The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25
TRUE BILLS FOUND FOR
 ALLEGED MOB MEMBERS
Federal Grand Jury investigates the Lynching Of Horace Naples and Indictments Re
 turned as Consequence.

world which will cause great injury to us;.. The law must be vfndicated. order maintained and anarchy abolished and punished If this cannot be done by one agency. then rational and honest men should welcome It's accomplish- ment from any source by which puniSh- ment and prevention may be lawfully administered.
 0utsiae TribunnIs.
 should these crimes bring upon our people what some may consider as out- side tribunals to those made exclusive- ly by the State, other interests ln our midst, regardless of their duty as cftf- gems, would not be injured by the con- sequences they bring upon us. The chief aim of law is to punish those who violate it.
 Tt Is source of mortification as well as regret that any community will per- nit itself 10 be overawed and It's laws ruthiessly discarded and broken by those who have but small part in the work of our mamteriai and social well fare and development. who are needless of calls of public duty and good efti-s zenshfp and whose actfone bring saf4 fering and loss to the men who have property, are engaged in legitimate and reputable business and who must sns-| tain all the injury which may be brcught upon their section by this irrc-. sponsible class of law-breakers. Upon this latter class must rest the responsibility for any interference from any source with the usual administra- ton of the State laws. and upon it should fall the merited punishment of their nisdeeds.
 The jury has intelIigentiy examined Into this matter. and without fear or favor. but with an eye slngla to tie public good. to the peace of our Sec ton of the country. to the restoration of proper public sentiment. the fec- ogniticn by all of our people of the fearful danger threatening our civiii zation. and to faithful discharge of our duty, we have returned into court true bills against all persons who. by the evidence before US to have commit | ted offence thus considered and other violations of the law
 Having thus, to the best 0f our ability, discharged the duties imposed upon Us as grand jurors. we respect fully ask to be discharged.
 sam IT. Thompson.
 Foreman Of the Grand Jurys'
 Judge Jones to Jnrsrs.
 Judge Jones said:
 uAntlemen--In severinG our oficiaI relations. It is proper that should say q few words in response to the report which has just been read.
 "You have discharged your duties aa grand Jurynnen fearieasiv and hoheat< ". You have rendered. a great service to the people of Alabama, as well as tut the United States. You have trud in h0suncertain or doubtful paths.
 The court, In advising you as to the range of your duties, did not lay down any strange or hitherto unknown con stfuction of the constitution and laws of the United States. or the extent of the Jurisdiction of It's courts In tire charge given you to the effect that Con- gress had power to deal with affenhea by men of one race against men ois an other race. when the object and intent of the offense was to deprive the mem, Der of that race of civil equality before the law. and induced by race prejudice and not by mere ordinary felonfous motive, the court only was stating what has been the settled law of the United States since the great case of Crulk !. shank vs. the United States, wherein Mir. Justice Bradley delivered the pre- vailing opinion in the lower court, which was afterwards adopted. In sub stance. by the Supreme Court. when the case was carried to that tribunal, on a division of opinion between the judges
 Justice Brndiey'a Opsnion.
 The extract from Mir. Justice Brad iey's opinion. wherein he summed up his views as to the fundanental prin : ciples which apply to both the: Thir- teenth and Fourteenth Amendments' was set out in extent in the charge given you. Its statement of the law as to the bonndafies of the jurisdiction of Congress under the amendments has never been doubted since then, and certainly not by any judge, or thoughE- full student of our institutions of ju- risprudence. a
 MT. Justice Lamar. once a member of President cleveland's cabinet. and afterwards a justice In the Supreme Court of the United states. in case in which he held directly the reverse of what the Supreme Court of the United States afterwards held on the same question; said that "a private citizen could not be Indicted under the laws Of the U-'1-s S'~1~- ca. .e.-sr,I-I-- 4a oppres .- .- grand .... t.. t- 1t wa --t e+