Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-24
UNITED STATES SENATE.
EXTRA SESSION.
The Struggle Over the Louisiana
Question Ended.
Adoption of the FrelinghUysen-
Anthony Resolution by
So to "a.

He was followed by Mr.. Wallace in op-
position to the resolution, and in denunei-
alton of military inteIfereneein Louisiana.
He said the action on the part Of Con-
eress toward the Southern States was ruin
ous TO the whole country. 1t was like
building a wall around the southern pOr-
ton of this Republic, and thus destroying
the markets Of the North. In his
own great State (Pennsylvania), the
pine and iron laid in piles at the mines and
furnaces and at the saw mills. The busy
industry Of the Lehigh and Schuylkil was
no longer heard, and now the people were
becoming convinced that the prOstration
was largely due to Federal bayonets in the
South, and violations of the rights Of the
people by the Federal Government. The
people of the North now asked that the
people of the South be allowed to control
their own affairs. Give them power to
grow rich; take away the Federal bayonets
from the Threats of the people Of the South,
and restore the prosperity of the land.
Mr.. Thurman said this resolution
brought forward by the chairman Of the
caucus (Mr. Anthony, used the white
wash brush very freely upon the President.
This was a doctrine approving Of the ac-
ton of the President in enforcing the laws
of the United States. Suppose he did en-
force the lars. 1t was his sworn duty to
do so. Those who voted for this resolu-
ton. voted in effect that kellogg was the
lawful Governor Of Louisiana, and the
Legislature which elected Pinchback, was
the LEGAL Legislature Of the State. How
any man not believing kellogg to be Gov
ernor and not believing the Legislature
which elected Pinchback to be the legal
Legislature of the State, could vote Tor the
resolution was beyond his comprehension.
Some of the Senators on the other side
might think it would elect the next Presi-
dent. but he (Thurman) thought it the
thinnest Cruel ever poured down the throat
of a sick patient.
Mr.. Christiancy said he understood the
substitute offered by the Senator from
Rhode Island, first, as an implied recOgni-
ton of the Kellogg government, merely as
one in the actual exercise of governmental
mowers in Louisiana, without reference to
the question of its rightful origin or legal
validity. and in no way involving the pro
nriety Of its establishment, and that it ap-
groves the Presidents action so far only as
directed merely to the protection OF that
government and the people of the State
AGAINST DOMESTIC NlUlEAAlE aAAA NAHAA as
and TO the enforcement Of the law Of the
United States, without approving any
interference Of the military with
the Legislature, or IN the crea-
ton of a State government. Such being
as it seems to me, the most natural and
obvious sense Of the language, and the
sense in which it will be most naturally
understood by the people, while adhere to
the principles and conclusions which an
nounced here in my remarks on the 18th
inst and which here adopt by reference,
without retracticn or qualification, and
while I hold that recognition by the Sen
ate or by Congress Of q government thus
initiated, can give it no greater validity
than it had in its inception, still as domes-
tic violence and civil war, which may lead
to q complete dissolution Of society,
are not the best remedies for
getting rid Of even an Legitimate
government, I can approve the action OF
the President directed to the humane plr-
poses mentioned in this amendment or sub
stitute offered by the Senator from Rhode
Island, and believing the recognition of
this government for this purpose and TO
this extent, is justifiable under the peculiar
circumstances now existing in that State,
until by a fair election a more legitimate
government can be initiated, l can vote
for the resolution in the sense l have here
attributed to it. But in the enlarged and
| odious sense which has been attributed to
| il by some Of the speakers on the other side,
| I could not vote for it, and / most deliber-
ately avOw my conviction that in any such
| ENLARGED sense, or in any sense which would
| assert the validity Of the action by which
that government was originally set up and
| put in power, it could not secure the votes
| of majority Of this body.
Mr.. Whyte modified his amendment Of
| fered yesterday so as to read as follows:
Resolved, that the use of the army Of the
! United Stetes TO enforce an unwaTrantable
| and void order Of Judge Durell, issued on
the 9th Of December, 1872, directing the
| Marshal to seize the building occupied as
| a State-house for the assembling OF the Leg
| islature Of Louisiana, and the employment
| of United States soldiers TO invade the hall
| of the House Of Representatives Of LOuisi-
ana, and to eject therefrOm persons claim
| inc TO be members thereof, are contrary to
/ tie spirit Of republican Institutions, and
cannot be approved by the Senate Of the
United States.
The question being on the above amend
ment, it was rejected-yeas p, nays 50, as
| follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bayard, Bog, Carpenter,
| CockreIl. Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Eaton,
! johnson Of Tennessee, Jones of Florida,
| Kelley, Herman, McCTe5Ty, MaXey, Nor
wood, Randolph, Salisbury, Stevenson,
| Thurman, Wallace, Whyte and Withers-
p.
Savs-BIessrs. Allison, Anthony, Booth,
1 Boutwell,, Bruce, Cameron Of Wisconsin,
! Conkling. Cragin, Dorsey, Edmunds-
! Ferry of Michigan, Frelinghuysen, Hsmil-
ton, Harvey, Hitchcock, Howe, ingalls,,
| ZONES of Nevada, Logan, Mcmillan, Mitch
ell. Morrill, of Maine, Morrill, Of Vermont,
| Morton, Paddock, Patterson, Robertson
! Sargent, Sherman, Spencer, WadIeigh
| West and Windom--33.
The question then being on the amend.
! ment submitted by Mr.. Anthony to the re-
| solution Of Mr.. FrelinghuyseD, Mr.. Thur
man offered the follow ing as a prOviso tC
| the resolution;
! Provided. that nothing herein contained
! is meant to affirm that the said kellogg l:
| de lure Governor Of Louisiana.
! Mr.. Thurman said there were seyera
| Senators on the other side who affirmed
over and over again during the debate Oh
/ thu PinchbaCk case, that VIM. 7. Kellogg
was not de jure Governor of Louisiana.
Mr.. Edmunds said he could vote against
this proviso, because it Obscured the sense
! OF the original resolution and raised ne
gative pregnant, as the lawyers call it, il
| another part Of the case.
Mr., Thurman referred to the discussion
and vote on the Pinchback case, and said
! he could not forget nos the Senator from
| Indiana (Mr. MOrtOn) used the party lash
! over the shoulders Of those whom he treated
az -eensants. Mr.. Thurman could not for
oct how they we're treated as little better
/ thsn dsserters from the Republican fold
I Remembering that, and very wildly too, he
could not quite see how that TIE TACT that
! they could vote for tie resolution Vas IC
settle the Interpretation thereof.
Mr. Edmunds-Well,l will sag to my
! friend from Ohio, that l for one do moi
know of any deserters from the Republican
fold. Certainly among those to whom hC
refers, and I suggest to him, in the second
place, that we think We are quite able tC
take care Of ourselves.
Mr.. Thurman Vel nOEs, II. President
/ there is no necessity for that REMARK, for
am sure [ did not volunteer to take care Of
them. They are the last people in the
world that would undertake TO nurse and
take care of. [Laughter.l