Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-28
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sEmAIoa PATTERSON ExflANa
In the senate on Monday, while IL quss.
ton Of taking Butlers case from t6s tom.
mites - privileges aud slsclioas was under
reconsideration, SENATOR P.t.esson sid:
Nj. Prssident, Il Wa net my intention
10 sddrsss|th b senais . day. Ipropuse "
morrow, on the main question, TO address
tie senate at sone length, but ii l can say
anything that will quiet th. alarm of my
republican friends on this aide Of the cham
bel, l want to do il. The republican party
has been ahravs party, but ! never saw j.!
SO lutt. red in nv life as it ID j0.t now, and
tor no cause n the world. What is the
que ton before this body? The question Is
on tl.e. resolution to discharge the committee
of n. q. Butler,a gentleman whp, on thi
persons, their asAociaIes, for voting as they
do in Mi resolution, should frat admit and
confess whose fault it is that this man is here
to-day. We have been in session since the
18th Of ,Ociober and there has been no
lnuvement.xnd no report from the committee
on elections regarding any Of these cases
Every senator on this side Of the chamber
nss known the anxiety that reports should
be made on these cases. Frequently have l
told my friends on this side III It ii reports
IN the Kellogg case came up l would Stand
by that report until it was settled, aud l
never told democrat on the other side OF
the chamber, except Gen. Butler, that Il
this motion was made in this case ! would
vote for it in preference to voting. on KEEL
|. p9's case. told Gen, Butler that if the
kellogg report Was not brought up and they
should delay it, aud his friends should
bring up Y motion for his admission, l
would stand by the motion. Ii that
be corruption, call it corruption and
make the most Of it. Mr.. President, l
am . senator on this floor. l have
taken the same oath that every other sen.
ator has takeo. l Propose to do my duty,
and there is nc more power in the senate
or out of il that can drive me from what l
believe right. l am prepared TO give the
senate and the country the reasons why l
vote for the admission OF n. z. Butler as
senator from South Carolina. and am ready
To stand or fall upon the verdict OF the pub
tic when I give those reasons. There has
been 50 much said on this question in the
newspapers, and there has been so much
said on this question in tue streets, that l
now propose to reply to some things that
nave been said here. II is said [ propose To
transfer the political power Of this body to
the democratic party. No mar living has
authority to quote me for such purpose. |
would sooner lose my right arm than do
anything to endanEer the supremacy Of the
republican party. 1t voting for Gen. NJ. e.
Butler Because he is honestly and fairly
elected is to destroy the republican party,
God knows 1t ought to be destroye ed very
SION The republican party cannot be
affected BY a question of right. 1t is not
my fault that the case of Kellogg is not BE-
fore the senate and that his case was not
voted upon before The case of Gen. Butler
that matter. If it bad been left with me l
would not have brought up the resolution,
nut it is here and l stand here to represen:
the people Of South Carolina. When l
vote for Gen. II q. Butler l know l am
voting to carry out the will and wish OF the !
people whom l have the honor to represent
IN this floor. The courts have
decided that the legislature which
elected him is a legal aud lawful
body, and l am bound to obey their man.
date, ana l propose to do it. Some people
affect my vote. There is not a senator on
this side of the chamber who does not know
that it was published all summer that
would vote for the admission of Gen. NJ.
Z. Butler. When he legislature met I'M
der call Of Gov. Hampton on the 24.h Of
April, 1877, l was at Columbia. The Cham
berlain government hao vanished. Whose
fault was that? l think there are around
me some gentlemen who stood by the presi.
dent and who advised the president to COM
nit what l think the greatest blunder Of
his administration and that was to remove
the troops from the state house in South
Carolina. fought thai policy as long as
| could and wish l could have continued
fighting it to this day, but l was stricken
down and my party went down with me.
My friends assembled in Columbia after the
Legislature Was organized. l took their ad.
vice upon this question, lawyers and men,
bers Of the sen tie and members OF the house
who had voted for me. 1 submitted to
them The question, now what must l do?
and they all told me with very few excep-
tions, all you can do now is to vote to aeat
Butter. But they say the Hampton legis.
lature is legal, lawful and constitutional.
We think it is better for the peace and
quiet and protection of our people and you
should not antagonize them on that qnes-
zion. and you should vote to seat Gen. But.
Ter. l have p enty Of witnesses here to
the truth Of that statement that went
on. came to Washington in
May. I had an interview with
a reporter Of the National Republican of
this city in which I announced distinctly
that l would vote for Buffers admission
and gave my reason, and it went all ov. +
the country; but now because my friends on
this side Of the chamber who believed they
could persuade me not to do so, perhaps
some Of then were silly enough 10 bel .eve
that they could bulldoze me into not doing
it, affect great surprise. After what l have
passed through in South Carolina in eight
years in political campaigns, l do not pro-
pose to be bullr ozed in this senate to show
the feeling of the republicans in South Caro-
lima. l mention that on last Thursda1