The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Ian 8 ]

w ASHlNGTON, y an. :, 1879.
Mr.. EDITOR THE great topic Of
conversation at this time is the Maine
outrage. The answer TO Governor
Garcelon's questions submitted to the
Supreme Court, the highest legal au-
thority Of the State, if honestly car
ried out would give the Republicans
control OF both branches of the Legis-
latnre which is in accordance with the
vote cast at the late State election. 1T
is surprising to ali loyal citizens that
the Democrats of Maine should so en-
tirely ignore the opinion OF the Court
of last resort as to persist in organ1z-
ing legislative body by the aid of per-
sons holding illegal certificates of cleo
ton. 1t is a fair warning to the ma
ton that the Confederate Democracy
are determined to resort to the most
desperate rec0urces to secure by any
means Democratic President this fall.
There is little doubt that Samuel J.
Tilden is at the bottom of the move
ment He was so successful in count
ing in Democratic governor in New
York in 1858 that was not elected, he
thought his Maine friends might count
in both branches OF the Legislature
which were not elected and thus secure
him the electoral vote Of that State
when there is a we'll known Republi-
can majority. This action of the min
GRITTY in overruling q majority is copied
from the Confederate Democracy Of
the South and having been SO success
full there their Northern friends are
trying to gain the assembly in Name
by a similar course, but it is the pre-
vailing opinion that the Maine Repub-
licanS having q just case and the de-
cisi0n Of the highest court in the State
in their favor will finally succeed III
obtaining, control of both branches of
the Legislature.
In this connection / feel constrained
to make an extract from a sermon
preached by Rev. DR.. Rankin, Rector
of the Congregational church in this
city on Thanksgiving day upon Nation
al affairs: cone Of the most wonder
full things in the history Of this whole
subject Southern outrages) is the
awful silence Of the Christian press,
the Christian pulpit, and the Christian
churches OF the south, touching the
0utrages which are committed against
humanity; against the image of God;
against the constitutional rights of
men. 70 my mind, this accounts for
these outrages. There is no appre-
ciaDle conscience in the south touch
ing this subject.
No man who holds his seat in the
United States Senate or House of Rep
resentatives because he or his friends
have suppressed the voice Of the ma
jority, who only have the power to give
his letters patent, to sit there, by the
use OF tissue ballots, OF by use Of the
rifle or the shotgun, is just as much q
fraud as the black leg, who uses loaded
dice; and he knows it, and the people
know it.
But | am asked, what are you going
to do about it? We propose that the
maidstone Of the fabrick of freedom
which our brothers in blue guaranteed,
and which went up with shouting,
when Robert E. Lee surrendered to
Gen. Grant shall stay there where they
put it, and where the judgment Of the
God of the battles consented it should
co.
Let all loyal people remember that
upon the result of the election this
fall depends the existence of q Repub-
llcan form of government. where the
government shall be administered in
the interests of the entire people or
whether it shall pass into the hands of
those who firmly believe that slavery
is a Divine institution and that the
government must administered so that
the landed proprietor may secure the
work Of the laborer without Just
equivalent.
The New York World of May IS,
1861 contains the following Washing
ton dispatch: GA. D. Banks, a motor
1ous secessionist and special agent of
jeff Davis in Washington during the
past winter, was found secreted in one
of the back streets Of the city by the
police and notified to leave. He i'm
mediately departed for Alexandria,
leaving his personal effects here. He
was no doubt spy" This same A.
d. Banks is now superintendent of the
stationery at the United State Senate
at salary Of $1,000 per year, and has
since the Confederate Democracy got
control of the senate last winter.
In the same paper, a few days later,
appeared dispatch from Montgomery,
Alabama, announcing that Albert r.
Lamar had been elected clerk of the
Confederate House Of Representatives.
Albert r. Lamar is q cousin of Sena-
tor Lamar and is now tally clerk Of
the United States House of Represen-
tatiyes,
The following nominations for Wis
conSin were sent to the Senate yester-
day: George w. Hazelton, to be United
States Attorney eastern district Of
Wisconsin; Isaac III. Wing, receiver of
public moneys, at Bayfield,; and the fol-
lowing for postmaster: Henry c..
Payne, Milwaukee; w. DeLap, Bosco-
bel; FL. III. McGraW, Whitewater.
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