Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-05
Kellogg and Butler both in the
United States Senate.

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United States Senate.
At2 O'Clock CO Saturday morning
the United States Senate came to vote
on the questions of seating Kellogg
from Louisiana, and Butler from South
Carolins. Both we're admitted to a
seat During the consideration of the
questions that seated Kellogg aud But
Ter, Senator John j. Patterson deliver
ed . speech, and as bis attitude on the
question has awakened the attention of
the whole country, we publish the fol
lowing remarks from his speech on Fri
day afternoon, so that the people of bis
native county may know what be said ::
Mr.. PATTERsoN's POSITION.
Mr. Patterson IS. C.,) said: have
already announced my intention of vot-
ing to seat NJ. G. Butler as Senator
from South Carolina. l will vote as
cheerfully to seat William PITT Kel-
logg IS Senator from Louisiana. l
have resisted every motion to give the
Kellogg case precedence, because, by a
vote of the Senate, the case of Mr..
Butler was brought before the Senate
first. Had the case of Mr.. Kellogg
been brought before the Senate first L
should have voted as steadily against
displacing it. In maintaining the title
of Mr.. Butler to q seat 10 this body |
but recognize the logic of political
events. Those events were not the re-
suit of any act of mine. They were
moulded by the hand of another. 1t
is unnecessary for me to review in de-
tail the causes that led to the assumed
triumph of the Democrats in South
Carolina at tho last election. 1t was,
IN my judgment, the triumph of mig sbt
over right 1t was not won by any of
the Just and lawful methods known TO
our elective system of government. To
achieve it free ballot was crushed in
the iron grasp of armed force. This
was my Judgment in February and
March last, based upon the testimony
set forth in the memorial to Congress,
signed By the Republican State officers
and Senators and Representatives in
the General Assembly. He referred
to the horror which went through the
hearts of the Republicans when it be-
came known that the President contem-
plated Withdrawing the troops, and they
crowded the National Capital to make
solemn protest and earnest appeals
against an act which they we're bound
to hold as the foulest treachery and the
most undeserved and untimely wrong
Of which the history of political parties
furnishes any record. They we're yet
loyal to their party, and had never be-
trayed their trust, and dii not expect
to be themselves betrayed. The Re-
publican officials who constituted the
Board of State Canvassers guarded the
integrity of the electoral vote with e.
deity which neither threats of personal
violence nor the mandate of Judicial
authority could swerve from the path of
duty. There was no hint given them
that upon the accession of Mr.. Hayes
TO the Presidency be would remove the
troops whose presence alone enabled
these officers to exercise the functions
Of the Offices to which they bad been
fairly elected. No such coming event
cast its dark shadows through the bars
of their prison in December, 1876
Verify may the Republicans of South
Carolina and of the entire South ex-
claim, 81 have been wounded in the
house Of my friends" The arm that
struck the fatal blow was nourisbed by
their devoted and unsuspecting service,
While the President was known to be
meditating this act, which "let slip the
dogs Of war" upon the Republicans of
the South, some of the Republican
Senators who DOW assail me with harsh
criticism, because | vote according to
the dictates of my judgment and my
conscience upon questions which is In
no proper sense a party question, were
either coldly neutral or we're actively
giving aid and comfort to the Hampton
government l repudiate and dIsown
the authority Of such as these to pass
judgment upon my fidelity to the Re-
publican party. remember, sir, the
tremendous political crisis of last March
when the fate not only of the Rspub'i-
can party, bu. of this great nation
seemed TO hang in the trembling bal
ance. There we're ''whispers Of holy
or unholy alliances then, and it was
spoken in tones louder than "whispers"
that the distinguished Senator from
New York, now the Republican Achilles
Of tie Senate, would either join the
war against his Republican corPee!s
nr retire in moody wrath to bis tent,
bearing no part in the battle that was
big with the fate of his party. Yet
my voice, sir, did not swell the current
Of false snrmise that imputed meditated
perffy 70 the honorable Senator from
New York. Mr.. President, l cannot
refrain from noticing briefly, and JUS
tiae 10 myself demands that | should
notice it, the ferocious attack made pP-
on me by the Senator from Vermont
Mr.. Edmundsl. That Senator read
npob the aoor of the Senate on last
Monday . Iibelous article against me,
written BY some unknown person. That
article, false, scandalous and malicious,
Vas rstailed to the country BY the hon
,rAble senater, who virtually gave to it