The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-22

men of such character, WHO nave gwen
their lives to a cause. do not hetray It.
even for consideration. And now l
hear propositions and suggestions that
the democrats in Congress shorld go
back upon this agreement. and act nj
Congress, the law of the land, which
tiray sought to hring into eaistP''ce,
and did partert into 81 law. If we had
won. 81 course nobody would have com
planned. excei: She III !icals. INIT us we
have lost, hi-unrrnintnreut and NORTH
c.tiun are likely To tiihe tho place Of
I reason and opinions concerned Ill t1-
citement and passiUn will suralv nTove
unsuund anu imDraCtic;it,tn. A few
words ~, this pUinr will Suffice IT has
been urged hv some that the Hpnse
! should resort TO all kinds OF Fl iSbuster-
! ing an,l tliluturv action. so FIR rs %
lengtiIen uIt tile count Of til. electoral
vol,. until the 4th OF March. lu"rnby
preventing the defamation ~ HAYES
/ election. The advocates IF snch meas.
urea think that hv go doing the l'rtsi-
dent of the Senate would le"nmn the
/ President nf the United e,GH't-s. mat the
Secretary OF State would have to order
d new election /" lake I,sac'- nrAt NJ
vamher. amt then W. would secure that
which We had lost, ilalnct-, tine lection
OF democratic President Such :. pa
slrion is unsDund, and would rt.S lit IL
the total ruin Of the people. Because,
neither the constitution nor the act OF
1872 anywhere provides person to act
us President III contingency snch us
is now contemplated. The vacancy re-
ferred to in the presidency and vice
presidency has direct reference to Il
vacancy caused by Il resignation, death
or other manner of President OF Vice
Pre-; itent going out Of his position, and
presuppuses that SOMEBODY legally held
the position before there could be va
cancy. For in the great contest be-
tween Mr.. Jefferson and Aaron Burr
aud others in 1901, Mr.. Jefferson uni
Mr. Burr having an equal number Of
votes, there being no election by the
elect RS, and the election going to the
House, the Federal party h ED of, pnr-
suing this same diIatorv action, en-
deavoring thereby to prevent the el"c.
ton By the House. 80 that the Vice
President should become president.
Mr.. Jefferson said to Mr.. Adams that
the House might elect Mr. Burr if they
chose to, hui if the contest Was pro.
| trlcted until after the 4th of March.
they should not put III II man Dy virtue
of hio office us Vice Pres dent aud if
| the attempt was made 1t would be met
by force. Ii that position DC "A true one.
aud no iaUNer here of any respectable
aC lar 1s | ri,,,ltsy ~
clustering WIS rusorscd to aid ailmtHy
actions, 80 that no declaration Of Hayes
election should be made before the 9TH
OF March, We should hot oulv pa with
out President, but with no one under
the Constitution OF tie jaws 20 fill tilnt
position Plat is 5h. otnnl4u of. the
best lawyers III the Seaatc r:lII House
and Of some nientbrrs OF che supreme.
Conrt. What would lie the result in the
present excited condition, Of the cuun-
try! lint some great cuItftaln would
wise up amidst the anarchy that would
81 uceG74lty eiIsn". and rhe liberties uf
tho prop'o would be gone forever This
IL 40 fiction; II Is /. .iaiu realllt. ] wi
not portray tie darkness and misery
and crime that can be seen on a picture
snch MS this would paint, but leave il to
you to contemplate and seriously and
soberly think of.
L do not myself believe though that
that would be the result of such
course if we pursued it,. But the result
would be none the less fatal to Justice
and right, and the democratic party
Ally own oplnlon is that, us soon as the
mot ,,nI hat H. y . l
not intend to cooperate with it any
further in the electoral count, it would
give MS an Invitation to join it in the
count, and when We ,ec1ined. it would
proceed % connt and declare the e &C.
ton of hayes, and he would be installed
by Grant and the power of the Gov
ernme"t, and the Democrats would not
resist it, because we Of the South would
not be assisted in the matter. In such
result. Hayes would be installed into
office by the military power of the co,sn-
try, and the Democratic party would
have been charged with having broken
its faith, and standing with such
charge upon 1t, powepiess to carry out
Its programme, you cae yourself see
how dreadful would be its condition. |
The States of the South that we now
wish to hberate could then get no sym
pathy nor aid nor assistance from the
republican side. The democratic men,
beers of the South who are members of
the next Congress would be hustled
cut of their places, and their opponents
sworn into Office, We would lose the
House, destroy our vantage ground in
the Senate. and our party would be
paralyzed and broken up throughout
the length and breath of the land, and
the conspirators would not hesitate,
again having the minority in the House,