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FROM WASHINGTON.
BAYARD’S GREAT SPEECH.
He Makes a Powerful Plea for Justice
to the Soutn—Blaine Reads a Letter
from Chamberlain, who is Asked to
Resign—The Cabinet Appointed—
Don Cameron Disgusted—A Lively
Row Among the Radicals—Kellogg
to Stay Out in the Cold Awhile.
Washington, March 7.—The letter al
luded to in the following from the
Republican, was written by Stanley
Matthews and endorsed by Wm. M.
Evarts.
General Banks, of the House South
Carolina Investigating Committee, and
the Uuited States Marshal for South
Curolina, called upon President Hayes
this morning and had a brief conversa
tion on the political situation in that
State. The President stated to Gen.
Banks that he would have to excuse
any expression of views on that sub
ject at this time, as he had determined
to take some day for its full conside
ration, and not to act until conferring
with his Cabinet; that he would then
deal with this subject in both South
Carolina and Louisiana.
It is stated that a lettei has been
written to Gov. Chamberlain by a
prominent friend of President Hayes,
and endorsed by another friend, inti
mating that Gov. Chamberlain’s resig
nation would be acceptable.
Tne Cabinet had not been arranged
at midnight. Neither Blaine, Morton,
ConkliDg nor anybody is satisfied. The
administration leader in the Senate is
not yet indicated. It may be Stanley
Matthews, who is to succeed Sherman.
Should Hayes, by disregarding the
pledges of his managers, fail to pacify
Louisiana aud South Carolina, his ad
ministration wiil open with deplorable
difficulties. His only safety is thought
to be to cling to the coalition, which,
liaviug the safety of these States in
view, forced the count of the electoral
vote to an issue before the fourth of
March. Honor and safety urge him to
fulfill thd pledges made for him by his
managers.
Don Cameron, ex-Seeretary of War,
is quoted as saying: “We had better
ihive had Til^ea.”
Nominations: Secretary of State,
Wm. M. Evarts, of New York; Secreta
ry of the Treasury, John Sherman, of
Ohio; Secretary of War, George W.
McCrary, of Iowa; Secretary of the
Navy, B. M. Thompson, of Indiana;
Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz,
of Missouri; Attorney-General,Charles
Ideveus, of Massachusetts; Postmaster-
General, David M. Key, of Tennessee.
Senator Davis uses the chair which
Dixon H. Lewis filled twenty years ago.
It had beeu carefully preserved in the
room of the Committee on Commerce.
All Cabinet nominations were refer
red to a committee. An usual course.
The Republican Senators exhibited
very ugly feeling in the execuiive ses
sion.
Ex-Senator Robertson presented
to President Hayes, Gen. Ker
shaw, Judge T. J. Mackey, Ex-
Gov. R. K. Scott and Father
J. H. Ryan, of South Carolinia, who
presented a letter from Hampton to
the President.
Kellogg’s credentials were referred
to the Committee on Privileges and
Elebtions.
In the Senate, Mr. Bayard, of Dela
ware, who was entitled to the floor,
said his reasons for moving to refer the
credentials of Mr. Kellogg to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections
were those warranted by the unbroken
usages of this body, so far as he was
informed, since its organization. The
credentials of Mr. Kellogg did not cre
ate a prima facie case, because they
were signed by Stephen B. Packard,
who was not Governor of Louisiana,
either dejure or de facto. On the con
trary, the Senate must take cognizance
of the public fact that Francis T. Nick
oils was the Governor of the State and
had a legal Legislature acting in accord
with him; that they had contiol of
every part of the State of Loui
siana except about one acre, upon
which stood a hotel used by
Packard as a State House. He argued
that Nicholls was the only Governor of
the State to-day, and his certificate
was the only one the Senate of the
United States could justly respect.
This case was not new, but it demanded
the same consideration that it did in
1873, when the discussion was con
tinued at such length. He argued that
it was the duty of the Senute to see
that the State of Louisiana was repre
sented here by two persons, but those
persons must bo chosen by her lawful
Legislature. He then referred to the
use of the military in the South, and
said there was au admission of the
outgoing administration, tardy but hon
est, that the use of the military to up
hold State governments had been tried
but with no good result. He then
quoted from tbe telegram of the late
President to the effect that a govern
ment which could not maintain itself
without aid of the strong arm of the
military, should be permitted to go
down. He (Mr. Biyard) viewed that
language as a paraphrase of the lan
guage of the Declaration of Independ
ence, under which our people took up
arms to make them fiee.
Ex-President Grant, who came into
the chamber soon after the Senate met,
was an attentive listener to the above
remarks or Mr. Bayard.
Continuing his argument, Mr. Bayard
commented on the legality of the Lou
isiana Returning Board, and spoke of
the proof in regard thereto offered be
fore the Electoral commission. He
said a majority of that Commission,
claiming that they were only imbued
with the counting power of the tvro
Houses of Congress, held that they
could not look into the charges of
fraud against that Returning Board.
There was in that decision a blow to
his fondest hopes and belief in law. He
then referred to the remarks of Mr.
Edmunds in the Pinchbaek case in
1875, and said that Senator based his
objection to Pinchbaek on the illegality
pf the Louisiana Returning Board. He
Auguste
then replied to the argument of Mr.
Blaine, that the decision of the Electo
ral Commission was binding upon the
Senate, and contended that that decis
ion had no force in law to control the
action of the Senate.
Mr. Blaine asked if the Senator from
Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) did not sat
isfy himsolf, as a member of the Elec
toral Commission, of the legality of
the competency and constitutionality
of the Returning Board ?
t Mr. Bayard said the Senator from
Vermont gave as his reason for accept
ing the Louisiana Returning Board his
want of power to examine into its re
turns and composition.
