New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16

ject in calling for the reading by his
Democratic friend was intended to defeat
the count altogether"
Mr. Wood, loyal Democrat demanded
the yeas and nays, which resulted in 1874
votes against the reading and 81 votes in
its favor. The fight still went on. Mr..
Wood, loyal Democrat, moved to proceed
with the consideration of the Carolina
count, and was INSTRUCTED with storm
of motions for recess and appeals. Speak
er Randall, loyal Democrat, stood nobly
at his post. He overruled the motions
for delay. He said incidentally that he
concurred personally in the belief that
the lawfully elected President was to be
counted out, but he was infexible and
impregnable in his decisions. When the
House had voted not to allow criminal
waste of time Mr.. Walling, Democrat,
moved to reconsider the vote, and Mr..
Wood, loyal Democrat, moved to lay this
motion on the table, and the filibusters,
called up to the charge for the last time,
were defeated; yeas 1T, nays 70.
Mr.. Springer, Democrat, still attempted
to waste time by reading portion of the
testimony just refused. Speaker Randall,
loyal Democrat, overruled the proposition,
and here closed the struggle by uttering
the following honorable words;
The real difficulty in this matter, the
Chair desires to suggest to the DemOcratic
gentleman from Missouri, is the ldI0. The
law is binding upon the Chair. The Chair
had nothing to do with the reporting of the
law, but the Chair is bound to abide by the
terms of the law.
To this rebuke the [Democraticl gentle
man was compelled to reply, ''to that I
do not object" and the Speaker replied,
''The Chair hopes not, for the gentleman
himself reported the law, in part. :"
Upon a scrutiny of these obstructive
votes, it appears that such violent
Southern Democrats as Hooker and Knott
voted to violate the electoral compromise.
Of this class was composed nearly half
the filibuster power. There was no Re-
publican obstructive combination. Ken
lucky, headed by Watterson, and Vir-
ginia by Goode, stood to the compromise.
Messrs. Gibson and Ellis did not vote on
the test questions, We acknowledge the
obligations of the nation to the loyal De-
mocracy. A new trap had been set for
them. 1t was baited with the solid
South. 1t was supposed that with this
bride they would sustain the bulldozers
even in the halls of Congress. The
temptation was great, but these men
revered the Union. They had never been
accustomed, as their allies had been,
to regard it as of no value. They
would not risk the destruction of
a Union which many of them had borne
arms to preserve. They said: eve can
not do your work. Take back your bride.
Rather than see this work of our fathers
perish we will submit to the victory of
our worst political enemies" The baffled
conspirators vented their rage for mo-
ment, but their sagacity at once counter
acted their disappointment They asked
the unmeaning denunciation of the ad-
ministration which appears in the address
of Messrs. Hewitt, Gibson and others, and
the Democracy is again consolidated on
the same basis, only it is understood that
while the loyal Democracy will go any
lengths in fraud or bribery, whether in
Tammany or Oregon, it will never become
responsible for resisting the laws or dis
solving the Union. This fidelity of the
loyal Democracy binds the Union even
stronger than before. 1t is now very GER
tain that the Democracy can neither
destroy it from without or from within.
They have tried both plans.