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J. G. TRUITT
VOLUME XXXIII.
LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING. l)E
8P1QE0I1 OF lin.v. H. 11.MILL.
lit Ion to admit Ilcni y M. Spof-
>ELIVEMID IN THE SENATE, DEC. 1, 1877.
Mr. President, I <loej ly regret tlio exhibition
of party fooling tlmt ban boon limdo during the
past week, 1 find tlmt this Semite in commit
ting n mistake which will bear no fruit but re
gret; iiud I have concluded to umku ouo more
fifort to iureBt tlio reaison of the Senate and
cu if at least wo enn allow timo, without doing
any injustice to anybody, to give Mr. Spoflbrd a
bettor consideration than lie him had.
In my opinion tlio experience ol tlio American
people during the list ten years him established
one great iact in history, and that tact is one
hich no statesman can be wise and not learn,
and no patriot can bo true and not regard. It
has established the truth that tlio greatest pos
sible curse tlmt can belall free institutions is
he possession of a common government by a
uccosslul j arty to a sectional stnlo or sectional
air; nor do I except war itself. This arises
hieily iron* the fact tlmt when parties divide
u sectional issues and by a sectional lino, pas
sions bccoino moro intense, and when those
passions lmvo reached the point of rushing
those suctions into civil war, they engender
hatred, ami unfortunately the statosma ship
dry which must control in the im-
ptel ol such a war, is nothing ordi-
ho result oi passions aud hates en-
y that war. The result is that the
legislation which would nook to establish tlio
prosperity and promote the welfaio ol the coun-
tilly composed ol measures oxhibii-
lt of revenge. Now, uir, it is my de
liberate judgment that the .Senate is about to
commit what I must he excused for culling a
crime against Mr. Spofl'ord, not u dime in be
half ol Mr. Kellogg, but u cnmo against the
Very character ol this Government, and the
plainest aud uu at fundamental principles in it!
1 speak not lor party. I do not’hesitate to
and in the Senate of the United Stales und
tufess to an audience of forty millions ol pen
e that I believe there is no peace, no security
lor the future oi this country until we have
parties which shall be without victories as well
ithout defeats iu the sectional strifes ol the
past. A man can contribute no higher patriotic
to Lis country iLmu to aid in organizing
such a party and tearing down those parties that
live by the spirit ol sectionalism; nor can lie
commit any greater crime uguinut his country
liuu by continuing to ton.cut too passions which
have uliuudy drenched Uu country in blood
and buried one milliou ol American Ireemun iu
o most Wicked and bloody war in ull lime.
I u.-k the Senate to hear mo just one moment
i one point, which i.-> the great question, iu my
judgment, iu this case; and 1 do believe that
there can bo no two opinions upon tho point if
sualora will simply stiip themselves of party
feeling and lose sight ol that purpose which lms
d to dominate this Senate lor the last
week; that is, a simple purpose ol retaining a
party asceu -ency lor a l. mpoiary period in this
jody. The Semite has the right to judge of the
•lections, qualifications, and returns of its own
ueuibers. That is conceded. It in an uucon-
hlionul and absolute tight in this body. It isu
iglit \vh ch no other power can inluiei'o with;
t is a right welch no oilier power can take j ai t
Lut what do
say
toe Senate hu-> the right to judge ol the eleo-
n, qualifications, and returns ol iis own
jbms ? To what extent does that light b o V
It is fixed by the plain terms ol tho Constitu
tion. You have a right lirst of uil to determine
whether ttie person seeking admission into this
body has tho qualifications prescribed by the
Constitution, ino Constitution says that no
snail be u tiouator who is not thirty years
ol age, who has not been nine years a cniz n ol
tho Uuiicd Stales, and at the timo oi ins elec
tion an inhabitant ol ihe iSlato iroui which he is
chosen. Inosu uie constitutional qualifications.
Then the ConsULuliou prescribes that the
times, places, aud manner of ho,ding electiuus
lor ,'Senators und IKpresculutives bhull bo de
termined in each .Slate by tbe Legislature theie-
ol, but Congress shall have the right lo change
or alter those regulations iu every respect ex
cept as to the place ol choosing .Senators. You
have a light to see il tho man applying lor ad
mission into this body nut only has tho qualili-
Jatious prosciibed ,by the Constitution, but
whether he has been elected in the manner,
time und place prescribed by the law. I uftirm
tbatihat lti tho extent oi your power. It the
Suite semis a muu hero chosen by her Legisla
ture with thiyConstitutioual qualifications, uleol-
d in the manner, time, ami place prescribed by
tho laws, you must admit him, ot couisp piu-
vided ho has not secured that election by fraud
or bribery or crime. Then he is denied simply
upon the ground that ho is not elected, for a
iraudulent election Is a non-election, llut hero
is tho point involved in this case: No man can
ake a seat in this body who has not been elect-
d by’tho Legislature ol his State? Who has
tbe right to determine the Legislature ol a
Slate? if us this Senate a light to determine flint
quoRii-n? Will uny man bland up on this floor
d say that the right to determine what is tho
Legislature of a State enters iu any degree into
the powers of the Senate in deciding upon the
elections, quuliflcatious, aud returns of its
members ?
