The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-01

business, being the resolution for the cleo
tion Of officers,
Senator Cameron said that the presen
Issue was not to be misunderstood: thu
Republican side said that the majority
had the right to decide who should be the
officers OF the senatei its opponents sait
that the minority had that right, He had
said, few days ago, that 1t seemed to be
QUESTION OF ENDURANCE,
The general doctrine that the majority
was entitled to rule was not called in
question, The minority simply said that
1t would resist the election OF the officers
by dilatory motions and prolonged
speeches. Ills answer was, that the Re-
publiGans could not abandon the right oil
the majority to rule because the minority
made 1t question Of endurance.
The Republican party gave its vote for
Riddleberger as an earnest that II was not
sectional. Whoever was right was its
friend. This and this only was the bar.
gain that II had offered its--Boulhern
friends who would come out and grow
with the national growth. II Virginia
took her stand on the platform
Of an honest ballot, the Solid
South was q thing Of the past
The majority could endure as long as the
minority. The contest was not merely to
secure officers; there was something above
oil that, something Of Importance which
had not received attention; II was the
coming political contest in Virginia. The
Senator from Virginia Mahonel had terri
fed the Democrats; Democrats Of the
South had appealed to the Northern
Democrats to cover the Senator from Vir'
ginia with opprobrlum, 80 that his follow
ers at home would not dare TO support
him. lie had made political slavery impos'
sbls In Virginia, he had Champloned the
cause OF free elections, and he had the sym,
pathY Of the Republican party In that good
work. all Virginia would see that the
North iraternized with all ex.Coniederates
who were known by their acts as well al
their words TO be In favor Of free ballot
and fair count,
After several other lengthy speeches
Kellogg, OF Louisiana, took the door.
Branching of to discussion oil the cleo
tion OF 1881 kellogg declared that the
rights OF four thousand lreemen had been
.TRAMPLRD UNDER FOOT
In the Parish OF OAddo alone. 1ntlmida'
tion had been rife, men had been whipped
and driven into the swamps and the result
had been reached that was on outrage
on oil fairness and disregard Of all law,
He had been credibly informed the ways
and methods Of the Democratic party in
Caddo parish had wiped out ln the last
eighteen months every vestige Of school
In that parish. When the Packard gov.
eminent had been oyerthrown II had left
$l0,O0O to tho credit Of the school fund
and every dollar had been fretted away.
II had left over twenty schools there.
They were goho. At the close oil the war
the traces made by the Chariot OF Mars
left no greater or more complete devasta.
tlon than had the Democrats In regard to
the school system In that parish. The
Louisiana Lottery Company, Mr.. Kellogg
asserted, was creature Of the Democratic
party, and but for the money furnished by
that company tho Packard government
would be standing to-day. That company
had fifteen years to run. For fifteen years
the earnings OF ,elving men aid
women would be invested in these little
bits OF paper said 10 contain prizes, which
were being run through machine, the
crank Of which was turned by Besure'
gard and tho prizes Of which were dis.
tributed by Jubal Early. That com.
pany, together with the reputation Of the
State debt, was
A STANDING MONUMENT or 1NFAAY
and a sublime embodiment Of the moral
ideas, enlightenment and ciyivilisation Of
the Democratic party. Referring to the
remark OF Mr.. Jonas that ]. Madison
Wells had spproved the "Vagrant Acts, "
he KOllegg1 asserted that Mr.. Wells had
been compelled to give his approval un.
der threats OF suspension. lie quoted
what he termed tho hdeous provisions Of
these acts to show the bard conditions i'm.
posed on the blaCk man. He declared
that 10 many parishes In lIouisiana th ere
were hundreds OF Colored men who did
not know that under the terms Of the
proclamation OF emancipation they were
no longer slaves, but who believed they
were owned by their masters. Against
the proposition so often stated here by his
colleague that the colored people occupied
condition Of comparative comfort and
we're satisfied with the existing order Of
things and content With the DemoCratic
rule, be [ Kellogg entered now hta earnest
protest. lie entered IL ID the face OF the
taCt that they had been
SHOT Dowy LiKRsitREP BY HUNDREDS,
In Louisiana, because they had been true
10 the Union and Constitution, and be.
cause the badge Of citizenship had been
found In their hands Mr.. Kellogg de.
tailed The various political outrages which
we're committed In Louisiana because they
were crimes. He protested against
The proposition that the Golored men
would vote the Democratic ticket he pro.
tests against II because to-day the name
Democracy made every free man In Lou.
siana shut'lnr. To say that such q man
would vote tHB Democratic ticket was 70
utter a statement that was Contradlcted In
letters oil blood written all over the history
Of Louisiana. II was stating that which oil
those billocks and those bones lying on The
banks Of Red River, now and for all time
give the lie 10. He recommended 10 the
Bourbon Democracy Of Louisiana the
oLD scRirruRAL MALRDtCrtoN
Or prophecy, "ThSt when He msketh
linouiSilion iot blood, He will not iOrgeI
The O,y Of the humble" 1.-The had not puI
This protest on record 10 day he felt as i
he should be fepfoached BY the thousandl
Of victims who sleep the long eleep o.
death, who had fallen under the. felent
less hate, and undying aud awful hostI
iLy Of the bourbon Democracy ol Louisi
ana. ..-.,
Mr. Jonas corrected one or two mis-
takes which he said his colleague had iAl
len into, but declined 10 answer big trade
and asserted that the school system inVhe
parish oil Caddo was farce,
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