Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-12-14
FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. "A, 1877.
TOICES OF WARNING.

FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. IA, 1877.
TOICES OF WARMING.
While result of the parliamentary strug-
gle in the Senate which ended in the seat
ing of both BUTLER OF South Carolina and
KELLOGG Of Louisiana, was OF no advan-
tage to either political party in point of
adding to it's power, yet the struggle has
been of immense advantage 10 the country
and especially the estates lately in rebel
lion'' as uncovering the purpose and
thought of the Republican party. 1t is
worthy of remark, as exemplifylng the re-
result of Republican rule in the last twelve
years, that its success in holding supremacy
in the Senate depended on the "loyalty"
Of two carpet-bag Senators from the South.
One was J. ]. PATTERSON, (of Pennsylva-
MAJ from South Carolina. about whom it
has just been developed that he was cleo
ted to the Senate by buying members of the
legislature, the money being paid, as testi-
fed before an investigating committee of
the legislature now sitting, through HEN
RY G WoRTHINGTON, one of the Gre
publicans" in Virginia in reconstruction
times. in sums varying from $3.50 to 81, $50.
There is at this moment requisition from
the Governor OF South Carolina for PAT
TERsoN to bring him back for trial for
felony in robbing the State treasury. This
is one of the Senators of the United States
so highly appreciated by the Vice Presi
dent ofthe United States that, as presiding
officer of the Senate, he appointed him
Chairman of the Committee on Territories
and member of the committees of Com
merce, of Education and Labor, and of
Civil Service and Retrenchment !! The
other was S. B. CoNovER, of Florida,
who was Chairman Of the Committee of
Enrolled Bills and member of several
important committees. He was one of the
camp followers of the war who landed in
Florida in 1866, as an U. S. army surgeon
and went into politics as carpet-bag poll
tician of the first rank. 1t was upon two
such statesmen as these that the suprema-
cy Of the Republican party was fifty
poised. Both had bolted their party Or
CARNATIONS enough to promise to vote for
BUTLER, Democrat of South Carolina
over his Republican constituent, CORBIN,
and both had pledged themselves 10 vote
for KELLOGG, Republican Of Louisiana,
over his Democratic competitor, SPoF
FORD. Could these two men have been
kept firmly dressed in the Republican
ranks both KELLOGG and CoRBIN would
have been admitted which would have Civ
en- the Republicans a majority of four in
the Senate for the next fifteen months, af-
ter which it will be Democratic body by
six or seven majority.
With such motives and with such men
the fight commenced, led On the Republl-
can side by EDMUNDs, of Vt, who had re.
fused to support PINCHBACK, Of La.
whose claims are similar to those Of KEEL.
LOG, and on the Democratic side by THUR
MAN. The details Of the struggle, the ad-
roitness of the two leaders. whole nights
spent in sessions which only ended with the
dawn, and the final consultation between
/. the leaders which resulted in the admis-
sion Of both BUTLEE and KELLOGG, were
exciting but were not important save in
zone striking feature-the development of
old bloody shirt was raised, the cry of
treacherous ''rebels" was repeated, the
Radical Senators talked of what they would
do, forgetting that the power to do it had
passed away from them; the speeches
sounded like those delivered by the NOR
TONS and WADEs and PHILLIPS during the
last Presidential election. The speakers
in the heat of the fight and maddened at
. their own impotency gave ont with certain
sound what their views with regard to the
necessity of maintaining the rule of the
party and all the reasons-the old old rea-
sons, which having vanished from the
Presidential chair. and from the House OF
Representatives are now only heard in the
Senate of the United States. The DEBATE
leaves On the mind of the reader not sin
gle doubt that, if the power was there, the
Republican party Of the country would
undo all the work of reconciliation Of Pres
ident HAYES administration, and go
back to the recipe of BLAINE and NOR
TON.
It comes in good time. The universal
ft eling Of reconciliation at the South,
arising out of the policy of the President.
is sought in many quarters to be utilized
for the breaking up of the Democratic
party in the South, and the formation OF
new combinations. 1t has been sounded
in our ears in siren tones that old questions
have passed aWay-the Senatorial debate
of last week does not show it; that all hos
tility to the States lately in rebellion has
, passed away-the debate developed its
existence at white heat. We sh uld be
glad to know that all these things are true,
but as long as the Republican party chooses
leaders with such sentiments it must not
ask for the confidence Of our people.
The Democratic party, which has shown
such uncomfortable vigor: which has
forced it's way up from under military &C.
cupation and the rule OF the bayonet; from
under test oaths and prescription, until it
is to-day the greatest power in the land, is
the party of free people. No new COM
binations and formations for the South;
NO half-breed political gods on her affairs!
She knows where her safety lies, for her
enemies too often remind her Of it-they
will not allow her to forget it. Such re-
hinder has been the debate over these two
Republican statesmen, PATTERSON and
CoNoyER. Tt did the Republicans more
harm that the silent seating OF BUTLER
and SPoFFoRD would have done.
9>%>+>E
Rev. Jas. II. Eccleston, of Newark, n.
J., nephew of Archbishop Eccleston of