Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-03
The Kellogg Crowd in a FOrIOrn COndi-
tiOn, and Preparing to Give Up the
Ship.
rhe McEnery or Legal Government WEI
Net Compromises DisappOint-
ment.
From the New-Orleans Picayune, January 30. ]

! Court of Louisiana, as well as all Re-
cords in any other court appertaining tC
the case. 1t was also stated that imme-
: diately upon the receipt of this intelli.
! genee, Mr.. Kellogg paid a visit tc
Judge Durell, while sitting on the
bench, and a conversation of some
length ensued.
IN "A FORLORN CONDITION.
Even the Radicals begin to appreciate
the forlorn condition into which they
} are steadily being driven in the great
contest now taking place in the nations
capital. At the Mechanics Institute
} yesterday the shaking of dry bones gave
out decidedly musical sound, and all
the efforts Of the leaders in the House
and Senate could not hide the gloom
and disappointment depicted in theiI
faces. They quarreled with one another
in the House, and united the bags oi
wind ia the Senate, but it was all to nc
purpose. Deeper and darker became the
shadows until no amount of whistline
could keep up their courage. Great ex-
ertions have been made by the Radical
moguls to keep the rank and file well
fed on promises, and to prevent them
from becoming disheartened, but at last
the truth stands confessed that the pre-
tensions of the Kellogg government are
"simply ridiculous" Vide Morton to
4 Casey.)
| DISAPPOINTMENT.
Just as we expected, the decision oi
the Supreme Court of the State in the
case of the rival returning boards has
not produced the effect desired by Chief
Justice Ludeling upon the Senatorial
prospects of his railroad partner, Mr..
John Ray. The compiler of statutes
aud mutilatOr Of codes has no immediate
chance of occupying a much coveted
seat in the United States Senate. The
| indecent haste in which this important
case was ordered to be fixed for trial by
the Chief-Justice, upon the motion of
his friend Bay, clearly indicated the an
linus of the court, and foreshadowed the
decision they afteTward rendered. Apart
from the many illogical conclusions and
| gross violations of legal principles con-
/ tanned in the opinion of the majority OF
| the court, this decision cannot be re-
| garded as of much weight or authority
even as precedent.
| First-BecaIse it was rendered by a
divided court-three judges concurrfng,
and two dissenting.
| SecOnd-Two of these three Judges,
viz: Messrs. LudeIing and Tallaferro,
had prejudged the case before trial. The
/ former by swearing in Hawkins and
| Longstreet as members of the Lynch
Board, and by presiding over an illegal
| Court of Impeachment: the latter, by
administering the oath of office to
| Pinchbeck, and also swearing in the
members of the Impeachment Court or
ganized to try Governor Warmoth.
Third-Packard, Casey and Kellogg
knew and proclaimed in advance that
the Supreme Court was on their side.
By the act of Congress of March l,
| 1892, the votes cast for President and
| Vice-President must be counted on the
second Wednesday in February (Febru-
ary the twelfth, 1879 next. Let our
| friends, therefore, bide their time in pa
| tience. Congress will in few days de-
eide the whole question involved, re-
/ gardless of the partisan decision of our
State Supreme Court.
From the New Orleans Picayune of Friday.l
BY THE EARS.
! The Customhouse ring and the Kel-
| lOgg conspirators are by the Gears" if
what little bird has whispered be true.
/ Packard, HeTwig, Fish, aud all the rest,
are getting uneasy at the new turn
events have taken at Washington, and
wish themselves safely out of the
| trouble. What was the object Of the
| secret caucus Tuesday night? Was it
| for the purpose of arranging the slate
! in the possible event of new election? =?
Is Kellogg to be left out entirely? Is
Packard to be candidate for Governor,
Herwig to be Collector of the Port, Fish
Mayor, and so on to the end? What
does Mr.. Kellogg say?
THE CUsTOMHOUsE RING.
The oceuponts of the custonhouse in
this city are again wailing over another
defeat they have received in the bayo-
net Senate at the hands of Senator Har-
ris and his sympathetic schismatics. 1t
seems that the Honorable z. Felix Her.
wig, State Senator, and Deputy Col
lector of Customs, but more generally
known as the political guardian of Col
onel Casey, desired the appointment of
Mr.. Ike Ullman (who was a member of
the last Legislature, and who is now one
of the custOmhouse employees bye rea-
son of his being a brother-in-law of the
Herwigs) as TaX-collector of the First
District under the Kellogg dispensation.
The place, however, was given by Judge
DurelPs Governor to Mr.. n. c. Folger,
and to defeat the latter's confirmation
the sum total Of brains of the Casey
Herwig combination was called into
action. Yet, despite Casey's eloquence
and Herwig's promises, only two votes
were cast against the nomination of Mr..
Folger, and those two were the votes of
the brothers HerWig. Truly things are
looking badly for the influence of Fed
eral officials in the house of their friends.
The unhappy Norton received only five
votes, and now it seems the same coali-
tion can only control two votes in the
Senate. Verify, the Granite Building
is becoming "small by degrees and
beautifully less"
NO COMPROMISING UNDERSTANDINGS
1t is stated that il the great conven-
ton at which cur Government was
framed, Washington was there, stand
ing between every man and the highest
object of ambition, himself inaccessible
to selfish motives, and inapproaenable
by all who were not. The highest post
of honor and power was cOnfessedly for
him. The rest were to be ia his gift,
and in his presence ambition had to re-
strain its aspirations and self-l0ve to fear
its schemes, and all had to work to-
gether as if one common aim, and
that the public good, had been the aim
of all. We have no Washington in
Louisiana at this time of trial and of
trouble. The people themselves have
the duty of scrutinizing their public
men. To keep them up to the mark of
serving the State without variableness
or shadow of turning, free from inter-
ested bargaining, and acting with an
eye single to the rights and interests of
the people, is consnmmation devoutly
to be wished. In the great vital emer-
gency now upon as as people, when all
we have and all We hope is involved, the
personal aspirations of no men or set of
men should be allowed to exercise infiu-
ence. 1t Is iga0pTopOs and arrogant in
any to press claims, or to seek TO use the
situation in promotion of personal
ambition. Arrangements or compro-
mise for private advantage will meet
with public rebuke. In the ordinary
current of events such personal plotting
and private trading IN public affairs
may occur and success may have impu-
nifty. But the storm of politics through
which we are passing is too high, and
the danger is too great for tOleration of
the successes of private ambitions OBJ
tanned at the cost Of the public safety
and welfare. We throw out these re-
marks by way of reminder of the temp
tations which may occur, and to deter
all from the idea of manipulating and
using public policies in subservience to
or furtherance of individual prospects.
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1t is probable that Wilson, Chairman
of the Credit Mobilier Committee, Ne.
2, will, as subcommittee, proceed to
Boston 10 examine the books of the