The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1875, Page 5

@ay and who of you can mo What we shali be | @alled upon, nay, ‘orced to sudmit to, to-morrow. GROWING ABUSES OF POWER DREADED, Senators! We have arrived at a crisis, I will Bot conceal that I caunot contemplate that erisis without grave appretiension, ior what has hap- pened already makes me look forward with anx- tety to what may stl'l be tn store for us. We are evidently on a downwerd slope, and the question is where we shall land, It ts not the success of Napoleonic ambitions in this country that I fear; for i they existed they would still find in America nota French people to deal with; but whatJ do have reason to fear, if we continue om in that course, is this—that our time-honored constitutional prin- Giples will be gradually obliterated by repeated abuses of power establishing themselves as pre- cedents; that the machinery of administration May become more and more a mere instrument of ring rule, a tool to manuiacture majorities and to organize plunder; that in the hollow shell of re- publican forms the government will become the | mere football of rapacious and despotic factions, THE SOUTHERN POLICY REVIEWED. Ihave long considered our policy concerning the | Bouth a6 ove fraugnt with great danger—not only danger to the South butto the whole Republic, I have, therefore, opposed it step by step and Warned you of its inevitable consequences. [ know that Southern society nas been, and in a Measure ts, disturbed by violent tendencies and grave disorders. I have never denied It, and nobody has more earnestly condemned and de- nounced the acts of violence which happen than 1. Those disorders 1 would ve the last man now to | pailiate or excuse; but | also believed that they | Were, in @ great measuie, the offspring of | tircumstances and to be expected. When the war closed a great revolution had sud- fenly, amid general distress and con- fusion, transformed the whole organization of Southern society. Notonly was that system of labor uprooved with which the Southern people bad for centuries considered their whole produc- uve wealth and prosperity identified, but by the enfranchisement of the negro that class of society Which had just emerged rom siavery with ail ig- norance—ignorance tur which, | readily admit, it was not responsible—was suddenly clothed with political power—in some States an overwhelming power; that power was exerted at a time when, ulter the sweeping destruction of the war, the South was most in need of a wise co-operation of all 1s social forces to heal its wounds and to lit \tself up {rom its terrible prostration. The justice of the constitutional amendments, designed to se- cure to :he slave his freedom and to enable the colored peopie to maintain their rights through active participation in the functions of seli-govern= ment, I shall surely not question; neiti.er is it the legitimate subject of this devate. | A GREAT PROBLEM. | But as all these tremendous transformations | tame at a time when the turbulence of armed tonfiicts had nearly subsided; when ancient pre- jucices had not yet cooled; when the bitterness of the war was still iresh; when the hope of other | rolutions was still lingering, it was deplorable | indeed, but not at ail surprising, that grave dis- | orders should have happened. No such changes have ever in a free country happened without them; and tt was the business of statesmanship to deal with them. It was a great problem, and perbaps the most critical in the history of the country; for it was to ovecome re- Bistonce and disturbance witnout developing gn arbitrary spirit of power dangerous to tree government, There were two methods presenting themselves to you. One was suggested by the very nature of the republican institutions. It was to treat the discovery and development of tne remedies for existing evils a8 soon a8 the nature of the circumstances would permit. It was that | agency upon whicn, alter all, our republican gov- ernment must rely jor its vitality—thbe seli-gov- erpmeutof the people in the States. It was to | inspire that local eell-government with healthy tendencies by doing all in your power to make the Southern peopie—not only those who had profited by the soctal revolution in obtaining their Ireedom and citizenship, but also those who had suffered by it—rea>onably contented with their , new situation. Such @ policy required an early and complete removal of all those political | disabilities which restrained a large and tn- Quential number of white people from all direct participation in the government of their affairs, | while the colored people were exercising it. That policy did, tnaeed, not preciude the vigorous exe- cution of constitutional aud just laws, and you Will not understand me as thus designating all the laws that were made, but it did not preclude the employment of the powers conferred by such laws 10F purposes of @ partisan colur, which impeacned she impartiality of ‘the national government and thus injured its moral authority. It dia preclude above all things every UNCONSTITUTIONAL STRETCH OP INTERPRRENCE, which, by an assiduous example, ts always calcu- lated to encourage and incite a lawiess ani revolutionary spirit among all classes of soctety. That policy required that the national government, im ali its branches, should have sternly discounte- ganced the adventurers and blood-suckers who preyed upon the Soutiiern people, #0 as vot to appear as their protectors and allies. It re- quired a conscientious employment of those moral influences which the national government had atitscommand. It was not that, In the dis- tress and confusion which followed the war, the Southera peopie, wnite and black, should nave turned their eyes to the national government for aid and guidance—that aid and guidance might have been given, not in impeding and baling, but in encouraging self-government, and to follow its highest alms and doties. Every Jederai ofice in tne South should have been care- lully filled with tne wisest and best men that could be found. Now here was the personal character of the officer of higher importance; tor, being clothed by kis very connection with the nationat | government with extraordinary moral authority, every one of them could, without undue inter- | Jerence with local concerns, by the very power of bis example, make that moral influence most beneficially felt in bis surroundings, TRUE RECONSTRUCTION. Iam not sanguine enough to believe that had such & policy been !ollowed local self-government would at once have made every Southern State a perfect model of peace and order. 1 kuow it | would not; hut it 1s my solemn conviction it would have been infinitely more productive of good; it would have veen inflniteiy more efficient in | gradually developing a satisiactory state of things than all your force laws, thau all the efforts ofxov- eroment officers to maintain their party ascend. | Bucy and all the usurping acts of military imter- | ference in the same direction. And, avove all things, such @ policy would have lett those princi- ples intact which give life to constitutional governe | ment, It would haye spared us such an appalling pect as that which to-day we are behoiding in Loutsiaua, It would have relieved the American people of the anxious inquiry, What is now to be- come of their government? It was the policy naturally suggested by the genius of our ins:itu- tlons—the true policy of repubiican America. Bat there presented itself also another method of deal- img with the violent and disorderly tendencies in the Suuti. It was whenever or wherever a dis- survance occurred to uve brute force to suppress | It, to empioy every means to Keep in every State roar pardsaos in place and to trample fown all opposition, no matier what stretch of power tt might require, no matter