The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-01
RADICAL INFAMY.
A Stupendous Fraud Con-
summated.
Kellogg Admitted as Senator
from Louisiana.
Which ViIIalny Accomplished,
Butler is Given His S eat
WASHINGTON, November 80.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Immediately after the reading of the
| journal, House joint resolution in rels-
ton to the French international Indus
trial Exposition was taken up and the
Senate amendments agreed to.
The Joint resolution was then read q
third time and passed; yeas SO, nays 20
The amendments provide that the
commissioner general shall be appointed
by the president and confirmed by the
Senate, and increase the compensation
of the twenty additional commissioners
from 81, 600 to 81 200 each.
When cor sideration was resumed of
the Kellogg case, Mr.. Salisbury spoke in
favor of recommitting the subject to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections,
with instructions to take testimony.
Mr.. Howe said that Mr.. Spofiord made
no charge of fraud against Mr.. Kellogg
and the Returning Board before the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
world had been advised that in order to
| hurry on the Butler case as 1t was neces-
ssry to postpone the Kellogg case.
Mr.. Hill argued that SpOfford made
certain charges against Kellogg, and of
fered to prove them in October. He then
read the following telegram, which he
said had been handed him to-day:
NEW ORLEANS, November 90.
Sion. John Ellis:
There is documentary evidence in
kellogg's otilce to show that he used In
auencc with the Returning Board. Tell
Spotford. HAIRY S. SMITH"
Mr.. Patterson said: In maintaining
the title to Butler in this body, | but
recognize the logic of political events
These events were not the result OF any
net of mine. They were moulded by the
hand of another. 1t Is unnecessary for
me to review il detail the causes that
led to the assumed triumph Of the Dem.
ocratic party in South Carolina at the
last general election. 1t was, in my
judgment, the triumph of might over
right. 1t WAS not won by any just and
lawful methods known to an elective
system OF government. To achieve It, a
free ballot WAS crushed in the iron grasp
OF armed force. This was my judgment
in February and March last, based on the
testimony set forth in the memorial sent
to Congress, signed by the Republican
State officers and Senators and Repro
sentatives in general assembly, and that
memorial was laid before the President
Immediately after his Inauguration.
Gov. Chamberlain fled at the executive
department an elaborate argument in
support o! the legal propositions that it
contained and yoluminous testimony to
sustain its allegations rs TO matters oil
fact. When it became known that the
President contemplated the removal OF
troops from the State House q thrill OF
horror went through the hearts OF the
Republicans of South Carolina and they
crowded into the national capital to
make solemn protest and Garnet
appeal against an act which they were
bound TO behold, the ioulest treaChery
and mcst undeserved and untimely
wrong of which the history of political
parties furnishes any record. Ignorant
and unlettered as tho great mass OF
South Carolina Republicans may be, they
were yet loyal and true 10 the great
principles OF the Republican partyc-snd
IN war and in peace they had gathered
around the dag of this Union with all
the devotion with which the deyout
Christian clings TO the cross OF his Re-
deemer. As Republicans they had never
betrayed their trust and they did not
expect TO themselves be betrayed.
Through eight long years they had been
hunted for their opinions sake, but they
held faith unchanged and asserted it by
their ballots with inAe1ible fidelity 10
their party.
They know enough to love their gov
ernment, and trust its defenders. In the
lace of violence, and over the dead
bodies of their murdered brethren, they
went to the polls and gave clear major
ity for the National Republican csndi-
dates, and having done so they expected
Justice and protection. In spite Of their
remonstrances, the President, who had
secured his election through their votes,
recognized the Democratic State govern
ment, and turned them over TO the ten
der mercies OF their excited and embit.
tered enemies.
We are all familiar with the incidents
OF the last memorable Presldential cam
paign. We sll know that had the cleo.
torsl vote OF South Carolina been cast
against the Republican nominees, 8
Democratic President would now be oc-
cupying the White House and Demo-
crst would now be presiding over this
body. The Republicans OF South Caroli-
ps then carried Cesar snd his fortunes.
The Republican officials who constituted
the Board of State Csnvassers guarded
the integrity of that electoral vote with
fidelity which neither threats Of personal
violence nor mandates OF judicial author
itv could swerve from the path Of duty.
Tbey s.tested that fidelity even in the
dungeons Of the common all OF the
county, to which they we're consigned
for refusing to obey sn order which, IN
their Judgment, was designedt TO overthrow
the electoral vote OF the State. There
wss no hint given then that on the ac-
cessiun of NJ. Hayes to the Presidency
be would remove the troops, whose pres
encs alone enabled these officers 20 eXer-
else the functions Of the offices to which
lhey have been fairly elected No such
coming event cast its dsrk shadow
through the iron bars OF their prison IN
December, 1876. Verify, may the Re-
publicsns Of South Carolina, and Of the
entire South, exclsin, u have been
struck in the houze of my friends" The
arm that struck the fatal blow was nour-
shed by their de7oIed and uRsgspecting
sryice' | Irresistsbly here recall 10
memory the tones Of England's great
poet:
So the struck eagle, stretched on the
No more through rollifg clouds 10 soar
again,
Views its own feather on the fatal dart
That winged the shaft that qulvered In
his heart.
Though keen his pangs, yet keener far 10
feel,
BE nursed the pinion that impeiled the