No man will euteriuiu that view. The Stato not
only has a right to determine this question, but
it has a primary right, an absolute right, a light
growing out ol the very nature of our system of
Government; and you have no business to ques
tion the deicmimiHon ol that Statu, It is a de
cision from which there is no appeal, aud which
i earthly power has a right to review or alter.
Of late years instances have occurred where
it has been said that when the Slate failed or
was unable to determine which body of men
constitutes her Legislature, aud especially when
there is more than olc representative, a repre
sentative from each of two bodies claiming euch
to bo the Legislature, and each presents creden
tials hero and tho question is unsettled by the
State, the Senate then acquires a power to de-
ttrmiuu which in ihe true Legislature. With-
out stopping to question the correctness of
that doctrine now, I take this occasion to ex
press uiy doubt of its correctness, and say here
that in my judgment the question as to what
constitutes the legislature of a Stato can in no
event aribo on the application of a member for
admission to his seat, and if any State tails or
refuses to determine lor herself what is her Leg
islature she thereby is deprived of tho light to
(urnisli a member to this Semite.
Leaving that for tho present, I will accept, for
the fiftko of the argument, the positiou which is
justified by the precedents of late years aud re
cognized by the Senate iu divers cases, tlmt
where there are two bodies iu tho Slate each
claiming to be the Legislature, and each of those
bodies commissions u Senator to this body, this
Senate ucquires u right to determine which is
the true Legislature. 1 will concede, for tho
sake of tho argument, that iu January lust and
up to March, aud through March during tho ex
ecutive session of tho Senate, there were two
bodies in Louisiana ouch claiming to be the
Legislature, aud that that stato of fuct gave this
Seuato a right before admitting either one to de
termine which was elected by tho true Legisla
ture. Now, hero is the question I put to tho
Heiiuto, and I wisll every Senator to answer il:
Did the fiiut that there were two rival bodies in
Louisifflui at one time take away from that State
the right Vo setllo which of those two rival
bodies was her true Legislature, and if tho Stato
£iih settled that question lor herself can you
question tho settlement? II she has decided that
question can you controvert tho decision? Have
you any more power to review and ruviso and
reverso that decision by tlio State, because at
one time there were two rival bodies there, than
you would have had if there never had been a
rival body? You acquire tho jurisdiction that
you claim, to look into the legality of a Legisla
ture from the necessity oT tho ca-ve, because it
had not been decided by tlio State. As soon
as ouo of Uioho bodies becomes the recognized
Legislature of tho State, tho necessity no longer
oxists and the jurisdiction no longer obtains.
Certainly revolution might destroy tho Legis
lature but it could not destroy a legal act done
by tlio Legislature during its legal oxistenco.
Tlmt is what the gentleman wants to como to,
but i will como to tlmt. I repeat the point. I
say, first, H at a State has a primary, absohito,
unconditional right to settle lor herself what is
her Legislature and what body of men consti
tutes tlmt Legislature, and 1 deny tlio light to
any earthly power lo question her decision. I
say when two rival bodies « xist in u State, each
il'iiiuing to bo the Legislature,it i s - the light o!
lie Stale to settle which of those two rival bod
ies is the legal Legislature, and beoiliso she has
the competent jurisdiction to sett a it her decis
ion is absolute, and settles tho question of the
legality of tho body from its origin and begin
ning. Tlmt is my point.
I say in point of fact one of tho rival bodies
has disappeared; the other e::ists. There is not
one particle of evidence before tlio Senate tlmt
a human being in Louisiana questions its legali-
y. We have its acts published by authority,
referred to by the Senator from Delaware [Mr.
Bayard] this evening. Here are tho acts of
this Legislature published by authority
for the guidance of the courts, for tho guid-
1 of tho people, lor tho information of the
world. What do those nets published by aulhor-
ty contain ? There is every net passed by the
Nicholls legislature, ns it is called, lrom the 8th
f January. Gov. Nicholls was inaugurated on
the 8tli of January. On that very day he ap
proved a bill, aud tlmt act, und every act passed
by the Legislature and approved by tho Gover-
or, from that day until its final adjournment, is
embodied m tho published laws of Louisiana,
declared to be published by authority,and given
to the world as the legal legislation ol Louisiana
ng this period. Tlmt is not all. Tho courts
of 'Louisiana administer those laws; the courts
ol Louisiana recognize tlmt Legis ature; the peo
ple oi Louisiana obey those laws, black and
white, democrat and republican. Nobody ques-
s the obligation of obedience; nobody resists
the process of tbe courts. That Legislature
ics the law, her courts adminster tho law,her
Til or executes the law, the people obey the
law, and that law is passed by that Legislature,
lhat is not all. The wry body of men who it
is alleged here once claimed to be a legal G gts-
Iniuro lmvo themselves gone into the nicholls
L»- sl.ituru aud have admitted tlmt lhat is a le
gal body.
