Show illegitimate METHODS communications both verbal and written have been received from sources which we deem reliable giving accounts of methods that have been adopted by some of marshal dyers deputies which are to speak with mildness entirely illegitimate recently the town of wellsville was raided by IL a number of deputy marshals who raade made every effort to capture the individuals they were after but without success presumably spurred by disappointment they began resorting to a species of strategy in ia violation 0 of the he personal rights of individuals when they saw some reputable citizen on oil the street they would approach him and with a show of authority require him to accompany them from one part of the town to another they produced while thus behaving no warrant of arrest nor other legal paper but simply bythe by the use of assurance would lea lead the victim of their stratagem to suppose himself lawfully detained the object of this course is apparent they were evidently trying to make stool pigeons of citizens in whom the community had bad confidence for a deputy marshal to be seen about town in the company of a well known and reputable citizen would be a decided advantage to him in his work in one instance of which we have been informed by letter deputy marshals at Spring a man they found on the street on the ground that he be had bad notified polye poly 09 amista of the proximity of ef the oell cers we have been requested to explain what arje are the rights of citizens who have be been enthus thus treated in answer we wish to say that a f free ree people still inhabit these mountain moua tain valleys they fire are free and they always will be free notwithstanding ending that some of 0 their liberties have been tem temporarily 0 harily suppressed the detention of ye toe persons referred to in wellsville and that of the man at Spring on the grounds uneven I 1 our information as to the facts to be correct was totally without the authority of law the victims were not lawfully deprived of their liberty for an instant and there is no reason why people should submit to such unwarrantable ran table and insolent official behavior the united states marshal of this territory expresses himself to the effect that ne lie will require his men to perform their duties thoroughly but ue lie will not permit them to step beyond the bounds of their authority if his aids who were recently on active duty at springville Spring ville and wellsville acted as charged it is due to himself and the character of his important office that he make an investigation it should be one also that is searching and not exports parte ex further his own interest requires that such doings should not be permitted as he be is the person responsible before the law it such conduct is allowed to go unchecked without dont boult some person will be met with that will not let the matter slip but will test by action iu in the courts whether the liberties of people against whom there is no legal process are to be thus interfered with while the process of the courts may not be resisted unauthorized restriction of the liberty litrov of the citizen should not be permitted permitted ermit ted lIti Itis bould should have a summary stopper put upon it U |