Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-29

Pasha appointed his successor.
EARL RUSSELL DEAD.
Earl Russell died tonight.
APOSTATE KEY.
Tho Fraudulent Postmaster General
Threatens the Country with Bloody Civil
War.
Z WASHINGTON, May ,23.-In lieu of personal
answers to the many letters received from
friends in the South disclaiming sympathy with
any effort to unseat Mr.. Hayes, Postmaster
General Key has written the following open
letter to the people of the South:
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 28.-Circumstances
attending the passage of the Potter resolution
to investigate alleged frauds in the Presiden-
tialelection of 1876 in the States of Louisiana
and Florida, together with subsequent DECLARE
tions of many influential Democratic poll
ticians and journalists are evidence that if both
Houses of the 10th Congress are Democratic
the majority intend to GUST President Hayes
and inaugurate Mr. Tilden. The title of Presi-
dent Hayes was settled irrevocably by the
44th Congress in the act creating
the electoral commission by which he
was legally declared elected and legally inaug-
urated. The Forty fifth Congress has no more
right to dispute his election than he has to
question the title of any victorious contestant
to his seat in that body. The Forty-sixth Con-
gress will have no more right to ignore him and
to recognize his defeated contestant, Mr.. Til
den, than Mr.. Hayes would have to send a file
of soldiers to the House of Representatives to
unseat any Democrat whom he might consider
to have been wronfully seated or fraudulently
elected. The leaders in this desperate attempt
to Mexicanize our institutions rely confidently
upon the solid South to furnish the bulk of the
Democratic majority in the next House
,%1ks Ias-
secured. Remembering the encouragement
which Northern Democrats in 1860 and 1861,
extended to the Southern States to secede and
the manner in which their promises of aid and
comfort were fulfilled, can Southern people af-
ford to join this revolutionary movement, with
the certainty that when the inevitabl, hour of
peril comes they will again be left unassisted
and alone to meet the storm from the North
once more united by this attempt to revive an
issue whose settlement was forced
by public opinion upon unwilling Con-
gress. In the dark days of February 1877, when
civil war over the disputed election was lmmi-
nent, and patriots trembled for the safety of
republican institutions, Southern members of
Congress averted the danger by compelling the
completion OF the electoral count under the
law which both parties in Congress had enact
ed; but now the Representatives from South
ern States with a very few exceptions, have
joined a movement to subvert the results of
country to that anarchy from which less than
two years ago it saved by their efforts.
Grant that in permitting the autonomy of all
States and. in appointing citizens to office
in the South instead of strangers, President
Hayes has but discharged his constitutional
duty, does that excuse Southern representa-
tives for attempting to invalidate his title,
which they established. or will it justify
them IN bringing the country
again in danger of civil war
in effort to unseat and inaugurate Mr.. Til
den. The South must now face the most
momentous crisis in it's history since 1861. To
endorse the recent conduct of their repre-
sentatives is to admit the truth of the charges
that the people of the South care nothing for
the welfare of the Union, desire the downfall
of the republic, and would rejoice to see it
ssr 1nrelsed in 6 Sv T nn
fected their sentiments, as believe to be the
| case, then the people of the Southern States
should take care that in the 46th Congress
they are represented by men who will defeat
the disturbers of the public peace and prevent
the Mexicanization Of our institutions. To do
this they may be compelled to act independent
of the Democratic party. Recent events have
demonstrated the inability Of Democratic men,
bers of Congress to resist the magnates of the
| caucus and terrors of party lash, the one WELD
ed and the other inspired by who seem
willing to endanger the welfare of the country
and stability of republican institutions for the
| sake of revenge on political opponents and in
the hope of dividing the spoils of victory. II
Democratic Representatives of the South could
not resist the caucus command to pass the
Potter resolution unamended and without de-
bate how will they be able in the 46th Con
gress to resist similar command to ignore Mr.
Hayes as President. and to recognize Mr.
Tilden? 1t is therefore the duty Of
the Southern people to afford the browning
evidence of their united devotion to the Union
in which they enjoy every right of citizenship
and subjected to restrictions not lait
upon every citizen, by sending Representative
to the 46th Congress pledged to resist at al
chief makers who seem to have gained contro
Of the House of Representatives Of the 45tl
Congress. To this end the people in every dis
trict should meet publicly, organize and resolve
to sport no person for Congress who has g ve1
aid to this movement, and who will not pledg
himself to sustain the title of President Haye
! during the term for which he elected
against all attempts at its overthrow. Only il
this way grave danger to the republic b.
ayerted, and cOnfrmatory proof be given tina
confidence was not misplaced which Presiden
Hayes manifested in the South when he with
drew troops from the State houses of Louisian
and South Carolina. l have spokel
feel that should be unworthy to represent tn
South in the administration were to remain
silent now. Invited to the cabinet as South
ern man to see that justice done 10 tn
South, required neither to apologize for M
record nor to disown my political principles
it is my duty now to warn the people of tn
South Of the danger which threatens the coun
try. No man need hope that the schemes O
the men who have engineered the movement
unseat President Hayes can be carried on
without bloody war. To avert this danger
confidently rely on the patriotism and honor Q
the people of my native section.
ISigned d. NJ. KEY.