The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-07-31


AGAIN the spirit of treason and OF
defiance TO the National Government
is conspicuously looming up in that
hot bed of Southern arrogance
South Carolina and sgain threats OF
resistance to Federal authority, un-
der the old dogma Of Estate rights"
are Enthusiastically made by State
officials. The poiut now squarely
raised is whether the National Gov
ernment has the right to enforce the
Federal laws within the boundaries
of that State. The case briefly sta
ted is this:
The South is full Of illicit whisky
stills. Every county, every ham
let, almost every farm has one, larg-
err or smaller. Some make whisky
for home use, some for sale. All re-
Ijoice at defrauding the Government,
and the people rejoice with them.
Aside from getting the whisky cheap
er, they are glad to cheat the United
States.
Where the people thus sympa-
thize with these frauds it is of course
impossible for the ordinary machin-
ery Of the Law to deal with them.
They resist the officers, the citizens
back them, and the law is powerless.
II has always been necessary, ia the
South, to employ the United States
troops, in bringing these whisky
thieves to justice. Al the last SEES
sion of Congress the Democratic
House tackled on 10 the Army bill
$50 that the Senate had to pass it, or
leave the army unprovided for a
clause forbidding the use of the army
for this purpose.
But there was other assistance
rendered the South in It's lofty pur-
pose of avoiding the Federal taxes.
The President, finding that Repub-
liean Federal officials in the South
made bad feeling by pursuing these
~defrauders of the revenue, removed
them and appointed ex-Confederates
in their place. The arduous Exon
federates. unable to use the army,
are of curse distressed at their ina
bility to catch the thieves. But the
President went further. He pard-
oned nearly all the whisky thieves
already convicted.
But, in one district Of the State OF
South Carolina there remained, IN
happily, some Republican revenue
officers not yet removed, who thought
it their duty to catch these defraud-
!, ers Of the revenue. The most note
rious of the thieves was n RED
/, MoND, a regular bandit. They pur-
: sued him. and as usual were violent.
| ly resisted. Daring the attack they
, naturally defended their lives, and
. killed q man named LADD. The To-
p cal authorities arrested them and
3 thew were indicted for murder. The
> United States of course insists upon
trying her own officials. She said to
Judge KERsHAw, OF the South Caro-.
! lima Court, Gland these men ovsr
to the United States Circuit Court Of
this District" This Judge KER
.. SHAW fatty refused to do. His re.
fusal was printed and crowed over
in every paper of the State; and
here is its closing sentence, which
the same papers printed in glowing
capitals
gcs0rf. Horcrer, 10 compulsory p0Uer claimed
for The Circuit Ieurf a3ghf frdHJcr nc question
IJr0m the qufd areEe 81 me coHfls 10 ne t1Sea
+, Tire departments Of The gosefEReEf, and ieGd u
> great Irritation and consequences greatly 10 D.
deprecated.
There is no ~mistaking this bust
ness. 1t is an attempt to hang Fed.
eral officers for enforcing Federal
tax laws in the sovereign State o.
South Carolina. 1t is State Right:
once more threatening rebellion. Il
is the old, old agbl brought back Il
i, be fought over.
Not content with ibis implied
threat, and probably spurred on by
/. the xild acclaim of oil the late reb
els, this Judge took occasion in hi
charge to the grand jury OF PIckeni
county, a few days since, to explie
, itlv state that "if the United State.
, Court acted outside OF its authority
it would be the duty of bis cour
4, t) disregard 1t as an ualo,cfrt inter
> ference" That be will so regard
the proposed action OF the United
, States Court as outside of its author
lily, is evident from the decision al
ready made by him, and that the
State Will stand by him and his off
GERS In making bis threat good, is
scarcely to be doubted. What then !
A conflict cannot be avoided-and
then-and then, whatY Oh, for an
hour of "0ld Hickory" to deal with
this nulliier, as be threatened to do
With proposed nulliiers of Federal
law, Ia tbs sane State, during bis
administration. 4 little wholesome
hanging is the only thing tina. wil
ever bring these rebeliious knascs TO
properly respect Federal authority.
Glad 10 See the General.
From TIC harrisburg Telegraph.
i Gen. Hoyt, wherever be appears,
is heartily received by the people In
a quiet way be is travelling for recro-
alton. and while seeking for no spe-
cial demonstration, il greeted by the
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