The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-10
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only because the resolution of our owl
people has grown cold, and because TIL
weak -kneed" national Democracy hav'
not the courage to lift up their hand
and strike down the rotten and repul
sive sham.
1t is a remarkable fact, which to-da,
rises up before us on every hand, tina
the Kellogg usurpation has no support
save from Grants broken will and tn,
timidity-we are almost tempted to say
cowardice- the National Democratic
party. Every other support has beer
withdrawn from it. The report Of the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections. composed of a majority Of
Republicans, proclaimed the measures
through which it was established fraud
ulent and Infamous. The Republican
House OF Representatives OF the Forty
third Congress, In admitting Sheridan
and Lawrence to their seats, in effect
pronounced it fraud, and finally, on
the sth inst, in refusing Pinehback a
seat as Senator from Louisiana, the
Senate fixed the brand of illegality
upon it, and left it nothing to stand
upon but Grants favor, Kellogg's au-
dacity, the submissiveness of tho peo-
pie over whom it has been set, and the
timidity of the National Democracy.
That the vote OF the Senate, by which
Pinchback was refused a seat in that
body, meant the Kellogg government
was fraud, we are not left merely to
infer. The leading Republican Senator
who voted against Pinchback's admis-
sion, declared that he, and all who
acted with him, did SO because the
Legislature which elected the claimant
was an illegal and fraudulent body !;
md Senator Morton, who championed
cause from beginning to
md, and who is the head and front
IF the Republican party, declared that
,he rejection of Pinchback would
amount to declaration of the illegality
IF the Kellogg Legislature. Mr.. Nor
ii, of Vermont. said she could not &C
,ept the action of the Legislature under
which this claimant based his title.
We all knOW 1t Uds a fraud" and Mr..
Norton said "the rejection OF Pinch
back by the Senate will be a formal
declaration Of the illegality Of tho KEEL
ogg Legislature" Thus we find the
Kellogg government declared a fraud by
! Republican Senate Committee by a
House Of Representatives,
md by a Republican Senate. The better
Judgment of the American people has
it, and pronounced the judg-
nent in the elections of 1874 which re-
urned the PRESENT Democratic House of
che hearts and votes
# the people Of The State have time and
gain pronounced against it, and it is
notorious fact that it has kept Its seat
# power only by the illegitimate and
Infamous aid of Grants bayonets.
The Kellogg usuipation, then, stands
orth before the world, as we remarked
t the outset, repuliated by tho Re
party itself and by the mass of
he American people. It has no claim
0 existence based in honesty, or law, or
light. 1t is the wicked creation of
licked exercise of illegal power; it is a
lie and lawless despotism, rotten with
q hideous, misshapen, grin
ing monstrosity in politics, repudiated
y the corrupt mother which spawned it
pom the country. Its progenitor has
eserted it. Only the disgraceful head
t a tottering Administration patronizes
!, and marshals around it's lair the |
ayonets which now he would not dare
ommand to strike. And yet the National |
party in the House fears to !
trike this monstrosity, sick nigh unto
cath as it is. And yet the National
party bids us bear this
easily thing yet little longer; to in
ale its putrid breath and bear the
5ench that issues from its rotten and
mclean body. Can the National Dem
cratic party afford to tolerate
onal rights of a State so
,andalous that the Republican party
as repudiated it? Can the Democratic
arty afford to excuse Kelloggism in
ouisiana, when the Republicans have
licked it aside and disowned it i? Can
lie National Democratic party, the
arty Of the Constitution, the party Of
form, the party Of justice, afford not
} strike at the villainous despotism
hich overrides Louisiana Can that
arty afford to scorn the memorial Of
lie people of Louisiana pleading for
lief from fraud which not only OPP
'esses their interests, but disgraces
eir manhood? And yet, to-day, the
Of the people of Louisi-
la themselves, and the timidity of the
ational Democratic party, are the
support and protection that
Q Kellogg government has.
The time has come when the people
Louisiana must make a determined
Tort to save their State. Their hope
in themselves. If the National De-
ocracy has not had the courage to
,ht them, at least the morale of the
rty which fixed Kelloggism upon them
broken, and the Republicans them
Ives, ashamed of their foul creation,
We repudiated it and left it to any fate
lich may befall it. Recent events {
We Slapped the strength of Kelloggism
G front it now presents is the front of
dacity, Of impertinence, Of bravado.