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| A RIGHTEOUS MEASURE.Somethin ago Andrew Humphreys ol Green county, obtained a judgment in the Sullivan Circuit Court agiostCapt. Samuel McCormick, and•ten privates of his Company of the Indiana Legion, for $25,000 for false ! imprisonment. The case was appealed and finally under the act of Congress i was transferred to the United States 1 District Court. Day before yesterday the Indiana House of Representatives j passed a bill to protect both volunteers and members of the Legiou j from the miserable, disloyal hounds who, not satisfied with getting off with lt;their necks, have felicitated themselves upon the prospect of voageane e upon their captors through the rulings of , Democratic judges and findings of . Democratic juries. This is right. The « Legislature could not be just to itself, 1 and neglect to pass so just a measure* ( It is a pity that to bring such a suit as i that of Humphreys against McCor- ■mick can not be made a criminal offence* 1~ *The Democrats who have brought j such suits and who contemplated bring- 1 iug them knew they were persecuting ' irresponsible parties. The military ’ arrests made in this State were made , in pursMince of orders which to have disobeyed would have subjected those ! receiving them to the severest military • penalties; and yet such is the maitg- [ nant character of the men who were 1 arrested for complicity with the Sons i of Liberty, and who were proven to 1 have conspired to deluge the State with blood, tha( they arc willing to sink what little manhood may have survived their foiled treasonable efforts—in the despicable business of harras-sing Union soldiers, who simply didtheir duty as soldiers.But if these men, who can plead ^ personal inconvenience as a slight palliation of their offense, are justly i held in detestation, iu what measure of detestation must we hold the Demo- 1 cratic Legislators who voted in a body against the relief bill to wbieh we have ! referred? They arc more despicable , than Humphreys or Milligan, or Bowles or Horsey. Let them be ,marked for present and future public i scorn. They have no excuse but that 1 of bitter partizan hatred. Such meu j would not have made respectable Sons of Liberty—whose infamy they stem j anxious to outrival.—The Tennessee Legislature has adopt ed a resolution calling on the federal government, through Gen. Thomas, for a sufficient military force to keep the peace and restore order and quiet in the State. The preamble alleges that iu several counties violence prevails over the civil law, and riot and murder go unpunished.
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New Albany Daily Commercial
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 02, 1867
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