The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-08
1 am not acting for myself, and / cannot
assume such responsibility. Please in
quire and telegraph me tonight.
lSignedl ID. 81. CHAMBERLAIN.

quire and telegraph me tonight.
[Signed1 d. b. CHAMBERLAIN.
l ask who has been doing the whis-
pering in the corridors and the answer
comes from Columbia. Is there any
Senators an the floor who desires to
stand as sponsor tor that dispatch for the
policy that it covers? Is there any Sem
ator here who proposes to abandon the
remnant that is left of the Republican
|. party between the Potomac and the Rio
Grande, and consent that it shall go
down for the public good, as Mr.. Stanley
Mathews pnts itP Being little of 3 par.
tizsn, differing in that respect from the
Senator from Delaware, am
not ready for that, l do not pro-
pose at the beck of Mr. Stanley
Matthews or Mr. Evsrts 10 say
that public good requires that remnant
of the brave men who have borne the
flag and brunt of battle in the Southern
States against prosecutions unparalleled
in this country, shall retire for the public
good. l do not propose it. l am here
to do battle with any one in my humble
way who espouses that policy. / lay
that gage down for any Senator who
stands sponsor to the suggestions OF Mr..
Mathews and Mr. Evarts on this ques.
ton. Nor am l to be dislodged from
my position by quotation from the late
President of the United States Of whom
would only speak in terms of personal
respect, because the late President of the
United States having like every one of
US, the right 10 change his mind and alter
his views of public policy, did not in
the dispatch read by the Senator from
Delaware maintain the same attitude
which ne maintained in the dispatch
which l will now read. The following
dispatch was received Sunday evening at
the headquarters of the Department OF
the Gulf:
WAsHlNGToN, January II, 1877.
To Gen. c. C. Augur, NeW Orleans
1t has been the policy of the admins
tration TO take no part in the settlement
OF the question of rightful government
in the State OF Louisiana, at least not un-
til the Congressional Commissioners
now there have made their report, but
it is not proper TO stand quietly by and
see the State government gradually
taken possession Of by one of the claim.
ants for gubernatorisl honors by illegal
means. The Supreme Court, set up by
| Mr.. Nichols, can receive no more re-
cognitlon than any other equal number
of lawyers convened on the call
of any other citizen OF Louisiana. A
Returning Board, existing in
accordance with the law, having ju-
dlcial as well rs ministerial powers ovsr
the count of the votes, and in declaring
the result of the late election has given
certificates of election to the Legislature
of the State. A legal quorum of each
House, holding such certificates, met and
declared Packard Governor Should
there be necessity tor the recognition
of either, it must be Packard. You may
furnish copy OF this dispatch TO Pack.
ard and Nichols.
[Signedl US. GRANT.
The President, it will be observed,
stated in the case in January, with the
facts all before him, just as / have
stated to-day, and he gives very correct
portrsiture of the Nichols judiciary, 80
highly lauded by the Senator from Della
ware. The Senator from Delaware said
that the few innocent remarks which l
made Yesterday sounded to him like fire
bells in the night. They seemed destined |
to rekindle the fires of sectional sggres.
sior. That Senator and myself repre-
sent different schools in politics. We
come from different sections.
We have represented different ideas
before the war and during the
war, and since tie war wholly and en-.
eirely different. While have the great
est respect and kindest regard for him |
personally, do not propose TO take his
advice on this question. | do not pro-
pose for myself rs long as | may be en-.
trusted with seat on this floor, that |
whoever else shall halt or grow weak |
in maintaining it, SO long us l have
strength | will stand for Southern Union |
men of both colors, and when 1 cease TO |
do that before any presence, North or
South, in official bodies or before public |
assemblies, may my tongue clesve to the
roof Of my mouth and mo right hand for
get its cunning.
Mr. Morton said he supposed the
question before the Senate was q question
Of law, but law was about the only thing
which he had not heard discussed. The
senator from Delaware Bsysrdl made
some reference TO it, but IN what he said
ba was mistaken. Mr.. Morton quoted
from the record IN the case Of Kellogg,
.nd read from the Constitution OF Louis-
hat iha I,,t, q o kaI
LEGISLATURE to canvass the vote for gov
amor and leu,enant-governor. He then
rosd from the law prescribing the duties
If the Returning Board, and argued that
there was q quorum OF the Legislature
nresert when the votes for Governor and
f;.n,snant Governor were canvassed, |
and it declared by the Legislature that
packsrd had 1924 votes, and Nichols
- 1q8 votes. He then referred TO the |
action of the Legislature in electing |
kellogg, and said ne received the major
80 Of The votes. He submitted tha, the |
cord as presented made the chain of lit
,Io GOOD. First, that Governor Packard |
wss declared duly elected by the proper |
authority in Louisiana, and again thst |
Wm Pitt Kellogg had been duly elect |
"a Sanstor from shat State in accordance |
nth the act of Congress. He was not |
S;snosed therefore 10 push the
s,gnnent on this subject any
E,S,bor deeming II unnecessary.
I want to say one word and shall keep
the Senate very few minutes in regard
70 the general character Of the remarks
snhuitted by the Senator from Dels-
ware There Is constantly talk Of fraud,
and i. is charged that the people Of
Louisiana had by large majority voted
for Nichols and for Tilden, but that
thew were defrsuded out of these votes
and these charges are constantly made
here and elsewhere. The time has come
~ nice, thst charge and we intend 70
,olI !. back. The evidence is upon re
cord that does hurl it back in the teeth
~ the men who made it. The facts
are upon record, and indisputsble,
Tho. the so called majority for
| TiI8e, and for Nichols in LouIsians il