The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-12
LOUISIANA TN THE UNITED STATES
SENATE.

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Louisiana has at last been admitted to rep
resentation in the United States Senate She
has been ruthlessly and insultingly excluded
from this right of every member of the con-
federacy for the last twelve years. Nay,
worse, her senatorial chairs have been occu-
pied by a succession of knaves and corrupt
scoundrels, who were foisted into their places
through the power and patronage of the Fed
eral government, which, by it's Intervention
in theaffairs of our State. has brought all the
disgrace and misery that have marked our
political history since the war.
And yet SO far as the United States Senate
is concerned, the wrong to our State has only
been half repaired. One Of the Senatorial
chairs is still occupied by CONSPICUOUS rep
resentative of the carpet-bag villainy which
for more than a decade has rioted on the dis
grace, plumber and ruin of our State And
he the embodiment and representative of the
greatest outrage ever perpetrated upon q
State since the foundation of this republic.
Can there be any atonement for the usurpa-
ton Of 1873 -75 for the base uses to which
the judicial and military power of the Federal
government were applied, as long as the
Senate of the United States is disgraced and
insulted by the presence therein of William
Pitt Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana !?
The people of Louisiana are impotent to
avenge and correct this wrong, to wipe from
her escutcheon and history this disgrace.
But the Senate of the United States is not
without this power, and certainly it's honor
and reputation demand that its body should
be purged Of the cancerous excrescence which
the admission of Kellogg has attached to it,
scrutiny of the history of his political ca
reer in this State will develop enough
grounds for the application of that power of
the Senate, which it has not been slow in the
past to exercise against unworthy members.
The history of Kellogg in this State is
replete with frauds, mac hinations, venalty,
and every vice of corrupt and unscrupulous
trickster and partisan. Is it not duty the
Senate owes to its own dignity and reputa-
ton as well as to the Republic to make
inquiry into these misdeeds Of one of its
members? When it can be shown that he
obtained his admission into the Senate by the
most fragrant bribery and corruption; that
through such means he managed to hold
his seat in the Senate for four years;
that when forced into the gubernatorial chair
of this State by Federal bayonets he was the
chief concoctor of various fraudulent con-
spiracies which have resulted in the large
increase of the public debt, and that he
closed his usurped gubernatorial career by a
collision with an auditor who was his tool
and the agent of his financial plots, to plum
der and make way with the archives of the
State and thus destroy the evidence of his
numerous manifestations; when these and
hundred other like crimes against the State
can be distinctly brought home to him, can
any man worthy to wear the Senatorial robes,
and to be looked up to with the reverence due
to the Conscript Fathers Of the Republic, re-
gard without blush this occupation of one of
the Senatorial chairs by William Pitt Kellogg.
With relief, pride and qualification we hail
one act Of justice and duty which the Senate
has discharged towards our State. This is
the admission of James b. Eustis, who was
elected two years ago to the then vacant seat
in the Senate, but has been deprived of the
same and the State OF his valuable services
and honest representation for several sittings
Of the body.
Mr.. Eustis now assumes his proper place as
the worthy representative of Louisiana. A
native Of the State, of descent from the best
Massachusetts stock on the fathers, and the
best Creole blood on the mothers side, he
possesses in a remarkable degree the qualifica-
tions of a Louisiana Senator. Thoroughly
educated under both the Northern and South
ern educational systems distinguished
graduate of Harvard, inheriting the remark
able logical power and acumen and strong
natural sagacity of his distinguished
father, SO long the eminent Chief
Justice of this State, always student of
men and affairs as well as of books. James
B. Eustis is destined to assume and maintain
a high position in thu front rank of the
rising statesmen in our national councils
This is the confident expectation of his
fri ends. They have even a greater confidence
that he will ever maintain the honor, rights
and interests of louisiana and defend and
represent the principles to which her people
h ave pledged their devotion and loyalty.