New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-01-22
The louisiana Senaaasailip.

Governor Morton, in connection with his
motion to recommit Senator Pinchback's case
to the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, stated that he was in the possession
of additional information on the subject
which justified further investigation. What
this additional information may consist OF
we are unable 10 determine, bat ahat it is OF
a weighty character, there is 20 room for
doubt.
When the great champion of the Kellogg
government rises up in his place in the Sen
ate and interposes measure calculated to
prevent prompt and decisive settlement Of
the Louisiana question. by the admission to
it, some definite and incontestable evidence
should be furnished to the country warrant
ing the delay. The objection interposed by
the opposition, through Senator McCreery,
indicates that they desire an immediate and
unconditional settlement of Senator Pinch
backs case. We agree with the opposition.
After the admission of Senator Spencer, of
Alabama, upon p,imd tacie case last winter,
VIC never had any doubt that Senator Pinch
back should have been called up and adj
mitted upon the same basis, but as almost
everybody knows, Senator Morton advised
against this course, and Senator Pinchback
yielded to Senator Morton, confident, we
suppose, of the leadership of great man
who had cordially espoused the cause of
Louisiana, and strong in the belief that the
Indiana Senator lived and moved upon
plane far above either the vulgarity OF pre-
JUDGE or the suggestions Of mere expedi-
ency Governor Pinchback went abroad,
carrying with him a double trust in the In
diana Senator's party fidelity and consum-
mate abilities. lie returns, and instead of
an easy admission to the seat to which he has
been elected, meets delay and obstruction,
and finally encounters plans for further IN
vestigation. What does it mean? May it
not be that through ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain the great Senator has
been made the unconscious, as we believe he
would certainly be, the unwilling medium of
carrying out the purposes, cherished from the
very beginning, Of defeating Governor Pinch
back by the blacklist kind of treachery through
interest, ambition, envy and jealousy on the
part of some Of the white Republicans of
Louisiana.
If there be any reasons for further delay
in this great, and to the colored people,
vital question, we trust that the Senator
from Indiana and those who have heretofore
acted with him in this matter, will insist
upon the speediest and fullest examination
of the Waoie question, no matter whom it
may involve.
We have never claimed anything much on
account of our numbers in the Southern
States, although We constitute large ma
jority of the Republican party South, nor
have we fought for the admission of colored
men TO high positions, except upon the be-
lief that their abilities wero equal to the
demands of the positions claimed; but Sen.
ator Pinchbaek, rising through the gradations
Of State Senator, Lieutenant Governor and
acting Governor in his own State up to the
position Of Senator-electto the United States
Senate, brings the twofold claim of repre-
senting both white and colored Republicans,
and ii seems that in the fierce heat Of the
hour he must bear the same ordeal as the
Attorney General and the Hon. Caleb Cush.
ing. But it remains to be seen whether he
will share their fate at the hands Of the
Senate or not. Should he share thdE fate it
will lie the negro's heaviest blow since the
beginning Of reconstruction.