Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-04
THE SENATE AND THE REFORMERS
ATBOTH ENDS OF THE REPUBLIC.

The short, inglorious squabble over Butler
of South Carolina, the position SO defantly
assumed by Patterson and the attitude given
to the President excite some reflections away
from the ordinary course. Now if Hayes is
right in his assumptons-the premises of his
policy-instead of being neutral upon the
question of admitting Butler, he ought to
have made it known that he sympathised with
him and approved of Patterson's action in
the matter 1t was his influence which turned
Louisiana over to the Democrats, unseated
Packard and gave the rebels the Legislature
It was the influence of the Executive, exer-
cised by his hands, that put Wade Hampton
at the head of affairs in South Carolina and
wrenched that State from Republican control
If he was right in thus promoting Confederate
ascendency in the States of Louisiana and
South Carolina, he was wrong in declining to
exert his influence to put Butler in and keep
Kellogg out of the Senate. If Hayes's Policy
is justifable, Patterson could not in honesty
do anything else than pursue the course he
has seen fit to adopt. And yet Hoar of Mas
sachusetts, a superserviceable supporter of
Hayes's policy was conspicuous in his opposi-
ton to Butler. When Sumner seeded from
the Republican party and went over to the
Doolittle- Trumbull- Schurz faction and sup
ported Horace Greeley for the Presidency he
was an ally of the Southern Democracy. He
went SO far as to present resolution that the
names of victories won by our arms against
the rebels be stricken from all regmental
flags. To have been consistent, had he lived,
he would have sustained Hayes and voted for
Butler. And yet it was because Of his denun-
of Buffers father that Preston Brooks caned
him in his seat in the Senate Chamber, Hor
ace Greeley, for daring to write to the Tribune
from Washington in denunciation of certain
performances of Rust of Arkansas, was cow
hided on Pennsylvania Avenue by that en-
ragged slave master. Now we find Butler, a
tempestuous White liner, resting under the
accusation of being participant in the mas
sacre of Negroes at Hamburg, South Carolina,
fierce in his hatred of the Radicals and I'M
compromising in his declarations of illegiti-
macy against all Legislative acts done and &C
complished under carpet bag rule, not only
accepting a seat in the Senate by the
help of Patterson, but in constant, secret
communication with him up to the time of his
being sworn of his office The charges
brought against Patterson are, first, that he
got his seat in the Senate at the hands of |
revolutionary and Legitimate Legislature
and, second, that he obtained his election at |
these unworthy and incompetent hands by |
bribery, fraud and acts of dishenor And yet |
the Democracy are glad to have his vote;
when, if these charges are true, he has no
honest rig ht to either seat or vote The ca
pacity for human consistency has not much
since the days of the English revo-
ution when, in order to establish their loyalty
20 the new order of things under William of
Orange, the radical tories and Clergy of the
Church found it necessary, though
to relax their principles and
their professions concerning the di-
vine right of Kings as applied to the Princes
If the House of Stuart