The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-26

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| FROM THE SEAT OF WAR, &C., &C.
From Our Regular Correspondent -: =
THE FEDERAL OFFICES IN THE OLD NORTH
STATE.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-North Carolina
| Republicans, including what is known as
the Greensboro ring" have met here by
chance, so to speak, and propose to parcel
out the offices in the Old North State.
sistant ostmaster-General; O. II. Dockery
signs for foreign mission; Tourgcc, the
pension agent at Raleigh, wants to be pro-
NOTED to United States district Judge
ship, or would take the Solicitorship OF the
Treasury; Kcosb. register in bankruptcy,
strives to hold his place and get anything
else that will pay; ex-senator John Pool is
to be quoted by Observation-Disclosures
clcrkship, and his fellow-citizens of the OLD
North State hope he may be kept too busy
to NEEDLE any more in politics.
Kennedy. OF Wilmington. aspircs to the
governorship OF Montana. Some men would
ask for anything.
Winston, intcrnal-revcnue collector at
Greensboro, has 4 good thing OF it, and
shares his joys with his relatives. Being
bachelor, he has no sons to put in the ia
places, but 50 much the better for the
ncphcws and SIGH. The income of the
Winston family from this office and its pa
tronage is put down at $4,000 per annum,
and they consider themselves poorly paid
at that.
Mr.. W. +. Henderson, 4 Republican, not
so blessed with worldly goods, but we'll en-
dorSed by businessmen, seeks to be Win
ston's successor. Kcogh and party are for
Winston.
BOUNDARY MAPS.
Secretary Mcdonald has been in the city
two or three days endcayoring to obtain
from the Government copies OF maps pre-
pared by the United States Coast Sur
ycv, showing the true line OF boundary be-
tween Virginia and Maryland as fixed by
the arbitrator. Colonel Mcdonald is acting
in compliance with an act OF the Legsla-
turc which directs him to flemish Il copy OF
the map, showing the boundary, TO the clerk
of each county along the line.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph TO tie
Dspatch.l
MORTON on THE SITUATION.
Morton publishes letter on the situation
in answer to al open letter published in the
New York Times aud other private letters.
lie SAYS, regarding the credentials of kel-
locr after they had been referred TO his
committee: The Committee on Privileges
and Elections met soon afterward, and the
Republican members united in q report
that prima tucie s. 3. Packard was the law
full Governor Of Louisiana the Legislature
was the lawful Legislature. and that vii
liam =. Kellogg lad been elected III con-
forniity TO the &C. Of Congress, and was en-
titled to be sworn in and take his scat. As
number OF the members Of the Senate
were absent and the subject would
lead to Il long debate, and there was
general anxiety to adjourn, the report was
not laid before the Senate. II the ma
jority OF the Senate shall ut the next
session be OF the opinion that Kellogg was
lawfully elected by the Legislature OF LOU
isiana he will be entitled to his seat, not
withstanding the events that have since oc-
~
that legislative combination or arrangement
can in the least affect his title or destroy the
legality Of what took place at that time,
though the very members who proclaimed
the election OF Packard and made that OF
kellogg should subsequently declare for that
OF Nichols and take part in the election OF
Spotford. It is too clear for argument.
They could not take away the rights which
had vested or make that unlawful which
had been before lawful. Unless Kellogg
voluntarily withdraws the Senate will have
to decide the question OF his election aS it
stood at the time OF adjournment.
The Republican governments OF Louisiana
and South Carolina have yielded to force;
they have gone down before an armed mi
nority, whose threats OF future violence
were guaranteed by Il long train OF bloody
deeds done in the past. l regret that tne
real character OF the transaction should be
obscured in the least by pretended inyestl-
cations or negotiations. Stripped OF all dis
guses and prctcnccs, the simple fact Is that
Packard and Chamberlain were not able to
maintain themselves in authority, and the
Government of the United States. in the ex-
ercisc OF IFS discretion, refused them its
support. Then the Legislatures, finding
themselves deienceless, fell to pieces, and
from their ruins in part new Legislatures
have been constituted, whose legality con-
sists only in the fact that there are none to
oppose them. The law and the rights OF the
majority have yielded to an armed asgres-
sive minority.
Mr.. Morton, after describing what Grant
might have done, intlmates that had Hayes
proceeded to maintain Packard and Cham
berlain by using the army he would have
proceeded to inevitable defeat. lie says:
The Republican majority in the Senate upon
the southern question is but nominal, II II
existed at all. Five Republican senators
voted at the late executive session against
seating Kellogg and to refer his credentials
| to a committee, thus refusing to recognize
| the Packard government. and number OF
Republican senator's, sufficient when added
| to the Democratic members to.constitute Il
majority, have steadily refused to recognize
the Republican State government in Louis
lana since 1873 by voting against seating
senator chosen by it. Wilhelm my judgment
it was clearly the right OF the President under
! the Constitution to recognize the Packard
government, and to support it by the mill
| tary power, the undertaking would have
been futile, and the failure disastrous.
| With divided public opinion in his own
party and both houses OF Congress against
him he would have failed in the end. The
Democratic House has tue power to destroy
the army entirely, and from my knowledge
| OF the Senate am sure the Republican
| majority OF that body could hardly be relied
| on to support him in such course.
[ do not believe that President Hayes
intends to destroy the Republican party
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