The Ku Klux Law

Mr. Groesbock then passod to the KuKlux luw, saying tbat at the time this was paaeed the admiitistration of thq South was largely in Rcpublican hands so that they could suppress dangoroua combinations by thúir own authority, or by upplieaUon to tho general governinent ín a cmstitutional way. But tho administration wm beooming unpopttlar. Tho peojjle were complaining moro of tho adïiiimbti'ation than ot' thu conduot of tha Üouth. ïlic Sumnor aiï-.iiv occurrcd. The San Domingo business, in somu respecta the most oxtraoriünary in our history, WOt on hand. H.OW, hc asked, wouid Andrew Johnson havo oome out ot' hia impoae'mnunt trial with such a. case against him ï The eloctions, of uncortain issue, were approaching, for prepara Üon of Avkiuh they set about. They would agaiii cuake a ñght uon the okl , the War, and so they got u: tlie Eu-Klux warfor the eni c tneat.ofthd fourteeni b amendment. Ha tiion alluded supero hu part of the law that luüionzi.i the "resident to employ the Stu'.i '., to guppreas insuiroctions, tio riolenoe and unlawful combinaii ing onder the circumstunoM set foith, and to susjiond the writ of ñ ibea eervut, Under the pesvious law it was made uiiminal to deprive ui] pen iq of as; ■. mstitutional nght, and the ■ could ba prosecuted m aju licial prooeeding, wiiicb. wasrightand proper, bat in tli oasof t:iis law it was not ;i jodicáal prooeeding, but war. It. v. t-in ohief at tbe head of tlio inny catering a State, not to inako an arrest, but to cut down and slay. Btete governmente Warepoehed asidu, coui'U worc shut ap and w to not wantod, the writ of habsas eorptu was sospended, and the Federal gtrrorhuMnt toolc :ilis(iiute and guprenM oouimaiid. beforeoould the general govern(rient mareb . nniea.into a State on ac- i'.i'i of any disturbances therein, unles3 d to do su. The whole matter was now lei to douide, without uit appeul froui )iis juigsa . I OXOCUÍ.' hold, hesaid, a despot. The State . tg ha 1. The groat writ wia m lli.S llall I . pl8 ll.:v-,:f JtlllU "d it there. ELow eareíaUy thuv liad tried to guard it. " It nover shall be suspended when in cisos of rebellion oriiiTasion the public sat'ety may demaad it," and ovou tii n it vt triuted to no one man'g power. Sow came tle wr't, then, i l .- ii" asked We aru ry aation, and not ouo aohtary being in all uur land Btanda is urius agiiinst ;mv ftuthority, Federal or State. Ho said eaoh Sr ite Btoöd exposud to military invasión, and the writ oí h i'ieat corpus might ba su]i lude 1 iiinst the liberttes ofanyoneat the willof one man. It made a permanent d spot ovor 113 all. Tooorrect a teinporary and local evil tha' VU sil;ncdd. It had been sni 1 tb il a President could not um this po.vor. A ftree people would trust no ouo witb such power. ; t , v . mtand-unneoejea: ry and áangerons wissuoh legislatijn The war w , .. i'.., spirit wts still upon U3. rd wis evt'iywhsre. The olJ-i; hioned wa .- of keeping peaoa was dyingVut, .. ii.i' pructices of dt9potisin were t.ilcing its pLice.