The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-07
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| .iVu IA GAiaHSd " III UpSn icttSt pGfHlsueu
in tho New YnSk gsmes and ether private
t.sls cf Kellogg, aitar thiey had bsssiii TO
ON Privileges and Elections met soon af-
terward, and the Republican members
united in report that jprinta .(acie S. B.
Packard was the lawful Governor of
Louisiana, the Packard Legislature was
the lawful Legislature, and that Kellogg
had been elected in conformity to tie act
of Congress, and was entitled to be sworn
in and take bis seat AS Il number Of
membeFS Of the Senate we're absent, aud
the subject would lead to leng debate,
arssfSs there sss ere was geeAral anxiety 10 adidnku
heFeport was not laid before the Senate.
If o majority of the Senate shall at its
next session be Of opinion that Kellogg
was lawfully elected by the Legislature
of Louisiana, he will be entitled TO q seat,
Notwithstanding the events that have
since occurred. No subsequent breaking
up of that Legislature. combination or
arrangement can in the least effect his
title or destroy the legality Of what took
place 81 that time, though the very men,
bers who proclaimed the election Of Pack
ard and made that of Kellogg should sub
sequently declare that Of Nichols and
take part In the election of Spofford It
is too clear for argument that they could
not take away therights which had vested
or make that unlawful which had been
| before lawful. Unless Kellogg volnnta-
| rily withdraws, the Sehatc will have to
decide the question Of his election as it
stood at tbs lime of the adjournment.
The Republican governments Of Louis
| lana and South Carolina have Welded to
force. They, have gone down before an
armed minority, whose threats of future
violence were guaranteed by long train
of blCcdy deeds, done 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 disguises and prctcnses.
the simple fact Is that Packard and
Chamberlain were not able to maintain
Themselves in authority, and the govern
-nent Of the United States, in the exer-
else of its discretion, refused Its support.
Then the Legislatures, finding themselves
defenseless. fell to pieces, and from their
ruins in part new Legislatures have been
constituted, whose legality consists In the
fact that there are none 10 oppose them.
The Inv and the rights Of the majority
have yielded to an armed aggressive mi
| nority.
| Morton, after describing what Grant
might have done, intimates that had
Hayes proceeded to maintain Packard
and Chamberlain by using the army, be
would have proceeded to inevitable defeat
Heaays the Republican majority in the
Senate upon the Southern question is bu!
nominal If at al. Five Republican
Senator'S voted at the late executive scs-
sion against seating Kellogg, and to refer
his credentials to n committee, titus re-
4 fusing to recognize the Packard govern.
ment; and o number of Republican Sen
ators, sufficient, when added to the Dem
ocratic members, to constitute majority,
have steadily refused to recognize the
Republican State government in Loui-
aiana since 1873, by voting against seating
Q Senator chosen by it. While, in my
Judgment, it was clearly the right Of tho
President, under the constitution, to re-
4 cognize the Packard government and
! support it by military power. the nnder:
taxing would have been futile, and the
failure disastrous. With divided public
4 opinion in his party. and both Houses of
| Congress againss i,..ra., s.e would have
| fliled in the emu. The Democrats House
has power to destroy the army entirely.
snd from my knowledge of the Senate. t
am sure the Republican majority Of that
body could hardly be relied on to support
Hayes in such course.
don't believe that President Hayes
intends to destroy the Republican party
and attempt the erection Of a new one on
its ruins. l believe in his patriotism and
his integrity, his undivided purpose to
make She administration benefit to the
| country.
| The large body of the white people
| who engaged in the rebellion are firmly
united in favor of several things, and
they will stand by the party that favors
them and oppose to the bitter end the
party that opposes them. Among these
is the payment for rebel property taken
| or destroyed By our armies. When Mr.
Tilden wrote his letter, just before his
election, against these claims, he lost his
bold upon the South, and was made TO
feel 1t in the lato struggle in Congress.
NO Democrat who can divide will repeat
his blunder. In the late House the diyid-
Ing line between rebel and loyal clnims
was ignored. The distinction in the
reDai end Union debt will be obliterated
and lost; alaves will bo treated as other
property sacrificed by our government.
It viii not all be done or ayowed ut once,
bus step by step, already more rapid,
until the public mind has become de-
mora;ized. The rebellion has ceased 10
be o crime scarcely mistake. The
complete revolution Of the fraternity will
dema.a an abolition Of all distinction in
law between Legally Legally and treason. The
Republican party was never more neces-
sary TO the nation than it ia to-day. All
talk about laying down the Republican,
organization to take ap new one with a
new title, into which old C0nfe6erates
may enter without wounding their sus.
Iceptibilities, would be criminal If It were
not supremely absurd idea.
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