Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-31
THE OUTRAGE MILL IN MISsIs.
SIPPI.

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election. I
Though seven months have elapsed /
since the election was held and pro- 7
found peace reigns in Mississippi, 1t
suits the purposes Of the Republican
managers to disturb that desirable
state of affairs, in order to give color
to the chronic accusation that reign
Of terror exists in the South, where
the loyalists ('l need the protection OF
the strong arm of the Federal power.
We are not at all astonished to
hear our Mississippi brethren declare
that they are getting tired OF the sys-
tematic prosecutions which the Re
publican administrations, one after
the other, have imposed upon the
South, whose people have shown
degree Of patience and forbearance
seldom exhibited in any country,
It's high time that political arrests
should cease and that elections in the
South be left to the control of the
State Government, as at the North.
Like water seeking ::its level does
the vital power of the masses assert
it's supremacy over the inert portion,
which is constituted of the ignorant
: or the timid.
s Within the masses entrusted with
: the right of self-government lies the
p remedy for internal abuses
Outside interference has always
e proven a curse whenever it has been
!, applied. And the Republican party
n knows it,
IA TO maintain their supremacy Its
ID leaders willfully and knowingly goad
II the people Of the South to acts o.
v madness, which would never occur
we're they allowed to exercise the
M same rights which those ofotherstate'
DIS enjoy unmolested.
We Smarting under the provecatlon'
of offered them by vile hirelings, can i
r. be expected of a people who see thel
re brethren placed in arrest on the atil
ne dayits of base wretcbes, that they vii
MS meekly submit to these too oft repeat
ed impositions.
'er The following extract from the re
he port Of the subcommittee ofthe Dem
he ocratic party of Adams county, dc
,se scribes the situation fully:
ID That your committee has ascertain
lot ed that these prosecutions are base'
OF principally, upon report made b
said W. E. Cage, Deputy U. 5. Ma
shall, after an ex-parte, investigation
oc- so-called, made by him sever
mp months ago; thatsaid Lynch, late Cal
cry didate for Congress in this district, al
that said pretended investigation w
=, prosecuted by said Cage under a cor
Vic mission or an authority derived tire
ose the Department of Justice at Was
uld ington; that since said report W
!, a made by Cage grand jury of the
49, S. District Court has been IN sesslo
'"s and yet these prosecutions have n
SOL been instituted by indictment Of
YES grand jury, but by information tilt
rose Immediately after the adjournment
the grand jury, by the District Att'
ney, the same officer, who now, i
ives modiately upon making the arres
pro- is offering propositions for a comp
ave mise. 1t follows that the matt
's,o were either ignored by the grand j.
pose or what they purposely withheld fir
onal the cognizance Of the grand jury
IS of order the more effectually to ca
the out pre-arranged political p
gramme.
That from the facts which he
will come to the knowledge of your CO
liers mittee but which are in part only
the very briefly summarized herein, y
,:.5 committee are convinced:
o.'o LIST. That the persons who hi
lzlng been arrested i'll this county as ate
and said, are each and all wholly lnnoc
dis of the crimes with which they
d ~, charged, and of any other, known
-, the law.
Will I'd. That these prosecutions h
re is been instigated by John K. Lyl
,ts If who has 10y some instrumentallty
ceeded in putting in motion, the
d., chinery Of the Department Of Jus
the of the United States, and has pre-
,trew tuted it through his minions, wi
,es Of he has succeeded in getting appoil
49, with that view, for the purpos'
'Ne subscribing his own and has pa1
IS ol base ends.
a.a- %. That it was in pursuance
preaTanged plsn that said Cage
10 of sent here to make an investiga
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