Continuing his argument, he said
that the Commission refused to take
testimony, which the Senate was bound
to take. The remarks of the Senator
from Maine yesterday led him, with
much abruptness, to challenge the po
sition of the President of the United
States. The new President seemed to
recognize, as at the last did his prede
cessor, the true condition of affairs in
Louisiana.
Mr. Bayard then quoted from the
inaugural address of President Hayes
in regard to Southern affairs and said
they were wise words. He (Mr. Bay
ard) recognized in the distressed con
dition of the country the need of that
which the President proclaimed in re
gard to the Southern States. The
peace of Louisiana was the peace of
all,and her destruction was the destruc
tion of all. He argued that the recog
nition of the Packard government and
the forcible overthrow of the Nieholls
government would not only shock the
very souls of the people of Louisiana,
but would cause a thrili in every bosom
in this laud, He asked for Louisiana
to-day the same measure of law and
justice that he would ask for Massa
chusetts.
Mr. Bayard aguia referred to the re
marks of Mr. Blaine, made yesterday,
aud said he recognized in them the
same cry for sectioual aggression that
had been heard for years past. It fell
upon his ear like a fire bell at midnight,
and he earnestly hoped it would not be
heard by the President and his con
stitutional advisers. In conclusion he
deprecated this sectional aggression
and hoped there would be an end to it
now.
Mr. Blaine had the following letter
read :
Columbia, S. C., March 6, 1877.
To Hon I). T. Corbin :
I have just had a long interview with
Haskell, who briDgs letters to me from
Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evaits.
The purport of Matthews’ letter is that
I ought to yield my rights for the good
of the country. This is embarrassing
beyond endurance. If such action is
desired, I want to koow it authorita
tively. lam not acting for myself and
I cannot assume such responsibility.
Please inquire and telegraph me to
night. D. H. Chamberlain.
Mr. Blaine’s Speech.
Mr. Blaine, of Maine, argued that
the same Returning Board which gave
the electoral vote of Louisiana to
Hayes and Wheeler returned a Legis
lature Republican in both its branches,
ana S. B. Packard as Governor. The
Legislature assembled, as provided by
law, and elected Wm. P. Kellogg United
States Senator. His election was legal
and valid.
He then referred to the remarks of
the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Bay
ard), and to his course at the Electoral
Commission, and said that the Sena
tor, as a member of the Commission,
never once voted with the majority of
the Judges ou that Commission.
Mr. Bayard —Oh yes, the Senator has
not followed the facts of that case at
all.
Mr. Blaine—So far as test questions
came. Ido not know what the littte
courtesies asi ie may have been. Ou
all test questions known to the public
I think the Senator is uniformly on
record against the majority of the
J udges.
Mr. Bayard—The Senator has not
read the record and does not seem to
know much about it.
Mr. Blaine —I except Croniu’s case. I
think the Senator did drop partisan
ship on Cronin’s case.
Continuing his remarks, Mr. Rlaiue
said : Now, Mr. President, this is a
simple question. It is a simple invita
tion to this side of the Chamber from
the other to abandon the ground ou
which the people of the United States
have accepted the election of Hayes
and Wheeler yesterday. I spoke of
back-door whisperings aDd talk in cor
ridors, and asked if any Senator knew
that there was any sort of understand- i
ing. I asked then, and I ask now, if
there is any gentleman on this floor
who stands vouener or sponsor for that
understanding. There has been put iu
my hands at this moment a telegram
which I feel authoiized to read;
nay, which I am requested to
read, and I think it may throw
some light on the subject. 1 profess
to be a plain, blunt man. I do not want
any bide-am - ;eek on this subject. I
want positions to be clearly tuk -u and
frankly Avowed. I read this telegram
not exactly bearing ou tbe Louisiana
question, but kindred to it, and possibly
kiudred dispatches are circulating in
New Orleans this moment for the sur
render and abandonment of that State.
The dispatch is handed me by the gen
tleman, now on this floor, and claiming
to be a Senator elect from S. C.
I asked who had been doing the whis
pering in the corridors, and the answer
comes from Columbia. Is there any
Senator on this floor, who de
sires to stand sponsor for that
dispatch or for the policy
that it covers? Is there any Senator
here who proposes to abandon the
remnant that is left of the Republican
party between the Potomac and the
Rio Grande, and that it shall go down
for the public good, as Stanley Mat
thews puts it ? Being a little of a par
tisan differing in that respect from the
Senator from Delaware, I am not ready
for that. I do not propose either at
the back of Mr. Stanley Matthews x>r
Evarts to say that the public good re
quires that the remnant of the brave
men who have borne the flag and the
brunt of the battle in the Southern
States, against persecutions unparal
leled in this country, shall retire for the
public good. [Loud applause.] I do not
propose it. lam here to do battle with
any one, Id my humble way, who
espouses that policy. I lay that gage
down for any Senator who will stand
sponsor to the suggestions of Mr.
Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evarts on
the question. Nor am I to be dis
lodged from my position by a quota
tion from the late President of the
United States, of whom I would only
speak in terms of personal respect, be
cause the late President of the United
States having, like every one of the
rest of us, the right to change his
mind and alter his views of public
policy, did not, in the dispatch read by
the Senator from Delaware, maintain
the same attitude which he main
tained in the dispatch which I shall
now read :
The following dispatch was received
Sunday evening, at headquarters of
the Department of the Gulf:
Washington, January 17, 1877.
Gen. C. C. Augur, New Orleans, La.:
It has been the policy of the Admin
istration to take no part in the settle
ment of the question of rightful gov
ernment in the State of Louisiana, at
least not until the Congressional Com
mittee now there have made their re
port. But it is not proper to stand
quietly by and see the State govern
ment gradually taken possession of
by one of the claimants for Gubernato
rial honors by illegal means. The
Supreme Court set up by Mr. Nioholis
can receive no more recognition
than any other equal -number
of lawyers convened at the call
of any other citizen of the State. A
Returning Board existing in accordance
with law has judicial as well as minis
terial powers over the eount of the
votes, and, in declaring the result of
the late election hes given certificates
of election to the Legislature of the
State. A legal quorum of each House
holding such certificates met and de
clared Mr. Packard Governor. Should
there be a majority for the recognition
of either it must be Packard. You
may furnish a copy of this dispatch to
Packard and Nieholls.