what constitutional restriction of authority might have to be broken through, and sucha method, uf sup- ported by a military force suMciently strong, may also be made quite effective, for a time at least. Thus you might have brougnt every lefactor in the Soath to swilt puntsiment, Wherever three of your opponents met you might have styled it an anlawiul combination of banditti and have nadtue offenders arrested; you migat have maintained in governmental power in the South mhomsocvet you Mked; you might have made EVERY COLORND MAN CERFROTLY Bare, not only in the exercise of bis tranchise, bat ia | everything ise; you Might Nave strack wich | terror the eVil-doers everywhere; you might have made the national government so strong that nothing could resist it, That Is also an effective Method to kcep peace and order, and works ad. | mirably e¢ long as it lasts, 1b 1s employed with re. | | Midnight orcer, universally recognized | Order and violens transgressions, for | in! | BUC pasilianimous and Gangerous to repubdiican markable success in Russia, and may be in sev- | eral other couniries; but if you sad by such means sec@red the satety of those who were disturbed or in danger, what would have become of the liberty and rights of all of us? The methoa would have been effective, but it would have been a@ cruel stroke of irony to call the United States any longer a@ republic. DANGEROUS CENTRALIZATION LAWS. Ido not msap to insinua'e that you wanted to do this. I know you did not, You did not intend toemploy such means, and you would have re- coiled from such a result. You triei @ middle course; you respected the self-government of the States in pointo! form; out, while you and the Executive omitted to use those moral influences which would have inspired that sel!-government with healthy tendencies, you passed laws confer- ring upon the national government dangerous powers of very doubt’ul constitautionality—at least so [ thought, and opposed them, ‘The effect was most debloravie in several ways. Your partisans in the Southern States, and among them the most greedy and corrupt of the kind, began to look upon Congress and the National Executive ss their natural allies and sworn pro- tectors; bound to sustain them in power by what- ever means, Every vagabond in the South calling | bimself a republican thought himself entitled to | aid from you when rushing on to Congress with an outrage story. The colored people began to think that you were bound to protect them in whatever they might do, instead of depending upon precedent and an honest use of their own political rights to establish their position. j MILITARY OUTRAGES SOUTH, The federal office-holders in the Sonth became more than ever the centres of partisan intrigue and trickery. The Caseys and Packards carried off State Senators on a United States revenue cutter and shut up a@ republican Governor in the Custom House, guarded by United States soldiers, to keep out another republican faction. Nay, more than that, the same Packard, during the last election campaign in Louisiana, being at the same time United States Marshal and Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Kellogg party, man- aged not only the political campaign, but also the movement of the United States troops ‘‘to enforce the laws,” to keep his political opponents {rom intimidating his political iriends. But more than tnat:—In one State after another we sco enterprising politicians start rival Legislatures much in the way of Mexican pronunciamentoes; and rival governments, calculating upon the ald they may get from the national government; and the Altoroey General of the United States called upon to make or unmake State governments with the wave of his hand; and the Department of Justice at most appearing like a central bureau for the regulation of State elections; and still more than that, a federal judge in Louisiana, by a gross and most unjustifiable usurpation, virtually Making a State Governor and Legislature, the National Executive, with the army, sustaining toat usurpation, and Congress permitting it to be done. And now THE CULMINATING GLORY; federal soldiers, with fixed bayonets, marcning | Into the legislative hall of a State, dragging out | by force ‘he men untVersally recognized as claim- ants jor membership and baving veen seated: soldiers deciding @ contested election case and organizing a legislative body; the Lieutenans General sngzesting t» the President to vutlaw by Proclamation @ numerous class of people by wholesale, that he may try them by military com- mission, and then the Secretary of War informing the Lieutenant General Ly telegraph that the government has full confidence in his wisdom. And beyond this, the whites of the South gradually | driven to look upon the national government as their implacable and unscrupulous enemy, and the people of the whole country .ull of alarm and anxiety about the safety of republican institutions and the rights of every man in the land. Ah, Sen- | ators, you did not mean this, [ trust! But tnere is not & single one of these things has happened without exciting in you an emotion of anxiety and the wish that nothing similar should come again. Lut you have followed step by step re- luctantly—reluctantly, perhaps, but you did fol- low. Now you know not where you may have to go, unless here you make a stand. You meant only to protect colored men in their rights, and to this end to keep your iriends in power. You did not mean to do it by THE RUSSIAN METHOD; | but from small beyinnings something has grown | up of near kin to 1t—a few steps iurther and yov may have the whole. If you do not want togo on, then say to you it is the hichest time to turn back. It willnotdo to permit such things as we now behold to pass without rebuke and resistance, for to permit them is to urge them on. I nave | heard it said that he who justifies murderin the | South is the accomplice of the marderer. Be it 50; | but consider also that he who in a place like ours fails to stop or even justifies a blow at the fanda- mental law of the land, makes hiwself the accom- | plice of thoze who strike a: the life of the repubil- can hberty of the people. Above all things in- dulge tn no delusion about the conseguences of your doings. Be bold enough to look the great question in the face. 18 REPUBLICANISM A FAILURE ? | If you reaily think that the peace and order of | society are no longer to be maintained througa the seli-government of the people under the con- stitution and the impartial enforcement ot consti- tutional laws—that this old machinery of free | government can no longer be trusted with its | most important junctions, and that such trans- Gressicns on the part of those in power as now pass before us are right and necessary lor the puolic wellare—theo admit that this government of the peopie, tor the people and by the people is 4 mis- carriage. Let tne hundredtn anniversary of the Republic be the confession of its feilure, and make up your minds to change the 1orm as weli ag the hature of our institutions, «To play at republic would then be a mockery. But do not de. | luge 2 pore and others with the thought that by 1oliowing this foulroad you can still preserve those institutions where the forms of constitu. | tional government can be violated with impnoity. The spirit of constitutional government will soon be dead. Who does not know that republics will be sometimes the theatres of coniusion, distuib- ance and violent trausgressions—more frequenily, | perhaps, than movarcnies governed by strong despotic rule? The institutions of republics have to pay some price for the great boon of their con- stiturioual Noerty. co REMEDIES FOR DISORDERS IN A REPUBLIC. But do we not also know tnat in republics remedies for evils can be found in entire copsonance with the spirit and form of republican