The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-22

publican House Of Representatives
of the Forty-third Congress, in adj
hitting Sheridan and Lawrence to
their seats, in effect pronounced it a
fraud, and finally, on the 9Th inst, in
refusing Pinckback 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 audacity, the sub
missiveness of the people over whom
it has been set, and the timidity of
the National Democracy.
That the vote of the Senate, by
which Pinchback was refused scat
in that body, meant the Kellogg gov
eminent was fraud, we are not left
merely to infer. The leading Repub-
lican Senator who voted against
Pinchback's admission, declared that
he, and all who acted with him, did
so because the Legislature which
elected the claimant was an illegal
and fraudulent body; and Senator
Morton, who championed Pinch
backs cause from beginning to end,
and who is the head and front of the
Republican party, declared that the
rejection of Pinckback would amount
to a declaration of the illegality of
the Kellogg Legislature. Mr.. Nor
ril, of Vermont, said che could not
accept the action of the Legislature
under which this claimant based his
title. WE ALL KNOW 1T WAS A
FRAUD" and Mr.. Morton said "the
rejection of Pinchback by the Senate
will be a formal declaration of. the H.
legality of the Kellogg Legislature
Thus we find the Kellogg Govern
ment declared fraud by Republi-
can Senate Committee; by Repub
lican House of Representatives, and
by Republican Senate. The better
judgment of the American people has
condemned it. and pronounced the
Judgment in the elections of 1874
which returned the present Demoera-
tic House Of Representatives. The
hearts and votes of the people of the
State have time and again prononnc-
ed against it, and it is a notorious
fact that it has kept its seat of power
only by the illegitimate and infamous
aid of Grants bayonets.
The Kellogg usurpation, then,
stands forth before the world, as we
remarked at the outset, repudiated
by the Republican party itself and
by the mass of the American people.
1t has no claim to existence based in
honesty, or law, or right. 1t is the
wicked creation of wicked exercise
of illegal power; it is vile and law
less despotism, rotten with corrup
ton; hideous, misshapen, grinning
monstr,sity in politics, repudiated
by the corrupt mother which spawn
ed it upon the country. Its progeni
tor has deserted it. Only the dis
graceful head of a lettering Admin
istration patronizes it, and marshals
around its lair the bayonets which
now he would not dare command to
strike. And yet the National Dem
ocratic party in the House fears to
strike this monstrosity, sick nigh
unto death as it is. And yet the
National Democratic party bids US
bear this beastly thing yet little
longer; to inhale its putrid breath
and bear tbs stencil that issues from
its rotten and unclean body. Can
the National Democratic party afford
to tolerate an outrage upon the Con-
stitutional rights of State so scan
dalous that the Republican party has
repudiated it? Can the Democratic
party afford to excuse Kelloggism in
Louisiana, when the Republicans
have kicked it aside and disowned
it9 Can the National Democratic
party, the party of the Constitution,
the party of reform, the party of JUS
tice, afford not to strike at the vii
famous despotism which overrides
louisiana Can that party afford to
scorn the memorial of the people of
Louisiana pleading for relief from a
fraud which not only Expresses their
interests, but disgraces their man
hood? And yet, to day, the appre-
tensions of. the people of Louisiana
and the timidity of the
National Democratic party, are the
strongest support and protection that
the Kellogg government has.
The time has come when the peo-
pie of Louisiana must make deter
mined effort to save their State