The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-19
SHERMANS OLD WAR CRY
THE DAKOTA BILL MADE THE PRE-
TEXT FOR RAISING 1T.

He Wants the Negroes to Rule in Lou
isiana-He Declares that Packard
Was Illegally Deprived of the Gov
ernorship of Louisiana in 1876
Hayes Title Defended.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The Senate to-
dav resumed consideration of the Senate
hill discussed yesterday, to forfeit certain
lands heretofore granted for the purpose of
aiding in the construction of railroads. The
debate on the pending amendments ceased
at 2 o'clock, without the bill having
made any progress, when the Senate re-
sumed consideration of the bill for the ad-
mission of South Dakota as State, and the
organization of the Territory of North Da-
kota. Mr. Sherman said that in the absence
n Of Mr.. Edmunds, who was engaged in the
u Sl1nreme Court he would ask the attention
n Of the Senate. 1t had always struck him,
E be said, that the opposition to the admis-
sion of Dakota as State was totally un-
iustifable and Qatterly) factious-so much
so as to be subject to the severe criticism Of
everybody who liked to see fair play on
@ great questions affecting large masses of
n people.
WHY EXCLUDE HERa
II Why, he asked, should Dakota be ex-
cluded as a States He had listened to most
E of the debate and had no. heard single
n reason given for such exclusion. Never be-
fore had a Territory applied for admission
n as a State with anything like such popula-
n ton or such resources. Why should not
NJ South Dakota be admitted? In the name of
Heaven why? Simply because the Demo-
% cratic party did not want that State to be
VI admitted? In the course of his speech Mr..
81 Sherman showed by the vote in the Senate
81 that the electoral commission bill was
not Republican but Democratic measure.
# Twenty-six Democrats had voted for it and
N only twenty-one Republicans, while the
* votes against it were fourteen Republicans
"a dLcluding himself) and one Democrat (Mr.
N Eaton, of COnnecticuN. The Democrats
N were therefore precluded from assailing the
bill as partisan measure. He declared his
full conviction that Mr.. Hayes had been
fairly and legally elected: and that, if by
some hocus pocus Mr. Tilden had been in
augurated he would have been illegally
q elected. He explained the incongruity of
Mr.. Packard not getting the GovernorShip
Of Louisiana by showing that that was sub
ject to local laws and decisions; and de-
cIared his conviction that Mr. Packard had
& been illegally deprived of his office.
UTTERANCES IN LOUISIANA.
Mr.. Sherman read extracts from New
Orleans newspapers bearing on political
* events in Louisiana, and from speeches
made in the late canvass in that State by
= Gov. McEnery and Senator Eustis. The
speech of the latter gentleman Whose
q absence Mr.. Sherman regretted) he de-
scrbed as an able and clear presentation of
E the Southern side in the controversy. 1t
spoke of two distinct races being present in
that State; of the race antagonism existing
E between them, which was one of sentiment
+ AL
Of the danger of a spark producing at any
# moment a cOnhagration in their midst of
the dream of the Yankee crank being that
s the danger might be averted by miscegena-
n ton: OF the issue being whether the negro
e should govern and rule the white man, or
the white man govern and rule the negro;
Of the determination of the white men of
a Louisiana to solve the question without re-
gard to Northern sentiment, aud of the final
s result being the overthrow of negro rule
and the establishment of a white mans gov
ernment.
HE WANTS NEGRO RULE.
If that, said Mr.. Sherman, was the desire
* and determination of the white people of
louisiana, the constitution of the United
States would have to be changed. That
constitution declared that a Republican
form of government should be guaranteed
10 every State. When it was said that the
The majority should not rule, for he believed
nat the blacks were in the majority in the
state of Louisiana, and they had behind
hem great many white Republicans who
yere among the highest of the people of
ouisiana III wealth, social standing and in
uence Thel efore when it was said that
here must be white mans government in
louisiana, it meant an uN-Republican gov
rnment. The people of the South instead
seeking to win the colored people by
kindness (he wished to God they would, and
dld not care how many votes they got in
he process) had maintained a system, as de-
cribed by Senator Eustis, of domineering
Prime and violence.
sHERMAN's CONTEMPT.
He had felt called upon, he said, to make
heSe remarks, partly to correct the histori-
error into which many persons had
|allen and to show that not only did the
eturnlng board of Louisiana have suffi-
ent evidence before them of fraud and
oence and outrage in the election of 1875,
ut that the present Governor of Louisiana
hQ one of its Senators had confessed all,
nd more than had been claimed by the re-
nng board. If ever anybody had any
0ubt of the election of Mr.. Hayes, that
quot had been removed by the admission
the very men who had participated in
wrong Of that day in Louisiana,
al hereafter when any man asserted of
resident Hayes that he had been elected
fraud or wrong, or had not been duly
ected, Mr.. Sherman would hold him in
ntempt as uttering that which was not
ne and which was denied by the very men
no overthrew the local government in
oulsiana in 1876.
VEST BRAVES HIS CONTEMPT.
Mr.. Vest replied to Mr. Sherman. He
"a that the threat which the latter had
minated as to holding in contempt men
no Questioned Mr.. Hayes election might
I'VE terror for members of his own party,
lt' with even the terror of that threat be-
re MS eyes, he (Mr Vest) still denied the
hesty and legality of that election. The
estlon which he had asked yesterday
pout Mr.. Packard and Mr. Hayes had
zen asked in a desultory and unpremedi-
1ed way, and the Senator
I'm Ohio had not answered it satisfac-
Hiy Mr.. Vest sent to the Clerks
~ and had read extracts from a speech
a1e on that subject in the Senate by Mr..
une, IN which Mr.. Blaine declared that
election of Mr.. Hayes and Of Mr. Pack
were lndlssolubly connected and asked
no had authority TO make an arrangement
winch Mr.. Packard was not upheld.
uhg that it was impossible for the ad-
Astration Of Mr. Hayes to have done il.
at Mr.. Vest said. was the statement OF
most distinguished Republican now
lng-Wlth due deference pOssihlv to