New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-01
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4 TELEGRAM ~ THE TEIBUNE IRON
SENATOR GORDON
FEELING OF THE PEorLE-rnE DEMOCRATS To BIZ
ADMITTED 10 TIE STATE HOUsE-A MlsrAkE BY

FEELING OF THE PEOrLE-rnE DEMOCRATS TO BE
ADMITTED 10 THE STATE HOUsE-A MlsrAKE BY
MAJOR KELLOGG.
To me Edttor Of the Tribune
SIR: thank you for your invitation to send
another displtch The last appeal Of this tramp!cd
people must be to independent Americans, without
distinction Of party. If tho transactions of
tho last two days are to DO tolerated by
the Northern people; if the courts are to
be deied; If no law except force is to be
respected if sentincls at the doors of legislative
halls are to review and reverse decisions of the
highest judicial tribunals, rs saw done yesterday;
ifpriyatc citizens partsans of Gov Chamberlain and
candidates Tor Office, to decide as they have done
here. upon the election, qualifications, aud returns
of members of the Legislature aud if these de
cisions in direct conflict with the judgment OF the
courts are TO be- enforced is done here by the sol
dicrs of the United States, then our people prefer
military government AT once. assure you such -
the sentiment OF the entire people OF South Caro-
Ina.
To-day. in company with the Chairman Of the
Democratic Executive Committee, / called ON Gen.
Ruger and askc what action he would take If the
Democrats should go into the hall and unite with
the better class of Republicans in uudoiug the
illegal action OF yesterday. ] promised that the
Democrats would be entirely without arms even to
a pOciet-ltnifc, and that the struggle would De a
parliamentary one; that possibly some minor
disturbances might occur upon the floor
or that the doOrkeeper Of the sO-called Republican
House might resist the entrance Of Democrats even
with certificates Of the Secretary of State in their
hands, but that no other disturbances could occur
! His reply was that his orders had been msuudcr-
stood by Major Kellogg; that he had not intended
10 prevent members going into the hail. and that be
would not interfere unless there was disturbance
and Gov. Chamberlain should call for troops
Section t. Article 2, of the Constitution says the
House Of Representatives shall consist of 12i mem
bcIs. Section If says majority of each House
shall constitute quorum quorum, therefore, is
G3. The Republican House claims to have organized
and elected officers with only 30 members present
The Democratic House organized with co.
one Republican. If Gen. Ruger will
take the soldiers from the State House.
the whole question will be settled in one hour with
out blOodshed by the joint votes Of Democrats and
Republicans. Fourteen of the latter to-day en-
deayored to prevent the illegal and revolutionary
action of the so-caled Republican House; and a
leading Republican in the Senate offered "a resou-
ton to inquire into the legality of the former.
OF the 30 usuTpers of the House 81 are blacks, .
whites. The ascendency of such power, oven
with constitutional sanction, would imperil ciyil-
cation here but usuTpers and reyolutoniss rs they
are if sustained by Federal power in defiance of the
Constitution, the laws and the courts, they will
bring ruin and chaos to this afflicted State. This is
not government, but conspiracy, yet under these
great provocatOns the people remain peaceful and
law abiding. j. b. GORDON.
Columbia, s. O., Nov. 30, 1876.