hero are fifty-nine members of wlmt was
known as the Packard legislature holding certif
icates, members of tlio Nicholls legislature, aud
lilty-ono of them voted for Jlenry M. Spofl’ord
for Senator. In the case of llhodo Island wlmt
i Mr. Webster say ? Tie says Rhode Island
settled this question because her courts, her
Legislature,aud her governor have submitted to
is decision. He says the courts administer
the laws passed by tho charter government, the
governor executes thetaws passed by tho charter
oveiuiuent.aml the Legislature under tho char
ter government enacts laws aud tho people obey
those laws. That is what I mean when I say a
State makes a decision. The State is not the
rnor. The Stato is no one ollher in her
territory; the Stale embraces all her people u^d
all her authority; and in regard to Louisiana,all
her people, all her courts,ull her Legislature, all
her governor, all her authori ty, from the justice
of the peace up to the supremo court,recognize,
obey, and enforce tho laws passed by this Nicli-
11s Legislature. If you send to the library or
any where else and ask for tho laws oi Louisiana
for the la*t session, what do you get? Y r i>u get
the compilation of the acts of tho Nicholls Leg
islature lrom the 8th of January up, not from
the time of the reconciliation, as it is called,but
from its origin, and tlmt is given to you as a
olume of tho laws of Louisiana. Suppose you
□stitute communication with the authorities of
Louisiana lo day; suppose tho President lo do
r tho Congress to do it, with whom would
communicate i Y’ou would communicate
with Nicholls. Tho United States courts enforce
tho laws pussod by tho Nicholls legislature.
The Packard legislature novor passed a law that
lived two days. It has left nothiug on earth on
record. It pretended lo pass one act which wa B
signed by Governor Kellogg before ho went out
of office in tho first eight clays, to abolish tho
xth-distriot court iu New Orleans, but tho not
ever took etfcot. TUa she.iff went there ouo
day and was declared iu contempt lor doing
that. The court that that act established in lieu
of the sixth-district court has disappaared, and
the sixth-distr ct court that that act preteuded to
repeal is iu force to-day and has boon in force
ail the time. So it is literally true, and that is
what I am culling tho attention of tho honora
ble Senator to, (and I want him to see why I
pronounce this conteinpla ed action a crime aud
it will be held iu histoiy so,) that this thing you
call tho Packard legislature passed no authorita
tive act on earth; it did not pass a resolution;
it did not pass a law; it has never done anything
that any justice of tho peace, any notary public,
any court iu Louisiana, nuybody in Louisiana
respects, ouiorces, or obeys us law. That is the
very point. Here is tho Nicholls legislature
passing laws from tho beginning. All thoso laws
arc obeyed; all thoso laws are published by au
thority; all thoso laws are executed, administer
ed, and enforced; they nre recognized by tho
United States courts as well us by the State
courts. Hero is tho Packard legislature that
did nothiug. It lms not done an act tlmt is rec-
ognizod. And yet this Semite is asked to stand
hero as the only body oi men on earth inside or
outside oi Louisiana that is to vitalize ouo sin
gle act oi tho Packard legislature. You are ask-
od to give vitality to Kellogg's pretensions, and
it Kellogg is admitted as a Senator to this body
ho is the only living monument of tlmt sham
government. It accouiplisho 1 nothing except
to o'ect him to tho Semite. It disbanded tho
very men who got into it under a pretended trial
of contostod seats, aud they went home and
admitted that they were not entitled to seats.
There is no man evon who was iu that Packard
legislature now pretending that it was a legal
body; aud ii Kellogg gets a seat iu the Senate
he represents nobody, ho has no Legislature, ho
has no court, ho has no governor, ho has no
State.
Now, then, while it is true that all tho courts
iu Louisiana, and ovory department of tho gov
ernment of Louisiana, and the people ol Louis
iana obey tho laws passed by the Nicholls logn-
laturo und recognize tho Nicholls legislature and
tho governor, the very men who set up a rival
legislature admit that it was a sham, is Mr. Web
ster calls it iu most splendid language. Ho sajs
tho Doir government lasted two days. The
French revolution lusted two days. Tho Louis
iana Packard iegislatuio lasted long enough to
elect Kellogg Senator, While that is all true of
tho Nicholls legislature, I affirm here, as this
record shows, tlmt there is not a single act passed
by the Packard legislature that is obeyed by a
single human being in Louisiana. Tliero is not
act passed by tne Packard legislature that is
recognized by a single court in Louisiana.
Let mo say this: Hero is tho judgment of a
court. Hero are two parties litigating before
tho court. Tho court has jurisdiction of the
subjoot-matler and of the parties. Tho court
enters a judgment. Now, can you go behind
that judgment and say that the parly tho
court decided uguiust wqj in tho right? Have
you a right to do it V T5au you nullify that
judgment by saying that the court decided
wrong ? Tho question as to which party was
right or wrong was the very question the court
passed upon, and you have no right lo annuli
tho judgment because you say you differ with
tile court. Tho court to decide tho question
between these two rival bodies was tho Stato ot
Louisiana. That was tho jurisdiction and tho
power to settle this controversy, aud that
jurisdiction has sottlod that the Nicholls legis
lature, was tho legal Legislature. I say you
cannot go behind that judgment. Isny all this
metaphysical argument about the returning
board, as to who was elected, as to who got
certificates aud who did not, is out of the ques
tion. My point is that ull those questions wore
not iu litigation, tlmt they were not iu the con
troversy; and when tho Stale passed upon the
real controversy, aud entered her judgment, it
settled all those, questions. It is a plain propo
sition. Gentlemen cannot get awny from it.
