The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-12-31
From the Cincinnati Commercial, 23d inst
4 New Invention for Upselting q
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From the Cincinnati Commercial. 23d inst
A New Invention for Upselling a
State.
1t is pretty clear that Judge Durell, q
Vermont carpet-bagger, Transcribed the
authority vcsted in him in granting the
injunction Prohibiting the Yarmouth
Returning Board from completing the
count of the vote of Louisiana, and ap.
pointing Others to do the work. 1t was
by his direction that the United States
Marshal prevented the meeting of the
Legislature,and seizing the State House,
filled it with soldiers Ills most unscru>
pulous proceeding, however, is the or
der Professionally seizing the Office of
the New Orleans Times, and suppress,
ing, temporarily at least, its publication
an order, we do not hesitate to say.
which he would not have issued had
that paper been an organ of the Gus
tom-house clique,
The Times is 3 solvent concern. 1t
has large circulation and a profitable
advertising patronage. 1t has made.
and was supposed to be still making, a
good deal of money for its proprietors.
The attempt to force it into bankruptcy
covers political purpose, and we should
not be surprised if the Vermont mag
istrate were ultimately discovered to have
had full knowledge of the action to be
taken before he mounted the bench to
hear the petition upon which the order
of seizure was issued.
This order WAS issued on Friday, and
on the evening of the same day was ex-
ecuted. In the Times of Friday morn
ing s leading srticle was devoted to
"DurelPs Corp d Etst," which proba-
bly, euickened the judicial mind and ia-
huenced the Judge to consent to pro-
ceeding which would silence 80 unpleas-
ant an ADVERSARY. Judge Dureil,I how
ever, grsveiy mistakes the temper of the
people if he supposes this proceeding
win be lightly regarded. There will be
an expression Of opinion that even the
Administration will not care to brave,
if he has, as We suspect. been CONTROL.
ed in this proceeding, as in that against
the State Government. by political OF
personal motives.
The article in which Judge Durell is
caustically handled indulges in some
comments On the beauty Of the new
method Of oSerturning the State Gov.
ernment by an interlocutory order in .
chancery proceeding, and its manifest
advantages over the old methods ol
usurpation by the strong hand, and by
the uprising Of mob,or war in which
one faction gets the better of another
"Nothing," says the Times, "could be
simpler or more effective. You have
only to be a candidate for some office
and be beaten, and then 60 before s
Chancellor like Durell (if such smother
can be found), and swear through forty
pages Of foolscsp that if some ten thou
sand persons who did not vote or reg
lister had Ill voted for you, you would
have been elected, and then forthwith
an order in chancery issues to the mill
tsry authority to place you in the Office
to which you ought to have been elect
ed, but were not"
This is certainly the clearest and mos
concise statement Of the New Orlean;
muddle that we have seen, and shows
how simple after all, and notwithstand
ing the successive explosion of procia
nations, and counter-proclsmations, il
the machinery by which refractory
State may be dedicated to the uses snC
blessings of Radicalism. A civil revo
luton by means of chancery order i:
the simplest and cheapest rs well as tht
latest legal device, aad is as much ar
advance upon older and slower methods
as iron-clad ships were upon the ole
wooden three-deckers
Inasmuch as the Times has fallen /.
victim to the same simple machinery, i
is worth while to reproduce portion
of the article which set the chancer,
monster In motion It says:
at is remarkable that so close ant
thrifty man as Kellogg should hav'
put himself to so mach trouble and ex
pense to canvass the State As long al
he was the candidate of the Custom
house clique, ard the Federal Admins
tration was pledged to support him will
all its power, it was of no consequence
how large the majority was against him
He could swear it all down, or Counsel
or Beckwith could sweep it away with
fortY-page bill in chancery. 1t was jus
as easy to get eight as four thousand 0
such affidavits. With Dureli to writ
or to hold the pen with which it woult
be written, and United States troop
ready at hand to execute it with bayo
nets, he could be carried into Office by ,
chancery order against any majority.
'Hence the wonderful efficacy of thi
new invention. Cor which Durell anG
Beckwith would appear to be entitled t.
the patent right. 1t has been suggested
however, that their claims to the origin
ality of this discovery can be success
fully disputed by our truculent Fedora
Attorney General, who first conceive'
the plan which has been so well execu
ted By his local instruments in this city
He it was who instructed the Dsttic
Attorney to put Kellogg into the Gov
ernorship, by any and all means in hi
power. 1t is not improbable that simi
lar instructions were forwarded to th
Federal Judge. 1t is even charged tina
the famous iorty.pa bill in chancer.
was prepared in Washington. Som
weight has been attached to the suspi
cious appearance in this city, during tn
incubation of this chancery proceeding
of famous jobber and lobby partisan
manager for the Administration, and
son-in-law of the most partisan of tn
Justices Of the Supreme Court. Their
were many suspicious of pretty stron!
case of stocking the cards in this game
That the whole scheme was prearrange'
and understood by the chiefs of tn
party is susceptible of abundant proof
Long before the movement was made
before and after the election, their con
fident air and their proposals to max
| large wapers that Kellogg ,p0ul1 be Gov