The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-05

to the passage of this bill-first, have we
the power to paes it; second, the expe.
diency of passing it. The Constitution
provides that each State shall have
republican, form OF government, and
one OF the first requisites of q republi-
can form OF government is that it's
offices shall be filled by persons elected
by the people. The power of Congress
was derived from the Constitution, not
from the tumnlts in Louisiana, or
the frauds of Dnrell. or the Lynch
board; and be asked every Senator
within bis hearing, if Congress had not
the power to give the people of that
State what they had been cheated out
OF. namely. the right to elect their own
rofiicers? Should our Government be
overthrown, it would be by these steady
encroachments. Congress should zee
at all times that each State had a repub.
lican form of government; and any Sc.
nator declaring that Congress had not
| the power to interfere now, would de.
clare to Kellogg and his followers, "You
can repeat this thing in 1876, in 1880,
or IN 1884; Congress has NO power to
set right" If Congress had no autho.
rity TO laterfere. then the McEnery Co
| vernment could set itself up also by
force. Violence was as good title az
fraud, and little more manly. When
man skulks beneath the soiIed robes of
q Federal Judge, he has not the manli-
ness OF the one who goes out with sword
IN hand to maintain his position. There
was no question, in his mind. as to the
power OF Congress to take up the Con-
stltution OF any State and declare whe-
thor or not it was republican in form.
The power OF Congress was supreme.
Ferry, OF Connecticut, said he must
differ from ths gentleman as to the
power of Congress.
Carpenter said he was sorry tho Sena-
tor would stand in his place, aud yirtu-
ally say, if kellogg nnd his friends
Joined hands and defied the people of
the State for fifty years. Congress could
not interfere Did ho mean TO say, if a
band of ruffians should seize the State,
that Congress could not then interfere? !?
Ferry said he meant to say. that under
our system of govornment. there is
within the State IL remedy for usurpa.
| ton OF the government, or else q repul-
lican form Of government is total
failure.
Carpenter said, suppose the people of
Connecticut should declare they would
hnve monarchy; that they were sick
and iiied of republican government,
aud that their Governor and Legislature
should remain i'll Office for life, would
| Congress then have power to interfere?
Ferry said there was remedy for
that. Where tue whole people of State
profcssed monarchical government, it
was an entirely different thing. lie
heartily concurred with the Senator
from Wisconsin, iCarpenter,) that the
State Government and it's laws, root au Il
branch, were usurpation, but could
not agree with him ns to the remedies.
Carpenter said, in debate Of this
KIND, he was IN the position Of fighting
iu the open Held against an umbuscade.
The gentleman had his views, but would
not let them out. II he has plan, why
not let it be known? He (Carpenter)
was like Mcclellan in one thing-not
welded to my particular plan. If the
Senator had plan, and it WAS better
than the one he (Carpenter) proposed.
he was ready to support it, as soon rs
the Senator would remove the seal OF
confidence from it. The Senator Ferry
concurred with him, that the present
Government of Louisiana was no 60.
- "o hii- ooD pf
Kellogg. He (Carpenter) believed the
kellogg Government was held up by the
bayonets of the United States, and was
sustained at this hour by the troops OF
the United States, and he wanted to
show what remedy there was for the diff
ficulty. The Supreme Court of the
State was in conspiracy with kellogg,
and wonld not inaugurate any move fol
reform. The State Legislature was in
the conspiracy, aud it would not do sc
The Governor would not; and tho pco
pie could not. because the FedernI bayo
nets were ioveled at them. The powers
OF tho Federal Government wore as So
vereign, except as limited by the Con
stitutlon, as those of the Gear of Russia
Congress could declare war tomorrow
against any nation, with or without
cause. It could tax the lust dollar fruu
the pockets of the people, or establish
female suffrage, and put the women il
the army. The great argument made in
the press particularly, was the inexpe.
diency Of ordering new election, on
the ground that it would be dangerou;
precedent; but that was not sound logic.
Calomel was dangerous medicine, anG
as well might it be said that because
doctors puye il tn prOvu mon fba,