Mn. Wadleioji. I wish simply to ask my
friend from Georgia whether or not the Nicholls
legislature, so called, contained a legal quorum
iu point of numbers alone, until the 1st of Feb
ruary ?
M::. Hill. I tbiul; it did. It contained
twenty senators and sixty-odd members of tho
lower house.
Mu. Mekbimon. Every day from its first as
sembling it hud a quorum. Confessedly u ma
jority met, and from the day it came iuto exist
ence it had a quorum in both houses.
Mn. Hill. But, gentlemen, that makes no
difference. That also was involved in contro
versy between the two rival bodies and that also
is settled by tho decision of tho State. Every
question you raise hero behind that judgment is 1
concluded iu that judgment. Every lawyer
kuowH that. Wlmt right have you to como up
aud say you are wiser than the State? What
• ight have you lo come up and say p you are bel
ter than the State ? What right have you lo say
that you understand better whom tho people
elected than tho State understands? It the courts
of Lousiana are satisfied und udiuiuister the law
under their oaths, if tho governor of Lousiana
i* H.xtiuRi.cl und executes the law under his oath,
it the Legislature passes laws under bath, if the
people of Louisiana, high und low, obey tho
laws of tho Nicholls legislature, as tho legal
Legislature, wlmt right have yon to differ with
them ? You do not elect a Senator; the L *gis-
laturo of the State elects a Senator. It is the
Legislature tlmt belongs to the State; it is tho
Legislature of the State; it is not yuur Legisla
ture; and just the moment the State settlos that
question your jurisdiction ends, and you have
no right to inquire into it. You have no more
righ to go behind that dicision of the Stato on
this subject than you would lmvo a light to go
behind the judgment of a court of the highest
jurisdiction in tho country. It covers all tho
matters in controversy.
If auythiug could rivet this argumeut aud
make it conclusive it is the excuse for this; aud
I say, with all duo deference to the gentlemen,
that tho excuse does not rise to tho dignity ol
an excuse. You say tlio Packard legislature
was overturned by violeuce. Where was the
violence? W atvioleuco? What did the Presi
dent do? Ho simply withdrew the troops.
What right lmd the troops there? To suppress
domestic violeueo? There was no domestic
violence, and the proof that there was no do
mestic violence was established, because the
moment he withdrew the troops thero was peace.
II unylhing could demonstrate mora clearly
than tho facts already stated, that the Packard
legislature hud no place in tlio affections of the
people, lhat it 1m l no place iu tho confidence ol
tho people, that it had uo place in tho will of
the people, it would be tho fact that U19 very
moment tho troops wore withdrawn the Packard
government, fell; and is this Semite to es
tablish tho | roposition tlmt the govern
ment of a Stato rests upon uo prop but
the power of tho military arm ? Is tho legal
government of the State a government that can
not rest a day or an hour against the will of the
people except upou the military arm ? Are you
going to say that is tho people’s government ?
You may say, if you please, tlmt it is a military
government, you may say it is a govermeut of
Federal agency, but can you say it is the govern
ment at* tho people of Louisiana ?
Mr. President, the most remarkable thing
lhat I have ever heard urged by men oven in
desperate strait is that the Nicholls government
was established by revolution aud violence.
There was not an armed man, there was not an
insult, there was not an excitement. Tho Pres
ident simply withdrew the troops and the Pack
ard government fell, because its only prop was
knocked Worn under it. Nobody, threatened it;
nobody farmed it. Tho prop, the military arm.
tho troops pla6ed in the State-house alone kept
it there. It had not domiuiou over a single
heart; it bad not power over a singlo will; it
could not execute a single order; it did not have
a notary public that would ob';y it. It had uo
power, no authority except what it detived from
tho military. That military hud no business
there. Tho moment tho President withdrew
tho troops and left the people to settle it for
themselves all tho pcoplo decided that tho N ch-
olls government was the proper government
aud tho Packard legislature agreed to it, and
Packard himself ubumlonod his office and fled
when nobody was alter him, because “tho wick
ed flee when no man pursueth." Aud yet, hero
is tho Senate startling the common seuso of the
country by disregarding a body as the legal Leg
islature that tho whole State recognizes aud
insisting on recogniziug as a Legislature what
uobody in tho State recognizes. It Packard is
to bo the governor of Louisiana I10 has no con
stituency but this Senate; if Kellogg is lo bo
the Senator from Louisiana he lms uo supporter
and no constituency but this Senate. Cau it be ?
Mr. President, I feel moro intently on this
subject than I cau express to tho Seuato, be
cause the principle involved, in my opinion, re
veals to every thinking man tho futuro of this
country. Have we come to this, that men
deemed worthy to bo sent to the Senate, educa
ted men, eulightouod statesman, constitutional
lawyers, cun say to the world under their or.’hs
OB
EaGrauge, da.
DIJ V GOODH.
HOOTS AND HIlOIflH.
CLOTHING.
HATS AJ\ r I> CAPS.
s10.000 WORTH Ok
so.ooo WORTH OK
*0,000 WORTH OK
81,000 WORTH OF
S.“,ooo WORTH OK NOTIONS. CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE AND SUNDRIES.
CAS3HVJERE5, JEANS, &C.
