The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-13
This was the atato Of ,biDgs wien /

This was the state Of things when !
made my appearance in the House on
Thursday, the 10th inst. I had not
heard from MIR. Potter. l had not con-
suited directly or indirectly with any r,
publican in the House or out OF the
House. l made an appeal TO Mr. Potter
TO withdraw his cali for the previous
question to allow me three minutes only.
bly, object was to get him TO withdraw
the call for the previous question, or, if
he would not, to appeal 10 the House, to
patriots on both sides, to vote down the
previous question and allow Dir. Hale or
any Republican to offer just such amend
ment for the enlargement Of the inyesti-
gaton as they might see fit. II was then
that Mr. Potter decliued to withdraw the
call or allow me the three minutes. He
said that IL was from no disrespecG TO me,
but that he could not do 1t, as he was
acting under instructions. Whether Mr.
Potter had communicated 70 others the
purport Of my note, and because he de-
termined that should not be heard upon
the subject, do not know, but certein-
ly had not suggested in that note that
the Democrats should do anything else
than receive all amendments or addi-
tional propositions for investigation that
might be offered from any quarter.
Second-Mr. Potter seems 10 cnufound
his dates. He speaks Of what occurred
when he rose to make q proposition to
Dir. Hale, as IL done upon the second day
npon which asked to address the House.
In this he is mistaken. His psopouition
to Mr.. Hale was on the next day fri
day., and had no connection wb Atever
with the proceedings in which ,sas de-
MED hearing.
Ibird-Mr. Potter's reasons fos reiIus-
ing Hale's amendment appear to re to
be singular and most untenable. He
says 1t was because IL was not germane
Why it was not germane / cannot SEQ.
All frauds, it would seem TO me, are of
kindred character. They are all the
SAME class Of crimes, belong 70 the same
family, and differ only in character and
degree. Ifa fraudulent electoral count
IN Florida was germane to like fraudu-
lent count in Louisiana, why not q like
fraudulent count in Oregon, or any other
state, equally germane to the proposition
to investigate frauds?
Fourtn-mr. Potter justifies mis- couse
in refusing an investigation into the
frauds alleged in Mr.. Halc's amendment
because, he said, "we underatood it con.
tanned recitals to which we cannot assent.
and which would have forced us to vote
against our own resolution" This seems
to me again 10 be an uutenabls reason.
In the first place, in allowing Mr. Hale
&C. offer his amendment, whatever recitals
1t might have had, by no means commit
ted the House to the truth OF the allegs-
tions. 1t would only have allowed him
TO make them good if he could.
Fifth-Mr. Potter insists that the Oh.
ject was not and is not to attack the title
of Mr.. Hayes. If so, then, why did he
not, or the managers whose instructions
he was carrying out, allow Mr.. Casev
Yonng's amendment 70 60 in, which dis.
tinctly stated, with purpose of auieting
the country, that the object was not to
disturb the title of the present Execu-
tive, which had been so constitutionally
settled by the last Congress.
But / hive no time to say more at
present, except to add that I so !ook
upon the whole of this proceeding, con-
coctsd ~ it was, conducted as it has been,
is most unwige, NJ ast unfortunate and
most mischie1ou5. It's effect will be to
| disturb the peace, harmony and quiet of
the country. Neither Mr.. Potter nor
anybody else can prevent it, and say TO
him, most respectfully, that nothing short
OF an immediate, general and firm con.
cert of action of the law and order abid.
ing. people of all parties, Republicans
and Democrats, throughout the Union.
in reprobation Of this Investigation pro.
ceeding any further with view 10 dis.
turb the Presidential title, such as an
nounced by the Pennsylvania Democracy
sn their Convention few days ago. cgf,
arrest the most fearful conseonences.
Those who have, though innocentiy,
sowcd the wind will reap the whirlwind,
My. own opinion is, rs I have repeatedly
said, this affair will prove in the end
either a contemplate farce or horrible
tragedy. Whether it will lead to the
Discrimination of our Federal Republic.
the result ;1uat show out i say, as i
said on another recent occasion, that all
soft words inst:!ing in the mind of the
people OF this country the idea that hfr,
Hayes can b. peaceably unseated by
Congress, are ,s delusive and Us guilef1i
as the'whisperings of the great avch-fiend
in the shape of q toad in the ear Of Eve,
from which sprung all our woes. Very
respectfully,
1-D,r TT