Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-30
SENATOR mosvoN,s LsrrEp,

us SatttHi l'oiuto.
After showing conclusively that the |
had carried Louisiana,
and that Packard was the legally |
elected Governor, and kellogg fairly
elected Senator by valid legislature,
and therefore entitled to his seat, the
Senator proceeds to say:
.If majority of the Senate shall at
the next session be of the opinion that
Kellogg was lawfully elected by the
Legislature of Louisiana, he will be
entitled to his seat, Notwithstanding
the events that have since occurred.
No subsequent breaking up of that
Legislature, combination, or arrange
ment can effect his title or destroy the
legality of what took place at that
time. Though the very members who
proclaimed the election of Packard
and made that of kellogg should SUBJ
sequently declare that of Nichols and
take part in that of Spofford, it is too
clear for argument they could not take
away rights which had vested, or
make that unlawful which had been
before lawful. Unless Kellogg vol
unfairly withdraws, the Senate will
have to decide the question of his
election as it stood at the time of the
adjournment.
THE REPUBLICAN, GOVERNMENTS OF
LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA
HAVE YIELDED TO FORCE,
have gone down before an armed mi
nority whose threats of future
violence were guaranteed by long
train of bloody deeds in the past. l
regret that the real character of the
transaction should be obscured in the
least by pretended investigations or
negotiations. Stripped Of all dis
guises and pretense, the simple fact
lis, that Packard and Chamberlain
were not able to maintain themselves
in authority, and the government OF
the United States, in the exercise OF
its discretion, refused them its sup
themselves defenseless, fell to pieces,
and from their ruins, in part, new
Legislatures have been constructed,
whose legality consists only in the fact
that they exist, and that there are
none to oppose them. The law and
the rights Of the majority have yield
cd to an armed and aggressive mi
nority. The Democratic party in
Louisiana, an undoubtcd minority
possessing the most of the wealth.
arms, and military experience, were
determined to govern, whatever il
might cost in the way of life. Their
pretended majority at the late cleo
ton had cost many lives, and was the
lproduct of the most infamous and
damning of crimes. The murderers
and crimes had been proved, and the
blood-stained majority set aside by
lawful process. The administration
decided that such case of insurrec'
ton and violence was not presented
as authorized the National Govern.
ment to intervene, and that the con.
tending parties must be left to theil
own strength and resources. 1t was
apparently worked out through thu
presence of the commission, anC
seemed to take the form Of negotia
ton. Assurances were given that thu
rights of all classes should be pro
tected, and the government admins
| lSICu III Viz VI all.
GENERAL PROMISES OF THIS KIM
AMOUNT TO LITTLE,
especially when left to the voluntary
execution OF party which believes
that the colored man ought not Il
have political rights-even persona
} freedom, and who have never consid
i. cred him part Of the people. Presi
dent Hayes was urged to give uI
Louisiana and South Carolina at once
and was told it was only question
, of time: that at the next election they
would go as Mississippi, Alabama
and other States had, and it would b,
better to give them up at once. How
ever repulsive this argument, it wa
unfortunately too true. The sam,
: crimes and violence which hat
wrenched Mississippi and Alabam.
, from the Republican party, and hat
so nearly captured Louisiana ant
South Carolina. would certainly sue
: coed the next time. This was an ar
, gument of expediency-not of RICH
F and justice. President Hayes ha
but accepted the situation as it wa
UCluCdtAcu " Alill OH LuC I'LL
:, March. Republican governments il
s Louisiana and South Carolina coul,
The painful truth is that politica
murders in the South have ceased t
be shocking, and are readily justifie,
, by energetic talk about carpet-bag
, gers, scalawags and Radical thieves
Not man has been punished for tn,
butcheries at Hamburg, Ellenton
Colfax, Coushatta, Mechanics Insti
tute, Clinton, Vicksburg, or any 9th
er of the hundred slaughters of Re
publicans that might be named.
I'll 30 NOT BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT
HAYES INTENDS
j. to desert or destroy the Republican
party and attempt the erection of
new one upon its ruins. believe il
a his patriotism and high integrity
and in his undivided purpose to max
his administration a beneficence Il
his country. The language Of his in
augural was strong and beautiful
and the declaration of his devotion Il
, the great doctrines of human
rights, whicd constituthe foun
, dation of the Republican party, lef
nothing to be added or desired. III,
began the conduct of national affair!
under circumstances of extraordinary
difiiculty-when the minds of mel
were greatly divided as to what
should be done--while all were
agreed that something should BIZ
done, and that things could not long
go on as they were. He marked out
his course and addressed himself to
it with undaunted courage.
Mr.. Hayes was elected as Repub.
liean, and l believe will be Repub.
lican President, not in mere partisan
way, but in the sense of devotion to
Republican principles and the main
tenancc of the Republican organiza-
ton by placing political power in the
hands of worthy and qualified Re-
publicans. Political principles do not
execute themselves; they require a
party to do that. Organization is as
necessary in politics as it is in war.
Great numbers of the same way of
thinking, but acting without concert,
| are as helpless as the unorganized
multitude in the presence Of we'll
disciplined army. / present the Re-
publican party as grand and indis-
pensable fundamentally for carrying
into operation the true principles Of
government and human rights.
The peace which is obtained by
stamping political party out of ex-
istence is not the harbinger of pros
perity or happiness. The hope enter
tanned by some of dividing the dem
ocratic party in the South by surren-
dering the Republican is groundless,
to express it mildly. The only way
to divide the southern democracy is
to advocate their measures. They
care but little about the name of de-
mocracy, but everything about the
purposes and measures which pass
under that name. The large body of
white people who engaged in the re-
bellion are firmly united in favor of
several things, and they will stand by
the party that favors them, and OPP
pose to the bitter end the party which
opposes them. Among these is the
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