Daily Republican., 1881-01-04
Uviust CritIcisms.

U8tute
The observations Of the Every Ever
ng in regard to the action of the Uuited
States Marshal and other United States
ptficers in transferring the trial Of cer-
tain Deputy Msrshsls from the State
oourts to the United States Courts, are
urius ustifable and without cause. The
United States officers simply desire that
;ustics shall be done, nothing more nor
nothing less, and that offenders shall
know that the laws Of the United
States cannot be set at defiance with
impunity. If this were allowable
then the ties which bind the States
together in one compact become mere
ropes of sand. If these Deputy Mar
sh.ls had really been guilty OF any
offence against the laws of the State OF
Delaware, then there would have been
some reasonable excuse for objecting to
the course the United States officers are
pursuing. The Deputies did nothing
more in their official capacity at the
Tenth Ward polls than they would have
been prompted to do had they been but
private citizens instead of public Off
cials, and In all probability had they
done what they did do simply as citi-
zsns they weuld not have bsen rudely
assaulted and arrested by the Mayors
special police and the sheriit's pinps,
most of whom we're crazad with rum. This
however would only show that the an
imosity Of the "ribald crowd" against
the Deputy Msr8hsls was instissted oY
a feeling Of hatred against the United
States laws, a feeling that must be kept
in ubjection, and those who manifest
It in outrageous breaches of the peace
should be made to feel the force of the
law they have so recklessly dehsd'
In reference to the case in point, it
seems to be undisputed that certain
Deputy SherifJ and Deputy police,
shametully assaulted and brutGlly beat
q colored voter at the Tenth Ward
polls, at the late general election.
He was refused chance to prove hia
right to vote, pulled away from the
poll window, knocked down and bru-
tally Kicked. Several Of the Deputy
Sheriffs and special police were en-
gagged in the assault, and some OF them
IL is said kicked the cOlored man. The
Deputy United States Marshals for
demonstrating with these men who
acted more like fiends than reasonable
men, and for trying to protect the col
ored man from the assaults to which
he was subjected, were arrested and
taken before the Mayor who very prop
erly discharged them with reprimand
for making the arrest. The Deputy
United States Marshals would have
been justifsble in resisting tue arrest
Of themselves, but being gentlemen
and not craz9d with whiskey they
wisely yieldei to arrest, rather than to
precipitste :iOt which would have re-
suited in bioOdshed.' 1t is almost in
credible to think that the Grand Jury
SHOULD have found bills against these
United States officers, upon the trumpsd
mp charges Of interfering with the
rights OF citizens at the polls and in
citing to riot when the great burthen
Of proof goes to show that they were
endeavsring to preserve order and to
protect voters in their right to vote.
Such action on the part of the Grand |
Inquest can only be attributed to par
tisan malice and pref judice. Tie in
reference of the United States officers
was fully warranted under all the cir
eumstances, the Deputy Msrshsls only
having acted as conservators of the
peace doing only their duty, while the
pimps ofths Mayor and Sheriff behaved
more like brutes. The men who de
fend such conduct and who at the same
time pr9tend 10 desire justice ere mere
pretenders and deserve the condemna.
tiOu Of all friends Of right and fair
dealing.