“U. S. Grant.”
The President, it will be observed,
stated in the case in January, with the
facts all before him, just as I have
stated to-day, and he gives a very cor
rect portraiture of the Nieholls ju
diciary, and highly lauded by the Sena
tor from Delaware. The Senator from
Delaware said that the few innocent
remarks which I made yesterday
sounded to him like the fire bell in the
night. They seemed destined to re
kindle the fires of sectional aggression.
That Senator and myself represent
different schools in politics. We come
trom different sections. We have re
presented different ideas before the
war and during the war, and
since the war wholly and en
tirely different. While I have the
greatest respect and the kindest regard
for him personally, I do not propose to
take his advice on this question. I do
propose for myself as long as I may be
entrusted with a seat on this floor, that
whoever else shall halt or grow weak in
maintaining it, so long as I have the
strength I will stand for Southern
Union men of both colors, and when I
cease to do that, before any presence
North or South, in official bodies or
before public assemblies, may my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
and my right hand forget its cunning.
Morton followed in favor of Kellogg.
The question being on the substitute
from Bayard for the original resolution
of Mr. Blaine in the case of Kellogg
was then agreed to; yeas 35, nays 29.
The substitute is as follows : That the
case of Wm. Pitt Kellogg, claiming to
be a Senator from the State of Louisi
ana, do now lie upon the table until the
appointment of a Committee on Privi
leges Elections, to whom they can be
referred. The vote in detail was as
follows: Yeas—Messrs. Bailey, Bar
num, Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Burnside,
Christiaucy, Coke, Conkliug, Davis, of
Illinois, Davis, of West Virginia, Den
nis, Eaton, Garland, Gordon, Harris,
Hereford, Hill, Johnston, Jones, of Fla.,
Jones, of Nevada, Reman, Lamar, Mc-
Creery, McDonald, McPherson, Maxey,
Morrill, Randolph, Ransom, Salsbury,
Thurman, Wallace, White aud Withers,
35,
Nays—Messrs. Allison, Anthony,
Blaine, Bruce, Cameron of Pennsyl
vania, Conover, Dawes, Dorsey, Ham
lin, Hoar, Howe, Ingalls, Kirkwood,
McMillan, Mitchell, Morton, Oglesby,
Paddock, Patterson, Plumb, Rollins,
Sargent, Saunders, Sharon, Sherman,
Teller, Wadleigh and Windcm—29.
Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina,
submitted a resolution that tho cre
dentials of David T. Corbin and M. C.
Butler, each claiming a seat as Senator
from the State of South Carolina, lie
upon tho table until the committees
are appointed, and that their creden
tials shall then be referred to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections.
Agreed to.
Mr. Moiton moved to go into execu
tive session.
Mr. Bayard requested the Senator to
withdraw that motion, that he might
offer a resolution to have Gen. John T.
\Jorgun, Senator-elect from Alabama,
sworn in.
Mr. Motton decliued to do so.
The motion for au executive session
was rejected by 30 yeas to 31 uays.
A message was received from the
President of the United States, by Mr.
Rodgers, his Secretary, on Cabinet
nominations.
Mr. Bayard then submitted a resolu
tion that the credentials of John T.
Morgan, Senator elect frotn Alabama,
be taken from the table, and that he be
sworn. Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, said
he desired to speak upon this res lo
tion, but was not able to go ou to-day.
Several Senators insisted that he
should go on. After a biief discussion.
Mr. Morrill, of Vetmont, renewed ti e
motion for an executive session, and it
was agreed to.
Tne Diplomatic Corps Call on the
President—Postmaster Gen. Key’s
Latter to Hayes-The Cabinet Offi
cers Handed to the Senate—They
Are all Objected to and are Referred
to the Proper Committees—The Ad
mission of the Alabama and South
Carolina Senators Referred—Demo
cratic Caucus—An Extra Session of
Congress in June.
The diplomatic corps visited the Presi
dent to-day.
An extract from a letter, written by
Postmaster General Key,February 16th,
is as follows : “I am ready to do all I
can to restore confidence and good gov
ernment to the people of the S mth.
This can only be done by a hearty
fraternization of tho sections, for
vviii-h I have labored. * * *
It, without requiting of me the sacri
fice of my personal or political inde
pendence, you find my num- can b •
used for the good of the South in vour
best judgment, you are at liberty to
use it. If I were to become a member
of an administration, I should not feel
myself at liberty to place myself in
opposition to its general policy,
but should feel bound to build it up
and strengthen it in the hearts of the
people, and if the time,arrived when I
could not heartily co-operate with it. I
should resign. As matters are in the
South, I could be more useful to our
people by an independent position, and
if, as I hope and believe the adminis
t ration will develop a broad and liberal
policy for the South, I would not hesi
tate to incorporate my fortunes and
seir with it.”
This letter was before President
Hayes last night, when he had a con
sultation with Mr. Key, prior to his
final selection as Postmaster-General.
When the nominations of the new
Cabinet officers were delivered to the
Senate, at 2:20 p. m. to-day, by Mr.
Rodgers, the Private Secretary to the
AUGUSTA, GA„ MARCH 8, 1877.
President, the greatest anxiety was
manifested by all the Senators to learn
the names of the appointees. The list
having been delivered by the Door
keeper to the Vice-President, a number
of Senators eagerly rushed forward to
examine it. and in a very few minutes
the new Cabinet was the common talk
all over the Capitol.
