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Show line Florida Seceded AcalnT Mall anl Kxpresa. Indications are multiplying that the state of Florida or the governing power of the state, although no formal ordinance of secession has been passed by the legislature considers itself out of the union. For some time past, the most persistent and determined efforts have been made to nullify the laws of the United States. Officers of the national government have been murdered, mur-dered, run out of office, ortracised, threatened and persecuted. The authority au-thority of tho government has been de-tied de-tied almost as openly as it was by South Carolina in Things are fast com ing to pass when the writs ot the United States will not run in Florida. This verv day there is in Jacksonville one C. L. Morrison, who is legally postmaster post-master at White Springs, but who was driven out of that town with a bullet in bis bead by democratic rowdies, and who is still, even in Jacksonville and under charge of a special deputy marshal, mar-shal, in danger of bis life. Tho murderer mur-derer of Deputy Marshal L'F.strange is still unpunished, and Cottrell of Cedar Keys, is a hero and a martyr in the eyes of Florida democrats. 'Further, there is no longer in Florida ; a republican form of government, as that term is used in the constitution. ! The state is run by a democratic caucus. No elections are held. Fvery vestige of home rule has been taken away from every republican town and every county. Fhe governor is an absolute autocrat, subject to removal by the democratic, caucus at the end of bts term. . When collectors of customs are driven from their places, wneu posimasw-rs are shot, when United States marshals are murdered aud no punishment follows, fol-lows, and the public sentiment of the state not only condones, but secretly or openly applauds tho criminals, and when representative government bas been abolished, then it is time either to declare tnat the state where such things happen is out of the union, or to take such measuresbacked by bayonets bay-onets if need be as will bring it back into the union and restore the republican republi-can form of government guaranteed by the constitution of the Uuited States. |