The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-03-19
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assassination. but am incident i'm the
course of an armed insurrection and
organized rebellion against the author
fly OF the United States, extending not
merely throughout Copiah County, but
into several of the surrounding coun-
ties. Tt is not necessary in order thata
mobmovement may have the character,
i'm law. OGarmed insurreCtiOu and rebel
lion that the people engaged in it shall
contemplate am overthrow of the exist
inc form OF government and the substi-
tuition of q new one, as the Southern
rebels did i'm 1SG1-4. Shay's whisky
rebellion was complete rebellion,
though it contemplated only the defeat
of the enforcement OF q single Revenue
law. The Copiah County Rebellion
aimed to defy by military means and by
armed force the authority OF the United
States i'm several counties, to the end of
defeating In those counties so much of
the Reconstruction acts and of the
amendments to the Constitution of the
| United States as gave the cOlOred race
civil and political rights, and especially
the right TO vote For this purpose the
white iusurrectionists adopted essen
italy the same military means as were
adopted in lSGO-4 by the rebellion led
! 10y JEFF Davis. They organized forces
which publicly proclaimed defiance to
| Federal law as their object, viz, that
no man should be permitted to COR
| gauize the blacks against the whites in
| Copiah County, meaning that no white
man should be permitted to favor and
cooperate with the blacks in the eXer-
/ else of the political rights given the
latter by Federal law. They well knew
that under existing Federal law every
man had the same right to organize
| blacks for party purposes as to organize
! whites. Their crime was the same as
! CalhOuu's would have been had he in
! 1888 organized an armed force to re-
! sist the collection of Federal duties, an
act for which President Jackson de-
cIared he would hang Calhoun higher
than Haman should he attempt it.
Their crime was simply and badly
treason and rebellion age inst the author
ity of the United States.
Ii is quite immaterial that the authors
OF these crimes imagine that now that
the States are reconstructed and in the
Union no power can punish treason and
| rebellion in the United States. 1t is
| equally as immaterial that the Govern
or of Mississippi neglects and refuses to
| either preserve order or to call upon the
| President Of the United States to do so.
The precedent set by the United States
in some thirteen cases in 1860, of sup
pressing rebellion within State with
out waiting for a TequisitiOn from the
Governor thereof, and, indeed, where
i'm nearly every case the Governor and
Legislature formed part of the rebellion,
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