
ty spectacle in behalf of restored law and
order, under the majesty and presence of
the military power of the State. 1t seemed
a one-sided busin ess entirely, and all in the
public peace 1t is said the efforts of the
authorities are now more impartial. We
hope So 1t should have been from the
first. Garrard county should be made as safe
for Sellers and his friends as for Kennedy
and his friends, and as safe for Kennedy as
for Sellers. So the one should be Us anlena-
bic to the law for his conduct the other.
Until this be done, Garrard county will be.
likely ut any time to fame out again and
spill blood The law should know no friends,
when violated-neitherth the law officers, when
in discharge of duty.
So Breathitt county has its little war, too
which the militia are to settle as soon as they
get through with Owen and Garrard. If we
right. this mountain war is an old
teud, originating back in the rebellion. Some /
ugly deed of bushwhacking started it, and it !
has been rolling on ever since, until almost !
every body in the county is on one side or the |
other. They don't have any Sheriff in
Breathitt That officer is substantially abol-
shed. 1t is supposed to be unhealthy ia be
Sheriff. The dominant party regularly elects
Sheriff who cant give bond, and of course
ne never qualities. A tax collector is then APP
pointed whogathcrs in the revenue and so the
Sheriffalty is ubviated. Naturally enough /
he civil authority is at a discount in such a
ocatity Circuit Judge Randall didn't feel
Justified in holding court there last term.
The brtstle of weapons, the ominous notes OF
preparation between the two antagonists, the
ieiplcssness Of tho county officers, the long
cries of skirmishes growing out of the bad
he very presence OF judicial authority, added
o his own helplcssucss 20 avoid or prevent
lot, convinced Judge Randall It were most !
prudent to omit his customary term TIL some
more opportuno occasion. SO BrcatEitt lies
,rostrate IN the grasp of anarchy.
ku kluXISm has done much to Increase
awlessness in Kentucky. It's secret mys-
erious operations cowcd the local authori- .
les and made them subservicnt. Under
mistaken political sympathy, expecting toI :
erive partisan gain from its terrorism over
egroes, the Legislature countenanccd it and
oStcred it, until it acquired respectability :
With large classes. This tanperiny with the
sorst specNs of lawicssncss, giving it a re- 8
reCtablc gloss and hiding its excuses under {
lausIb!c excuses, dcmoraliZed the local
owers almost everywhere. They became |
mbcclle In the face of every outlawry I
Mess negro was to be shot and killed s
Ten shot, murdered deirauded their fellows
Id We're released on straw ball. or found jul G
les ready to acquit, or judges and attorneys I
r4uy To post lsOle tlii the people forgot INc-
rrne or lost their keen hunger for Justice 7
his carnival of blood and crime has now t
Iade of Kentucky spot not especially at c
-activc to immigrants. The weekly record c
the scores of country papers seem only n .
rcekly record of con llict lawless outbreaks II
/ passion, ending in murder. shame and v
retchedncss. As the Co.triey-J0trnai has d
ell and graphically sand. Nobody is hung $
ow except n Niger or q pauper.' EveryEt
ads- else is stronger or sharper than the law. a
The fault is largely with public sentiment. {
ivii officers encourage lawlessness because q
icy believe the people don { care. Public SEN =
ment has been poisoned by negrophobia /
ntil it IS all distorted and disproportioned. D
he situation is not accepted As it should v
?. The old notions about governing the q
cgro by force are growing too prevalent. u
he idea of driving him out Of politics II
extcrminating him is not only a
yainst the logic Of events and the ccnsti-I .
itional results OF war, but is inhuman $
I'D brutal. Yet it is an idea having a for 0
Ildablo Judgment in kentucky as through q
It the South. II helps on lawlessness. 1t q
the real tocsin of the war of races. And yet i
ow silly to talk of such war-a |.
ar all on one side. Instinct teaches the ne 4
70 that he IS the sufferer in arraee collisions c
history con firms thence he is instructive =
and naturally non-conbstant In all Q
sturbances he emerges the ugitivc pursued L
V the avenging law power, and hungry q
opulace thrsting for blood PLATO q
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