Muryluiut Kc
CROCKERY, (;
POCKET OIJ
10,000 YARDS
JVKYV LOT O:
PROM FIVE
DA SSYVAR Id, TABLE AIV1>
TLERY.
-TAC 'i > NET EMTIROIDERY, A
H’ OUR OWN IMPORTATION,
errs. A YARD UPWARDS.
DRESS GOODS.
Black Silk $1, £1.35 aud $2 per yard.
Brown Silk, all grades.
Pearl colored Silk, all -rades.
Glove Cloth, latest colors.
The Balkan Figures.
Victoria Brillantinos.
Mancheste r Mohair.
Pacific Twills, ail wove. 25o to 75c.
Merinoes, Blue, fluff, White and Roso.
Black Alpaca, 20c, 3()e, 10c, 50o, 75o and $1.
Drab Alpaca.
Brown Alpaca.
White Alpaca.
L u ge lot Fringe aud Borders, for abovo goods.
all grades, for boys nnd men.
200 pieces jeans, Kentucky and Columbus.
Waterproof, Navy-blue, Seal-brown aud other
Ladies’ Button Bools.
Ladies’ Foxed Gaiters.
Ladies’ Pebble-goat shoos, perfectly wator-proof,
\lll. L-’ S-lt.i.iU fl LMli.Al.lIlt*
ltob Roys.
FLANNELS.
R r d Flannel, 18e to ClJo.
White Flannel 18c lo fiOo.
Medicated Flannel, lor Rheumatism.
Plaid Opera Flannel, Black aud Scarlet, Blue
Pink &e.
Solid colors, Grey, Blue, Browu, Black, Rose,
Miles* Shoes a specially.
Gents’ liatid-made Shoos and machine work, al
ways on hand, at Atlanta prices. I buy thei^j
pood* from manufacturers, aud can sell lower
thufi any house iu town.
Copper-lips and Leather-tips, pood assortment.
Broguus, Sand-seaui Boots, Wux Boots and
Sewed Boots.
DUTTONS.
Prints from 5o to 7c.
Ciiu
TABLE LENENS.
White Linen Datnnsk, 50c, 75c and $1.
Turkey Red Damask, all grades.
Turkey Rod Doylies.
White Linen Napkins, all grades.
Linsey, all grades and colors.
ELEACHENGS AND
GOODS.
BROWN
10-lBloaching ]
Silk Dress-butlons, every shude.
Fish Scale Buttons.
Smoke-colored Pearl, with eyes, something now,
frr worsted poods.
Vegetable Ivory, for Fall Prints.
Rubber coat and vest buttons.
Pearl shirt-buttons.
G-i
4-4
7-8
) At Atlanta Fiicos.
CLOTHING.
3*4
Men’s Business Suits, S8, $10, $15 and $20.
Boys’ Suits $5 to $9.
Youth's correspondingly low.
Largo stock of over-coats.
SHIRTS.
Full lino of celebrated Star shirts from $1 up.
Islands J
Full stock always on band.
HATS, SHOES, &C.
New Styles Gents’ silk handkerchiefs, all colors.
Gents' .Silk Hats, Broadway style.
Gents’ Helmet Dip Hats, something now.
Gents’ Stiff Hats, latest styles.
Gents’ Fur Huts,
HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.
Ladies’ Flesh-colord Balbrignn.
Ladies’ solid colors.
Ladles’ White HuseTOo to $1.
Gents’ llulf-hose, British aud colored.
“ unlaandried Shirts for boys and .men. Planters’ Wool Hats 40c to 81.50
Lineu,and Paper Collars.
Largest and best ussoitment of Gents’ Scarfs,
Ties, Bows, etc.
largest and best assortment iu Ihe city,
and wo warrant every pair. Will sell at whole
sale prices to farmers, in lots of a dozen pair.
CLOVES, TOILET ARTICLES,
ETC., ETC.
Ladief and Gents’ white and colored Kid Gloves.
Ladies’ and Gents’ Cassimere Gloves.
G< nth’ Buck Gloves.
Full line Stationery, Pens, Ink, Ac.c
Soap, Cologne, Extracts, Lily-white ltouges &o.
Corsets at 50o to *2.50.
Madame Foy’s Skirt Supporters.
E. H BliADFIELP, North East Corner Public Square, LaGrange, Ga.
that they look upon the Packard legislature as
tlio legal Legislature when .nobody in the State
respects it as such, when it has no authority
ami uo fxistcnce, when tho only practical ex
istence it did have was born in fraud, main
tained by force, and disbanded tho moment
tho force was withdrawn? It never for ono
hour had a lodgment iu the uflections of the
peoplo and you call its overthrow a revolu
tion ! Withdrawing tho troops uuil giving the
people peace is revolution ! You send the mil
itary into a Stato to keep up a turmoil, aud that
you call giving peaco aud suppressing domestic
viol'-nco ! Y’ou withdraw the military nnd tho
peoplo immediately have peace, aud you call
that violeueo and revolution? Sir, it is nn il-
1 ustration ot tho great principle I announced iu
tho beginning, tho power of sectional party
spirit, tho power of a sectional party spirit that
has been aggravated by a sectional war, a
party spirit that has been rioting iu power tor
twelve years after the end of that war. It lms
tukeu possession of the souls ol men; it has
taken ps-sessiou of tho minds of men; it ha*
taken possession of tho conscience of men; it
has taken possession of the wills of men; it has
taken possession of tho reasons of men; it makes
slaves of us all.
jiulgmeut, and reopen the controversy, and will
reinvestigate the wisdom of that settlement, and
Ihe righteousness of that settlement—which I
deny j'otir right to do—it you Mill insist upon
that end and set up us u real Legislature a Leg
islature that has passed no act on earth that is
law, that has passed no resolution that is in force,
that has 110 constituency and no power and no
existence, in tho mono of Heaven what is it you
will uot do lo seat a partisan iu this Senate?