ipstitutions and Constitutional government ? Let nobody suspect me ol iavoring or excusing dis- ib that such reredics Can be Jouna and effectively applied. institutlons is that statesmanship which, to re- press transgr-ssions and to secure the safety of some, cau devise Only such Means as by violating constitutional principles snd jorms will en- danger tie liberty of ath You say that , it 13 One Oj the first duties of Ch vad to pro- tect the lives ant property and rights of the citi- ZeDS, ANd SO It 18; DUt also it Is the frst duty of a constitutional government careiuily to abstain | irom employing sor thas procection such means | which will ib the ehd place tue lives and property | and rights of the cluzenos at the mercy of an arbi- trary power. Let such © policy be adopted and jol- lowed and {ree institutions will soon be on the downwurd slope, Have we read the nistory of the “) whiall oj Kepablics” in vata? Jt teacnes us a familiar and terrtoly instructive lesson. Usurpers | and biunderers in power pretend that the sarety aud oracr of svciely capnet be maimtained by Measures within the form of constitutions and laws, and lawyers CMpioy their wit to justly the usurpation by quiboing on techuicalities of pleading the necessities o: the case, What first Appeared An isolated aNd comparatively harmiess act 18, by repetition, developed into a system, and there is the end of constitutional goverument. Let us not close our ears against the teachings of centuries, lor if we do A REPENTANCE OF CENTURIES might be tn vail. | repeat, republican institutions and sel -governinent lave the means to right Wwe wrongs occurring, and U leit to their legitimate aeuion it will prove far more eMeiont to that end than the arbitrary measures we are witnessing. What bs tt you Gesire to devompliah? Those Who are honest patriots, having only the wel- jare of the people, and not ‘setfisa par: san advantage, at heart, wil desire thts, that in tne Southeru States peace ana crder shoulu prevali, and thateveryjettizen should be protected in iis life ana property aud riguts; and that to thisend & patriotic and entigntencd puede opinion should develop itsett strong enougn lo prevuot or repress Flolence ana crime throaga the ordinary was of local sel-governiment. If Lois be accomplisned, No Watter under what party | Kuspices, thea as goed citizens wod patrio:s we must be satisfied. VICTORY OF SELF-GOTERNURNT. Now jouk at the condition of tne Southern States, 1 rememoor the time, not many years ago, | When Virginia was said to be in an alarming cun- | aiuon, remember prominent reproseutatives ot | baat State having assured us that if the so-cailed | | people of the scnool tax, on the pay! | their vote depended. | superior to the peace | gation. conservatives of that state should obtain | the control of the government no ne; would be sat d the streets and ficids would rao with blood. So {t was with North Carolina, so with Georgia, and indeed there was much lamentable disorder occurring ip Lhose States during the first years alter the war. What wus the remedy? You remember what policy was ured with regard to Georgia. It was to prolong the existence of Gov- ernor Ballock’s Legislature lor two years beyond its Constitutional term to strengthen the power of Governor Bullock, the shannon pluaderer of Georgia, and who not long alter escape the clutches of justice, and unle: were done the Senator from Inciana predicted a carnival of murder and stre: Well, it was done; thuse States gradu O1 self-government, and Wat was the resuit? Virginia is to-day as quiet and orderly a State as she ever was—as avy ovher, in fact—and every citizen is sesureiy enjoying his rights, And who will deny that in North Caroliua and Georgia an improve.vent has taken piace, standing in most glaring contrast to the feariul predictions made by the advocates of iederal taterference? And | that most happy improvement ts sustained in | tose States under and by the seli-government of | the people. That isa matter ci history unquestion- able and unquesti ned, aud that improvement will proceed further ander the same self-government | Of the people, as society becomes more firmly set- Usd in Its pew condition ana 18 dy pecessity lea vo recognize more clearly the dependency of its deares! interests on the maintenance oj public order and salety. That 1s the natural development Oi things. DECREASE OF THE COLORED REPUBLICAN YOTR. | It will help the Senator irom Indtana a little to Say that the republican vote bas generally lailen off in Georgia, and tnat this tact !s conclusive proof Ol @ general system o! intimidation practised upon the negroes. It 1s scarcely neeced to repeat here toe unquestionadly truthiul statement which nas peen made and proved, that the falling off of the the iy recovered the iree exercise people | colored vo'e was in great measure accounted ior | by the non-; yment on the part of toe colored ut of whica | But I will say there was @ (u.ling of 10 the republican vote tu a great many Srates last fall tor some cause, not ouly in the Soutn but in the North, and the cause which ope- rated on the whites, may it not operate on the blacks ? What kind ot logic, what kind of states- mausnip is it, which, a8 we wave wituessed 80 Ire- quently on this floor, takes the statistics of popu- lation of @ State and then proceeds to reason , thus—so many colored people, so many white peo- | ple, jurnishing so many colored and so many | white vores, thereiore so many republican votes and so many d@mocratic votes, aud if an election does not show them in that proportion it must be the resuit of iraud and intimidation, and the national government must interiere? When we have established the rule that election returns must be made or corrected according to the sti.- tisiics of population, then we may dec.de elections beforehand by the United States census or last year’s almanac and dispense with the trouble of Voting. | INTIMIDATION ON THE RADICAL SIDE. | Intimidation of voters! [I dount not there has been much of it. There has been much oi it by terrorism, by the discharge ol laborers trom em- ployment, bit not on one side alone. I shall be tie last mau ON eurih to say & word of excuse lor the Southern rufMfan wuo threatens a negro yoter with violence. 1 know no language too gevere to condemn him, But [cannot iorget that the only act of terrurism and intimidation | cver happened to witness with my own eyes was the cruel ciub- bing and stoning of a colored man in North Caro- Ima in i872 dv men o! bis own race because he had declared for the conservatives; and if the whole story of the South were told it would be discovered that such a practice has not been unfrequent. I cannot forget sne spectacie of Marshal Packard, with the dzazoons of the United States at the dis- Postion of the chairman of the Kellogg campaign committee, at the late election riding throng the | State with a lull assortment of warraDis to arrest | | Men by the wholrsaie. FEDERAL EXAMPLE OF VIOLATION OF THE ENFORCE- | MENT LAW. I cannot forget that, as to the discharge of la- borers trom employmeut for political cause, seductive aud Ot alse? exumpie 1s set by t highest authority in the land. While we have a law On our Statute book imposing a penalty tor the intimivation of voters by threateved oc ac ual dis+ caarge from employment, it ts the votorieus prac- tice Of your goverument to discharge every one of its employés who dares to oppose the administration party, and that is done North aud South und East and West, waerever thoarmo! the government reaches. I huve a.