The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-01
A LEGAL DIPLOMATIC CONSP1
RACY AGAINST THE
SOUTH.

municatioi1 which is startling in its pre-
sentation AMI develops conspiracy
through which the South is to be made
to stand and deliver, if possible, to a
gang of rapacious fnanciers who are
the holders of repudated claims, created
by the cafpet-bag thieves, during the
disgraceful era of Reconstruction.
As programmed by financiers and dip
lomats-the astute double dealers who
have no hesitation in lying automatically
to score point, expect their pound OF
flesh, full measured and with interest,
the payment of which, as announced by
the Caucasian's correspondent, is to be
through the annulnRnt OF the Constlt,l-
ton of the United States and the estab-
ishment of semi European Court with
Jurisdiction over the Southern States.
| The correspondent indicates clearly the
progress of the conspiracy and lays great
stress on the Venezuela Claim as pre-
ceient and cites the suit of South Dakota
against North Carolina by associate
bondholders. 1t is true that in the case
of South Dakota against North Carolina
the Supreme Court of the United States
ment against North Carolina on bond
issued by the State while it was DONNA
ted by Republican thieves and carpet
baggers and was subsequently repudiated
by that State when the people assumed
possession of their State government. but
the Constitution of the United States for
bids individuals, citizens or foreigners,
to bring suit against a State of the
Union. However, the right of one State
to institute legal proceedings against
another State, in the Federal Courts, is
recognized.
In the case of South Dakota against
North Carolina, the bonds donated to
South Dakota ny associate bondholiers,
afforded an opportunity which gives
force to the declaration of conspiracy
against the South to compel the collee-
ton of $3oo,ooo,ooo with interest. From
this view. the. effort to induce Virginia
to bring suit against West Virginia for
$e,ooo,ooo of bonds is another link made
visible in the conspiracy to compel the
Southern States to stand and deliver.
Since the decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States in the case OF South
Dakota against North Carolina great
activity has been aroused among the
holders of these bonds, which were re-
pudiated by the States of the South be-
cause they were fraudulent, having been
Issued t1lder tie pretense of law by a
gang of thieves who p1undefed these
States Of millions of money. How the
claim of South Dakota against North
Carolina is to be enforced is not now the
Question, nor the concern of the eormo-
rants holding these repudiated bonds.
i The purpose, as clearly outlined by the
/ Caucasiar1's correspondent, is on the
! plea EFF international a1nityy.. TO force
their claims to the International Arbi-
/ tratiof & Collection Association" at the
r1uzzle of the cannon, perhaps. In this
stand up -and- deliver scheme, the South
is threatened with a Venezuela expert
e1lee, which is cited as a precedent for
action, but in their eagerness to enforce
! the collection Of their claims the corino-
rants could not rely on the Venezuelan
precedent for the reason that Venezuela,
las d Republic, is (and was independent
and directly responsible, as would be the
United States as a Republic, or as would
be the Republic Of Columbia or the Re-
public of Brazil which was, within a
i few years since, an empire, and for the
/ further reason that Venezuela was weak,
vaefllating, at the mercy of the claimants
whose demands, whether fair and Just
or unjust, were TO be enforced radically
by an authority against whom Venezuela
was poWerless to offer resistance II
4 through the conspiracy an attempt were
made to Venezulise tile Southern States,
which are part of the United States,
and COULD not perhaps, in such an etner-
Igency. exercise their Sovereignty as
i States to resist such demands. by the
establishment of "a semi European
Ieourt with jurisdiction over the
4 States Of the South, stch act,
lby the seizure of the port Of New
Orleans, Galveston, Charleston Of Viii
Ii1ington, would be the signal for a reyo-
LUTON. for an armed resistance which
would embrace every State Of the
/ Union
i When the status Of the States Of the
South was established at Appon1atox and
it was proclaimed and decreed that each
and every one OF these States had no
fright TO withdraw from the compact for
which the war on the Federal side was
prosecuted to keep them in the Union,
there was left no possible eorltroven.ion
on that isstie. The South haf accepted
1.-THE situation in good faith and is as loyal
to the Union as the North, and in the
navy and ID the army Of the United