The daily gazette., 1877-11-30
From the N. 7. Herald Nov. %.
THE ROW In TIE SENATE-THR
REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING
| TO WRECK.


The republican party bears a close
resemblance TO the illfated war steam
er Huron. Nothing was further from
the thoughts of her officers than that
they were sailing to their doom. Just
as little did the republican majority of
the Senate suspect that they weresmOv-
iag toward terrible and fatal wreck
when they ventured to put themselves
in opposition to President Hayes at an
early stage of this extra session. The
republican party,li like tine Huron, found
cred In the night. The all night session
of Monday-Tuesday was such a lifting
and dashing Of the republican ship in
a violent political surf as puts both
vessel and crew In the same hopeless
condition whick overlook the doomed
Huron on Friday night. Ii it were
a mere parliamentary struggle with
the democrats the republican party
might survive, even if it should be
brought into a minoritv in the Senate.
But it is, in truth, as much war up
on President Hayes as a contest with
the democratic party. According TO
an inspired authority, IA house divid-
ed against itself cannot stand" and
when the republican party having lost
control of the House and being reduc-
ed to q slight majority in the Senate,
is insane enough to waste the feeble
remnant Of its strength in quarrel
with the republican President, it is in
bad way. The aashl0g Of the Senate
against the executive Is like the pound
ing of the Huron upon q lee shore,
which quickly beat her to pieces aud
made her an utter wreck.
4 1t will not do to overlook the fact
thatthis 10 really an assault uponPresi-
dent Hayes. The democratic Senators
and their allies are fighting his battle.
His withdrawal of the federal troops
from South Carolina and Louisiana
WAS an Endorsement by him of tho
legal validity of the Hampton govern
ment in the one and of the Nichols
government in the other-an lndorse-
ment not only of the Governors but OF
thesupporting Legislatures. Mr. Hayes
recognition of the democratic Leglsla-
, lures of South Carolina and Louisiana
WAS a concession of their legal right
to elect federal Senators. 1t is too
clear for argument that il Mr.. Hayes
was right in accepting those Legisla-
lures as legal the Senators chosen by
J them have an incontestable title to
their seats. Opposition to their ad-
, mission is an emphatic condemnation
of the action of President laet spring.
The republican Senators have
! thrown OF all disguise ON this subject
The report on Kellogg's case, submit
: ted yesterday afternoon, puts his title
on q ground which implies q strong
rebuke to President Hayes. The Ian
guage of the committee is 80 unreserV-
ed as to fall little short of an insult to
. the President. The committee charges
: that after the Kellogg Legislature had
. been lawfully elected IAN overwhelm-
l ing array of armed force was used to
: crush out The lawful State government
; of Louisiana" The implication from
a this LANGUAGE is clear that President
t Hayes was an accomplfce in crushing
= out the lawful State government. II
4 Dir. Hayes was right iu recognizing
a the democratic Legislatures nothing
. could be more unassailable than this
: title of the Senators chosen by those
q Legislatures. The republican Sena-
j. tors, by denying their title and attemp
. ting to shut them out, are waging q
more determined war on the Presiden
than they are against the democratic
u party. The republican party is to'
4 far gone to survive such an intestine
Iquarrel within its own ranks.
The appearance of republican unity
against the President which lie main
Itsined in the Senate is Fictitious ant
. . false. 1t does not represent the senti
u ment of the republican party in tn,
= country. Had the rank and file of the
. = party been left to their own free i'm
- pulses they would have supported tn,
> Southern policy of the President
: The opposition is the work OF falls,
y leaders, not of the republican masset
: This quarrel at Washington is, there
!, fore, certain to divide and disintegrat