Just after the message was delivered J
Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina, sub-.-
mitted a resolution to refer the creden- j
tials of D. T. Corbin and M. C. Butler,/
each olaiming a seat in the Senate from
the State of South Carolina, to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections,
when appointed, but the anxiety was:
so great among many Senators on the
Republican side of tne Chamber to go
into executive session that there was
an indisposition to consider the resolu
tion. It was agreed to, however, with
out discussion, and then Mr. Bayard
submitted one to have John T.' Mor-,
gan, Senator elect from Alabama,'
sworn in, but Mr. Spencer took the I
floor to oppose it, and a motion for an :
executive session, at 2:30 p. m., was j
agreed to. J.
When the doors were closed there'
was quite a lively scene in the Senate
Chamber. Under the rule of the Senate
a single objection to the present con
sideration of any nomination, refers it
to the appropriate committee, and when
the very first one, that of Mr. Evarts to
be Secretary of State, was announced,
Mr. Blaine moved its reference to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. Then
there was an earnest discussion, io
which some of the Republicans ex
hibited much indignation at some oi
the nominations, and finally it seemed
to be generally acquiesced in that all
must be referred aud that none of
them should be confirmed.
Mr. Conkling demanded the refer
ence of the nomination of Mr. Schurz
to the appropriate committee, aud (
quite a number of Senators demanded"
the reference of Mr. Key’s nomination.
lii fact, there was more or less objec
tion to every one of them, and there is
every probability of au excited debate
over them when they come before the
Senate again. The executive session
continued about twenty-five minutes,
when tho doors were reopened and the
Senate adjourned.
After the adjournment the Demo
cratic Senators met in caucus and fully
discussed the policy to bo pursued by
them on the nominations, as to vothij*
for their confirmation or rejeetieu.
From tne general tenor of the debate,
it is believed that Southern Democratic
Senators will use their power in Ae"
Senate to induce the
refuse any recognition of
Louisiana or Chamberlain in SoutT'
Carolina. It is said by them that if she
administration wiil stand firmly ou Im -
policy of non-intervention in the affair
of those States, Southern Democrats * .1
support it to that extent. T’-ey m.i) -
tain that, to accomplish this through
the divisions in the Republican ratlr ,
will be to win the victory for whjch
they have so long contended. As t e
committees of the Senate will notLe
appointed before Friday, the nomil
tions cannot be considered in the eq i
inittee before that day, and thereforl it
is not likely that they wU ho lf
in the Senate for several
been customary to confim* nth
nominations of poisons who jj 4V ej
boon nxembeife of the with#
out the previous formality of a
reference. This is done as a com
pliment to a brother Senator, as they,
from his service in the Senate, know
his character, without any investiga
tion in regard thereto by a committee.
But iu the case of Senator Sherman,
to-day, the custom was violated, it is
said, at the suggestion of Mr. Came
ron, of Pennsylvania, who demanded
that his nomination be referred to the
Committee on Finance.
Dorsey, Spencer and Patterson are
represented as having been earnest in
their opposition, in secret session, to
Evarts, Schuiz and Key.
The present intention of the Presi
dent is to convene Congress in extra
session about the first of June.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Death, of Jacoby—Opposition to Igna
tieff—Papal Consistory.
London, March 7.-Dr. Joahan Ja
coby, the well known German politi
cian, is dead.
The English press is nearly unani
mous in disapproval of the project
which is believed to be the basis of
Gen. Ignatieff’s mission. The prevail
ing sentiment is that it would be un
wise to purchase demobilization of the
Russian army by a practical surrender
of the treaty of Paris, and concession
to Russia of a future right to establish
a protectorate over Turkey’s European
provinces. Even if Turkey were able
to work out satisfactory reforms, Rus
sia or Russian societies would not give
her an opportunity to do so.
Rome, March 7.—The Consistory for
the nomination of new Cardinals and
Bishops will be held on the 12th inst.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, March 7.—The Repub
lican State Central Committee to-day
unanimously passed a resolution call
ing upon ex Governor Pinchbaek to re
sign as President of the Committee
and member of the National Republi
can Committee before March 17th, to
which day it adjourned.
Maj. E. A. Burke returned to-day
from Washington. From assurances
oeived, he is satisfied that Nicholle’
government will not be disturbed.
Bayou Sava, La., March 7.—D. A.
Weber, for the past few days has beeu
walking the streets, armed with a shot
gun and in a defiant way, threatening
many citizens. He was shot to-day
and instantly killed, as ho was passing
the Court House. The Coroner is in
vestigating.
Destructive Fire—Great Failure -Fa
tal Kerosene Accident.
New York, March 7.—Nos. 1,3 and 5
Bond street burned. Loss $500,000.
The whole building was occupied by
dealers and manufacturers of watches
jewelry and plate. Tho greater part of
the merchandise was locked up in safes
and may be safe. The Gorham Manu
facturing Company occupied a portion
of the building. Their losses are heavy.
John T. Hoyt, a prominent operator
in railroad stocks, was aajudged a vol
untary bankrupt. Nominal liabilities
$1,730,526. 8 ’
Two ladies, Mrs. Ursula Terhune
aged 73, and Mrs. Eleanor Kelt, aged
63, were burned to death at Hacken
sack, Monday, by the explosion of
a kerosene oil lamp.
Ex Gov. Fenton Interviews Gov-
Hampton and Chamberlain.
Columbia, March 7.—Ex-Gov. Fen
ton, of New York, was here to-dav
and had lengthy interviews with Gov
ernors Chamberlain and Hampton
A SEARCHING REVIEW.
' H® PHILOSOPHY' OF THE 81TUA-
tion,
and hat Hon. John Bigelow Thinks of
Hayes and His Policy—The Power
Behind the Throne-Uneasy Is the
Head that Wears A Crown of Fraud.
[New York Herald 4th.]
IT AN INAUGURATION OB A FUNERAL?
J Reporter—Well, Mr. Secretary, we
ave a President at last. *
-Mr. Bigelow—A provisional Presi
cut you mean. The people elect
i residents In this country.
