Year: 1876

From the Brooklyn Eagle.


The rejection of Piuchback by the
Senate is the end of three years
discussion, with which the country is
wearied, and with the facts of which
the country is familiar. The rejection
of Pinchback of itself is gratifying
thing, not because he is merely an i'm
proper person, for that is not in the
question, but because the Legislature
which elected him was itself u fraudu-
lent body, never properly elected, and
not competent to declare anybody a
Senator. The action of the Senate, in
thus referring back to the Louisiana
election in 1872, stigmatizes it as a
/ fraud, and of necessity exhibits the
Kellogg regime, put in at the same
time, as a usurpation. By this declara-
tion of the Senate, the Louisiana in
fanny in whole and in part is pronoun-
ced to be what the Conservatives have
declared it to be ever since it was be-
gun. The action Of the Senate on
Pinchback in such an admission of the
sustained infamy of which Pinchback
is the product, as would appal a
country in which consistency counted
for anything, and in which crimes of
a political character were not rated
justitiable and praiseworthy, when
done by party that declares it posses
ses all the virtues. If Pinchback is no
Senator, Kellogg is no Governor. Kel-
logg being no Governor, the President
who inaugurated him by bayonets and
kept him in by bayonets was guilty..of a
crime against public rights and liber-
ties that entities him to all the penal
ties of impeachment and to the exc
Grafton of decent men round the
world and through all the coming
ages.


1t follows that every act done by
this bogus Governor should be null
and void, and new crime in itself.
The logic of this statement is COM
plete, but the practical application of
the facts is "far different" Kellogg
remains Governor, and the only party
in the conspiracy who suffers is the
saffron Pinchback, who not singular
ly regards himself rs victimized. We
do not think the Senate is entitled ia
any credit for rejecting inchback land
so we have no credit to confer. We
think better claim could be made Out
ioT giving luC uclIS VI bChCuiS'
Arnold a pension than for even con
templating the alleged credentials Of
Pinchback; yet twenty-nine Republi-
can Senators voted to admit him or
the vote of Legislature which wasnc
Legislature, and on the certificate of O
Governor who Is no Governorin right
as every adult American frankly ad
mits. The history of the Louisiana in
fanny at home reveals the worst often
ses of which the annals of contempor'
ary civilization show politics to bt
capable. The large Endorsement thi:
infamy had in the American Senate il
the most hideous immortality any of
fetal body has perpetrated in modern
times, if not before. Nevertheless,
the country, on the whole, is surpri
sed that the immortality was not con.
summated, and is praising some five
Republicans for opposing it. in its last
stage, in conjunction with the solid
Democratic vote OF the chamber. The
surprise at the failure of the outrage to
succeed is the most sadly significant
sign of the times. Is this nation could
look on itself as clearly as it can look
on nations external 10 itself, it would
find its social and political forces to
De in a condition as dangerous and dis
reputable as any that has ever pre-
ceeded. and been held to have caused
the fall of systems and the extinction
Or paralysis of peoples.