A REIGN OF TERROR — CONTINUED. MILITARY NECESSITY.
For charity's sake we will say that perhaps the governor of Colorado considered it his duty to proclaim martial law in San Miguel County when he did, as the county was at that time in the possession of an armed mob which resisted the laws of the State, and by deeds of violence denied the citizens of that county those rights and privileges that are guaranteed to all American citizens.
. Since insurrection and rebellion had broken out and threatened life, liberty and property in San Miguel County, the State government was fully warranted in interfering, with armed force if necessary, in order to quell the insurrection, and restore peace.
But the way Governor Peabody interfered in San Miguel County reminds us of the story of a poor foreigner who had just landed in New York. This foreigner, while walking along the streets, happened to run across a gang of loafers who sized him up as a greenhorn, and proceeded to rough-house him. After the fun had lasted about five minutes, a burly policeman rushed up and roughly hustled him off to the station house where the poor, half-dead foreigner was put in a dark cell. The next morning the foreigner was dragged before an unthinking and heartless judge, and charged with causing a serious disturbance on the streets. The judge fined the prisoner ten dollars, and, in lieu of the cash, he was sent to jail for ten days.
Petty persecutions of this kind have occurred in some of our Eastern cities. So far as Colorado is concerned, substitute the word MINER for the word "foreigner"; the phrase PINKERTONS AND MINE