New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-26
Le..er from peaaror NIarrsu. !

Letter from senator AIsFt0a.
The Associated Press of Saturday
morning furnishes the following garbled
synopsis OF Senator Morton's views on the
political situation: E..--..... r.s5szet p
Senator Morton publishes g letter on the
situation in answer to an open letter pub
lished in the New York Times, and other
private letters.
He says, regarding the credentials Of
Kellogg, after they had been referred ITO
his committee: 1.-The Committee on Priv
lleges and Elections met soon afterward
and the Republican members united IN q
report that prime fdciG S. B. Packard was 4
the lawful Governor of Louisiana, the
Legislature was the lawful Legislature
and that William 2. Kellogg had been
elected in conformity to an act of Con-
| grtss and was entitled TO be sworn in and
Jake his seat. AS number Of the mem
bers of the Senate were absent, and the
subiect would lead to long debate and
there was general anxiety to adiourn, the
report was not laid before the Senate III
the majority Of the Sena.e shall, at the
next session, be of the opinion that
kellogg was lawfully elected by the Legis-
| lature Of Louisiana he will be entitled to
his seat, notwithstanding the events
| which have since occurred. No subse-
quent breaking up of that Legislature,
combination or. arrangement can in the
! least affect his title or destroy the legality
! OF what took place at the time, though
the very members who proclaimed the
election Of Packard and made that of
Kellogg should subseq quently declare that
Of Nichols and take part in that Of Soof-
| ford 1t is too clear for argument They
could not take away the 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
II stood at the time OF adjournment
The Republican governments of Lou
lsiana and South Carolina have yielded to
force. They have gone down before an
armed minority, whose threats OF future
violence were guaranteed by long train
| regret that the character Of the trans /.
action should be obseured in the least by
| pretended investigations or negotiations.
Stripped OF all DISCUSSES and pretenses,
| tue simple fact is, that Packard aud
| Chamberlain were not able to maintain
themselves in authority, and the govern
ment of tie United States, in the exercise
OF its discretion, refused them support;
then the Legislatures, finding themselves
defenseless, fell to pieces, and from their
ruins, in part, new Legislatures have been
constituted whose legality consists only
in the fact that there are none to oppose
them. The law and the rights of the
majority have yielded to an armed sg-
gressive minority.
Mr.. Morton, describing what General
Grant might have done, intimates that
had Hayes proceeded to maintain Pack
| iasv Al.
he would have proceeded to inevitable de-
feat He says: The Republican majority
in the Senate upon the Southern question
is but nominal If it existed at ali. Five
Republican Senators voted at the hate
executive session against seating Kellogg
and to refer his credentials to a commit
tee, thus refusing to recognize the Pack
ard government, and number of Repub-
ican Senators, sufficient when added TO
the Democratic members to constitute
majority, have steadily refused to recog-
niZe the Republican State government in
Louisiana since 1873, by voting against
seating q Senator chosen by it. While in
my Judgement it was clearly the right Of
the President under the constitution to
recognize the Packard government, and
support it by military power, the under
taking would have been futile, and the
failure disastrous. With divided public
opinion in his own party, and both houses
of Congress against him, he would have
failed in the eud. The Democratic House
has power to destroy tina army entirely,
and from my knowledge of the Senate /
am sure the Republican majority of that
body could not. be relied on TO support
him in such course"
al do not believe that President HAYES
intends to destroy the Republican party
and attempt the ed 8 new one
upon its ruins. 8 patriot
ism and high intea undivided
purpose to make tration q
benefit to the coun
The large bod people
who engaged in q lrnly
united in favor of they
will stand by the hem,
and oppose, to party
that opposes then the
payment for rebe de-
stroyed by our af
When Mr.. Tild lust
before the election be
lost his hold up was
made to feel it in ees-
No Democratic G his
blunder.
In the late can he
1 4ocA Acuc1 uAA
| and in 8 single ifa-
ton would be Hi
comes to pass nc.
ton in rebel and ob-
liberated, and 4 ked
as other prope oy-
eminent. Il or
averted at once, ~
more rapid until -
come demorahi IS
ceased TO be &
The complste r. y
will demand tn, =
tions in Law betty
The Republic
necessary TO the
! All talk about
} liean prganizatidh p taB d
wlth ! new title, into whioh o|d oonfs.
/, l crates may enter rathont wonndin3 ths
sdsce btibiliiiss. weol6 bs cfiinsnd q &
! were bot Hupremelx allly.