Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-06-02

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and take his seat As a number of mem
bcrs of the Senate were absent and the
subject would lead 10 long debate, and
there WAS II general anxiety 10 adjourn,
the report was not laid before the Senate
II a majority of the Senate shall at the
next session be of the opinion that KEEL
logg was lawfully elected by the lcgi,la-
ture Of Louisiana he will be entitled to his
seat Notwithstanding the events that have
since occurred. No subsequent breaking
upon of the legislature, combination or
arrangement can affect his title or destroy
the legality of what took place at the time
though the very members who proclaimed
the election of Packard and made that of
Kellogg should subsequently declare that
of Nichols and take part in the election
of SpotforG. 1t is too clear for argument.
They could not take away Il r ght which
had vested, or make that unlawful which
had been before lawful. Unless Kellogg
voluntarily withdraws, the Senate will
have to decide the question of his election
as it stood at the time of adjournment.
The Republican government of Louisiana
and South Carolina have yielded to force.
They have gone down before an armed
minority, whose threats of future vio-
lence were guaranteed by long train of
bloody deeds in the past. regret that
the real character of the transaction
should be Obscured in the least by the
pretended investigations or negotiations.
Stripped of all DISCUSSES and pretenses, tho
simple fact is that Packard and Chamber
lain were not able to maintain themselves
in authority, and the government of the
United States, in the exercise of its discre-
ton, refused them the United States sup.
port. Their legislatures, finding them
selves defenseless, fell to pieces, and from
their ruins, in part, new legislatures have
been constructed whose legality consists
only in the fact that they exist, and there
are none to oppose them. The admins
trati0n decided that such a case of in
surrectiOn and violence was not presented
as authorized the national government to
intervene, and that the contending par
tine IL 1rac oil ,rb
the presence of the commission and
seemed to take the form of negotiation.
Assurances were given that the rights of
all classes should be protected and the
government administer for the equal
benefit of all. General promises of this
kind amount to little, especially when left
to the voluntary execution of party
which believes that the colored man ought
not to have political rights, or even per.
sonal freedom, andwho have never consib-
cred him part of the people. President
Hayes was urged to give up Louisiana and
South Carolina at once, and was told, it
was only question of time; that at the
next election they would go as Mississippi,
Alabama and other States had, and
it would be better to give them up at
once. However repulsive this argument,
it was unfortunately true. The same
crimes and violence which had wrenched
Mississippi and Alabama from the Repub.
lican party, and had so nearly captured
Louisiana and South Carolina would Ger.
tainly succeed the next time. This was an
argument of expediency, not of right ana
! justice.
President Hayes has accepted the situa.
tion as il was bequeathed TO him on the
ith Of March. Republican government in
| Louisiana and South Carolina could only
, be kept in place by the army. nor would Il
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