Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — A PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

A PROCLAMATION.

Forty rioters are in jail at Harris* burg, Pa., awaiting trial. Not one drop of blood was shed in Indiana during th'j strike. Cre.lita.ble. 4 More than 100,000 bushels of wheat owned by parties in Indianapolis were burned in Pittsburgh, Sunday of last, week. Thb Democcratic Sentinel is now the largest and best newspaper in Jasper county. Only $1 50 per annum. Call and subscribe, and advise your friends and neighbors to do lik- - wise. It is said that the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railrowd will lose their quarterly dividend now due, the officers having determined to use all the available cash to restore property destroyed by the mob. On Wednesday last seven thousand strikers endeavored to stop a mail train at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by uncoupling cars and interfering with employes. The train was eventually I >a<iked up, got on full head of steam and shot through unharmed.

An exodus of the colored people to Africa is by no means improbable. Several meetings on the subject have been held recently In different parts _pf the country,and one was announced In New York for this week, at which Frederick Douglas was to give his views. The late Senator Sumner had an idea that the colored race would work out its highest development in tliQ West fndia Islands and found there a black confederation; but it may be that Africa is the promised land. It is evident that the end of the infamies of Grant’s administration has not yet been reached. At Erie, Pennsylvania, indictments have been found against the firm of I. & J.Dunlaj>, government contractors of that < ity; G. E. Fell, government inspector; J. W. Dominick, of Buffalo, clerk m engineer’s office, and A. Barthoh - mew, for defrauding the government in the improvement of Erie harbor, of amounts variously estimated at from one to two bundled thousand dollars.

Gov. Robinson, in his proclamation to the people of New York, says: “The law recognizes and protects the rights of all then to refuse to work, except • upon terms satisfactory to themselves, but it does not permit them to prevent other men from working who di - sire to do so. Unless the State is to be given up to anarchy, and its courts mid laws are to be delied with impunity, its whole power must be exerted [O suppress violence, maintain order and protect its citizens in their right t'i work, and the business of the conn try from lawless interruption within our borders. It is no ionger a question of wages, but of the supremacy of the law, the liberty, the property, andthq rights of all classes of citizens.” All law-abiding citizens will say “Amen” to theabove. Gov. Robinson states the law in plain words. The Chicago Times says that Indictments for perjury have been returned by the grand jury in the United States court at Portland, Oregon, against Mr. Stiles and two other persons who swore to certain damagingstatements against Governor Grover, In relation to the senatorial election, before Mr. Morton’s committee. As it would be a bsurd to suppose that Stiles and the others have engaged in this false swearing business merely for the fun of the thing, it seems to follow that if there has also been subornation of perjury. The grand jury might do many worse things than to give this whoje business very exhaustive overhauling. The members of the senatorial committee may be supposed to know something about the meas by which testimony wa ■ obtained and brought before them, and they should be favored with an opportunity to tell what they know.

On Thursday evening of last week i Gov. Williams issued the following I proclamation: Thf State of Indiana, ) Executive Department, \ A Proclamation by the Governor rel- ■ ative to disturbances of the peace ' by striking employes of railroad companies. i To the people of Indiana: Many disaffected employes of railroad companies doing business in this state have renounced their employments because of alleged grievances, and hove conspired to enforce their demands by detaining trains of their lute employers, seizing and controlling their property, intimidating their managers, prohibiting ly violence their attempts to conduct their bus!-I ness, and driving away passengers ' find freight.offered for transportation, i The peace of community is seriously ! disturbed by these lawless acts. Ev- > try class of society is made to suffer. ' The comfort and happiness of many families not parties to the grievances , are sacrificed. A controversy which i belongs to our courts, or the province of peaceful arbitration or negotiation is made the excuse for an an obstruction of trade and travel over the elmrtored commercial highways of I our state. The commerce of the qntire country is interfered with, and'i the reputation of our community is ! threatened with dishonor among our j neighbors. This disregard of law ; ami the rights and privileges of our i citizens and those of sister states can * not betolerated. The machinery provided by law for the rnljus ment of ' private grievances must be i.aed as the only resort against debtors, individual ar corporate. The process of the courts is deemed s fllcient for the enforcement of civil remedies, as well , as the penalties of the criminal code, ’ l-nd must be executed cquallyia each To the end that the existing

combination be iissolved and destroyed in its lawless form, I invoke the aid of all the law-abiding cit "ens as our stat ?. I ask thatthey denoune and condemn this infraction of public order, and endeavor to dissuade these offenders against the peace and dignity of our state from further acts of lawlessness. To the judiciary: I appeal for the prompt and rigid administration of justice in proceedings of this nature. To the sheriffs of the several counties:. I common 1 a caieful study of tiie duties imposed upon them by statute Whioh they have sworn to discharge. I admonish each to use the f’.itl power of his county in the preservation of order and the suppression of breaches of the peace, assuring them of my hearty co-operation with the power of the state at my command when satisfied that occasion demands its exercise. To those who have arrayed themselves against government, and are subverting law and order and he best interests of society by the waste and destruction of property, the derangement of trains and the ruin of all classes of labor, I appeal for an immediate abandonment of their unwise and unlawful confederation. I convey to them the voice of the law, which they can not afford to disregard. I trust that its admonition may be so promptly heeded that a resort to extreme measures will be unnecessary, and that the authority of the law and the dignity of the state, against which they have so grievously offended, may be restored and duly respected hereafter. Given at Indianapolis, this twentysixth day of July, 1877. Witness the seal of the state and the signature of the Governor. James D. Williams. By the Govcrno: : John E. Neff, rfee’y of State. The Indianapolis Herald says this this document “fell like a bombshell among the fiery and reckless elements.” A speedy and bloodless victory was the result.