- ways concemned every species of intimidation interiering witn the ircedoim of political action, and, tuerciore, 1am for a genuine civil service re- form. But, while your nawoual government 13 the chainpion intimidator in the land, you must not be surprised {1 partisans on ati sides profit irom its teachings; nordol think that tne in. timidation which deters a colored man from vot- ing with tne oppvsition is less detestable or less harmint to him than that which threatens him us arepubiican, 1 shall vail the day as a most auspicious one for the colored race in the South When they cease to stand os & solid mass under the control and discipline of one political organization; thus being arrayed as a race against a race; when they throw off the scandalous jead- ership Of those adventurers who, taking advan- tage of their ignorance, make them the tovls of tyrannical rapacity and throw upon them the odium of their misdeeds; when they begin to sce the quenti'y of their own true tniecrests with those ot the white people among whom they have to live; when they begin to understaud that they greatly injure those common interests by using their political power sor tue eievation to ofmive of men, or white, whose igno- Tauce or upscrupulousness unflts them for responsible trust; when ireely, according to ther best judgments, they divide their votes between tne ditierent poiitioul parties; when thus giving | toeach parly a chance to obtain tueir votes they make it the interest and natural poiicy of eacu party to protect their wutety and respect their 1ighta in order to secure thore votes, | repeat what I once sutd in another place. ‘Not in union 1s their safety, but 1m division.” Whenever tne coiorcd voters will have become an imnportant element, not oniy in ove but in both parties, thea both parties, under an impulse of seli-interest. will rival each other in affording them the faliest eperenwony Let them learn a lesson irom the istory of the adopted citizens of tnis councry. As long u8 they stood in solid mass on tne side uf one party schemes dangerous to thelr rights were thought o1 by the other, When duta parties obtained @ share, botn hoping for more, both ne- came their iriends, This will be the development in ige South, aud a most tortunate one for the colored people. It has commenced 1n the states I bave mentioned, wuere sell-government goes its way unimp ded, I ferventiy hope tae frantic, partisan efforts to prevent it in others will not much longer prevail. {hope tt us a true iriend of the colored pevpir. But the Senator irom indiana may Say that wiil bring avout a still greater lalling offin the republican vote, Ab, sit, that may be, but do you not proiess to be sincerely solicitous Jor the safety and rights of the colored man? Are not some of you even willing to see the most ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERN: | MENT INVADED, : | to see a State government set up by judicial usur- | pation, to see State Legisiaiures organized by | lederal soldiers, that the colored man may be sale? You can have it much cheaper by the method I advise. The colored man will be saler | then than uncer a brokea constitution. The peace and order o! soctety will be more naturaliy and securely established than under the fitfu inter- ference of mulliary force; and tuat can be done by permitting self-government to have its course. But the republican vote may fail off; the party may suffer; inueed it may. But, sir, { know no party woatever its name or fame so sacred that ite seilish advantage should be considered and order of society and = good understanding == among the people. 1 do not hesitate to say that preier the conservative government of Virginia to the republican goverament of Louistana. 11 | mis- take uot a@ Vast majority of the American people are of the same opinion, Task, What would you have made} of Georgia had you forced upon its neck, assumed to be desired by some, the yoke of the Bullocks and Foster Blodgeits? What would you have made oi Virginia and North Carolina ti a Jederal juage, by an uct of usurpation like Dureil’s, had created @ republican State povernment there, or the President had endorsed these | with the bayonets of the army’ Wuere pow you see tie steady growth of peace and order, and q fruttiul co-operation of the social ele- meats there would be bloody conficis of iniuri- a tions, society torn to pieces by deadly | jeuds and a prostrate prosperity; put you might | have republican Stace government as a compen- I ask you, 18 that what you want? [fit 1s lain sure the patriotic people of the country | are not with you, | A LAWLESS BXECUTIVE AT WASHINGTON, Oh, Senators, it ts time we should understand that tn this Republic wejcannot serve rhe cause of law and order if we, in our representative place, do Dot respect the jaw, and if we permit she gov- ernment to violate it. Every lawless act of those in power proiesscadly inteuded to serve the cause of peace aud order wil produce to that Cause of peace and order its xreaivst canger. You Want the peop.e of the Souta, and especialy of Louisiana, to become law-abiding citizen, and to make them so the natioual authority bas waposed Upon them @ government Which is ihe offspring of Lross UsUrpation aud revoiuconary procecotigs. dow can you expect them Lo refrain irom revouu- tionary acts il the national government has set them go revoluuonary an example? How can you fil them wit reverence jor the sancuty of the laws if your naionai government does not respect them? The people oF tie South are hota people of murderous “panciit,” and only the Most Morbid Janatictam of partisanship will call them so; there are bad elements among them und you blame the better classes of society ior not putting them down by their own efforts. bub ts | hot the national governmeut itsel!, oy resorting to usurpation and tuconstitntional proceedings, ft ing to the bad men a strength thev ot.erwise ad hot possessed, by enaoling every one ol thenr in MS Oppusifion to those acts fo assume tue atti- tude of a defender of coustitunonal principies and republican itberty, YOU rpeak OL protecing tie hewro, Woe fo tae negro of the South W auer his unsernpuloss leaders have doae so mace tO identiig lim With organized — corvup | lion and “fapacty, you, by emplosing of | sanctioning aueonsittiticnal means jor bis pro- Wwerlon, aut Menuiy Nin also Wien (ud Overture Ww | of coustitatonal pfificiples ang contempt tor the laws of the und, Sucu measures tO provect bil | Wil put hin in the most dreadiul Jeopardy, You could inflict no More cruet Injery. | A WARNING. Let me warn you, repuolican Scnators, th are treading dangerous ground, if such thin; yes | | Begroes must be ralsed to keep those men in | power, have been done in Louisiana in 1872 are now | sustained by the republican majority in Con- gress, And, one evil deed always giving birth to another, if so high handed a course 1s continued, | you ere taking upon yourselves a responsibility the extent of which it 1s diieuit to measure. Do not treat with contempt what Is now going on in | the public miud, here | hold in my hand a repub- eau paper which indulges in the iolliowing lsu guage:—“Unless the republicam party ts content tobe swept out of existence by the storm o! th- dignant protest rising against the wrong of see that this imo-t siamelul outrage 19 re dressed wholly and at once. For if at is right tor tne federal soldiery to pO! in the manner | it shall be packed, or if it can be done. it ia right aod can be done in any other State, itis a matter that coa- cerbs Massachusetts, Galuornia and Penusylvavia equally with Louisiana, for it isan act of teferal usurpation which if not revoked and condemned by Congress will lead tuevitably Lo the destruce tion of the whole iaoric of our government.” } PORBEARING HEROISM IN LOUISIANA. | das tu the common tdignation of t try against tne perpetrators of the wro! is the | moral Leroismm exhibited by tne disfranchised peo- | pie oi Louisiana, who have borne. with sublime patience aud in peace that which was excuse sui- | Heieut lor revointion ; lor the doctrine is 4s Old as wrong tise, that