The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-07
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WASHINGTON. May Is.
Morton publishes letter on the situa-
ton In answer to an open letter published
in the New York Times and other private
letters. He says regarding the creden-
tials of Kellogg, after they had been re-
terred to his committee: The committee
on Privileges and Elections met soon af-
terward, and the Republican members
united in a report that p1snaa Jacie 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 the act
of Congress, and was entitled to be sworn
in and take his seat. AS number OF
members Of the Senate were absent, and
the subject would lead to long debate,
and there was general anxiety to adjourn,,
the report was not laid before the Senate.
IF a 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
jup of that Legislature, combination or
arrangement can in the: least effect his
title or destroy the legality of what took
place at that time, though the very mem
bers who proclaimed the election of Pack
ard and made that of Kellogg should sub,
seduentlys declare that of Nichols and
take part in the election of Spoford. 1t
is too clear for argument that they could
not take;away the rights whichfhadv
lor make that unlawful which had been
before lawful. Unless Kellogg yolunta-
rily withdraws, the Senate will have to
decide the question Of his electionsas it
stood at the time Of the adjournment
The Republican governments of Louis
lana and South Carolina have yielded to
force. They have gone down before an
armed minority, whose threats of future
violence were guaranteed by long train
of bloody 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 pretenses,
the simple fact is that Packard and
Chamberlain were not able to maintain
themselves in authority, and the govern
nnent 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 to oppose them.
The law 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.
Hesays the Republican majority in the
Senate upon the Southern question is but
nominal if at all. Five Republican
Senators voted at the late executive ses-
sion against seating Kellogg, and to refer
his credentials to committee, thus re-
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-
siana since 1873; by voting against seating
q Senator chosen by it. While, in my
Judgment, it was clearly the right of the
President, under the constitution, to re-
cognize the Packard government and
support it by military power, the under
taking would have been futile, and the
failure disastrous. With divided public
opinion in his party, and both Houses of
Congress against him, he would. have
failed in the end. The Democratic House
has power to destroy the army entirely,
and from my knowledge of the Senate, 1
am sure the Republican majority Of that
body could hardly be relied on to support
Hayes in such a course.
Z I don't believe that President Hayes
intends to destroy the Republican party
and attempt the erection of a new one on
its ruins. I believe in his patriotism and
his integrity, his undivided purpose to
make the administration a 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
hold upon the South, and was made to
feel it in the late struggle in Congress.
No Democrat who can divide will repeat
his blunder. In the late House the divid-
ing line between rebel and loyal claims
was ignored. The distinction in the
rebel and Union debt will be obliterated
and lost; slaves will be treated as other
property sacrificed by our government.
It will not all be done or avowed at once,
but step by step, already more rapid,
until the public mind has become de-
moralized. The rebellion has ceased to
be q crime scarcely mistake. The
complete revolution of the fraternity will
demand an abolition of all distinction in
law between loyalty and treason. The
Republican party was never more neces.
sary to the nation than it is to-day. All
talk about laying down the Republican
organization to take up new one with
new title, into which old Confederates
may enter without wounding their sus-
capabilities, would be criminal if it were
not supremely absurd idea.
A NEW AIR-SH1P.-There has recently
been constructed in the old building, at
the corner of Ninth and Fairmount ave-
nue., formerly occupied by the Philadel-
phia Scale and Beam Works, a new air,
ship, the ascending power of which will
be hot air. The balloon is about eighty
FIVE feet in height, and fifty in diameter,
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