Daily Republican., 1879-12-06
outhern Opposition 20 the En-
fOreeue OF SatiOnai Laws.

The utter disregard of the Southern
people to the United States laws Is
shown In the report OF Il. G. Rogers,
Acting Commissioner OF Internal heVe-
nues, for the month OF October. The
revenue laws regulating the manaiac-
ture of whiskey afford ths greatest
temptations to the average southerner
TO show his little spite against the OFF,
cara who are appointed to enforce the
laws and collect the revenue. When
it must be considered that in the North
there is little or no trouble in enforcing
the revenue laws, and II is but seldom
that any person is seriously hurt, much
less killed, the loss Of life ana the gem
eral outlawry following the attempt to
enforce the laws in the Southern States
is appalling indeed. The following is
report of the arrests made in the
twelve Southern States for the time in
tervening between July lat, 1876, and
April lst, 1879, the number OF stills
seized and the revenue officers killed
and wounded Alabama, IT. stills
seizsd, IT'S persons arrested, and one
officer. killed Arkansas, "a stills seiz
ed, 33 persons arrested, and one officer
killed Georgia, All stills seized, ,473
persons arrested, officers killed and
wounded !; Kentucky, 40 stills seiz-
cd, 2s4 persons arrested, one officer
killed and wounded Louisiana, e
stills seized, and l person ARRESTED /;
Mississippi, q stills seized, and Is
persons arrested North Carolina is
cursed with moonshiners, 1853 stills
seized, s52 persons arrested, 2 officers
killed and wounded. South Carolina
100 stills seized, 267 persons arrested,
2 officers killed, and wounded. Ten
nessee, AT stills seized, 993 persons
arrested, 8 officers killed and 5 wound
cd. Texas, stills seized, and 5 ar
rests made. Virginia, l26 stills seized,
267 persons arrested, officer killed
and 2 wounded. West Virginia 70
stills seized, AZ persons arrested, 3 Of
icers killed / wounded, making in all
for twelve Southern States, 2,426 stills
seized, 5,0l4 persons arrested, 20 Of
fcers killed and 81 arrested.
Pleas of guilty, with suspension of
sentence have been taken from 1872 per-
sons in Georgia, 37S in South Carolina;
80 in North Carolina; ia in Alabama;
and 426 in Tennessee, total 1850.
Not only have the Internal Revenue
officers of the South, to contend at the
risk of their life with moonshiners and
outlaws who defy the National laws
but they are subject to arrest, trial,
conviction and consequent punishment
before the State Courts in the South for
acts performed by them in the discharge
of their duties. In the Fifth District
of North Carolina, II government Of
fcers and employees, have been so pro-
oeeded against; in the Sixth District Of
North carolina % in the District Of
South Carolina IA; in the Second Dis
trict of Georgia, {, in the District OF
Arkansas, g.; in the Second District Of
Tennessee, IA, and in the Fifth Dis
trict of Tennessee II, total 100. Moth
ing shows mora than this the great
hostility the Southern people bear
against the agents of the government,
and which are all the outcroppings ofthe
doctrine Of State Rights as taught and
practised in the South.
From April lst, the time which con-
cludss Mr.. Rogers report from which
we have taken the foregoing data, up
to September lst, five months, there
have been 40 stills seized and SO per
sons arrested in Alabama; the proper
tion in Arkansas is 3 stills and a
persons; in Georgia IS stills and 100
persons; in Kentucky, Al stills and %
persons; in Louisiana, still and per-
son; in North Carolina, l32 stills, Y
persons and one person wounded; in
South Carolina, ~ stills, 5 persons and
one person W 1unded; in Tennessee, 4G
stills seized, l44 persons arrested, and
one person wounded; in Texas, stills
seized and 2 persons arrested; in Vir-
ginia, "a stills seized and 33 persons
arrested, aud in West Virginia, 3 stills
seiz.d and ? persons arrested. The
whole numl,er of stills seized from July
lst, 1876 to September lst, 1879, max
ing three years and two months, was
1881: number Of persons arrested, s.
462; officers and employees killed, q;
and officers and employees wounded 81.
Nothing more need be shown to prove
the hostility of the South to any and
every thing which has any connection
with the National Government, and if the
records of the Post Office Department
ere written up and published we have
no doubt whatever that it would show
the same spirit and disposition Of law
lesspess and outrage that is shown