Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-31
UNITED STATES SENATE,

Democratic majority.
1t will be seen that the Republican
have exactly the same majority in tn
Senate that the Democrats have In th,
House, both political parties havinl
precisely 183 votes on Joint ballot
There still remain FIVE Republicar
senators from the Southern States.
whose terms expire in 1879 Except the
negro, Bruce, of Mississippi, whose
term extends to 1881. Thus in Ala.
bama, Arkansas, Florida and South
Carolina the Democrats may reasona.
bly, expect to gain a senator for each
State in the next two years, which
would suffice to place them in a major
jority even without the senators from
Louisiana, and another in South Caro-
lima, to which they are already Untitled.
Senatorial elections also occur in
1879 in New York, Indiana, Wiscon-
sin, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Ohio, New
Hampshire, Nevada, California, Color
ado and Illinois, in each of which
eleven States the Democrats have a
! good chance of making gain, and in
some of which they will almost with
out doubt replace the present Radicals
by Conservatives-all of these States
being now represented by Republicans
whose term of Office expires in 1879.
/ Onlyin Connecticutis is thereany chance
of the Radicals making gain two
years hence.
Thus, it will be seen, the Democrats
should be possessed ofa good working
majority in the Senate by December, !,
1879. The four Independents are here
classed with the Republicans, with
whom they will undoubtedly affiliate;
they are Booth, ofCalifornia; Davis, of
inoisiChristiancy.s .sof Michigan. and
Angus Cameron, of Wisconsin. There
are seven States that may be set down
as hopelessly Radical, their delegation
In Congress being exclusively and
unanimously Republican; these are
Iowa, Maine. Minnesota, Kansas, YER
mont, Rhode Island and Nebraska.
Of the 1O6 representatives in Congress
to which the sixteen Southern States
are entitled, ninety are Democrats, but
Missouri and Louisiana will hardly
elect four Republicans again, as each
of them is charged with doing at the
recent election; South Carolina will
not always send three Radicals out of
five Congressman; and the two dis
trlcts In Tennessee, together with
Congressman in Florida, North Caro-
lima and Virginia, will each and all
doubtless be redeemed in the immedi-
ate future. The Pacific States, it will
be noticed, send as many senators as
representatives to Congress, and here
also the Conservatives should receive
reinforcement before long, as out of
total vote of 265, ,341 cast in the three
States of California, Oregon and Neva-
da in the recent election, the Republi-
can majority was less than $500 in the
three States combined; and tits already
on record that more than this number
of fraudulent votes were counted for
the Republican electors in California,
where the national election was lost
and won through the dlabolical machi-
nations of Oliver p. Morton, of Indi- !
ana! OF the thirty-eight State we
may estimate at least sixteen as safely |
Democratic; seven as hopelessly Re-
publican, leaving fifteen to be regarded |
as debatab Bile. These are Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Colorado. in |
the western group; California; ; Oregon |
aud Nevada, on the Pacific coast; New |
York and Pennsylvania of the Middle
States, Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire in New Eng land, and Louisiana,
South; although it is only question
of time when these three last named
are as safely Democratic as Missouri, |
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Geor-
gia, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas,
Mississippi, Maryland, West Virginia,
Arkansas and Delaware. If Mr.. Hayes
does not proceed to withdraw the Fed
eral troops from Louisiana and South
Carolina, and call off the dogs that
have so long worried their plundered
inhabitants, we may have a repetition
of the bleeding Kansas" tragedy, in
which the people shall have the OPP
portunity over the entire length and
breadth of the republic Of displaying
their zeal for either side. James b.
Blaine and VIM. Lloyd Garrison can,
perhaps, persuade the rancorous Radi-
Gals to forward Sharpe's rifles aud
moral pocket et-handkerchiefs to the de-
luded negroes for the purpose of sup
porting Packard, while the sympathetic
Southerners send their unemployed
Carolina with orders to strike till the
last armed foe expires !" Meantime,
Mr.. Hayes will look on cheerfully and
assert his willingness to recognize the
survivors. If this is the statecraft to
be expected from the unloOked-for
combination of Sherman and Schurz,
Devens and Key, Democrats might as
well begin to organize for the campaign
of 1880. This State of Missouri should
be so districted as to offset the condi-
ton of Indiana, which sends nine Re-
publicans to Congress against four
Democrats, although the State gives
fair Democratic majority. Last year
the Democracy might fairly plead their
lack of responsibility for the result of
the election, not having counted upon
the audacity of the Republicans in re-
fusing to recognize the will of the pop
ular majority as fairly expressed at the
polls The Democrats made no pre-
paration in 1876 for anything but
peaceable, orderly and constitutional
election. But in 1880 it will De only
their own fault if they put confidence
in their antagonists. They have learn
ed too late that among eight of the
most honored Republicans in the ma
tion, not one single patriotic and un-
prejudiced man could be found to rise
above party and do simple, ordinary
justice to his political antagonists.
Democratic organization for the fu-
ture, therefore, must be with view to
the assertion of their rights at any
cost; and, since bayonets seem to be
the only arguments that Republicans
consider of any avil, let the Democrat
ic organizations of the future make
such provision as may be necessary to
meet any and every emergency that
their thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS antag-
onists may have recourse to; and then,
four years hence, may God speed the
right and the devil take the hindmostl
AsBERT WARREN KELSEY.
st. Louis, 18th of March, 1877.
Let US, while welcoming all that can
be done to secure to the people OF