The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-21
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These three miscreants are destined to
live in history indissolubly linked together,
welded in the white heat OF national scorn,
objects of universal execration and losth-
ing, dead or alive, or damned, the same.
When the Louisiana returning board was In
travail the monster triplets, Hayes, Packard
and kellogg, were brought forth-miracles
Of crime. Who has not read accounts of the
transmission of disease from parents to Off
spring, so terrible in their loathsome con-
dition as almost to make men wish that the
Almighty would revoke the edict to multi
ply and replenish the esrth?" The return
ing board ofsprings, Hayes, Packard and
kellogg, bear about in their official char
acters evidences of parental diceases which
can not be contemplated without a shudder
In the slums and dens of all the great cities
where moral and physical deformities are
sought to illustrate the deep degradation
which vice entails, specimens are discovered
for the description Of which new terms have
to be coined-limbless monsters, and mon
sters with more limbs than nature demands
double headed monsters-blind monsters
monsters mute as stones-monsters born,
bearing the disease of parents; ulcers,
tumors and boils, scrofula in all of it's terri
BILE forms, quickened masses OF sin, but
still humans. From these specimens bear
ing crimes most terrible penalties select
the most repulsive. and we will match
them with Hayes. Packard and kellogg. the
spawns of the crime-stsined and crime
cursed Louisiana returning board. It's frauds,
its trescheries. and its perjuries have been
of sufficient power 10 destroy every ballot
| box in our ocean bound republic with q
| population of forty million freemen. Its
| crimes came forth fanged and kissing like
venimous serpents, and truth and the right
stood aside. The people declared that Til
! den and Hendricks should occupy the offices
OF president and vice president-model
men of virtue and intellectual power
| statemen sans puer Ct sans reprochs. The Lou
! isiana returning board reversed the decision.
In broad daylight it committed the crime.
In the presence of forty millions of people
| it worked and plotted, frauds and perjuries
| multiplied. The work was done when
Hayes, Packard and kellogg were handled
| on the knees OF Eliza Pinkston.
Hayes is in Office, but he is there by virtue
of the frauds of the returning board. Tat
tooed by It's crimes and branded by it's per-
| juries, he can no more escape from the ulti-
mate consequences of its infsmies than he
can escape perdition when the deYil fore
closes his chattel mortgage.
Packard, the returning board governor, the
barricaded and Gagged fraud, who as born to
the governorship Of Louisiana more GER
tainly than Hayes to the Office
of president, Is now looking to
Hayes for protection and recognition.
Upon the principle of 'honor among
thieves HAYES ought 70 respond. They
are creatures of the same parentsge-the out
growth Of identical frauds. and damned by
the same crimes Hayes has been the most
fortunate, but It is too early to establish
an aristocracy of villsiny, and Hayes ought
not to feel too proud of his success. The
| Philadelphia Times, in commenting upon
Kellogg's case. refers to Packard by saying
that "he is no more governor Of Louisiana
than Morgan is governor of New York or
| 'Pershing of Pennsylvania. and yet on his
| certificate to the election of his partner in
crime it is claimed that kellogg should be
| admitted TO the senate. The character OF
the man, his criminal associations, the no
'torious fraudulency OF his election, the log.
| ical effects Of his admission, and the danger
'ous tendency OF the precedent that would
thus be set, forbid that his petition for q
seat shall be granted. His certificate IL
worth no more than so much medicsted
paper. In the better days of the republic
such an applicant would have been
kicked out of the back door of the
senate. Does this man deserve milder treat
'ment7 Kelloeg's proper place is q cell in
the penitentisry. The senate has Its Pat
'tersons, its Spences and its Mitchells but
heaven send that for the sake of the coun
try il may be spared this new and greater
disgrace
This is the opinion, be IL remembered. q
a paper that scquiesces in the decision that
made Hayes president. Packard has a supe
rior right to be governor. and Kellogg gu
perior right to be United States senator. Al
three are returning board productions ant
the disgrace OF the country. To denOunct
the methods by which Packard and Kellnet
sought power is to denounce Hayes. Th'
three stand or fall together. To indors'
either, or all. is to insult the patriotic senti
ments of the country, aud commit an out
rage upon the truth of history. which pro
claims Hayes fraud. and Packard and Kel
logg his peers in crime.
THE WEEKLY SENTINEL.