The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

in the State consists of four companies Two OF
them are at Martinsburg and in sympathy with
the rioters, who are believed to be 800 strong
And again: st have no doubt that within ten
days could organize sufficient force to sup
press any riot but in the meantime much
property will be destroyed, and, what is more
important, valuable lives lost"
similar call for help came at the same time
from Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania.
Nobody wants any constable, Sheriff, police
man, mllltlaman Or regular soldier TO club or
shoot any man who is living in the fear of the
law. All OF these agents are appointed for
law breakers. And every peaceable, law
abiding citizen has an interest that they shall
be strong enough to suppress absolutely, and
to the suppression of which they may lawfully
be called. All Of these agencies, the soldier as
well as the constable, must act by legal meth
DDS. must obey and not dominate the law. No
body wants large standing army, but Demo-
Gratis ought to agree that we should have some
soldiers handy to answer the calls of Demo-
cratic Governors who are unable to keep the
peace OF their States. There was no PROPOSE
ton to increase our army, but to every man
who does not cherish some revolutionary pur-
pose OR bear spite, born of the rebellion,
against our army, or desire to win the favor of
Communists, it would seem to be apparent that
our army can not safely be reduced.
The attempt to reduce our army failed in
the Senate-six Democratic Senators voting
with the Republicans against, and nineteen in
favor of it. An attempt was made-but not
successfully, as I think-by the Democratic
House to take away the power of the President
to use the army to enforce the process of the
United States Courts and to aid it's officers
in the execution of the laws. And very
soon case is made in the old hsme of
notification. United States revenue officer
who, in the discharge of his duty, killed a
man who was resisting arrest, is now held
for trial by the State courts of South
Carolina. His petition for a removal of
the case into the United States courts has been
denied the authority of the latter courts to
release him by habeas corpus set at naught,
and conflict of force with the National Gov
eminent again invited. And all this in face of
the fact that a law as old as the time of Gen.
jackson, passed upon just such an emergency,
arising IN this same State, clearly guarantees
the right to remove such cases. The Attorney
General is now celebrating as to how be may
secure to this imprisoned officer his plain legal
rights. The country would sustain the use of
very prompt and decisive measures. We al
lowed that blossom to come to fruit once. We
want no second harvest.
The payment by the Democratic party, when
they shall obtain control of both houses of
Congress-, of very large sums for the
liquidation of Southern war claims.
is real peril and not a campaign
alarm. The constitutional amendment quoted
by Democrats as a bar to the payment of such
claims has no relation whatever to that large
and increasing class of claims which grows out
of the use and destruction by our army of the
property OF individuals, private corporations
or municipalities. Mr.. Voorhees, imputes ig-
norance to those of us who hold this view. 7
say that the section he quotes. section of the
Fourteenth amendment, has no relation to such
claims as am speaking of. So much of it as
is in print reads as follows "But neither the
United States nor any State shall assume or
pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of
instruction or rebellion against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or emancipa-
ton of any slave but all such debts, obliga-
tons and claims shall be held illegal and void !"
Ii Democratic Congress should pass an act
to indemnify jeff Davis for the loss of his
war drObe, including his hoop-skirt and bonnet.
taken from him by our soldiers, or to paw Con.
Beauregard for his personal effects destroyed
by our bombardment of Charleston, would Mr.
Voorhees, attempt in any respectable court to
maintain that these laws were unconstitutional
by reasonof the section quoted? If he did, the
court would soon locate the ignorance he talks
about, and not in the same place he puts it.
The variety of these claims is almost infinite,
their present volume is appalling and they
grow SO rapidly that we can find nothing in ma
ture to which we could liken them Mr..
Voorhees, and Mr.. Hendricks both agree that
the claims of loyal men may be paid
by Congress, and the latter quotes Senator
Morton as favoring il. Very good; but what is
loyalty? Gov. Morton and Mr.. Voorhees, have
a different standard. The former would not
have admitted under that description any man
who in the great struggle did not say, do or
suffer something for mis- country. Mr.. Voor-
hees would not, I fear, be so strict. So that it
is matter of the greatest Importance to the
country that the jury which is to sit upon this
great mass of claims shall have a good under
standing of what loyalty means, and agood dis
position not to lower the standard.
And IN this connection it would be as well to
keep in mind that the claims already presented
to Congress are another manifestation of over
eagerness. 1t will be we'll for the country if it
is warned by these to keep out of the defie
where the ambush is laid.