TANARUS,? e n 0 J ter ~ Would you intimate that
morrn J Qt \° be or S aniz ed to-
Mr wi be S? ,y a Provisional one?
Mr. B.gelow—Only a provisional gov
,All tbo government* are pro
visional that are illegitimate. Hayes
.*as not elected by the people. Everv
*>dy knows it; everybody feels it. Had
ho been some would have begun to re
j ice by this time. It is fortv-eight
/lours already since he was declared
HaVe you heard a un
’red? Have you seen a flag hoistea?
Jiiat thrown into the air? or remarked
yiy other manifestation of popular
-htisfaction such as usually attends the
1 aumph of a great party? One would
-suppose from their appearance and be
havior that the Republicans were nre
i aring for Hayes’ funeral rather than
ror his inauguration, and that his
•k lends had been requested not to send
bowers.
Reporter—But, legitimate or illegiti
mate, Hayes is to all intents and pur
roses as much a President as Grant or
Lincoln was, is he not?
7** r - Bi gelow—By no means. He will
ee invested with the symbols of power
to-morrew, but the power will not be
aere. His thunder will be of sheet
iron, and his lightning wiil uofc kilL
iHuen, by virtue of the sovereignty
with which the people clothed him in
\o\ember, without title or patronage,
without truncheon or sceptre, will re
main a greater political force in the
country than Hayes can possibly be
tiome. The fact is, and it would be
roily to disguise it, our political system
Bas for once miscarried ; to use a com
eercial phrase, it has failed to meet
j engagements and gone to protest.
Reporter—Do you mean that we have
realized Macauley’s prediction that un
der out institutions libertv or civiliza
tion must be sacrificed ? '
FOUR YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PROTEST.
Mr. Bigelow— By no means. A horse
tiuit thaws its halter has not escaped.
Uui republican institutions have
stumbled, but not fallen. They have
suspended, but are not bankrupt. Their
eredit is impaired, but can and must be
restored. The work of restoring it
must begin at once. For the next four
years our political life must be one con-
Ainuous moral protest against the pro
cesses by which Hayes’ elevation lias
2>een accomplished, in order, as Gover
nor Tilden said, “not to naturalize the
'system by which success bas now been
achieved.” You now understand what
J mean by calling the government of
i£vieh Hayes wiil oe the nominal head
a provisional government. Hayes’ ad
ministration will be compelled to strug
through every moment of its exist-
WKec/under tin* fatal eurse of illegiti
macy, and when it expires history will
appropriate to it the epitaph of the
Spanish slave: “I wept when I was
born, and every moment I have lived
has been teaching me why.”
Reporter—How can you question
Mr. Hayes’ title ? The law under which
he was counted in would never have
passed but for Democratic votes, and
it is even said to have had its origin in
the Democratic party.
Mr. Bigelow—The Republicans threa
tened revolutionary measures. Sena
tor Morton proposed to have the Presi
dent of the Senate usurp the uupr •
cedented and, under a popular gove
ment, absurd authority to count t
electoral vote. That meant two Pres
dents and civil war, or the retreat of
one of the parties. To avoid the risk
of one of these alternatives, some of
the Democrats in Congress, taking
counsel of their fears, like the spies
whom Moses sent to report upon the
land of Canaan, others of their desire
to escape responsibility, and all, per
haps, supposing that the result would
be the same in either case, assented to
the gambling device which has made
Hayes provisional President. The
Democratic party, as a party, desired
a peaceful and orderly solution of the
Presidential problem. They could not
hope to benefit by any departure from
the precedents which had been sanc
tioned by twenty-one separate Con
gresses, and which the Republican
party, at three consecutive Presidential
elections, had deliberately pronouuced
good ; but they were not disposed to
resist any expedient which would have
a tendency to quiet the public mind.
To that extent, and no further, the
Democratic party assented to the
counting machine. I did not ap
prove of it, and did what little
I could to discourage its adop
tion. I foresaw nothing but mischief
from any effoit of the two Houses of
Congress to evade their constitutional
responsibilities. My apprehensions have
been more than realized. Rut whether
they did right or wrong in calling in
outsiders to aid in counting the electo
ral vote, they had no right to consult
outsiders except as experts; they could
ask their opinions, but they could not
bind themselves in advance to be gov
erned by those conclusions. So far,
however, from acting as experts and
enlightening their constituent bodies
by the r investigation, the Commis
sioners began their work by putting
out one of their eyes. They proclaimed
their determination neither to take noi
read any of the testimony which their
Congressional constituents had spent
jtwo or three mouths in collecting* for
j this very purpose, and after thus de
liberately blinding themselves, they
proceeded to discharge the trust which
hud been confided to them precisely as
if their blindness was connate aud not
deliberate.
WHAT THE MINORITY OK THE COMMISSION
SHOULD HAVE DONE.
The fact instead of increasing they
reduced the information which the
Houses of Congress placed at their
disposal is a practical admission that
the use of that information would have
compelled them to different conclusions
and convicts the majority of a delibe
rate purpose to count in Hayes without
reference to the law or the testimony.
The moment that was apparent, as it
was when they decided the Florida
case, it was manifest that the Electoral
Commission wa3 not the sort of tribu
nal which Congress had either the pur
pose or the power to create, nor the
one which the people supposed had
been created. I urged that the mi
nority judges, when thus deprived
of the rights necessary for a satisfac
tory performance of their trust, should
decline to accept any further refer
ences from the Houses of Congress.
Hope, however, that springs eternal in
the human breast, and in this case
most unfortunately, made those to
whom this advice was addressed think
there were some things yet to be done
before Hayes could be counted in so
shamefully and erroneously that at
least a majority of the Commissioners
would shrink from them. On that point
they are now undeceived, I presume.
Reporter—After all, will the Demo
crats not soon forget this ? The French
Republicans soon stopped discussing
Louis Napoleon’s title to the crown.
