Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-06-17

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Debate in the Senate, June II,
BetweenSonators Hill, Hamp-
ton and Butler.
The Senate thon took up the Kellogg
Spofford resolution, and Senator Mcdonald
spoke in support thereof.
At the conclusion Of MoDonald's re-
marks, Senator Hill obtained the floor, and
after reviewing the replies to his argument
on the llth and 18th of May, said he
would hase some plain words with gentle
mon on his side of tho chamber who had
argued against tho resolutions to unseat
Kellogg. Their attitude, ho said, was
singular, and not logical. The Republicans
believed the Packard Legislature to bo
legal, and therefore believed Kellogg Legal
" entitled to seat. The Democrats who
opposed the resolutions admitted the lilo
gality of the Packard Legislature, yet held
that Kellogg was entitled to seat.
Butler remorked he did not argue that
Kellogg was elected, but that the Senate
having, Within its jurisdiction, declared
Kellogg entitled to his scat, no future Scu-
ate had jurisdiction to reverse that action
He thought that if Mr. Hill submitted to
the decision of tho Electoral Com mission,
though he believed it wrong, aud to the
decision of tho Supreme Court in tho
States rights cases, which he believed to
bo wrong, he could not consistently ortioise
his (Butlers) position in this matter.
Mr.. Hill went 0n to argue that the plaiu
dictate of the Constitution, that Senators
must be chosen by the Legislature of the
State, could not be evaded. If tho Senator
from South Carolina did not believe the
Packard Legislature to be legal he could
not believe that that dictate had been
obeycd.
Butler said he acted according to his
own construction Of the Constitution, not
that Of the Senator from Georgia or any
| other Senator. If this matter now came
up for tho first timo hc would vote against
Kellogg, but he was arguing on tho case
! now before tho Senate, aud not on tho case
| which was before it three years ago.
Hill, rcsuming bis remarks, said that
when the case was re,opened che Demo
cratic majority in one day voted down six
| resolutions which doolarcd or assumed chat
the case was settled.
Butler said that these votes were iuoon-
| elusive. These were on amendments
offered by the opposition to kill the seoolI-
ton.
Hill rejoined that If the Soaatc thought
tho case res adiudicata it should have voted
Sentor from South Carolina had voted
against them every time.
Hampton explained that 10 had been
opposed to re opening tho case, but on tho
assurance that it was not to be re opened,
that the committee was merely to take ad.
ditional testimony for the Information of
the Senate, he consented to vote for it.
lie did not think it was authorized to
make such report as it did
Mr.. Hill, resuming, said Senators from
South Carolina had selected him as o mark
for their irony and spleen. Ho was, how
ever, their friend, and when friends differed
plain words should be used. Whom But
lcr's and Spofford's cases came before the
Committee on Privileges and Elections, tho
Democratic members had moro difficulty
with Buffers than with SpoHord's Spot,
ford's title was better than Buffers, but
tho Senate decided IN favor of the Legis-
lature that elected Butler, therefore they
acted favorably in this oaso.
Hill confessed ho was disappointed. He
had not thought when he voted TO admit
Butler that he was aiding to admit tho
strength which would be used to keep out
man with better title. Referring to the
denial by Butler that South Carolina had
done nothing to oppreas Louisiana, Hill
quoted an article from the Charleston -Ne,os
and Courier to the effect that Kellogg was
not elected, but that it should not be for
gotten "our own gallant Butler" was seated
on the consideration that Kellogg should
also be seated, and Democrats were in duty
bound to stand by the arrangement; also
the article endorsing Buffers argument
against unseating Kellogg. Hill said lie
thought these supported all he had previ-
ously said on the subject. Referring to
Senator Hampton's recent speooh, Hill
wondered why the Senator had spoken of
his own bravery during the war, and why
he had oontrasted it with the spirit Of
certain others who, ho said, had been Gin
soft places" 81 am brave enough now"
"noither to toast of my own achievements
nor to depreoiato those of the Senator from
South Carolina. 1t did not require the
war to make me Union man. / am, ever
have been, one from conviction. I feel
under no obligation, therefore, to yield ono
jot of the equal rights and privileges of the
Southern States under the Constitution in
order to appoaso Northern wrath or to show
TO the Northern people that I have beon
brought to condition of submission and