Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13

The Keokuk Gate CITY has been
the leading champion Of Cancellation
in Iowa, and it has favored with
stronger words and better arguments
the withdrawal of the troops, and the
RELOCATION of all authority to the late
rebel white leaders than any paper
west of Chicago.
The following extract from its
leading editorial of the 10th instant,
will show just exactly how well that
paper is getting along in its efforts to
catch these nice little rebel birds by
sprinkling salt on their tails:
Gin October last Gov. Stone, Of
Mississippi, wrote to Attorney Gen
eral Taft letter in which he said:
am more than willing, and have been able, to
the laws ane the
| am able to bring all such to justice. and am de
termined to do SO. have done SO thus far, vae
reports TO your Department notWithsttanding.
plest protection to all. She should not be preju
diced in the eyes of the nation on charges evident
" made Tor political enect.
"Our readers know that we try to
deal with public matters in their just
significance and relations without
trying to pervert them to purposes of
party clap-trap. This October letter
shows that Governor Stone under
stands that state laws exist to give
security and protection to all the in
habitants of the state. That he, as the
Executive, is charged with the duty
of enforcing those laws. lie declared
his willingness and ability to do it.
A few weeks ago the Chisholm butch
cry occurred a cruel and barbarous
violation of law and personal securi-
ty. Watching in her hunted home
over the n,utilated forms Of her hus-
band and daughter, while assassins
lay in wait DIGGING the house to make
sure of their bloody work, Mrs. CHS
holm asked Gov. Stone to be given
protection or removed to place of
A hundred brave men
stood ready to carry her and her
helpless husband and daughter into
safety at any hazard to themselves.
But Gov. Stone refused. He found
no law to give the Chisholm family
security and protection. And now
he is hopeless of punishing the guilty |
ones. Then, his pretensions in his
October letter to the Attorney Gener-
al were cruelty false. 1t remains a
fact that there is not adequate law
and protection for the citizens in
Mississippi. And when he wrote his
October letter it was Gov. S. himself
who, for political effect was denying
the truth and making the Chisholm
butchery more easily possible.
"We are stickler for local self
government. But by some method
there must be as adequate protection
for the American citizen at home as
abroad. A national government that
can protect its citizens somewhat as to
his rights to vote and TO ride in a
public car, but cannot at all protect
his right to his life, is sham and a
fraud. A national government that
has to vacate its authority, and leave
it to the within, the timidity, the dis
cretion or the benevolence Of party
majority in Iowa or Mississippi to
say whether an American citizen be-
longing to the political minority is to
have life and security there, is q hol
low mockery of national government.
1T is "a disgrace to the map of ma
tlOns." We believe in carefully main
tanning State and local machinery Of
government. We think such dis
tributon ofpower essential to Con-