“ FORGIVENESS IS DISHONOR.”
Mr. Bigelow—l think too well of my
country people to suppose they will
ever give their confidence to a govern
ment which is the apotheosis of fraud
and violence. They are not ready to
abdicate. They know full well that
the moment they condone what has
just been done at Washington, that
moment they concede that a title to the
Presidency can be acquired by the
means which have placed Hayes in the
White House, or by any other means
than a fair expression of the popular
will, and they also know that from that
moment popular government with us
becomes a chimera and personal gov
ernment ensues with its inevitable inci
dents—a venal or restricted press, an
obsequeous Legislature, a time-serving
judiciary, a post office and telegraph
system like the whispering gallery of
Dionysius—treacherous instruments of
partisan vengeance and public oppres
sion.
Our people are tolerably familiar
with the ways in which other nations
have lost their liberties, and if there is
any one danger against which they are
least likely to be off their guard I think
it is piecisely that which would follow
their covering with the mantle of for
giveness the processes by which their
sovereignty has been violated. They
will not forgive it. They will not, they
cannot for one moment forgive if. For
giveness is dishonor, it is servitude.
They must and will perform their du
ties as citizens under continuous pro
test. Like the violated sister of Abso
lqm, they must sit w'tn ashes on their
heads till this national outrage has
been expiated.
That is not a state of things favor
able to new enterprises, to bold or suc
cessful financial adventures, when the
Government is struggling helplessly
with the devil to whom it has sold it
self, and the people are afraid to ex
tend a hand to it for foar of being com
promised as its friend or confederate.
ONLY MORAL RESISTANCE TO BE OFFERED.
Reporter—But you don’t apprehend
any disposition- in any faction of the
Democratic party to resist Hayes’ ad
ministration V
Mr. Bigelow—There’s no sueh dispo
sition, as far as I know, anywhere, and
if there should be it wiil not be the pe
culiar property of either of the two
parties. I believe tho country is at
this moment unanimous in its accept
ance of Mr. Hayes as the Chief Magis
trate, but who can answer for the su
premacy of a magistrate who comes to
power by what (to a large majority of
the country) is regarded as a usurpa
tion V Lacking the moral authority
which always hedues abou£ t.tye iegiti
| mate sovereign, Mr. Hayes "wm find
' bimself obliged to supplement what
power he has by unpopular devices, to
| eke out the lion's skin with the fox’s.
He must continually struggle with the
feebleness of his birthright. One exer
cise of illegitimate power can only be
maintained by a continuous series of
usurpations.
Reporter—But may not Hayes ap
point a Cabinet which will command
the confidence aud support of the en
tire couLtry y
Mr. Bigelow—lf he does his admin
istration will “die aborning,” It
would require him to turn his back
upon every man who bus had anything
to do with his upheaval, and they are
so entrenched at Washington for at
ast one more session of Congress
lat he is at their mercy.
THE POWER OK THE SHERMAN FAMILY.
Reporter—Won’t the country be sat
isiied with John Sherman in the Treas
ury ?
Mr. Bigelow—The nomination of
Sherman for the Treasury means Gen
eral Sherman for the succession in
1880. It was John’s intention and ex
pectation that the General would have
been nominated in place of Hayes, but
he covered his potatoes a little too
deep; they did not sprout till after the
Convention at Cincinnati.
Reparter—l don’t understand what
you mean by planting his potatoes too
deep.
Mr. Bigelow—lt is not necessary that
you should at present. I don’t sup
pose Hayes would understand it either.
I don’t suppose he has any idea that
in putting Sherman into the Treasury
he is uniting the purse and the sword
in practically the same hands and
thereby rendering “Returning Boards,”
which are just now unpopular, no
longer necessary. Under such an ar
rangement they can be made the scape
goat for the sins of the last adminis
tration and driven into the wilderness,
to the infinite ediilcation of these dear
old ladies who delight in holding
emergency conferences and are always
curing the political diseases of the
country by sounding manifestoes.
HAYES’ CABINET.
What! Hayes make a Cabinet that
will deserve the confidence of the coun
try ! It is impossible. The stream can
not rise higher than the fountain. The
creature does not argue with its Crea
tor; the marble does not argue with the
sculptor that fashions it; the tree does
not argue with the sun that feeds it. Is
Cameron a man whose presence in the
Cabinet would inspire confidence? Yet
he must be there in person or by his
representative. He made Hayes Piesi
dent. Hayes’Presidency is purely the
creation of the War Department. Then
there are Morton, Hoar, Blaine and
Conkliug, each the head of an impor
tant faction at Cincinnati, but neither
thought quite worthy of public confi
dence by their party. These men, who
have borne the burden and heat of the
day, will they consent to take their
cold cut in the kitchen while your pub
lic confidence men are revelling in
the parioi? Not much. The fact is no
matter what Ministers Mr. Hayes calls
into his service to-morrow they must
wear the livery of his household. They
cannot be better dressed, of better
manner than their master. He cannot
have a class of men about him whose
very presence is a perpetual accusation
and reproaoh, and whose virtues would
be always setting fire to the scaffolding
on which he stands.
This terminated the interview.
The sad, care-worn Consumptive and
the victim of that Cough now leap for
joy. The new principle discovered by
Dr. J. H. McLean, for the cure of
Coughs, Colds and Consumption, Glo
bules containing medicated gas, called
Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough and Lung
Healing Globules. Trial boxes, by mail
25 cents. Dr. J. H. McLean, 414 Chest
nut street, St. Louis,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Highway robbers infest the vicinity
of Charleston. '
A negro boy has robbed the Charles
ton post office of S4OO in money and
checks.
The number of deaths in Columbia
for the week ending March 3 was two
—both colored.
Witte* Todd, colored, was shot and
killed by Butler Putnam In Laurens
county, last week.
