The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-05

THE LOGIC OF ACTS.

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Republican in the good old. fashioned way
and not in party Observation-Disclosures the
following scathing derunciation of the party
in power, taking rs its text the action OF the
Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons, il declaring that Pinchback had been
duly elected Senator from Louisiana. Let
those who think that the sufferings and the
wrongs OF our State have been forgotten read
this article carefully:
THE PINCHBACK CASE
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections has reported that there is no vacancy
in the Office OF Senator from Louisiana, Hon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Pinchhack having been
duly cleo ed to said Office in January, 1873 by
a legally constituted Legislature sitting in the
CITY Of New Orleans. This report is supple
mented with the recommendation that the
credentials of Mr.. Eustis, the Democratic
claimant, be laid on the table. The proba-
bilities are that ths decision Of tho commit
tee will, within few days at farthest be in
dorsed by the Republican majority, thereby
giving Pinchback the seat, back pay and
mileage for which he has been SO long con-
tending.
While we are heartily glad that matter
which has been dragging along for three
years is on the eve Of final settlement las any
certainty is better than continued suspense
yet the manner of the settlement, and the
principles thereby put forward as presidents,
are efficiently significant to require blief
comment.
The members Of the committee who sigDe
the report, and those Senators who sustain it
by their votes, will go upon the record as the
champions of an impudent and shameless
falsehood, knowing it to be such. They assert
that the body which elected Pinchback was
legally constituted Legislature.
Yet they know perfectly we'll that on the
bare decision OF Federal judge-who has
since been driven from the bench covered
with the infamy this decision entailed-the
whole State government of Louisiana was
seized by United States marshal and garg
of United States soldiers, and Radio Il mob
of negroes and carpet-baggers invested with
legislative fnnctions-which mob went through
the farce CT electing a Senator. These are
Pinchback's credentials, which Senatorial
Committee has pronounced sufficient, and
which the Republican majority is expected TO
ratify.
This is the authority, and the only authori-
ty, by which d gentleman Of the African per-
SUI asion viii take his place among the leglsla
tors Of the land and assist in man utacturing
This is fair sample OF the practical workings
of what the Republican party is pleased 70
cali "a republican form of government" A
more t.grant outrage upon the fundamental
truths on which the Republic is supposed to
rest than the edict of Darrell and the action
which followed it, can not DO imagined. Yet
this outrage, instead of being condemned and
repudated, is deliberately sanctioned By the
highest legislative assembly in the nation,
and the person for whose benefit it was per-
petrated will be invested with the dignity of a
United States Senator. Pinchback is no
more entitled to represent Louisiana than he
is TO represent Massachusetts; for the same
power which forced him upon the people OF
the one State could force him apon the people
of the other. He is simply the creature OF
Federal bayonets. the offspring of Radical re-
construction, the exponent OF that mcngrei
element which has ruled and robbed Louisiana
into hopeless bankruptcy.
The admission Of Pinchback will demon
strate beyond the possibility of contradiction
that however much the professions of the Re-
publican party may have changed under the
sharp discipline Of political adversely. lis
practices are precisely what they always have
been and what they always will be. The sole
object Of that party is the maintenance Of its
own supremacy. ard to this object it will sac
ritce every principle of law, justice ard de-
cency. 1t has backed up the bastard Kellogg
government because Kellogg and his associate
are Republicans; it has done the same thing
for Pinchback because he is Republican,
and because his admission to the Senate will
and confirm the negro Republican
vote in the South; and should the Whipper
and Moses case ever come before Republican
tribunal, these two scoundre!s will be fastened
upon South Carolina just as Pinckback is
upon Louisiana. And his is the party which
the American people are asked to accept as
Of the government for four
years more st. Lous Republican.