usurpation of the peopie’s rights | makes revolution not only a privilege but a duty. | Since such senuments, appealing directly to tne | right Of revolution, are expressed by republican | journals in the North, they are likely to be put jerth in still stronger language by the opposi- tion journals in the south. The rising o: sucn feelings { cannot but look upon with appreben- | sion, not as to the spiric ot justice and ireedom which they demonstrate, but as to the dreadiul conseque! which they might produce ti rasaly acted upon; and i my Voice could react jar 98 to be lieard by the people of Louisiana | would | say to them, take goou care not fora single 1 { ment to permit auy impuise of passion to cai away your podemept. Whatever injustice | you may have to suffer, let not a | hand = be — Aulted, Let no provovation | of wmsolent power, nor any tempting opportunity seduce you into the least demonstration of viv- lence. i you did, no human foresight can teil, what advantage ht be taken o: any act of} raabness—in what dangers 1t would involve you | aud tie wuole Kepuvlic, FINAL REDRESS SURE. i Be right, trust io the justice of your cause, for surely the tine cannot be tar distant when every American who truly loves bis Huerty wiil not fail to recoguize his own cause in the cause of constituiionat government in Lousiana. When | That spirit O01 @ peaceiul victory will | bury the usurpers under a crusbing load, | Of patriotic tudignation, indeed, Senaturs it wilt be so. bo nox indulge 10 any delusioas. Let none Of you beiteve thac tne ery of murder and blood, or the new budget of atrocities in oMctal reports, suca as General Sheridan promises, will divert the + minds of tue peop.e irom the real question at {s+ ‘Tha’ ery and such reports begin to 1all stale upon the ears of the people; not as il the people Nau becowe loaiferent as to Wrong perpetrated in any part Of che Country Upon any Class oi citizens, | but because the people have lost their former con- lideuce in the sincerity and truthiuiness of those who parade the bloody sturics with the greatest | ostentation. and wily was that conildence lost? Because there were so many eXaxgerations discovered in | the statements irejuently made; because in many | iMstunces it became too gluringiy apparent that the blood-muroer cry Was used us convenient par- tisan stage thunder to catca votes. ‘The people | pave begun shrewdly to suspect that when some men pretend they must remain 10 power to pro- tect tie lives of begroes tue cry of murdered There ts another reason why tnis cry will | be distrusted now. | ‘The people are asking themselves, and well ther may, Wicther the very pouicy which ts projessedly | followed to prevent such outrages is not itself Well calculated to serve as the cause of more. ‘they look at Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and tind that tue. seli-government of tue people, unobdstruct 1s sraduatly but steadily aavancing. ‘Tnose States are im peace, vrder, prosperity. They look at Louisiana and tind the seil-government of the people op- structed and bear the reports of turmol aad con- fic’, ney do not tail to conciude that tae forcing of Bullock and Foster Blodgevt upon Georgia would buve reduced that Stare to tie same un- hippy condition which tu Louisiana the usurpation of Kellogg aus brougnt fortn, Looking at that Picture wud at this they begin wisely to make up | thew minds that the Southern States can give far | better governments to themseives bhan any in- sidious literierence can imp se upon them, But sull more, the people begin to understand, and it ig high time, inueed, they should understand, that tre means protessediy used to prevent and ) 8Upp ress OUutrages are producine: worse irult than tue outrages themselves; tha: | THE LAWLESSNESS OF POWER | is growing ur more dan.erous to ail than the laws | lessoess of the mob. ‘Thereiore, I think Senators | ravely deceive thems:lves ii they velieve the loud aud murder cry can deceive tie people avout the nature of the fagrat usurpation of power we now have to deal with. Neither do L think you can convince an intelligent public opine ton tuat the Kellogg party did carry the State of Louistana last jail by a bond fide voic, or uhay the un- coustitulional employment o; fed:ral payonets was merely to vindicate the true wil of the people of Loutsiana, lawiuily expressed by the ballot. No intelligent man‘can have escaped the impression that those who executed the bareiaced usurpation of 1872 would not snrmk from any device to save the at Of Vhat usurpation by 1epeating tae same au 1874, It Was noticed with general astoulsimeut toat a federal oflicer—United States Marshal Peckard —Was permitted to manage the political campuign, a8 the Chairman of toe Kellogg state Centrai Committee, and at the same time ine op- erations of United Staces soldiers in arresung con- servattves by the score—a combination o! tunc- tious so strikingly suspicious, 80 glaringly uniair, that when [ haa publicly cilied attention to it even many repuolican journals protested against it as ap offence agatust puolic decency, j It has not been overlooked that when after the | Insurrection O; the 14ti of September arrange- ments were attempted to divest the Returning | Board in Louisiana of its suspicions partisan char. | acter, the leading spirit of tne Kellogg party strenuously objected to the admisston of an equal number Ot repnolicans and conservatives wita | one man of Ruimpegchable character to be chosen by them jointly to #et as an impartial umpire tn | resurmimg the votes. It sas been well observed | that ue Returning Board, having purposely pre- served its partisan character, wuen tne election showed a consideradie conselvative majority, manipulated the ieturns jor many weeks, until, by hook or crook, tiey had transiormea tue con- servative into a republican majority. It hus not escaped public attention that the Attorney Gen- erai of the United states, With osteutatious pud- Hetty, declared his purpose to stand by the Re- turning Board whatever it migat do, thus eucour- agging them voldiy to go on, and that when the ting Was done he deciared limseli for a “heroic” policy, Whereuyon the military usurpation tol- lowed. THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. In view of ali these circumstances and such other inijormation as has come witvin wy reach, I declare 1t here ag my solemn conviction that tue conser. vVatives of Louisiana did juirly carry tne election by a considerable wajority of votes; that they were | defrauded by the Keturning Board of the resulis of that election; that the soldiers of the United States, wnen they invaded the legislative hall or Louisiana, did not vindicate, but trampied under the foot of ilawiess jorce the true will of the people of Louisiana, Jawtuily ex- | ressed at the polls Tuat, sir, is ii onest convictiou, and, if current report speaks truly, the members of that Congressional Coin | mittee, who were sent down to Louisiaua to make Investiga‘ion, wil, a8 they are houvest and trucn- mi men—a majority of them but not abject touls of party—tell Conuress and the country, as tae resuit ol conscientious in- vestigation, that the conservatives of Louisiana did carry tnat election; that the Returning Board did deiraud them or and tuat the will oi the peopie of Louisiana, lawiully expressed, was trampled under tae heel of a lawless mili- tary invasion; that the country will heir and the American peopie will believe it as the honest truth told by honest men. No, Senators, do not deceive yourselves. No man will be permitted to obscure the grave constitutional question beiore us with any Side issues, ior rom Whatever point of view you may contemplate it every consideration of law, of moral right, ot jus- tice, of the public policy and the common wellare, puts the deed done in Lousiana oniy in a