The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-09
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Our Washington special this morning
announces that the Senate has refused
to seat Pinchback as a Senator from
Louisiana, by vote OF 30 to 20. This is
virtually declaration by tho Senate
that the Kellogg government 10 o fraud,
for Senator Pinch ack" is the offspring
OF that government and Is as much a part
aud parcel OF It as kellogg is himself, or
as the Kellogg Legislature OF 1879 was.
II Kellogg is tho rightful Governor Of
Louisiana, and the Kellogg Legislature
Of 1873 WAS the legal Legislature OF the
state; then beyond all question Pinch
back is legitimate Senator from Louis
lana. The refusal OF the Senate, there
fore, to seat him must be regarded as a
full and complete Reputation Of the in
famous Kellogg usurpation or as an
outrage upon Pinchback and upon the
law. It canuot be maintained that
Pinchback was refused the seat In the
Senate because OF his bad character.
Pinchback's character is certainly bad
enough. We do not propose to defend
SO indefensible thing. But the Senate,
without any hesitation, seated West Of
Louisiana and Spencer OF Alabama
and, beyond question, the characters Of
West and Spencer are far more Infamous
than that OF Pinchback. Many other
men rs bad as Pinchback, and even as
bad as West and Spencer, have been
seated In the Senate. 1t follows, there
fore, that the saddle-colored gentleman
from Louisiana has been refused admis-
sion into the Senate either because the
claim of the Kellogg government to
legality is too rotten to be further
tolerated, or because the Republican
Senators have concluded they have
among them about enough negroes and
are determined, rather than admit an
other one, to deprive State OF its con
stitutional representation. It begins to
look, indeed, as though the Repub-
leans have got about as much OF
the negro as they can tolerate.
For nearly four years the Senate has
been dallying with this matter, and for
nearly four years Louisiana has been
deprived of her rightful representation
in the Senate. What has prompted the
Senators after SO long delay to this
sudden action We think there can be
little doubt that the rejection OF Pinch
back was determined upon long ago,
and that the final vote has been delayed
by the Republican, until the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, that Kellogg
may appoint the Senator. Cor we
entertain little hope that Mr.
Eustis will be seated.) VINO, then,
will the bogus Governor honor
with the appointment? Jim Casey, ex-
Governor Warmoth and Boss Packard
are spoken OF as probable appointees
In the present straight to which the
Grant family is reduced Casey will prob
ably not be polite appointee, and the
prize may go to Warmoth or the Boss.
Packard, by his long years in labors of
infamy; by his unscrupulous character,
and by his persecution Of the people Of
Louisiana, has strong claims on Kellogg
for the appointments. Upon the other
head, Warmoth's ingenuity devised the
Returning Board, and all the institutions
under whose poisonous influences Radi-
calism lives and flourishes In Louisiana
were the creation OF his incompatible
genius. He is said, too, to have planned
the coup d'etat Of the Senate through
which Kellogg escaped the clutches OF
the law, and he has Of late been very
intimate with Kellogg. Should Kellogg
appoint Warmoth Senator. the latter
will likely be the Radical candidate for
Governor, and should the Returning
Board elect him and a plant Legisla-
ture, when he drops into the Guberna-
torial chair, Kellogg may step again
into the Senate.