The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-12-29
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

THE REPUBLICANS AND THE LOUISIANA
QUESTION - CONGRESS AND THE
THIRD TERM - SOMETHING
ABOUT THE WHISKY
TROUBLES.
Dec. Is, 1851
EDITOR DEMOCRAT
It is evident that Pinchback is to
be admitted to seat in the United
States Senate. This is made neces-
sary by the straights to which the
Republican party is reduced. Its
waning fortunes are, if possible, to
be helped by resort to desperate
means. At the last session por-
ton of the Republicans in Congress
were seized with q very unusual
spasm of fairness and sense of JUS
tice touching Louisiana affairs, but it
resulted in no practical good, as moth
ing was done to retract the grievous
wrongs inflicted upon that State in
the name and under the forcible au-
thority of the Federal authority. 1t
all amounted to nothing more than to
place some Of the leaders Of the par
| ty on record as having for once indie
pendence and conscience enough to
express an honest opinion concern
ing the usurpation perpetrated by
q. S. Grant and his tools, Durell,
Casey and Company. Then the par
ty was in dismay at the disclosures
Of rottenness which were daily being
made, and the revolution that was
going on, wrestling from their grasp
every Southern State, and sweeping
them out of power in the National
House of Representatives. But now
this spasmodic breath Of virtue is
thrown off, and with the opening of
the present Congressional session a
very different line of conduct appears
to be dictated by party necessities.
AS shown by the vote on Tuesday
upon the question of allowing Nc
NIillen, the Senator elected by the
McEnery Legislature, to withdraw
his credentials the apprehcnsions Of
the Republicans concerning their ma
! jority in the Senate are well ground
ed. The vote stood 80 to %. What
with the independent inclinations Of
some, the shaky proclivities Of 9th
ers, and the to be investigated char
| ges Of corrupt influences to secure
their election by four or five more,
matters are very unsettled in that
body. This whole Louisiana diff.
Guilty was brought fresh to mind by
the discussion relating to the McMil.
len credentials, and it was made clear
that the record of last winter is to be
gone squarely back on. For the edi.
fication of the Senate, Mr.. Stevenson
of Kentucky, read the following ex-
tract from the report of the Senate
Committee on Elections last winter
signed by all the Democrats and fou,
Republican members of the commit
tee-Carpenter, Logan, Alcorn ano
Anthony:
"It is the opinion Of your commit
tee that but for the unjustiiable in
reference of Judge Durell, whose or
ders were executed by the United
States troops, the canvass made by
the De Ferret Board and promulga
ted by the Governor, declaring Nc
Emery to have been elected Govern
or, etc, and also declaring who had
been elected to the Legislature, would
have been acquiesced in by the PEG
pie, and that government would have
entered quietly upon the exercise O.
the sovereign power Of the State
But the proceedings of Judge Durell
and the support given to him by Uni
ted States troops, resulted in estab
fishing the authority de facto of Kel
logg and his associates in State off
ces, and of the persons declared by
the Lynch Board to be elected to tn,
, Legislature. We have already see,
, that the proceedings of that Boart
! cannot be sustained without disre
garding all the principles of law APP
| plicable to the subject, and ignorin!
the distinction between good faitl
and fraud. Your committee ar
, therefore led to the conclusion that
if the election held in November
1872, be not absolutely void 70
frauds committed therein, McEner,
3 and his associates in State offices
and the persons certified as member
of the Legislature by the De Ferie
Board, ought to be recognized a