The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-01

the facts are not as we state them Gross and
palpable frauds the people of Louisiana.
and through them on the American people, have
been given voice and power to proclaim lie. to
nullify truth, and to reverse the Will of the ma
fjority of that people. If the false and forged
returns made by the four men, of whom one is
too weak to be knave, another tricky unscrrl-
pulous, and defaulter in public office, a third
a sharper who cheats at keno and defrauds his
State, and the fourth confessedly guilty and in
dicted for forging dead mems names on paw
rolls of his cityf these ''returns," certified by
an Executive whose only title to his place is
Federal bayonets, are to be conclusive proof of
title to the Presidency, then a Government of
law is superseded by one of force and fraud
A majority of the people of :the United States
whose rights are outraged by this decision, a
system of jurisprudence that finds a remedy for
| every wrong, a Government that has repealed
force and has Unborn yigor to resist corruption,
and code of morals that shrinks from the
poisonous touch of falsehood and forgery are
here to-day in silent but majestic protest against
this judgment. The laws of the people whom
I represent are based on common right, COM
| mon justice, and common sense, and they be-
lieve that the end of legal proceedings is the
attainment of justice They will not respect
a decision that refuses to hear the truth !;
that indorses falsehood, sustains forgery,
and places the Federal Government at the
agitate for it's reversal The result before us is
fifty reached. 1t is the decree of party wrong
| by party fealty from judicial tribunal upon
purely legal question. May we never look upon
| its like again.
Mr.. Sargent, in the course of his remarks,
said that frauds had been committed in Louis
lana by the Democrats, and it was by such
means that they expected to seize the Presi-
| dency. It was by such means that few DAYS
ago an assassin attempted, in the State House
of Louisiana, to take the life of the man whom
more than one-half of the people of the State
had elected Governor. Laughter on the Dem
ocratic side.]
Mr.. Sargent Cooking toward Withers) said
| the Senator might laugh at that fact. Did the
Senator laugh at the fact that one of his party
papers in this city yesterday counseled the as
sassination of Gov Hayes?
| Mr.. Withers-No, do not laugh at that.
| Mr.. Sargent-DOes the Senator laugh at the
fact that his party is responsible for the assas
sination of Abraham Lincoln? Does the Sena-
tor deny that?
Mr.. Withers-Yes sir deny it fairly and
squarely.
Mr. Sargent, resrming, said the Democratic
party was stained all over with the crime of
assassination. 1t had assassinated from the
best man God ever created, Abraham Lincoln,
down to the poorest negro in Mississippi.
Mr. Withers said, before replying to the til
rade of the Senator from California, he desired
to state that he supported the bill for the crea-
ton of the Electoral Commission in the hope
that the members drawn from the judicial de-
partment of the Government would give the
subject fair judicial consideration, but he was
mistaken. This decision had demonstrated the
fact that the members of the Supreme Court,
the highest tribunal in the land, could not rise
above party any more than pronounced politi-
clans. He then alluded to the charges made by
from fro,,o
Ohio (Sherman), that the Democratic party was
responsible for all the wrongs committed, and
said three-fOurths of the violence in the South
had been instigated and brought about by the
Republican party.
Mr. Boutwell, said he believed the people of
this country would accept the Judgment of the
commission, and that the Supreme Court would
lose no prestige by the action of it's members
| Mr.. Stevenson said the proceedings Of the
American Senate to-day would live as long as
constitutional government lasted, or the princi-
pies of liberty had votary. He voted for the
bill creating the Electoral Commission, and he
did so in the interest of peace. It had been
said there was but one Democrat VINO voted
against it. Thank God there was but one, be-
cause the Democratic party met this matter
| upon the broad basis of fair investigation.
| When the bill was passed it was expected that
there would be free, full, and fair investiga-
ton, and that the judgment would be rendered
III ACCORDANCE VITA the proofs. MIR. stevenson
then referred TO the condition of Louisiana,
and said this Returning Board had been so sue
cessful in governing the State that they might
as well extend their operations and govern the
nation.
Mr.. Howe said the Senator from Kentucky
(Stevenson] had admonished the Senate that
the proceedings of this day would live. That
was true and in his (Howe's) judgment, it was
a pity that it was true. He thought it would be
better for the fame of the republic if these
proceedings could be buried out of sight as soon
as they could be finished. For days the waves
of vituperatiOn had broken at the feet of the
Electoral Commission in order to coerce that
commission into the crucifixion of the rights of
a State, and to-day these same foaming surges
beat upon the heads of the members of the
commission to cruelty them because they
would not consent to cruelty State The
commission and it's judgment would survive, as
it was just.
He thought it should be gladstone thing to
every man who cherished the reputation of the
Democratic party that the commission did not
| go behind the returns. AS Republican cher
ishing the past of the Republican party he would
not care when the blankets were all stripped off
| this Louisiana case.
Mr.. Christiancy argued that the Electoral
Commission was equally fair to both parties.
| He voted for tha hill nsta hishinp the Electoral