The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-06-11
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last, was the passage Of res
Diution Jssindorsing = Kellogg, aud !;
him for his manly struggles
to keep himself from being turned out
Of the Senate. .5toE Iuu .syH yla2Hs
Analytically treated the resolution
presents two points over which the cu-
rious may pause not without interest.
I.) The mertioriousuess Of the &c C4e
facto's struggles not to;be turned out of
the Senate. (2): The consequent graft
ituae of the Republican party in Lou
isfan. &, III. .u ..,i3 .9ui 80. ..f.s .f,I. !
/! Under the frat head there is conn
paratively open an easy sailing. Or
dinariiy Senators are Supposed to oc-
cupye their! exalted stations without
accute feelings of discomfort. 1t Is not,
inllesed,i unaasual with them to say sOmo
nailslly deprecatory things in their
spceches and letters ofacceptaMce In re-
gard to- the painful sense Of inatcquacy
with which they are always. more !, or
less overwhelmed, tho neglect OF pri-
vate interests which public duties in
vOlve, aud the Interruptions of dOmes'
tic intercourse sometimes. .inseparable
from q Senatorial, career. But these
things though not strictly descriptive
Of the bottom facts in the istatesoan's
breast, are hardly to he classed as men-
dacious, inasnanch as they are under
stood to be merely conventional and
may be sure is glad to get in, and even
willing to struggle against being turned
out, if need be. But Ke(iogg's case is
an exceptional one, and his seat must
be in many respects the reverse of
comfortable. It amounts, in point OF
fact, to little less than a pillory. In
the first place consider that he is the
last Of the carpet-bag SenatOrs-all his
Joyous companions have faded and
gone. He alone remains, and he is,
Darwin to the contrary .n0twithstand-
ing, a conspicuous example of tho sur
vival Of tho most unfit. Fancy the
feelings of q pachyde RIM of the eocene
tertiary period, should there be one
still ,browsing about the earth among
beasts and fowls of modern fur and
feather. Nothing could be comparable
to his sense of dcsolation except the
loneliness of Mr.. Evarts donkey in
the absense of the old man, and KEEL
logg,s as he sits there in the Senate,
not grand, perhaps, but certainly
tsgloomy and peculiar We will not
su ppose that the er de .facto's modesty
suffers with his consciousness of the
distinction of isolation. We know his
strength of mind. But though ono
may take a certain pride in being a
marked man, it is not so, pleasant to
have become tho recognized target
OF scorR to be pointed out to inquir-
ing visitors in the gallery as states
m an without State, and a Sen ator
without a constituency; to be snubbed
by Conlxling, patronized by Carpen-
| ter, and tolerated by Edmunds, and
| to feel that he is cherished by all his
Republican colleagues for his vote and
not for. his company. 1t cannot be
the most agreeable thing Imaginable
either for him to feel that after all Inc
owes his place to tho scruples and pru
dence of certain Democratic. Senators
who prefer that usurper should keel
his place to setting a dangerous pre-
cedent and reopening case already
J decided, although upon false and in
sufficient evidence. Then again tt
hear a distinguished confrere say tina
there is no reliable proof that he ha:
been guilty of bribery and othe
crimes, as nobody who has had nucl
to do with him or been much abou
him appears to be able to tell the sam'
story two days in succession-thatc can
I not be soothing TO a man Of refined
sensibilities. No taking one consid
Z Grafton with another, Kellogg's lot il
not a happy one, and it's greatly t.
his credit that he struggles to be Il Sen
ator. v-7--=~------a,..---a
When, however, We come to the sec
ond point, viz the gratitude of tn
!; Louisiana Republicans to Kellogg 70
his cndcavors to keep his seat, "
must confess ourselves very nearl,
bafiied. They had some reason, W
understood, to be pleased with tn
methods which Kellogg employed. t
get in. They liked his limo of argr
ment, and they felt the weight of tn
considerations with which he appeale
to them. We can understand that, bt
: it is not so clear why they are grateft
to him for trying to stay in now tha
J. he has got in, since nc is no longer vi
. der any necessity of urging considers
II tions of reciprocal profit. Solnebod
has defined gratitude AS n lively sens
of favors to come. Kcllog has sor
small Influence over the Distribute
a of Federal patronage in this distrie
3, we believe, and that may account Fl
rs it. Upon the whole, however, we a
k. inclined to tho opinion that tho res
luton passed under misapprehe
= sion of sentiments, and that is what II
Louisiana Republicans termed graf
ly tude was in reality a certain mela
ne choly pride in the circumstance tn
an one OF their number, albeit the on
of .,,<, tbo,,,1, so,nc<cbat iiSfipnre6.