New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-12

administration and the deStinieS Of the
country be committed to its Democratic
enemies. H...
MORE OF TIE COMPROMISE.
Our judicial neighbor, the Picayune, in
sists upon sending Mr.. Eustis to the
Senate ''by the run, and argues to prove
that he will arrive at that object of solicit
tude through the effect Of the compro-
mise. In this arrangement it amuses us
to learn that ''the rejection of Pinchback
by the United States Senate places Gov
ernor Kellogg in an embarrassing posi-
tion." We can very readily see that it
places Mr.. Eustis and other aspirants to
the vacant seat in ian embarrassed posi-
tion," but in what manner the Governor is
concerned we can not perceive.
The Picayune explains that the executive
embarrassment arises from the fact that
Mr.. Eustis was elected after the compro-
mise, and that the Governor must either
indorse the election or repudiate the COM
promise, in which case he will have no
standing whatever. Under this blessed
compromise the Democracy cast out
enough Republicans to secure the House
Of Representatives. Upon the House, as
fulcrum, they rugged purchase to lift
the Governor out Of Office by mere force
of accusation. The Democracy have just
filed the proofs that he was and is no
Governor. 1t was but by the remon-
STRANGE of conservative citizens that he
was saved from revolutionary eviction,
and the Democratic Speaker of the House
installed in his stead. And now, when
Governor Kellogg has been nearly
driven from Office by virtue of the
compromise, he is rudely ordered to SUBJ
scribe with the great seal of the State
the credentials of an opposition Senator.
Why, if Governor Kellogg be a usurper,
if he has committed all those crimes at
tributed to him in the indictment fled by
MI. Wilt, if he be so attainted by mere
accusation that he swings now suspended
in Office as has been voted by majority
Of House Democrats, of what value could
be his credentials in the estimation of the
Picayune, and others who deny his au-
thority? The idea that the compromise
is binding in the Senate is contradicted
BY the fact that the Senate in the recent
case judged for ITSELF It expressly repu.
Hated the decisions of the Supreme Court
If the State. Why, then, should it respect
he compromises of political party?
We recur again to the argument of
Senator Edmunds as embodying the legal
position of the five Republican members
Who voted against the credentials of Mr..
In this speech the position
8 broadly taken that the whole election of
s72 was void for illegality. We need
carcely say that the signature of Gov
rnor Kellogg would not be admitted BY
he Senate under the reasoning quoted;
ut it is plain that unde r the right
laimed by the Senate to examine the
egality Of any State administration elect
ng and certifying the election of a Sen.
tor, the Legislature of 1S74-76 will un-
ergo the same scrutiny with that of
672. If the Legislature of 1872, and the
xecutive elected at the same time,
re illegal, and their acts void, how
ould the Legislature of 1874, which
wed its existence to the election law of
nat Legislature and to the proclamation
that executive, inherit through an
legal origin? If the Democratic asser-
on that the true Legislature of 1S7476
as illegally driven from the halls by fed
'al force, how could such illegality be
lred by a compromise to which the
enate would pay no more respect than
has done to the decree of the Supreme |
ourt affirming the legality OF the election
1872?
1t is little precipitate in the Picay,ae
assert:
Well, Congress has at last acted: the re.
Is at length lifted from the presi-
initial shoulders, and Governor Kellogg ia
ripped of all right and title to the Office |
} holds, except so far as he may still de-
and the observance Of the compromise.
Now, the usual belief is that Congress
insists Of two bodies, and that their
int action is necessary to enact q law.
he Senate has decided an applicant for
was not entitled to his seat
that body. This decision neither af-
cts the right nor title Of the State gov
nment, nor does it pay more regard to
''compromise' than to paragraph in
partisan newspaper. Mr.. Eustis can go
fore the Senate, and possibly will do
; but he will probably find that if e
publican majority were compelled
IN their legal convictions to exclude
publican from membership, they will
arcely reverse their own opinions to {
It a political opponent. We have {
1ited the probable objections to the
'ality Of the credentials of Mr.. Eustis
the censure indicated by the late SEN I
} vote. We make no reference to any 8
,eptions that may be taken to the mode
his election, or to the credentials which Z
may present. Our sole object has f
IN to show that the status of the Re-
blican government is not at all shaken c
the late ruling Of the Senate, and that d
Mr.. Eustis can stand the s'embarrass-
nts" of the position Governor Kellogg
tainly can.