Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-27
Snicy Rebate.

inrHpiblr ciCci1r IL IN" United STATES !iQuSG
CT hnprcscn! .livcs, yesterday, Mr. Levitt Is.
Y, again returned IL The change which he had
made Ga Saturday a@Gast tAr good faith q
Mr. Hear, ii Massachusetts,, Ter actiOg and
voting in the Electoral Commission at variance
with his speech 10 INC House, aud said that
that gentleman 10 his attempt to answer tho
charge On Saturday had seized tie mantle Of
Webster and tried reversing the usual procrss)
to ckc cut the IhSa skin will! The liou's hide.
But even The mantle OF Webster was not broad
enough to cover detection, Misrepresentation |
ard fraud. lie cited the various propositions
and votes in tho commission, showing that Mr. |
IIoar had uniformly voted against the admls
sion of evidence 10 show fraud on the part Of
the Louisiana returning board, and he asked
whether that Quoting Hears Words was
| "iuslicc and righteousness. lie (lloar) had
voted in the Louisiana case that the commits |
sion had no judicial power, and in the case OF
Oregon he voted that the commission had
powcr to take evidence; that the seal Of tho
Stale VAS or was rot the authentic seal, and as
| to whether Watts held commission from the
United States But when there Was an al!cga-
ton Of fraud, then he had voted that there Was
20 power to prevent that fraud. That gentle
man had been Oh all occasions the great champ
| ion Of justice and righteousness Ills magnl-
| fccnt pcrora.ion in the Bcinap impeachment
case would long be read by the American youth,
and yet that some gentleman had voted not to
receive evidence oil fraud La conclusion he
said IL ask MY democratic friends, deceived,
dciiaulcd, cheated as they have been, whether
we should meet bad faith with bad faith |
answer that Gcvcr ought the record OF the
Democratic party to be sulllcd by q single oct
that will mako any man blush. Invent on that
committee against my will. / knew whatever
[ did on that commission would be subject TO
misconstruclion, but when l took my place
tLcrc | ceased to be partisan. | tried 10 be.
come patriot. tried to perfect measure
Of Justice cancellation and peace Tor the suffer-
ing people Of this country. We perfected 1t;
We brought it here; it has been approved ny
Congress ana by the country; and now Shall
we stop 10 this career toward the solution OF
the greatest problem ever presented to tree
pcoplo because we have been met with fraud
and Injustice On the other side | say no. Let
us give TO The people Of the cauntry and of the
world an example that, having been cheated,
we can still trust in the providence and justice
OF Cad and III the disposition and determine
ton Of the people to do justice IN the end.
IAprlansa and commolion. We have sill
Tree ballot box aud free press ard We are still
a free people, ard no justification Tor revolution,
10 justification for civil war eau ever arise
among free people until the arc deprived OF
the remedy OF the baIIoIhoZ.
Mr.. ORrirn (Md,) lIow long will you be
free ii MIR. Hayes gncs in
Mr.. Hewitt not noticing the interruptions
TO that remedy propose to resort. and itshat
remedy be innnd in vain, although | am the
humhcst cf democrats and lie most feeble OF
citi2ana, will be ready to take up my arms
| ani lead, il necessary, or rather serve in the
crusade against ihjrlsiicr oppression and IT,
| ranny.
while Mr.. Hewitt was speaking he was sur.
rounded hy circle Of members OF 10th poinl
cal parties, and The evidences OF increasing cy
ctrmrnt and commoion were manifest in the
circle AMI ali over the hall and in the gal
| lrrirs
As Mr.. Hewitt finished Mr.. Cate lWis.)
| made his way through the circle, and address.
| inc Mr.. Hewitt in an excited manner, said:
| You have pronounced the action o! the com
mission to lie Infamous, gross betrayal CT the
confidence rcpoacd 10 II, perveralon ni right
and jnsicc. 10 ynn now declare it 10 be the
duty Of democrats to assist in the speedy can.
summation Of what ynu pronounced All ont
| rage ?
Mr. Hewitt say that will yield to it
| because | can srr M other course left but
anarchy.
Mr. Cate II deny it, ara assert that it is
The duty hI tho democrats to oppose il by
| every means in their power. H. you'd he
c0War,lirn TO do otherwise Great excitement
and confusion.
| Mr. Yates On. G. forced lis way through
| the circle, and with flushed face and excited
manner exclaimed, addressing himself TO MIR.
| Cate and the democrats who were opposing ac-
uuicscoucc Those who deuonncc us now as
| towards, when the pinch came fifteen years ago
turned against H..
The excitement had erown SO intense at this
time, rcyiving rcc0cctiOns Of the scenes in the
House Immediately before The war; that The
Speaker felt called upon to inlcrpose and ID
sst upon the restoration Of order.
| When he had succeeded, Mr.. TOWNSEND en-
" took the floor and compared the action Of
the democrats to the familiar bargain between
the white man and tic Indian, the white man
saying will take Tie turkey and you vii! take
| the owl, or yon will trke the owl and | will
take the turkey. laughter So il the cam
mission would decide in favor Of l'ildcu the
democrats would stand faithfully by it, but if
decided in favor al Hayes, then they would
|
Mr. Bcebe IN. W felt called upon to raise
| his voice in solemn protest against The iniqrlit
GUS fraud which was being attempted to be
pcrpcIratcd upon the people q! the republic.
Mr. PoppIelon (Ohio) sent up and had read,
amid much laughter, the spec"h delivered at
Fremont tile day before by Gov. Hayes.
Mr.. lIardcnburg, IN. J.,) in the name Of the
people Of New jersey and Of their imprrilcd
liberties entered firm and solem protest
against The decision Of the commission.
Mr.. IIoar, Mass, who was not III the hail
when Mr.. Hewitt made his speech, but who
had the Totes Of it read to him By the official
reporter replied to it as Il po=thumou5 speech,
| prepared during the Sabbath. He asserted
! that Mr.. Hewitt had had the irilcst means Of
knowledge by three days comrauiorship with
| him on the electoral committee that The right
to 20 Into the fscerlainmcut o. the lacts as to
who had b~cn lawfully elected was utterly de.
MED. Ifthat gentleman were Il sane man, with