The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-26
LETTER FROM SENATOR MORTON.
The Administration sustained-F Of Re.
publicanism,

ten by prominent southern republican,
asking bis views on the political situa ion,
and also in answer to many letters from
different poin's cor corning the Louisiana
senatorial contest. Mr.. Morton's letter,
which is very long, details the well known
circumstances attending the election Of
Kellogg to the senate, and the action of
that body on his ere ientlals, and says, If
majority Of the senate shall at the next ses-
sion be of opinion that Kellogg was law
fully elected, he will be entitled to his seat,
Notwithstanding events that have since &C.
Cured Unless Kellogg should voluntari-
ly withdraw, the senate will have to decide
the question as it stood at the time of the
adjournment. Mr.. Morton continues:
The republican governments of Lousi-
ana and South Carolina have gone down
before an armed minority, whose threats
of future violence were guaranteed by a
long train of bloody deeds in the past. /
regret that the real character of the trans
action should be obscured in the least by
pretended investigations or negotiations.
Stripped of all DISCUSSES and pretences, the
simple fact Is that Packard aud Chamber
lain were not able to maintain themselves
in authority, and the government ia the
exercise of its discretion refused them sup
port. Their legislatures finding themselves
defeDseless, 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 threatened democratic majority in the
Louisiape election cost many lives and was
the product of most Infamous and damning
crimes. Murders and crimes had been
proved, and a blood-stained minority had
set aside the majority by unlawful process.
The administration decided that the con-
tending parties must be left TO their own
strength and resources. 1t was apparently
worked out through the presence of the
commission, and seemed to take the form
of negotiations. Assurances were given
that the rights of all classes should be res
| pected, and the government administered
| for the equal benefit of ALL General prom
Uses of this kind amount to little, especially
when left to the voluntary execution of a
party which believes the colored man ought
not to have political rights or even person.
al freedom: and who never considered them
part of the people. Hayes was urged 10
| give up Louisiana and South Carolina at
once, and was told 1t was only question
| of time that at the next election they
would go as Mississippi, Alabama and other
states had. However repusive this arg
ment, 1t was unfortunately too true. Tdis
was the argument of expediency, not right
and justice.
What might have been the suit had
Grant promptly recognized Packard and
Chamberlain in January, and declared his
purpose to sustain them, it is not now nec-
essary to discuss; but he did not, and when
Hayes came into power he found these gov
ernments existing only in name, surround
ed by enemies, living only from day to day
toy the presence and protection of troops.
IL would have been in the power of the
president to maintain them by the army.
democratic house of representatives recent.
ly withheld appropriations for the support
of the army, except on condition that il
should not be used in southern states. This
was clearly unconstitutional. The N
jOrity in the house of southern democrq
being ex-confederates and desperately
earnest, and the northern democr
wholly subservent, they thus threaten
the existence Of the army and had ID
their power to destroy it, The quest
was, should the president yield to the in'
liable There are, and have been
years, many republicans in the north ",
have deprecated the use of the army
the support Of the republican state goveN
ments in the south. The republican ma
jority in the senate upon the southern ques
ton is but nominal If it existed at all
While in my judgment it was clearly righ
for the president under the constitution Il
recognize Packard and support him by tn,
military, the undertaking would hav,
proved futile and the failure disastrous
With divided public opinion In his OWL
party and both houses of congress agains
him, he would fail in the end. We bav,
had so much talk about Cancellation ant
fraternity that many well meaning peopl,
in the north had come to believe that al
that was necessary to secure tranquility an(
equal rights in the south was to Withdraw
!, the army, the republicans to abandon tn,
, struggle and commit the government to thu
white democrats of these states. The pro
fessed yearDipg for peace ard fraternity o
the very men who planned the massacre
! in Louisiana Mississippi and South caro-
lima have been received with a disgust in
tensely nauseating to tho people who I'm
derstood the facts.
The painful truth is that political muir
ders in the south have ceased to be shock
ing, and are readily justified by the ener
getic talk about carpet-baggers, scalawag
and radical thieves. Not man has beef
punished for the butcheries at Hamburg
Ellenton, Colfax, Coushatta, Mechanics in
, stitute, Clinton, Vicksburg or any other o
the hundred slaughters of republicans tina
might be named. l do not believe tn
I president intends to destroy the Iepublca
, party and attempt the erection of a neN
one l believe in his patriotism, high in
tegrity, and undivided purpose to make tn
7 administration efficient Mr.. Hayes bega
the conduct of national affairs under Gil
I cumstanoes Of extraordinary difficulty
when the minds of men were greatly d
vided as TO what should be done. Will
all were agreed that something should b
done, and that things could not long go o
as they were, he marked out his course an
8 addressed himself to 1t with undaunte
: courage. Hayes was elected as q repul
4, lican, and l believe will be a republica
- president, not in mere partisan way bI
0 in the sense of devotion to republican pril
: clples and the maintenance Of the repul
4 lican organization by placing politics
power in the bands of worthy and qualifle
republicans. Organization in politics is
a necessary as in war. The southern peop
4 are not now preparing schemes for futui
\ secession, but are with intense earnestneI
a revolving plans for recovering from the
/ great losses. For this purpose they wi
A support the democratic party north as Ion
q as 1t is subservient TO their policy.
q Mr.. Morton dwells at length on III
q point, and says the south will stand by II
r party that faVors their ends, among the
!. payment for rebel property taken or d.
!. stroyed by the Union army. He says tt
q den's letter on the rebel claims lost him h
e hold upon the south, and had much to
a in restraining them from flibustering I
II prevent the electoral count. In the la
| honaa tho dividing limo hat waan tha rah