The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-22
The Editor Of she Consultation q Pc
lRtfcal Prisoner.

The Editor OF the Consultation q Pc.
lRtical Prisoner.
A few weeks ago the United States Outrage
Mill in Jacksonville had on full head of steam,
running day and night, and the fires were kept
at white heat by the scoundrels rallied from oil
parts of the State, and the fuel employed was
periured evidence The grist, turned out in the
form of criminal indictments was enormous in
quantity, and it is now being distributed over the
State by the paid minions of Court that seeks
to make intelligence and virtue subordinate TO
ignorance and vice.
On last Saturday Mr.. J. B. STRIPPING, deputy
United States Marshal, visited this town loaded
down with warrants for the arrest of more than
twenty citizens of the county among them
Messrs. w. B. Lamar, Declmus Turnbull, John
Denham, Church Groom, Ormin Ware, X. T.
Hurst, Willie Smith, Thos. J. Porter, Linton
X. Gatchell, VIM. Shepard. the Editor of the
Constitution and others not now remembered
These indictments are all of political character,
and charge violation of election laws at the cleo
ton held in November last. That many OF them,
If not all-and we believe all-are based on
periured testimony, there cannot he the shadow
of doubt And as evidence that the charges
preferred are utterly and basey false and that the
parties who testified before the U. s. Grand Ju-
~, to enable said body to procure said indict-
ments, have INDUCED in the most outrageous
perjury, we have merely to cite the case OF the
Editor of the ConstitutiOn
The warrant for our arrest charges that at the
election in November, zoe cast more than one bal
| lot and we presume the indictment alleges that
we voted "tissue;" and this in the face of the
wel-known fact, which can and will be clearly
| demonstrated ut the proper time, by the 1nspec
| tor of the election who received our ballot, and
| by half dozen leading citizens of Monticello
who were present, that zoe rendered and cOted an
open ballot! The perjury in this case will be
made as glazing as the MONDAY sun, and the in
| famous scoundrels who have so basely and falsely
testified, will be forced to answer 10 indictments
for their he-bern perjury, before Court that
administers n-handed justice, and is free from
political bias.
And this, in all probability, is a fair rcpresen-
tation of the facts attending all the indictments
procured against honorable citizens of this
| county.
We believe that the enforcement of the laws
| is necessary for the welfare Of society; we be-
| leve and have always insisted, that all viOlators
| of law shall be tried and when convicted by an
impartial jury of their peers, be punished; but
| we have loathing, dstestatiOn and an utter alb
horrence of partisan officials, who will so abase
their manhood and beloul their souls, as TO coun-
tenance or procure indictments. charging the
commission of crime upon honorable 0nd inno-
cent men, to crafty spirit of malevolence and
hatred, pr, mpted by partisan bias That they
have done so in this case will not admit Of denial
and it will be our purpose and duty to thoroughly
investigate, and hold up to the ieers and scorns
| of the populace, the putrid carcasses of every
| one of the foul conspiratOrs who have dared to
charge US with q Criminal offence Death or
dungeon bars can only restrain US from q thorough
II the court will heed our demand for a
speedy trial, we pledge ourselves to force even
the most unprlncipled the vilest, most stupid,
and most jealous Radical, whether clothed in
official robes or hang on" of the "outrage
mill, that the stupid vampires, who receive the
countenance and support of fhe court officers,
are knaves and peIjurers.
The parties arrested in this town on Saturday
were ordered to appear before Leroy D. Ball u
8. Commissioner, at Tallahassee on Monday, and
furnish bailbonds for their appearance at the
| q. g. Court in Jacksonville on the first Monday
| in April; but Major Ball. at the suggestion of
Captain 3. Pasco, for the convenience of our
citizens, very kindly consented 10 visit Monticello
on Monday, at which time all the parties on
| whom warrants of arrest had been served fur
nished bonds in the sum of one thousand dollars
each.
Or course the parties indicted must neglect
their crops, their business abandon their homes
and families, and pay their own expenses to
Jacksonville in April, and await the wishes of
the Judicial representatives of the =" best govern
ment on earth" They may be detained for one
day-they may be detained for two months Obi
how this species of persecution draws us nearer
| to and influences us to love and respect the gov
| eminent!
| We deem it but just to Marshal Durkee to saw
that he has discharged his unpleasant duties in
connection with this business in q kind and gen.
tlemanly spirit. The parties for whom he held
warrants were notified of the fact, not by posse
but by single deputy, and the accused persons,
as soon as they heard that they were wanted
very generally FASTENED to surrender them
selves. They thus proved their ready submission
to the laws of the land and their appreciation of
the wise and 1udicious course of the marshal.