stronger light as a lawiess transgression oi arbitrary power pregnant with wrong and disaster. We must iace it; and as we are men with tne responsivility of guardians of the constituwon and laws upow us wo must iace it boldly. ‘Tus, uf ever, is the time when THE PATRIOT SHOULD RISE ABOVE THE PARTISAN. | 1 have heard it whispered that some o1 tne emivent lawyers of this voay will stt!l endeavor to tind sume technical plea by Which to snow tuat the intrusion of the soldier in organizing the legisiative body of Louisiana w. fn some way Jusfidable under the laws ot t peal to them to cousiver weil whar y are to attempt. Surety L desire vo injustice to ve done to auy mun, high or iow. Li there be any clear justiication of such an act, which ldo not now see, ana I solemnly deciare | see now, ivi it oe brought forward, fl there be one, thea t soa deplore that the cousctution and laws of this Kepubtic are so defective in oh most essen: tal paris as LO sanction an exercise Of arbitrary | power which tn no free country on tie face oF the | wiobe Would fora siagie moment be admitted. | Heo I shalt think it Ume to urge sucn a change in tae law that tuoy may effectively protect the independence of legisiat-on and the liberty of the ciuizen, for otherwise neilaer will be sale, t, if were be no such justigestion clear as sanligat and palpably springing trom the sacred spirit of the Jaw, interpreted tn the strictest agcurdance with che time-honored principles of constitnuonal government, then, gentiemen, let Us noc have One artially muge by tae lawyers’ ingenuity vi tech nical construction. LAWYERS DANGLROUS TO RAPCBLICAN Linenty Want wory it be to tue Atuericaa lawyer to show ibe lighes. keengess of wit in delending faa AO wel wud establisoing 1 23 o precesont Wien, ENPoNah 18 Asastroas Conseqnendes, fay CIKE Le Atetican People LO Sied as Muen biogd and a3 man $ fu festore thelr iree lsctu- Tons a9 1 Has Cost to butd thom ap, Lear the henator irom Wisconsin exciaim the otver day THAE He Was gind to Mud ia the fustory of tae coun. ry No such Cuse as this, and ne hoped not to seo anotker une injuture., Ay, out be will see an- ovner one and more than one if te, we alawyer, | | have | State by about 10,000 majority. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1875-TRIPLE SHEET, successfully tries to ike his jon believe that this could be rightruily under the laws of Republic, The liwyer's technical ingenuity has not seldom done more harm to iree institutions than even the arbitrary spirit of the soldier, lor the latjer would Irequently have been impotent without the aid of the former, It may be the lawyer's ambition successtully to deiend | even the most obvious guilt of his cient, out it is his highest glory to stand earl y before the frowns of power deiending the sanctity of the law and the rights ad torun awayto | Louisiana from all portions of the county it will , and liberties of his countrymen—and of such are the names that are handed down witn honor from generation to generation, [ try therefore, we shail hear in tnis debate only the purest and loltiest spirit Of jurisprudeuce among a people proud of their iiberuies, red such miserable subteringes as that be- cuuse the Speaker of the Legisia ure invited an oficer of the army to persuade a disorderly crowd in he to drag trom their seats members of the legislative body; or that asthe tn3urgents of sepremoer in New Orleans bad not surreadered all the arms ve- | longing to the State, the insurrection con- tinued and with it tne right of the feaerai army to organize the Legislazure of Louisiana, Let not so | pitiadle a piea be heard where the fundamental rinciples Of constitutional government are in jeopardy. If there be an argument in delence, let it at least be on a level with the dignity of the question. [have moved that the Judiciary Com- mittee be instructed to report a bill to secure to the peopigoi Louisiana their right of self-govera- ment under the constitution, I! hope, sir, that re- quest wih be granted. I hope, also, it will not be a bill providing for a new election there, with Gene- ral Sheridan—who, with all the driliiancy of his warlike valor, ig conspicnousiy unsuited for the delicate task of a conctitatory mission—as the su- preme ruler of that State, with Mr. Packard as Manager at the same time of political cam- paigns, and of United States dragoons to arrest opponents, and with that Returning Boara which has given already so much evidence of its un- scrupulous skill, A MOCKERY AND DISGRACE, Let it not be another mockery to end in another disgrace. [trust the committee will ulvcover a method to undo the usurpations that have been perpe'rated and to restore their rights and pow- ers to those Whom tne peovle of Louisiana have Jawiuily designated to wield them, No measure | Will avail either to the cause of peace and order or the salety of our imstitutions or the character of the government which dors DOL voidly vindicate tue coustitutional priv- Neges of Jegiaiative bodies aud that sel: government of the eurnestiy, sir, for my feelings and convictions on this great subject are strong and sincere. 1can- not ‘orget that this Republic, which it has cost #o ' much stri/e and so much blood ¢o establish and to preserve, stands in the world to prove to strug- ging mankind that the self-government of tie people under wise laws 1s able to evolve all neces- Sary remedies lor exiating evils without vioiating popular liberty and constitutional rignt. I cannot jorget that li We fall in solving tals great problem this Kepuolic will become, . NOT TUE GUIDING STAR OF LIBERTY, but another warning example. I cannot close my eyes to the fact that the generation whicn bas | grown up to politicai activity during the war and since its Close to more than ® third of our voting body has tov much beeo accustomed to witness the boid display of arbitrary assumptions of au- thority, and that babies have grown up threajening to become destructive to all the patriot holds dear. Knowing this [ lor years stood upon this floor raising my voice jor the imperiled principles oi constitu. Uonal government and endeavored to warn you of the insiduous advance Of irrespunsibie power, and with all the anxiety of my péart, and may be wy lust Opportunity upon this great forum, I cry out to you once more to turo back beiore itis too Jate. In whe mame of tant inheritance oi peace and freedom you want to leave to your children; in the name of that pride with Which, as Americans, you litt up your heads amon, tae nations of the world, don’t trifle with the constitution of your country—don’t put in jeopardy tuat which is the truest glory of the | Aumerican name, Let not the representatives ot the people taiter and tail when the liberties of the people are at stake, FACS EXPECTED TO VINDICATE THE ADMINISTRATION. ir. MORTON, (rep.) Of ind, said he Was as Much 1a tavor of local seli-government as the Senator from Missourt, that he meant all the peopie, dou'hern States the In’ some of the overnments Were not ior the whole people, as black men were irequeotly deprived of their rights. It had been charged on this floor that the President hau violated the constitution by his action in the New Orleans difficulty, ‘'hat was & grave charge ‘and should not be made without the strongest proof, He apprehended that when the iniorma- Von calisd jor by the resolution of Friday last came to the Senate to-morrow, the Senator trom | Missourt would find himself titude of the juror who had given hes verdict before he heard the testimony. He (Mr. Morton) thought the statements of General Serkan were short of the wuole truth, and the evidence to be submitted by the President to-mor- row would snow that the outrages in Louisiana and trauds were more giuring than the statements ot Soeridan showed them to be. Mr. Morton then sent to the Cierk’s ‘lesk