| Show ACTS OF VIOLENCE murderous attacks have become frequent of late in this region the lna last re reported ported a aeb act 0 tor bor of the kind hind f appears hup lip pears to have been beeri orieon one ope of peculiar pecullar aggravated ness nesb being evidently N committed with the premeditated and deliberate intention bf prevent prevention loit tilo tile operation of a wholesome law in a very obnoxious cae cne certain person persons wild find themselves tes here eiene are so as desperately pern pera tely wicked as to make set of the vilest degradation and when tho tilo cases are brought before the tho courts for lawful and just action boldly threaten and seow geek to slay the witnesses for the prosecution this tills is not only tile the very spirit and intent of murder murder most foul but it is murder u under perhaps the most unmitigated the most aggravated circumstances those of open contempt and defiance of all forms and proceedings of law and justice and in express prevention of their operation ili in cases of indubitable criminality under buch such circumstances no mercy is claimable none should shou ld bo be extended but judges lawyers juries and the whole community c or ri should seek as one man to have legal legaI justice justlee meted out to the murderer as an enemy to order peace security and in fact to his race every person in tile the community should be ready to prove that any such acts of violence violen of witnesses or 0 obstructive tive of law and justice justlee will be c an utter failure and will recoil wit with inevitable terrible and crushing weight upon the off offender ender violence and anarchy are not riot what are wanted here but justice so far as the lawwill law will allow and tempered with as much m mercy e ney rey as can call be beneficially extended extend ed but no more although it is isilita not a pleasant thing yet it ia Is the tile duty of a it citizen to appear gearas as a witness in court when properly required and no rio amount of or words or actions should be suffered to swerve a citizen in such buch a position from doing the duty rightfully imposed upon him the rum ruf flanly and reckless classes must learn that they will not be permitted to have bilings tiling their own way but that their crimes will not fail fall to bring them due punishment i |
