The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-16
PINOHBAUK.

10 COiOIou NAUTICAL uanOy fInchOacK, mas on
4. more received the certificate of VIM. ri
l. Kellogg that he has been elected to Il
l. United States Senate, and satchel in han,
. filed with paper collars and pomade, rushe
down in breathless haste last evening to cate
! the cars for Washington.
e 1t is amusing to see the gyrations of this r,
. markable specimen of the negro demagogu,
|, and his impertinence in endeavoring to sit i
i the United States Senate is only equalled b
Q his persistency.
Having been frst-rate steward on steam
/ boat, polite and attentive usher at gam
bling den, and what is worse, Radical Re
E preventative to the Louisiana Legislature TO
several years. Pinch has seen a good deal O
the world and its ways, and if he fails to gel
into the Senate, can at least hope to Obtain
employment from John Morrissey as door
keeper at his fashionable club house.
His duplicate credentials for a seat in the
United States Senate are signed by William
P. Kellogg, with the broad seal of State i'm.
pressed upon red sealing wax, representing
the pelican mythically feeding its young
simple minded Radical csrpet-baggers.
| The first credentials for the same seat
which he presented did net give him admis-
sion to that august body for two reasons !:
the first on legal grounds, the second on
moral principle. The legal obstacles were
set forth in the report of the Senate commit
tee upon the election of 1872. The Senate
came to the conclusion that neither KELLOGG
nor McEnery were elected, and reported a
bill ordering new election. Grant in his
message of January 10 concurs in the conclu-
sion of the Senate. As Pinch and Mcmillan
demanded seats in the Senate upon creden-
tails signed respectively by Kellogg and Nc
Emery, they were each politely bowed out on
the excuse that neither Kellogg nor McEnery
had authority to attach, with blue ribbon. the
broad seal of the State of Louisiana upon
their certificates,
And the Senate in February afterwards
refused to count the vote of Louisiana for
Brown OF Wilson as Vice President. These
two decided acts of the Senate, to wit: re-
solving that Kellogg was not elected Cover
nor and refusing to count the vote for Vice
President, decided the fate of Pinchback.
In addition to the conclusion of the Senate
Committee, that Kellogg was not elected Gov
'rnor. we have in Grants message of the 18th
INST. another fatal admission to Pinch's preten-
lions. He says: at seems that some of the .
'rders made by the judge on that and the
Elndred case Of Antoine were illegal"
dere now are two admissions hard to get over. =
IS the judges order was illegal, the forcible ,
nstallment OF Kellogg by bayonets under 9
hat order, stands out clear in all its enormity.
As kellogg was not recognized as Governor !;
, 1872 and as he has not been reelected he
no more Governor now than he was in ),
572. The second election of Pinchback adj
ITS that he was entitled to seat as Senator. ),
40 that admission is fatal to the legality of =
is second credentials, for if his first election .
as valid, there could be no plea for his re-
ection. The action of the bayonet Legisla- g
re OF Louisiana in sending Pinch to Wash :,
gton, is fatal to the usurping Governor. \,
But his second credential ismore objection :.
lie than his first, for he was elected bv an ::
egal body, installed by the armed force of =,
rant. Upon this point Grant, in his mes -
&c of the 18th, says
am well aware that any military interfer- 4,
ce Of the officers or troops of the United -
ates with the organization of State Legis- ar
ure or any Of its proceedings, or with any st
VI department OF the Government, is repug- re-
Mt to our ideas Of government
can conceive of no case not involving re- a.
vuh
90 by authority Of the General Government iii
Sht to be permitted, or can be justified. Ge
The Senate must meet this question when IL,
lch makes his appearance. Can bayonets, ma
the army, under orders from Grant. or nv
ME Legislature in any State and under ret
7 circumstances? 90
That question must be answered.. TT e.,
chback is admitted, then the Senate must tn;
lde that the army, at the command Of ora
mt, can organize all legislative bodies. al
Congress itself. If such decision am
uld be made, then Grant becomes Do Of
w. ani
ut the legality Of Pinch's first election slit
IN measure shirked by the Senate, on Ian
moral issue. Morton is very pious. He clio,
ors talnts Of all kinds, and all Senators. VIII
lis opinion, should be immaculate He shi,
'rdingIy opposed the admission of Pinch tao,
high ethical principles. the
resolution introduced by himself T
chs moral status was referred to . COM cal,
zee. We are not aware that the moral OBJ Mo,
ons have been resolved away. Pinch is few
same Pinch he was in 1872. His ideas Of of .
grand game of draw.poker coincide with stor
Q enunciated in the great book on that trad
ece by Schenck. Is proficiency in that
lectual amusement passport to the Sen "
Senator Morton, the leader of the party ,or,
rand moral ideas, will answer, perhaps. ia =
natively. ~ 6
le question of color will be in Pinchs m :
:. The Radicals are advocates Of social and
lily. Pinch has social qualities. His nine
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