It is reported that the Rev. Henry
Pinckney Northrop will succeed the
Rev. Dr. John Moore, who has been ap
pointed Bishop of St, Augustine as
pastor of St. Patrick’s Church of
Charleston.
Mr. P. W all, for the last thirty years
an employe of the South Carolina Rail
road, died Monday morning in Charles
ton. He was a faithful servant of the
company and an honest man. He
leaves a large family.
The Spartanburg Herald has entered
on its fifth volume, and in its new
career has made several commendable
improvements—notably in the classifi
cation of its matter. The Herald is a
good newspaper, and deserves a hearty
support. J
The Bamberg Guards of Bamberg,
have elected the following officers:
Captain, G. P. Bamberg; First Lieu
tenant. D. F. Hooton; Second Lieu
tenant, W. J. Terryberry; Brevet se
cond, G. A. Jennings. Application will
be made to Governor Hampton for
commissions at an early day,
_ rhe store of Mr. Cohen Wilson, about
eight miles from Sumter, on the Cane
Savannah road, was broken into on
Fiiday night, 23d uIL, by four thieves
being discovered, fired twiee at
Mr. Wilson, and would have killed him
had he not been in a stooping posture
They then fled, taking a half box of to
baooo. f'
There being some irregularity in the
election held in January last, for In
tendant aod Wardens of Laursos
another election was held on last Wed
nesday for said offioets, resulting as
follows: Intendaut, J. L. M. Irby War
dens, Tolaver Robertson, B, F. Baliew
Larkin Watts,* James Irby.* Those
marked thus* are oolored.
The Columbia boy is bothered over
this returning board business, and says
his early conception of the thing was
this : The board consisted of himself
and the old man, with a ahingle in the
old man’s right hand. He says they
held frequent meetings io the back
shed, but that the returns came in so
rapidly that it was impossible to get a
fair count, and, therefore, he thinks
Hayes may be elected.
The Sumter Southron says: Mrs.
Badger, wife of Dr. B, M. Badger, and
daughter of Mr. W. J. Croswell, of this
county, died at Summerton, Clarendon
county, on the Ist Inst, The funeral
took place at the Methodist Church in
this place on Saturday afternoon, and
the remains were interred in the Sum
ter cemetery. Mr. Frank Rhame who
was burnt so badly sometime ago, died
on the Ist inst., at his home near ’ Cav
alry Church, Clarendon county.
Journal of Commerce : The receipts
and disbursements by the Hampton
Government amount to $120,141.77.
This is the response to a cali tor one
tenth of the annual Stats, tax. -We
submit that no better evidence can be
given of the earnestness of the people
and of their fixed purpose to establish
in power the Government of their
choice, They are certainly too poor to
throw away their narrow and hard
earned means, and none will doubt
that iu the support of the Hampton
Government they mean businese. Anl
min opibusque parati is the motto of
Carolina.
The famous boodmare Heraldry died
at Ashland, LexiDgton, Ky., on the
plaoe of her birth, December 31, 1876
thus surviving through the Centenuial’
year and nearly to the age of 31 years.
Heraldry was a chestnut, foaled iu
April, 1846, at Ashland, being the first
colt of the no less noted brood mare
Margaret Woods, presented to the
Hon. Henry Clay by Col. Wade Hamp
ton, of South Carolina, (father of Gov
ernor Hampton,) for many years the
leading importer and turfman of the
South. Margaret Woods, when pre
sented to Mr. Blay, was iu foal to Her
ald, and the produce was Heraldry,
who, like many other celebrated brood
mares, was never trained, owing to an
accident when a yearling.
Columbia Register: Anderson, one of
the Hausmann murderers, who is to be
hung on the 16th of this month, sent
for his father the other day and made
a proposition to the old gray-haired
man, now verging on seventy years of
age. The son told the old man that he
was young, and didn’t care just yet to
“shuffle off this mortal coil.” After ex
plaining to the old man that he was old
and had but a few years to live, he
offered him “SSO and* his mule” if be
would hang in his place. The old mau
hesitated a moment and scratched his
head. The son, thinking he was about
to take him up, added an additional
$lO by way of a clincher. The old mau,
in the meantime, had collected his
senses, got control of his tongue, and
informed his anxious young hopeful
“dat de mule aud de money was a
powerful conducement, but dis old
nigger ’scaped de rope dis far, and he
couldn’t see jes how de mule or de
greenback gwine to help him any arter
he done dead.” He was open to con
viction, but somehow he “couldn’t see
it jes yit.”
The Columbia Register says; “It will
go floating along down the tide of time
with the trash and driftwood—the
name of Bradley. The future histo
rian will olass him side by side with
Thomas a Becket and Woolsey, at
least so far as the meaner traits of
those men’s characters are to be com
pared with the narrow-mipded partisan
aad bigot who has just bartered away
the honor of ooußtry and the rights
and reputation of his countrymen.
How different the fame that will follow
the incorruptible Willard, a Justice of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina,
surrounded by men of his own party,
in a State where that party is barely
defeated, with many of the elements
of strength still surrounding it, and
the whole power of the Rational Gov
ernment backing and endorsing it. He
has thrown aside party fealty and par
tisan feeling, and, as a pure and incor
ruptible Judge, has stood as firm, as
inflexible, as immovable as the rock of
Gibraltar. All honor to Willard—all
honor to the brave and conscientious
man and incorruptible Judge. He is
an honor to his species, aDd has added
lustre to the ermine ho so worthily
wears. Thrice welcome to Carolina all
such men, from whatever quarter of
the globe they may come.”
% For fifty cents you can get one of the
best dinners In the city at the Markoe
House.
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEORGIA NEWS.
Walton county farmers are planting
corn. r °
Conyers sells eggs at ten cents a
dozen.
Fine shad sell in Covington at forty
cents each.
tbJfakirs VanDa k P o^oo are tor
Rev. D. E. Butler will support Bell
for Congress.
f * string bands make music
for the Atlantese.
