The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-18

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which neither Mr.. Calhoun nor MI
Davis ever thoughtuf pursuing IL. Th
rulings of the Tribunal amountto this
| that there II no power In the Fedora
Government TO question the acts OF
BE itfe or de fdetU governor OF Btatt
nor TO inquire into the action OF Stat
eanvassing or returning board. Thus
In the high matter Of electors, affeutinI
the election Of president, and conse
auently the interests OF the whole eoun
try. the governor OF q State and TIL
eanvassing board may agtee to return
~ elected, candidates who were de
feated; men who were never, In fact
candidates, or even men who are direct
ly and positively declared bv The Consti
tuition Of The United Stdtes to be ineligi
BILE To the office Of elector; ID may b.
matter OF universal aud shameful
notorlety that the action q tho can
yassing board was rotten with fraud
| that the certificate Of the Governor
was an act Of perjury, and the Governor
himself uHurper; nevertheless, tht
Electoral Tribunal has announced and
| established the doctrine that the oertifl
cate Of the acting Governor, based on
the action OF the canyassing board
cannot be itnpeaehed by my court.
Legislature or authority In the Amer
lean Government.
This is an extraordinary ruling; In.
de ed we may say IL is the enunclation
Of d most startling and dangerous doc.
tfi ne the strength and scope OF
which may be at once UNDER
stood from the fact that, Ia the
very moment Of It's utterahce. 1t
reversed the result Of the presidential
election of last November, and will
make Gov. Hayes President, though
hts opponent wac elected by q majority
OF twentysthfee electoral votes and d
pot ular majority OF very nearly three
hundred thousand.
The presidential Issue having now
been virtually settled upon this extra
ordinary but clearly defined and ems
phatically enuneiated doctrine, the
question With The people Of Louisiana
Ia, will the President, will Gov. Hayes,
will the Republican party. stand by the
doctrine al they have declared 1t, and
adhere consisten ly to 1t Ia their deal
ings With this Slater II 90, we shall be
content.
The national Issue was In hahas pthef
than ours yet We stood by those 10
whom Il was entrusted until their COW.
ardice and folly lost all that had been
won. Tho people OF Louisiana must
now look to their own local interests.
Louisiana has no quarrel with the Fed.
eral government. She Ia prepared to
recognize whoever may be President
with the power to maintain bic author
ity. A majority of from eight to nine
thousand of her people preferred Gov.
Tilden for President; they prefer Gov.
'rilden now; they believe that he was
and that he ought to be inau-
But II the 4.2bs.ooo national
Democrats who voted for Mr.. Til
den and elected him are una
BILE or unwilling to inaugtirate
him. and II the forty millions OF tho
American people accept the rulings OF
the Electoral Tribunal and recognize
Mr.. Hayes, we see nothing for the
thousand Louisiana Demo.
Gratis to do but to recognize him also.
We assume, then, that Gov. Hayes
will be declared President and inaugu-
rated. We have clearly explained the
upon which his title to that
exalted position will rest. II he and
his party are consistent; II they carry |
cut that principle In dealing with the
States, they are bound to recognize and
sustain the Nichols government. They
,annot refuse to do this without being |
guilty OF the grossest inconsistency.
md manifesting to the world the fact.
hat they are governed by no princi-
pie, no law, no sense Of justice or fair
ess. and that the sum and substance
il their whole theory OF politics and
government Is that might makes
light"
President Grant has time and again
that Kellogg was never elect
ID Governor of Louisiana. Mr.. Ed
nunds and Mr.. Hour have expressed
similar opinions; the Republican Sem
Ito refused to recognize Gov. Pinch
back as q Senator though his claim to a
,eat In tho Senate was identical with
kellogg's title to the gubernatorial
office. And finally, tho whole country |
knows that Kellogg never was the legal
Governor OF Louisiana. Yet the Elec-
soral Tribunal ruled that q certificate
given by such Governor, based on the
notoriously fraudulent action of on IL
legally constituted Returning Board Is |
binding upon the Federal govern
nent, and upon this ruling Governor
Hayes will be made President. Then. II
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