NOW AND TlilSX.
It is only now and then that such men as
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, Ex-Guv. Smith and
Ex-Gov. Brown of Ga., endorse a medicine for
tho throat and lungs, nml when they do it is
pretty good evidence that tlio remedy must be
good for the cure of coughs, colds aud lung ufi-
ecliouH. They recommend the Globe Flower
Cough Syrup, and their testimonials are to be
seen round the leu cent sample butties of the
Globe Flower Syi up, for sale by Bradficld &
Sledge. A sample bottle relieves the wors*t
cough aud will cure sore throat. Regular i /e
bottles, fiity doses, 81. 4G-ly
SOUTHERN
FEMALE
COLLEGE
LAGRAXGE, G:\.
FACULTY.
Itfv. A. It. CALLAWAY, Utiles Lettres and Natural
Mur. M C. COX, Uotauv nnd English Branches.
Miss A. M. COX, Modern Languages.
Miss_ELI2A It. TOOLE, Primary Department.
MUSIC DKPAIITM33NT.
Mih.h’SALLIE C. COX, Piauo, Organ and Violin.
Miss ALICE M. COX, Plano, Guitar, and Vocal Music.
A VERY KOOIJ U»:.\S0V.
Sir, I was born in a slave-holding country.
I saw wlmt the world has called slaves, but un
til I came to this body and witnessed the pro
ceedings of tho last lew days 1 uev. r knew tho
me.iuiugo:slavery. Tu.iv uas n >tau..,”o nu Lis
muster's piuutution govi ruvd by an overseer
that did uot have more freedom to act than tho
parti-aim ol this t ody. I use this strong lan-
■-• 11.1go bee1iu.se L believe, as tho Senator from
Massuchui-Us has correctly said, that party
spirit is tho rook oii which this country is go
ing to split. We shall bu wrecked by it. Aud
when that Senator was talking about the power
of party spirit I could but think ol tho illus
tration ho himsull was giving ol it here.
You tell mo that any man iu this body really
believes that the Packard legislature is a lb. ul
Legislature ! You tell me that anybody in this
country believes that anybody has a right to i
say that is it tho legal Legislature after tho State 1
has decided otherwise, alter that decision is un- I
denied, alter that decision is unresisted, utter
that decision is admitted by courts and by au
thority aud by people and by everybody iu and
out of tho State ! Do you tell me that of your
tree judgment, that ol your constitutional learn
ing, that ol your unbiased leeliugand conviction
you believe that tho NicuolJs' legislature is uot
tho lawful legislature and the Puckuid legislature
is ? If you believe it, it is but an illustration ol
tlio power ol party spirit to blind tho reason; il
you do uot beliove it and yet do it for party pur
poses, it is but an illustration of tho power of
party spirit to debauch the conscience*.
1 appeal lor tho country. I care nothiug for
Kellogg; I cure nothiug lor Spoflbrd; I cure
nothiug lor individuals. I protest that it is uot
statesmanship to put ourselves up iu opposition
to tho Stato as to what is her Legislature, 1
protest that you cannot preserve this Union by
prostrating the States ot tho Union. I protest
that you cannot preserve ihe liberties ol this
country by destroying tho right of tho people ol
tho States to elect their own Senators and decide
their own internal government. I protest iu the
name of ull that inspires pride iu the memories
of the past and hope in the prospects of the fu
ture tlmt frauds, villainies, and calumnies are
not the agencies by which a republic cau bu
preserved or honored. I repeat to the Seuato I
charge uo intentional wrong, but I take up the
sentiment echoed by the Seuutor from Massa
chusetts, and say it is purty spirit: it is party
spirit that has beeu burn aud bred in tho pas
sions of civil and sectional strife; it is parly
spirit that has beeu hardened by tho strifes of
years; it will requite the power, the moral power
The reason why only oye sample boltle of
Morrell's Hepatiue for the liver will bo sold to
the same person for ten cents, by our druggist
B r adfield & Sledge, is because of the enormous
expense ot importing the Hepatine iuto this
couutiy; but as there are filly doses in the large
size bottles,it scorns two ceuU per dose is cheap
enough niter all for a medicine that cures dys
pepsia aud liver co pluiut. All who have not
had a sample bottle ure entitled to one for tun cts.
at Bradlield Si .Sledge’s Drug—tore. Three doses
relieves any case of dyspepsia, constipation, iu-
digeatiou or liver complaint, in tho vorld. Reg
ular size bottles, fifty doses, 81.00. 4C-ly
ART DI: PA UT M K S T.
