The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-31
MORE CIRCULAR LOGIC.

OuSly absurd, Is quite CHARACTERISTIC Vi III
editor. 1t is like this: Kellogg is scoun
drcl Durell q great rascal-so is McEnery-
all of them are thieves together; but Durel
being United States Judge, has made dc
cison, and the President is obliged to obey il
We quoted from Senator Carpenters rcpor
to the United States Senate, IN February last
after making Il full investigation OF the Louis
lana difficulty, and showed that according t.
that high republican authority, Durell havin!
no jurisdiction in the case, his decision wa
absolutely void" and the President is NJ
more required or authorized to obey or en-
force it than if the decision had been made
by Judge Leland sitting as a Circuit Judge il
Ottawa.
The only reply the Republican, makes tc
this is, that the FREE TRADER makes nC
quotation from Carpenters report at all
Its pretended quotations are mere assump
tons, destitute of truth" &c, and the editor
dropping back into his circular logic, out OF
whose grooves no force can drive him, re-
peats his parrot gabble that Judge Durcll
having made his decision, Grant must sup
port him under the law until congress settles
the matter"
The Repubiicaa, TO prove that our quotation
from Carpenters report must have been false,
and also to fortify its own position that Grant
has no choice but to enfore the infamous Du.
rell decision, quotes from an after dinner
speech which Carpenter is reported to have
made in New Orleans at the recent congress
ional jamborce in that city. 1t is possible
Carpenter may have made some such speech
it is sufficiently "miXed" and maudlin to
suit just such a drunken occasion. Carpen-
ter is reported as saying, fwhat Judge Durcll
did "can be done constitutionally, mere
Judge can at any time overturn. a state"
But though Judge Durell's conduct was out
ragcous, President Grant must support him.
and you can't help yourselves" And SO on.
But we appeal from Carpenter drunk to
Carpenter sober. Here is what Carpenter
said in his report to the U. S. Senate, as chair
man of the Louisiana Investigation Commit
tee. This report is not only signed by Car
oenter as the writer, but by Senator Logan, of
ILL.,, Alcorn, of Miss, and Anthony, of Rhode
Island. The editor of the RepAJlican can
ind it in any Chicago daily of about Febru-
Try Gath, or in the Globe of that date,
But for the interference of Judge Durell
n the matter of this state election-a matter
wholly beyond his jurisdiction-the McEnery
government would to-day have been the de
actO government of the state. Judge Durcll
nterposcd the army Of the United States be-
ween the people of Louisiana and the only
government which has the semblancc of regu-
arity, and the result of this has been to es
ablsh the Kellogg government, so far as that
tate now has any government. For the Uni
cd States to interfere in a state election, and
" the employment of troops, to set up a
GOVERNOR and "a Legislature without a shadow
# right, and then to refuse redress of the
wrong, upon the ground that to grant relief
would be interfering with the rights of the
tate is a proposition difficult to utter with |
,ravc countenoncc.
"And your committee cannot refrain from !
their establishment that any Judge |
# the United States should thus unwarrant- |
bly have intcrtered with state government,
nd know no language too strong TO express
heir condemnation of such proceeding
at is the opinion of your committee, that
nut for the unjustifiable interference of Judge
)urell, whose orders were executed by United l
tatcs troops, the canvass made by the De
'eriet board and promulgated by the gov
rnor, declaring McEnery to have been elect
d governor, &c, and also declaring who had
cen elected to the Legislature, would have
cen acquiesccd in by the people, and that
Overnmcnt would have entered quietly up
n the exercise of the sovereign power of the
tate. But the proceedings of Judge Durell,
nd the support given to him by United
tatcs troops, resulted in establishing the au-
lority de tacto of Kellogg and his associates :
4 state Offices and of the persons declared i
y the Lynch board to be elected to the legis-
tturc, We. have already seen that the pro
ceilings of that board cannot be sustained
,ithout disregarding all the principles of
wv applicable to the subject, and ignoring
lc distinction between good faith and fraud"
There is still worse feature about the S
after Although by the constitution Off
Duisiana us by the constitution of Illinois, ,
well as by the constitution of most of the 7
ates, the Legislature is the only power that
m decide on the election of governor, and &
, judge, state or federal, can possibly get 5
in the case,-it is yet susceptible S
the clearest proof that the extra judicial
Id illegal decision of Judge Durcll was die
ted from Westinghouse Grants own
full accordance with his '
shcs-and the only reason why congress
strangely refused to interfere with the mat
afterwards, was the desire not to offend a,
ant. The order from Washington to L. s.
arshal Packard to enforce the DEGREES and |
indates of the L. 5. Court no matter by Is
ION resisted" and the order to Gen Emory ID
, furnish all necessary troops for that pur- Il
Sc" was dated and issued December I'd, Is
I Judge Durelrs court was not held, and
$ infamous decision was not rendered until
ccember 5th, tco days after Grant had order .
the military to support It. There is no es- :
pc from this. Grant is not only responsible u
r the Louisiana intamy for the support he
YES it, buthe is responsible as its author, and y
ereforc for all the civil broils, outragcs and