The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-05
Our Washington Letter.

Last Thursday Mr.. Thurman inau
gurated the struggle since continued
for the control of the Senate, by mo
ton, which, had it been adopted, would
have amounted to virtual falsifca.
ton of the record. Immediately sue
ceeding the expiration of the morning
hour, he moved the discharge of the
Committee from any further conside.
ration of Hamburg Buffers case. All
day the contest went on without deci-
ded advantage to either side but the
hesitating votes of Patterson and Con-
over, prompted by bevy Of Demo
Gratis who appeared to have been spe-
cially delegated to lead them about by
the ear, soon confirmed the rumor
heard here for the past two weeks of
their meditated treachery; and the
sight of Patterson covering before the
oaths and at the feet of the South Car
olina braggart, when ordered to take
his place as renegade, was only cal
culated to inspire feeling of plying
contempt for the man fallen SO low
from his high estate.
Friday and Saturday there we're no
sessions of the Senate, but Monday,
Thurman's motion came up as un6n-
ished business and during the cOntinu-
GUS session up to Tuesday at P. M,
the Democrats exhausted the time in
striving to force vote, the Republi-
cans resisting by every recourse to fill
libustering tactics known to the vet
erans on that side. At the hour named
a vote was finally had and Thurman
exulted in a victory. To-day it is
generally supposed the attempt will
be made to seat Butler, who is famous
or infamous AS the central figure in
one of the most atrocious, cold blooded
butcheries known to the history Of the
Bull Dozer or ku Klux rule, the Kem-
per County assassinations of the CHS
holms not excepted, just as we view
them from civilized or savage stand.
point. There was hardly q pretense
of election; and with all their hardi-
hood his champions here shrink from
any attempt to maintain the validity
of the vote by which he was declared
elected by handful of conspirators
against the lawfully elected State Gov.
ernment. The perpetration of this
outrage upon the rights of every indi,
vidual citizen of the Republic, will be
another step forward in the programme
in the rehabilitation of the new dynas
ty forming by the "Solid South" tc
take up the domination of National
affairs where it was forced to drop
them in 1861 and it hardly appears
possible for it to pass without arousing
the public to the grave perils threaten
ing representative Government.
The Democrats only evaded the
danger to their candidates that an in.
vestigation of the charges of corrup'
tion against Patterson might have in
vOlved, by voting down a proposition
TO that effect made by Mr.. Edmunds
and by solid vote, including that o.
the two renegades, they rejected mo-
ton that would have clearly shown to
the world the degree Of Buffers com,
plicity with the Hamburg butchery
and his leadership in the reign of ter.
ror during the late Presidential cam
paign in South Carolina. The Demo,
cratic programme now is to first secure
Buffers admission, then try and defeat
the seating of Kellogg as recommended
BY the Committee, and let in both
Spoford and Eustis from Louisiana
Both Conover aud Patterson by the
matter and manner Of their Monday
speeches, forfeited what sympathy was
excited in their behalf by the defense.
less condition in which they were left
through the adoption of the Southern
Policy"
Since the passage of the anti
resumption bill, proceedings have
been almost wholly devoid of interest
ia the House. Its docket has been
cleared of all the business urged for