The Ottawa free trader., 1876-01-08
INVESTIGATING BosK.

The Ottawa Republican, insists That MIS-
sissippi must be investigated The inter
Ocean dispatch it published last week, 1t al
firms. was not manufactured in Chic go, but
was sent from Mississippi to many other pa
pers. Nevertheless the dispatch was false
hood The dispatch induced the attorney
general TO send troops 10 Summit, and this'
according to the New York Eceniag Post,
(good republican authorityD was the result;
A dispatch from Summit, Miss, the place
| to which troops were ordered, says there mas
| been no armed band Of men in Summit al
any time. On the Wednesday before Christ
mas several young men from Amite county
on drunken spree, talked good deal about
DEPUTY Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
Redmond, intending to annoy aud frighten
him. Redmond became frightened and iele,
graphed for troops. The dispatch says the
citizens of Summit are able and willing 10
protect Redmond in the discharge of his
duties.
"But why not investigated" asks the Rtpu6-
Hcaa. Because II is all cursed foolishness.
To send Morton and his committee, with
marshals, clerks, beadles, ,understrappers, &C.,
to Mississippi, and 10 summon before them
hundreds of niggers and carpet baggers, that
know and care no more about the sanctity OF
an oath than a Hottentot cares or knows
about the Vedas, and load down the commit
tee with a car full Of lies to be carried back
to Washington and manufactured into cleo
tioneering material, would be fearfully expen
sive as well as criminally foolish ana non.
sensical. The attorney general can find out
in day, by his detectives, more about the
true state of affairs in Mississippi than doz.
en- OF Morton committees can learn in q year.
But that Is not the main point, says the
Republican, The FREE TRADER said at
would be a blessed consummation for the
state it, by the same means, (as those employ.
ed in MississippI,) whether ialr or iou, the
democrats could also get control in South
Carolina" We stick to that. There was no
law which justified Gen. Dix in telegraphing
to New Orleans in 1861, "lf any man at
tempts to haul down the flag, shoot him on
the spot" but the country applauded him
nevertheless. Cromwell violated the law IN
dispensing the long parliament, but history
justified him. South Carolina is hopeless
ly in possession of thieves and rob
bers. In 1861 the total debt of that
state was s5,4OO,OOO. The presen, debt
is somewhere between $20,O00,000 and
S32, 900 900, to say nothing Of some Sl0,e0o,-
600 wrung out of the people during the lastten
years by taxation. The state has not one mil
lions worth of anything to show for this enor-
nous expenditure of some $40,000,000. And,
as the laws now stand, the people of that state
are perfectly helpless to relieve themselves
from this rule of unconscionable plunderers,
When man is riding away on your pet
horse will you stop to get warrant and hunt
up the sheriff before making an effort to ar.
rest him? When the law ceases TO be effect
i've TO relieve from gross wrong and outrage,
the law is worthless, and men must right
themselves without law. An honest election
anywhere IN South Carolina is as impossibleI
as IN New Orleans or Chicago. II the demo-
Gratis there, by lighting fire with fire can gain
the upper hand, they are fools themselves and
the state sdtfers wrong if they don't do it.