The weekly clarion., 1877-09-26

men, mum bering from thirty-hve to forty
mostly strangers, entered thc town OF Mag
| nolia en- BadSSe for the purpn-" oi pedce aHy
| and quietly bailiug VI Sam Roberts whose
| committal 10 the cOuuiy jail we hottceu
| elsewhere
Now, the least inc 1iry Iu the world on
the part of the Times would have shown
! the fact e.. b. a. follows: That the three
! men " no had not been arrested undcT me
! Indictment for the killing OF Po>eN, notified
the sheriff that they would be H. Osyka
| with their sureties on Monday the 10th
| inst. 10 give bail, and requesting him 70 go
or send deputy for the purpose OF taking
/ bonds--the sheriff replied thai "the boys
bad better go to Magnolia. Accordlngly Z,
! the next d ". the Tuesday ref .rrcd 10 in the
/ Times article, the three indicte went up
! Magnolia with their sureties to tie number
| of fifteen or twenty.
| Here it should be borne in
] to be baied, each in a bond OF four thou
sand dollars, with Sureties in the sam OF
Two thousand dollars each had the privl-
lege of giving four suretieS. And more-
over that il was uncertt tin who this Sherln
might accept or reject. This made the
presence of gOOdly number of men neees-
Sary. As counsel Tor the indicted, l had in
structed them In have on hIud an ample
supply of surctieS, that the Sheriff might
have no ground To object to their sutiiciency.
Twas in Magnolia in advance OF these sure
suggeSrio the BOMBS were prepared by
Mr.. Collins. The surerieS were accepted,
the prisoner, Roberts, was brought out of
Jail the three that were at large came into
the Court House aud signed the bonds, aud
so far as | coulu see the matter passed off TO
the entire satisfaction of every body.
These sureties comprised many of the
most respectable citizens of Pike and Amite
counties. The Times denomiuates them
e troopers" and asks ii "the dignity of the
State'-aud 4 great many other things
''haye not been sacrificed by a repetition of
this forcibly and impresSively peaceful
manner of appearing before the civil
authorities to bond a prisoner out of jail
The previous bailing of Heating, one of
the indicted. / suppose is referred to here,
and the inference is inevitable from the
Times statement, that in both cases toTcible
demonstrations were made, than which
nothing cou be more untrue. Heating
was bailed in open court by two as pcaccable
and law-abiding citizens as there are in the
State. and | appeal to Judge Smiley. to IL.
Cassidy, Jr., states Attorney, ID The mem
bers of the bar, and to every one present.
ii any forcible influence was attempted. OF
any improper demonstration made. And
am sure Captain Travis, Mr.. Collins, and
my assistant counsel, III. CapclI, Esq. who
was present, will testify that no torcible"
demonstrations were made on the occasion
of the last bailing. To use the expressive
language OF Col. Patton in another place {:
This nightmare exists only in the minds
eye"
This is a refutation too of the letter in the
same issue of the Times, signed Tramp"
which is saturated with malice through
and through.
Such publications will do more injury to
the State than dozen papers could coun-
teract in ten years.
AS a proof of this the New Orleans Times
takes up the theme. quotes from the Sum
nit Times article and improves upon IT,
especially in its abuses of Gov. Stone. This
| regard the unkindcst cut OF all. 1t
shows a want of respect for authority, and
an ignorance of the fundamental princi-
plies upon which free government is based.
Now will these gentlemen be so good as to
tell US what the Governor is to do? Ac
cording to them the country is drifting To
the bad, and the Governor is Justify called
on to interfere. But how 4? There's the rub.
The Constitution and Legislature have or
ganiZed certain machinery for the detection
and punishment OF crime, ard the Governor
can no more operate outside of that ma
chinery than any other man, without as
ming deSpotic power. Is there any re-
sistance made to legal process, and if 50, |
has the power OF the county proved INSULT |
cient To put it down? In that case the |
Governor might be called on, but no man |
in Pike county will pretend that any such |
resistance has been made or that the sheriff |
could not get. readily, posse sufficient To |
support him IN the execution of any pro-
cess that mi ght be placed i'm his hands.
Another thing is to be considered in con-
nectiOn with the course of the Times, viz: |
its bearing on the five men who are under |
Whether intended or not its |
tendency will necessarily be to prejudice
the public mind against them. This | have
always understood it to be the duty of pub
lie journalists TO avoid. Justice to them
should have restrained such a publication.
and as their counsel, | protest against the
wrong. Besides, am native born Mis-
'issippian, born and raised right here in
.hese pney woods, and / do not relish a
groundiess charge of crime or lawlessness
made against the people, or an uncalled for
,ensure of their Governor.
/. APPIEM HIIE-