sod had read the oficial report of Geceral Sheridan, and gatd that ofovr, being upon the ground, knew more abou: ailatrs there than the Senator from Mis- sour. He (Mr. Morton) argued that the or- ranization oi the conservative Legislature on onday last was unfawitl, and that the whoie hing Was a fraud; and whoever undertook to de- fend the action of the conservatives was defend- jug @fraud. The action of last Mouday in Lout- slana upon the part of the conservatives was buc & continuation of the revolution commenced last September. He agaim reviewed at some length the condition of aftatrs argued that there wus murder and ness prevailing in that State constartly. Reierring to other Southern States he said:—When an elcc- tion was heid in Georgia in the spring of 1888, under General Meade, the repubiicaus carried the Alter General Meade had lelt and the election took place in the following all Seymour and Blair carried the State by something like 25,000 majority, thus showing o m_ the at- dilterence of 25,000 votes between the serine. elec- | tion aud that of the following November, ie No. | vember majority was the result of intimidation, NEW YORK AND GEORGIA, Mr. Gorvon, (dem.) of Ga., inquired of the Sen- | ator What the majority was iu the State of New York before tue last election, and what the ma- jority was at the last clection. Mr. MORTON Said he did not propose to be inter- ropied now. The Seaator would pave ao oppur- | tunity to while. It Was state all these things ‘alter Continuing his arxument, he said, shame to talk about the carpet buggers. Most of them had been soldiers who carried the flag of their country tn the late war. They were pleased with the South and set- Ued there after the war and were denounced for | that. He had no objection to the colored men di- viding their vote, but iv Was most unnatural to jormerly owned them as slaves, Mr. Hows, (rep.) of Wis., obtained the floor to speak upon the resolution of Senator Schurz, but at tour o'clock yielded for a motion tor an executive session, Wbici Was agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of execttive bust- hess. At halt-past four o'clock tae doors were re- opened and the Senate adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WasHINGTON, Jap. 11, 1875, Under the call of States many bills were intro- duced and referred, including the foliowing :— By Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn.—To fix the sala- | repablicans | yieg of judges of the Court of Claims at $6,000; also | Ticy have but yet been ap to amend the National Currency act. By Mr. E. U. Rosgrts, (rep.) of N. Y.—To refund certain taxes collected irum savings banks in 1874 on their earnings, By Mr. SCUDDER, (rep.) of N. J.—Aatboriziog tupne!s between New York and Jersey City and béiween New York and Brooklyn. By. Mr. Topp, (rep.) of Pa.—To extend for one | Year the time to bring suits tor the recovery of in- ternal iaxes illegally collected. By Mr. ARCHER, (dem,) of Md,—Appropriating $6,000 for manuiacturing and testing @ suomarine gun invented by Admiral Porter. By Mr. VaNce, (dem.) of N. C.—For pensions to soidiers of the Mexican war who served in the Coniederate army, Also in aid of tho New River Canal Vompany. By Mr. RANSIER, (rep.) of S, U.—To refund the losses in the Freedman’s Bank, By Mir. Youna, (dem.) of Ga.—To preserve in the government the right of possession of all arms issued to States, By Mr. Ware, (rep.) of Ala,—Proposing an amenduient to the constitution aeciarlog (nat the goverument owes protecuon to citizens in the enjoyment of their rights, ¥, SYPHER, (rey.) Of La.—For a government ph ine between Boston and oun Eton. Mr. Benty, dem.) of Onio—To abviisa tne 4 Lieutenant General of the Army. sy Mr. MAYNARD, (rep.) of Tenn.—lo amend the National Bank act iu reiercuce to winding up the atlaus Of banka. By Mr. HAWLEY, (rep.) li. Resolutions of the Lnnois Legislature in relation to Loutsiuna, and Urging the giving of all the necessary assistance to the Kelogy government, by Mr BiGLDS, (rep.) of Mich.—To increase the lmport dunes ten percent alter March, 1875, and aa additional ten per cent quarterly til the price telou Bs of! 1 o; American gold coin saail Lob, exceed the par of legui tender Hotes, by Mr, BORROWS, (rep.) Of Mich,—To provide jor the | unishment of contempt, by Mt. Nessnta, (cem,) ol Oregon—For the con- suractiva of tae Oregon Central Pacitic Kullway und Telegraph line. BY Mr. ARMSTRONG, em.) of Dakotah—for ald jor railroads and a Wagon fond; alse to open up the Black Hills indian reservation to s@triement, Bs Mur, Wsith, (rep) of Alds=+'0 eneapen fee- grophle communication, facili‘are news reports of wi preSa UssOCIAOUs and preveat Lelegraph mo- hopuis. VAR PACtFIC Mart. Mr. Dawra, Eee) cl Mass, preseated the case Of auother recasant witness in tne Pacific Mail in- Let us. avove all, be | the lobby to remain quiet he bad | ; thereby given him, or recoginzea bis People without which our | repuolican institutions canuot live, | have spoken | He was in favor of a gov- | ernment ior the pevpie and by the people, ana by | io Louisiana ang briewat cap. The Abert, who declined ¢ Raais- tees on'the plea oF ee Toned communication between atioraey and cheat, He | Offered resolations tor the arrest of Mr. Abert and | bringing him to the barof the House jor cou. | vempt. The resolution was agreed to, ana Mr. Abert Was almost immediately brought tuto the House | in custody of the Sergeantat-Arms, and the Speaker asked him whetaer he was ready to answer the questions of the comamitice. Mr. Abert replied as follows :— “tn the course Which I have pursued I did not tmtend or desire to place myself in contempt. I simply desired that, as to he question whico T hesitated to answer and hesitated solely in conse quence of position in Which my cilent nas placed me, | mignt have the order of the House, | On receiving an order of the House tnat I sual answer the questions, | am reagy to answer." , Tne Jol owing Was then put to Mr. Abert by the Speaker :— | “Will you state to the committee the names o | the persons to whom you distributed $103,500 of | the money belonging to the Paciiic Mau Steamship Company at the direction of Mr. Irwin; also the | hame ol the person woo introduced tiese persont to you nin: Abert—I wili on being so ordered by the louse, Mr. Abert was then taken before the Committee on Ways and Means, MORE RESOLUTIUNS ON LOUISIANA. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of Y., offered the following resolution in reierencs to affairs in Loutsiana | Which Was read aud rele: red to tue Judietagy Com mittee :— Whereas, on the 4th of January ins’, officers soldiers of the army of the United states have interfe With and coutroliod the ordaulzation of the General Assembly of the state of Loulstina, and certain persons | Claiming seate in one branch thereof have been pre vented from holding the same by such milltary foree. Which acis of miitary intervention and contro: resaited in dispersing the state Legisliture, and have rece the auction and ratiticagon of the Chiet Execative the United state: if Resolved, That, in the delivérate judgment of this House, such intervension and control Were in’ violation of the federal constitution, Wasimucl as said force Was Kot used for the purpose defied by law, and could not legally de used except for purposes thus speci that suid intervention and control were sul | ciples upon wuieh our + | ani have iio preced | tory ot free 4 ed ot parhanen- vary iniractions rei liber.y Bad solemn ot only unjusitiae a, but a meaner | treaty obligations, and there bie outrayes upon the State of to tne liberties, rights and Gignity of | tending to general demoralizi | by the overihrow of civil liber y ¢ Y arbitrary. pow We, theretore, in the name of the peopl: of the Un Sutles, Whose representatives we are, demand the res | fear of tranquility, order and civil diseipiine ta sald | State, by the immed! with the mintry force of the United states irom s tite und the con | dign punishiment of those guiliy of this reckiess usurp. on. SUPPLEMENTARY BILL FOR SPECIE PAYMENTS. | Mr, Kasson, (rep.) of lowa, introduced a bil? supplemeutary to the bill to restore specie pay ays aud ments. Means. Section 1 provides that on November 1w187! five months thereafter, ang wee may present atthe bub-Treasury United states legal tendér notes in sums of $5) or any muitiple thereot tor exchange tor gold and receive gold im exchange at the rate of $9) for $100 in Bovey and for each period of tour months taereafier the Tate shall be successively advanced one per cent in gold unt Jwy 1, 1873, and on and alter January 1, ex: chunged at par. section 2 provides for presenting gold at the Treasury zed for notes ata rate one per cent leas ning notes tor gold, provides for issuing treasury certificates for either class of ‘unds, it such tunds shall be atany vine sufticient to meet the demand, which certificates be received for all paymenis due to the United and payable in the 1unds represented by such ce cates, ‘Section 4 provides that the notes redeemed under the third section of the ac! Provide for the resumption | ot specie ‘ments’’ shall not be reissued, but be cam celled and destroyed. CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC BILL. The House then went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Corwin, of Uhio, in the Chair, on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, The bill appropriates $1,344,785. There was nothing of interest in the discussion. The bill Was reported to the House and passed, Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) oi Ohio, from the Commit tee on Ways and Means, reporied a bili appropri | ting $260 to deiray the expenses of entertata- | ing tie King of the Hawaiian Islands. Pending | the vote upon it toe House, at thirty-tive minutes past three P. M., on motion of Mr. Butler, of Mass- acbusetts, adjourned, MUNICIPAL NOTES, The Mayor’s office was overrun with visitors yesterday. The most prominent was Grand | Sachem John Kelly. His appearance in the vestibule | gave rise to considerable gossip among the pob | tticiana who were loitering about in the loobies Reierred to the Committeee on | Itseems, however, that the visit was a mere | irtendly call, as aiter a pleasant chat betweé@n | bim and the Mayor about matters and things im | genera!, and the improvements made in the | Mayoral temple espectally, during which nota word was said good, bad or indifferent apoat | politics, Mr. Kelly quietly left the he =6croakers who bave opeen for a week talking so giibly about a dead lock between the Grand Sachem and the Mayor, it 8 probable will now croak no longer. Hayes, who is sald to be one of the new Fire Com. | missioners that are certain to succeed the present Commissioners; John Morrissey, Chamberlain Lane Commissioner Bailey aad Judge Speac er, also cailed upon the Mayor. |. The Fire Commissioners nanded in their answer to the charges made agaiogc them by the Commi stoners of Accouuts yesterday aiternoon. Toe ducument is quite voluminous, the arguments ce rove ter innucence covering over forty pages Mayor states tint iia bas not lawless- yet coven read the Charges made arainst the Com- Missioners; but that he wiil give them and the answer all the attention they require as soon possible, Corporation Counsel Smith’s answer to the charges prelerrea against him will be completed and sent to tue Mayor to-morrow afternoon. it it | believed that Mr. Smith will send in his resigna tion aiso. ‘his, however, 1s mere rumor. The Aldermanic Coinmitiee ou Salaries have not | decided those Saeriff transportation rate matters, | Another couple Was made happy at the Mayo: | office yesterday. | doe) Stevens, the new Marshal, is drawing up a set of regulations which, if adopted, will make wa | backmen a little more obiiging and useiul to the | travelling public, ‘The twenty firemen who want thelr ten days? pay due them before thes were dismissed to please the salary brokers, 6ay taut the Comptroiier cone cedes that the money ia ready ior them, but that they will have to bring a suit for it belore taey cap geta cent. | LARGE CUSTOMS SEIZURES. j | The smuggling of dr 3, &c., irom Paris, for | suppose they were going to vote for the men Who | New York belles, still goes on; but the owners, | who have them brought over in European steam- ers by feeing the employés run the risks of occa. Stonal confiscation ct the hancs of Uncie Sam’s | Custom House officials. News vy cable and letter | is frequently sent here from members oi the United States secret service avroad, informing their associates ol Vessels leaving Haugland, France, | Germany and Cuda, carrying goods which avpear | tobe shipped with tae intention of detrautiug | this government. belug thus apprized in advence, customs oficers McCort, Hugin and Noe, on the | recent arrival of the steamer Idaho, commenced | rommaging tie vessel, and captured seven cases | Of valuable goods, coutainine principally wearing apparel, and wortia la amount of money, ised In the seizure | reom of the Custom House, whero they now are, | One case contaied two superb ball dresses, valued At $600 eacn, and in their ioids were tures dozen patrs of Kid gloves. Some oi the goods were found | nthe purser’s room, and he fad, as one of the | customs oMcers states, “quite an arguinent!”’ bee fore he Would give them up. Among the other goods seized were sik umMoreilas, artificial Dowers, | Velvets and other articies ior dress, ‘The gloves | and dresses bore the inscription of “Mrs. —, No. 47 Wall street.” In addition to this, six very band- some coroets, With silver mounting, addressed ta | the leader of aband at Boston, Mass tured. It ts reported tbat a claimant bas appeared Jor the dresses and that some interesting develop. | ments and perueps some arrests may take place | to-day. NEW JERSEY’S NEW GOVERNOR, HE BIDS GOODBY TO THE BAR OF HUDSON COUNTY—A SUITABLE REJOINDER FROM THE Bak. Ib having been announced that Governor-elect Joseph A. Bedie, of New Jersey, would jormally take his leave of the Bench end old associations yesterday at the Hudson County Court House, @ large concourse of citizens gathered there in the Jorencon, Alter disposing of Circuit Court bus | ness, Judge Bedle said:—“lala, then, closes the | business of the term ta tue Circuit and the Over aud Terminer and also closes my oflictal connec. | Hon with toe term, if is impossible to cease off- cial javor alter a period of ten years’ judicial ser | vies, particuiarly in ius coua withuut regret. Here 18 my home. and my retaiions with tie Benoa and Bar have been most iutimate and agreeable. | There is not an associate ov the Beuch now | who twas here when I came here. | few in the profession Who Were here | ys hen Lcame | neve,” Toe most are young nen. f came here @ youug man and We have grown up together, Of | course Iny severance ts not a complete one. T cet+ | tauuly ave an official associmtion with them with @ great deal of regret. List say that che Bar ob this county Nas no anpertor for imteliigence, tn- legrity and proiesaional etnic The panit connty, a8 Well as in Bergen and Passat sustained the administration of tho law, hie sentunest 13 rignt IM Upuoidiag | The grand juries, a a rule, Lave been | discharge OF the dudes. “Any executions a | to the eccentriciies OF Ioan natare. Our peve ple ave &iaw Abide People aud i have Do fear bat thar 8 ua Luis Couuty Will wiWays peorm their auty ‘aitnfuliy, in ieaving I must say Was | the pubite Have Kited Me Wondertully In the did enarge of my duty.” Upou motion of Mt Leo Abbett, Senator-vlect, a meeting of the Bar wae held abd @ Series of eulogisiic resolutious were asromptly prepared and adopted,