The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-04

Of Others, and openly beast that IL pros
ecuted in the State Courts they will trans-
fer their cases to the United States Court.
where they claim that the indictments
will lie pigeoH-holed and themselves dis
missed unWhipped of justice.
They hold Our State laws and courts in
the most supreme contempt. and verify
bellows that the General Government.
or aome Que of its coordinate branches,
will uphold end protect them in the most
open and fragrant violations of the laws
4 of the State, and, indeed, late proceed
fags in the United States Courts have
given Q coloring to their convictions. as
the following statement will show:
Something more than C year ago, q
panty OF these men entered the house of
Mr. j. M. Porter, highly respectable
citizen of this county, and began q thor.
ough search Of his dwelling. ,Mr. Porter
objected to this high-handed outrage and
demended their authority for searching
his premises. They therehpon fell upon
him and best him severely with pistols,
and one Of them attempted TO shoot him,
crying kill him, d-n him, kill him !i
All this because Mr.. Porter objected to
their searching his dwelling unless some
authority was shown him. They then
arrested Mr. Porter on charge of resist.
Ing an officer in the discharge of his du.
ty. and bound him over 10 appear before
the United States District Court for trial.
He appeared, and when the facts became
known he was at once discharged. For
this outrage Mr.. Porter had the parties
arrested on State warrant, but before
the sitting OF the Sessions Court, writs
OF hd6eas corpus were issued out of the
United States Courts, and the case trans.
ferred to that Court wkare ii. now sleeps /;
but tho culprits were Immediately SET
free, and some Of them at once returned
Go this county, where, for several months
past, they have taken the most fiendish
delight In pefsecatiug our people. It
will be observed that there was no war
rant for MF. Porter, or TO search his
hcuse. The law pyesumes every man
innocent until proved guilty, and. is so
careful of liss and liberty that it will
permit ninety and nine guilty to go un-
punished rather than punish ene limo.
i cent. These humane, wise and Christian
provisions of our law have been most
radically reversed by these emissaries of
ty of its citizens-their motto being,
Every man is to be presumed guilty un.
til proven innocent, and better that nine
ty and nine Innocent suffer than that one
guilty escape.
They have arrested and handcuffed re-
spectable citizens Of our county upon the
mere suspicion of guilt, without a war
rant and without q charge being made
against them. &.9 ,
| They have broken open and searched
private dwellings, wilfnlly and malicious
~ destroyed private property, cursed and
abused citizens against whom there was
and could be no charge, and have in
some instances resorted 70 the torture,
thst relic of barbarism, to extoft con-
fession or to force from their victim in
formation pointing to the guilt Of others.
They have forced their way into the bed
chamber OF private citizens, at the hours
of midnight, and rudely torn the cover
ing from off the sleeping bodies Of huB.
hsEd and w..o, =~ho, oa a@9saaiiig, f3;:nls
their bed surrounded by body of arEaeti
men. This was done in the case Of Mr..
Micajah Hudson, United States mail
carrier from this place to Fall Creek. On
the night in question they Catered Mr.
Hndson's room, between the hours of IL
and !, on the 10Th. of March last. Mr..
Hudson was forced TO dress and accom-.
pany this band of midnight providers
until near daylight, when he was Gum
marily discharged. They could show no
authority for their acts, and since then
Mr. Hudson has como TO this place twice
regularly in each week, and yet ne has
not been molested since the midnight in
trusion referred TO-. vaeiit e,ss.,sg
The, officera claim the authority to
lsearch dwellings and arrest citizens With
out Q warrant. They claim .hie right by
virtue of their office, and, acting upon it,
peaceable citizens travelling the public
highways have been uiss cy them and
forced, &C the muzzle of the gun, TO fol-
low them for miles around the country
and then discharged without any expla-
natioo Of their conduct.
EyeE the privacy Of wife's sick cham
her, with an infant only few days old,
is not free from the heavy tread, the un-
warranted search and violent language
of these men. This was done in the case
Of Mr.. Neal, g highly respectable citizen
OF this county, who was at the same time
arrested and required to appear before q
United States commissioner. Upon ap-
pearing bef0Se the commissioner Neal
was Immediately discharged for want Of
proof. r,a5a {. 4.
Our citizsns have borne these outrages
with o patience almost unparalleled in
the hiBtcfy OF the world, but there Is q
/ point hsyAlla EshsAis f0rbcafaace ceases td
be o virtne, and, unless It Ia atopped, the
people will Of thais own volitinn devise
she means TO protect their families and
theft firesides fion insult and oppression.
We therefore earnestly urge the Court
to throw the egis of its protecting arm
around the people and TO bring these
men TO speedy justice, who, under the
| guise Of law, commit all manner of dep-
kedatiDns. III ass e.
masking thig,:yys do net wish to leave
the. impTeesion upon the Court, upon our
fellow itizens, or upon the country at
large, that we desire 20 see one class Of
criminals pnnjshed and another class 60
IuHpiinished. We sympathizs with law
lessness Dc no dsaGFip ption; and willie no
| believe tiias the revenue law, as it now
stands. Is oppResRfve 10 the extreme to
many of our lelloW.c itiEensof the noun.
tasn districts. who, from the Inaccessible
Localities in which they reside, are una
1hle;to transport their corn, almost their
opiy. product 70 market, yet so long as it
is law it should be obeyed, and If ,vio.
lated the parties should tafisr the laws
ijust penalty. u
+ But, in the name Of civilization and
Humanity, We protest againGt their barba.
rans treatment Of prisoners; their whole.
! salos oppression of both the guilty and
the innocent their unwarrapted seaFchea
ana seizures, ana their snameftii 15aa5IsiT 15asis -
ton Of that holy sanctuary Wife's
aick, chamber
i we herewith append the testimony