M TOMLINSON, Portrait Tainting, Theory f Col*
' ,r •’ ' 'AKELJ-.Y, Drawing, Painting in uil, Water
1 ' ' ■ : i • - sml other ornament 1
s institution h;i- } ■ ■
tmcntH have long h*-UI il ^-ir present nn
uactieally demoustruted ih, a- ljtj.«t. b iu:
The «
all ihu
-r. FEMALs „
c O/,
4^ %
Hopliicul aj-iu
chart • '! 1Ub ‘ C tU 't mrlmcut iH luruishcd with ten pianos,
’1 lie art furilitios are nmplo for Ihorcnnh art culture.
> a specie basis,
literary or music, per annum, $50. Tainting.
, D''ar<l. per uunnr, with w*bliiii}'. lights and
• r ,T'Wlate year of nine aud a hall months
op- iib tli last Wed 11 silay in September und ol<
•J"th of J11:Tuition fit m Jbt of January. $33.
No deduction for lost time except lor prot
sickness. Uniform lor public occasions: blacn alj
1 plain calico. For eataluguci
taiuing particulars addle
14
I. F. COX, President.
that I feur does not exist in this country to d
stroy it. For tho lust seven mouths I liavo
hoped that wo were on the dawn of u now ora,
and that sectionalism was going to bo buried;
that the parlies lhat had lived on sectionalism
would disband and disappear, aud let
us differ, if we must differ, on practical
questions.affecting the interests ol the country
in the future. But if this man is to bo put iu
this Senate solely to maintain sectional parly
power at tho expense of tho will of the State, at
the oxponsu of tho decision of tho State, with
out any pretext whatsoever to justify it in the
will of. the State, when it has no existence but
in fraud and uo power but by force, when it lms
disbanded itself, when its governor is gone,
when the very Legislature thut eleoted him has
gone iuto the other and admitted tlmt its- pre
vious existence was illegal -if this Senate, I say,
notwithstanding all this aud in the fuce of all
this, scat this mau in tho Senate what shall wo
not expect it to do ? Where is the hope of good,
honest boverumont iu the future ?
Mr. President, I had intended to go iuto a
full discussion of the whole question behind the
settlement and show, us I think I cau bhow be
yond controversy, that the existence of this
turning board was unconstitutional, its action
was without jurisdiction! aud tho result of its
action fraudulent, but I will uot do so. Sir, if
this Seuato will disregard the great facts that I
have slated, if you will insist that a body ol
men accepted by all tho people of tho State, by
all the courts of tho State, by all parties in the
Stato as tho legal Legislature, is not the legal
Legislature, that you have u right to go behiud
♦•hat judgment, nnd tlmt you will gobohiudtbat
r pifF. FALL TCltM of thip Institution will opon Aucust
X 22,1877, und closes tho Wednesday before Christmas.
Rf.v. G. G. SMITH, A.M., Profossorof l.hetoric and
Natural Seienco.
Mirk LELIA IIP TIATIDSON.M.A..Governess and Teach-
ics, .
fares offering peculiar advantages.
Four largo and well appointed buildings, besides thu
vo Society Halls, allord umple facilities lor uli the worh
I the College.
The Faculty has been strengthened by providing fullv
ir the clidir of EneliHli r.nnmnioi. t ® J
Alas. FANNIE J. MAYSON, Primary Department.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
Mas. E. C. MAI.LAUD, Teacher of Tiano, Guitar, kc.
Miss OLA SIMMONS, Assistant iu Music.
ART DEPARTMENT.
Miss LUCY CARPENTER, Teacher of Fine Arts.
There will be three examinations of all the classes each
ear. Ihe lirst will he held ut the close of the Fall Term
. ie second at tho middle of the Spring Term, and the
third at the close of the Spring Term.
In addition to the regulur studies of the course, these
examinations will embrace the elementary studies.Gec^-
raphy. Arithmetic und English Grammar. Ali exaruina-
Assistants will be procured when tho necessities of tho
College demand their services.
This institution graduated its first class in 18ifi, and
since that timo has sent forth tuudreds lrom its classic
walls to mould and bless society.
LOCATION.
Tlio Collego is located on a high omineuco overlooking
tho beautiful city ot LaGrange and tbo surrouuding
country; remote lrom the «tir of the city and vet sufll-
cifcully near to church aud tho convcuieucos of business.
HOARDING.
Hoard in tho College, including lights and fuel, $13 GO
. r month. Washing will cost $1.50 per month. Charges
lor board ai d tuition ouc-half iu advance aud balance ut
the middle of the term, Each pupil boarding in the Col-
will be required to furnish ono pair sheets, one puir
•-•riot, and half dozen towels.
FARMED’ HICH SCHOOL.
MALE AND FEMALE. CLASSICAL A .D COMMERCIAL.
Located two miles northeast of Houston, Ga.
THE ONE PRICE SCHOOL.
TiXEP.CISES BEGIN first Monday iu Feb-
L.?9ssnu*ry, 1877. Six months, first session; four
months, second.
LEONIDAS JONES, Prof. Mathematics, Prlucipul.
Mns. EMMA T. HENLEY, Music and Primary De
partments.