Houston county hams are selling in
Perry at 18c a pound.
DolahY 6 gl .t. d to learn Master Clark
Howell is getting well.
Counterfeit silver quarters are in nir
culation in Social Circle
A revival is in progress at the Pi rat
Baptist Church of Atlanta.
Racing at Thunderbolt Park, Savan
nah, are attracting large crowdk
week USt M Q r f^ merßW i! l P* ant corn this
M gay has plaateJ
h J 1 *® Star says Mr. J. J. Stephenson
county 6 ° f the fla69t farms la Newtou
Miss Sallie Cook is now engaged as
College adsititant teachers in a M.
Mr. John Snipes, an aged citizen of
Upson county, and the Author of con
siderable local poetry, has passed away.
A progrsmme is being arranged
n A | tllUlta , Fire Apartment for
May UUtJ para<ie 0B the first day of
DiSwhM™ ha 7 two grist mills ruu
n ug within the incorporate limits one
by steam ** by Water aud tho other
,eB 2S? maQ 18 Uteres ting the
bf b i PUl l ,< r Wh * n not otherwise
° 68 b C * rri,d 0n 1110
i>i?S yßpeer !* 6tu “Ping the Ninth
District, serenely unmindful of the
nominating nonsense, as he deems it, at
Gainesville. *
Mr. John J. Monroe, of Savannah
received a painful wound In the leg on
* the other day, betw’eeu
Charleston and Savannah.
Fifty vessels, loaded with yellow pine
timber and lumber, have been cleared
for foreign countries from the port of
Darien since the Ist of January.
The gin-house of Mr. A. C. Zachry
of Morgan county, with all its contents
consisting of cotton, cotton seed, guano’
eta, were entirely consumed by fire on
Tuesday last. Loss about eighteen
hundred dollars, with no insurance
tn T lM e< *i ipt3 Si cotton at Columbus
I ®*l' tember Ist, foot up
VAoif 3 m ° re than last
> ear. The mills ha re taken, since Sep
tember Ist, 7,048 Laies of cotton
against 8,481 last year, showing a de
crease of 1.438. g e
A recent act of the Legislature makes
* a n„h? i eme *T r t 0 refus " t 0 wor k on
the public roads, and imposes a penalty
ii aa °- De - nor more thaa
iteßw doH*rs for each day’s default to
h tweDty da ys’ hard labor or
[ coun“ Qt ’ at the dt * cred °a Of the
Mr. Mark Woods causeff a colored
trooper, named Lorenzo Thrasher to
* **U)l ball on Saturday list,
in Morgan county. Lereuzo was mak
ing for Mr. Woods with an axe, when
the latter stopped his progress, the ball
striking lum on the chin and ranging
downwards. b b
The Forrest Reios says : “It is a sad
reflection that CoL John H. CLristv
wrote more and talked more than
almost any other one man in behalf or
building the Northeastern Railroad
and that lie was the first white person
to lose his life by an accident in con
nection with the road.”
The Perry Home Journal says:
I here has not been a sitgle bushel of
destern corn sold in Perry since
Christmas, and from conversation with
some of our farmers we learn that
there is more than 3,000 bushels of
Houston raised corn for sale within ten
miles of Perry.”
Hon. W. S. Brown, member of the
Legislature from Fayette couQty, was
killed on Tuesday last in an encounter
with a Mr. James Stewart. The latter
was arrested by the Sheriff, but man
aged to escape by knocking the officer
down. The difficulty grew out of a
monetary transaction.
Griffin Dally News: “The patrons of
this paper are fully aware of our weak
ness for eaily piety and vegetables,
but when a subscriber who owes two’
years back dues, lovingly forwarded us
twenty-Avo cents worth or new rad
ishes, upon which we paid fifty cents
express, wo calmly sat down aud wept.”
The Timber Gazette says : Darien is
now cleaner than ever before. It seems
that our citizens now take pride in
putting the back yards in thorough
order, and cleanliness in that respect
seems to be the order of the day. As
to the streets, they are being worked
every day by the city prisoners, and
are kept in good order.
W e learn from the Record, the official
organ of Savannah, that Alderman
\\ aring—the same who warred so suc
cessfully and with so little apDhTtTr
against the pestiferous cryptogram
has introduced a series of resolutions
iu the City Council setting forth the in
ability of Savannah to meet her obli
gations and declaring the city bank
rupt
Tbe Quitman Reporter says- “On
last Friday Mr. Burrell Ballev, of Mos
ley Hall, Madison county, Florida at
tempting to crossat Rocky Ford’ ten
miles southeast of the place, ’was
drowned. He was traveling in a one
horse cart, loaded with flab \ot
knowing the depth of the river at this
point, bis horse and cart were immedi
ately submerged, he drifting down the
stream, was found with his left arm
clinging to a tree, dead. The horse be
came detached from the cart and was
fouod on the opposite bank.”
We see it stated in the Atlanta Con
stitution, of Sunday, that Hon. H P
Farrow, present U. S. District Attor
ney for Georgia, has called a Conven
tion of the Republican party of this
Distiict, to meet at Gainesville next
Saturday, to nominate a candidate for
Congress. The same paper also thinks
Mr. F. will be the nominee of that Con
vention. Of course there is no possi
l ility of his election in as strong a De
mocratic District as this.
The average price of land in a few
counties in North West Georgia, where
they raise grain and hay, is as follows :
Bartow county, per acre, $7.30 ; Chat
tooga, $4 60; Dade, $6.25 ; Fioyd, $6.92 ;
Polk, $6.98. The average price in South
west Georgia, the best cotton
the State: Dooly couuty, per acre,
$2.64 ;-Deb, $2.99 ; Macon, $2 87 ; Ran
dolph, $2.84. This exhibit shows be
yond a doubt that grain culture
more profitable than cotton.