Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-31
Home Rule at the South

An article in this paper taken from
the Milwaukee Sentinel states that
Gov. Stone, OF Mississippi, had order
ed special session of Court to in-
vestigale the kemrer County mas
sacre Gov. Stone says he did re-
quest the Judge of Kemper County to
call special term Of Court, but he
thought it doubtful if any jury in
Kemper County would convict the
rioters He is also credited with the
remark that "the matter had better
not be stirred up" As indicative of
the spirit of the hitherto dominant
press-the home rule sort-the follow
ing from the Meridian Mercury, Miss,
is a sample:
April 29th, in De Kalb, never ought to be
Investigated, and if wisdom and statesman
ship prevail, never will be- On that day the
higher law, which ante ales common law and
all other law, ousted them and all their min
listers of jurisdiction, and for a brief period of
time, sufficient to its purpose, held sway. It's
judgements were final. No court is competent
to disturb them. Every attempt to review
them viii be both futile and miSchevous.
Special instructions to grand jurors are likely
to 90 UNDECIDED, and to save an exhibition Of
their impotency, had best not be gwen.
The higher law with southern
civilization is that law which IN the
fury of a mob of two hundred men
shoots down little boys and young
women who place themselves implor-
ingly between them and an imprison-
ed father, and compels the wounded
young woman to lie and die of gan
grene-for want of physician. 1t is
claimed that there is an element de-
veloping itself in the South against
such outrages, but the past history of
the South ought to convince any in
teligent mind that the elements Of
reformation do not exist within them
selves. They cannot suffer among
them opinions not their own and
know no law for "peace" but that
which pertains among the worst bar
barians. Dispatches state that Sec
rotary Evarts is writing letter, in
duced by the Chisholm massacre, by
the late assassination of Represent
alive Laws in East Feliciana for hav-
ing testified against the bull-dozers,
and other such crimes. That letter
will probably define the Presidents
Southern policy, and will be diplo.
matte notice, that if the South wants
"home rule" it must use it in the in
terest of civilization; that if they are
unwilling 10 be governed by outsiders
they must goUera themselves. 1t will
be letter of pearls and will be
trampled upon by wild bears. II the
South thinks it n0U has possession of
the Government. it will merely tamil
lize Eyarts and the President. II it
thinks there is something not yet
gained it will restrain its savages IN
til that advantage is theirs and then
it will let them loose for the practice
of their "higher laws" The Sonth
left to itself will be just as it was be-
fore the war. Tribunes Will not be
permitted to circulate there Teachers
will be mobbed, Politicians who
differ with them will be hanged or
shot The masses of the people will
be depraved and ignorant. The conn
try will mainly be unmrroved be-
cause "Y ankees, which means any
body from the North, aud even labor
ing foreigners-will not be permitted
Ia settle there But, IL there any way
now to avoid this state Of things but
by solid North ?
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GERMANY thinks that France,
raj 4 Iy the Vatican. threatens not
OILY that country, but the peace CT
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