B. H. MATHFAV8, Penmanship nnd Book-keeping.
TERMS, PAYMENTS, Ac.
1. Each pupil will bo charged $2.50 per scholastic
month, regardless of age or brunches studied.
2. When tuition is paid in udvance only two dollars per
give their not s payable ut the close of thp session; said
notcH subject to credit for sickness protruded one week
or longer.
• 4. No deductloif for nbsftico will bo inado except for
sickness protracted one week or longer.
" Music on piano with use of instrument, $3.5C rcr
ninth.
A. Board, in good families near the school, can be had
,t reasonable rates.
For otuer particulars address
LEONIDAS JONES, Prlu.
Jaul8-3iu Houston, Ga.
E
( WEItV DESCRIPTION OF
OFFICE PRINTING
Done iu the mo&t fashionable manner ut tho Roportor
Job Ollli
LETTER HEADS,
BILL HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
STATEMENTS,
DU SIN ESS CARDS,
ENVELOPES.
Hg-Orders from abroad will receive punctual attention.
City bills duplicated.
A o CfcOR a day Bnr ® made by Agents selling our
tPJA/ H ipZnJ Chromos, Crayons. Reward, Motto,
■ ■■ Mr«MMuiMMB:}j cr q,turc Text, Transparent, Picture
und Chrome Cards. 100 samples, worth $4, sent post
paid for 75c. Illustrated Catalogue free.
ng2-ly J. Ii. BUFFORD’8 SONS, BOSTON. EsUb’d 163U
EMORY COXjLECJE—1877
OXFORD, GEORGIA.
One mile from Covington depot, between Atlanta and
Augusta—Georgia Jtailroad.
r HE SPRING TERM BEGINS THIRD WEDNESDAY
in January.
Special attention is culled to the desirableness of Ox-
or«l u* a place to educate young men. Its locution and
“.‘ulthtuluess, as well as its social and religious tea-
4 ml . ucmi. mu*, mi i u Biicugwienco ov provldln
r the clidir of English Language and Literature.
EXAMINATIONS.
conducted in writing.
FACULTY:
ATTK'US G. UAVGOOG, D. D.. Provident ud
rotessor of Mental and Moral Scb-nce.
GEO. W. W. STONE, A. M., Vice-President and
* roiessor of Muthcmutics.
Rf.v. OSBORN L. SMITH, D. D., Professor of Latin
T-juiguog"
Rev. ALEX. MEANS, M. D , D. D., LL. D., Professor
1 mcritus ol Natural Science.
Rev. MORGAN CALLAWAY, D. D., Professor ot EugliBb
Language and Literature. • b
H. A. SUOMI*, A. M.. Professor of Greek Language aud
Literature and of
Literature aud of Hebrew.
‘V M ’’ 1,r ,° f0R8Or "f Nntural Science.
R. M. MclMOsH, Proiessor of Vocal Music.
RUFUS W. SMITH, A. M., Principal of academic De-
TERMS:
Tuition, Spring Term, in Collego Claws, $35.'
Tuition, spring Term, in Academic lu-partmcnt: Pri
mary Glasses, $26; Academic CJasvtts, $31.
, 1.4-nm, Ac;memic Ciasses, $31
Board, iu jjoud MniiUoj. iududiug all oapouBo. lor fuel,
lights, etc.. lrom $1(J to $ao per month.
A yeur's tuition in College may be awarded by tho
Principals ot the Academic Department, and 1 - ~ —
worth* Institute, at Tulbotton, to the best scholar In tlio
schools. I wo tree scholarships are offered to lot
preachers pud laymen in eao . Presiding Ehle:
ffViiv IV, , ; . o . ‘ * “^Hung Eider’s District
of the North ooorgia, South Georgia and Florida Conier-
01| “ H ;.*. l j particuJu-.h, euusult Presiding Elders.
I or further iuiormation, address
dc3i)-tt ATTIC08 G. HAYGOOD, President.
GO CENTS WWTL BOTTLE
BAILEY’S SALINE APERIENT
This is tho cheapest and
MOST DELIGHTFUL PURGATIVE
Beforo tho public. Is a delicious beverage, nnd as pleas*
nut and spurkliug as a glas < of soda water. Fur superior
sickening pills. It is held iu high ropute by phyaic-
iuus and surgeons for the speedy e
Constipation, Biliousness, Torpid Liver, Dyspepsia*
Loss of Appetito, Heartburn, Colic, Sour
Stomach, Flatulency, Sick Headache,
Kidney Affections, Etc., Etc.
It is specially prepared fur the masses, is put up in large
lOttlcs, und sold by all druggists at filtv cents. No frui
ty, no mother, no one traveling, no close student, uo
sewing girl, should tail to use it.
J. P. DROMGOOLE, A CO., Prop’s,
Louisville, Ky.
For Sale in LaGrange by
V? LLWV4Y A WATERMAN.
SCHOOL CIRCULARS.
T HE REPORTER JOB OFFICE is prepared to print /
MU Ml kit. Ulkunr.AltM AND CATALOOTTEH in hand.
i bCHOOL CIRCULARS AND CATALOGUES in hand
some etjle ancTat low rates. We solicit a Uiul from tfc?
teachers of this section. Estimate* promptly Ir ^nisbt'