The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-25
From ON Evening Edition Of Yesterday
EOW STANDS THE CASE?

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The majority ana minority reports Of tile
Congressional Investigating Committee are
now before u.s. and, as was anticipated and
predicted at the time not alone by ourselves,
Tut BY some of thc best informed politicians
IN Washington, Mcssrs. Hoar FRYE and
Wheeler have carried out the programme
mapped out for them by Williams
nd Grant, and though il lame
and hali-blushlng manner, coruiycd
the recognition Of the Kellogg usurpltion,
while they nevertheless and with unexpected
candor, acknowledge the illegality Of Judge
Durcll's midnight Order as well as what they
mildly term ''thc illegal conduct Of tie Re
turning Board
The majority Of the committee, Mcssrs.
Foster, Phelps Potter and Marshall, con
timing their report to the last election, post-
'jrei8 declure TINT The t0HSarutireS tcctnI
hre,dy-Diue mqyo,iy Il he meubets of he
L1,re, House. of which majority the Cen
seryatves were deprived by the mrtsi, Wcqa
put o,b1rorg action u the Returning Board
# thus appears that while the entire com
mittoe are ''aaaJ,nous in finding the fact that
The action Of the Returning Board has dcjeatA |
the will of the people as expressed by the
II the polls on the ID Of November, 1874"
Messrs Hoar, Wheeler and Frye suggest |
rs d remedy that it be recommended to |
the House Of Representatives in Louisi-
ana to take IMMEDIATE STEPS TO REMEDY
SAID INJUSTICE AND TO PLACE THE PER
SONS EIGHTFULLY ENTITLED IN THEIR SEATS"
a most lame and impotent conclusion, to be
sure, but which goes quite as far, if not far
ther than orr own Conservative Caucus,
some of the members whereof are, it would
appear anxious to receive as a fpC6r what
even our bittercst opponents III the commit
tee feel compelled to cOncede to be our M
yo~sfioidbe right.
Whilst two Of their colleagues suggest the
acceptance Of compromise with Kellogg,
simply for the alleged reason that "a majority
of the citizens Of Louisiana seem willing to
accept as a compromise Kellogg's recognition
and the restoration to the Conservatives of
the control OF the lower House." they
10 not in the least commit themselves
70 the prOpricty or justice of such
\ fragrant betrayal Of our rights neither is
the hypothesis that "the citizens of Louisiana
sccH 'riHiag /" to agree to it at all borne out by
the facts, every expression Of the popular UiA
N this matter having been, 50 far, cmpha-
tically and unanimously against it.
We can hardly believe that in the face Of
such damaging admissions on the part of the
Radical minority ofthe Committee and Of the Y
unanimous declaration Of all its members that
the Conservative legislators fraudulontly 2
counted out by the Returning Board and vio- a
iently expelled by Grants soldiers, should be 2
the very men whose previous course IL
~ thus vindicated can ~ bach n}on Hcir otn
record and declarations, and barter away their
and the rights Of their constitu-
onts for obtaining as IA concession what even
Messrs Hoar, Frye and Wheeler declare they
ire entitled to clam as Justly belonging to :.
-hem The position taken by Messrs Potter 81
md Marshall, who utterly oppose b.
my resolution recognizing Kellogg finding a
NOTHING TO JUSTIFY THE BELIEF THAT He WAS r.
YER LEGALLY ELECTED, OR CoNGRESs TO RE- SC
.oGNIzE UsrRPATIoN SO GROSS AND 50 or pc
As THEY THINK; TO ESTABLISH A VI
BY WHICH, UNDER suCu rEE- -
ENTs, ANY STATE GOVERNMENT MAY BE
TIE Will. or THE PEOPLE IA
FRAUD AND VIOLENCE MADE ~
i'"'>hNi' AND REPUBLICAN FORM OF wi
oyERNMENT Used TO DESTROY LIBERTY, Of
$ well rs their judgment that all that is tn
eeded III Louisiana is to withdraw the Fed ~, ~
raj troops and leave the people Of the State al
; govern themselves, is the only manly and of
onorable one for our people to occupy do
The path pointed out to us by Messrs Mar 70
lall and Potter we believe TO be the o,4g Satt 10
e to tread, even as q matter Of poEcy but bo
ere ii otherwise, it is the path of honor and for
patriotic duty, that stern daughter of the w. w.
ice of God, whom the poet invokes as sol
"A light to guide, rod OF
To check the errng, and reproyc," bee
Thou who art victory and law of
When empty tcrrors overawe." lee