Excerpt from State of Louisiana: Speech of Hon. F. T, Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, in the Senate of the United States, April 14, 1874
The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, having under consideration the bill (S. No. 446) to restore the rights of the State of Louisiana -
Mr. Frelinghuysen said:
Mr. President: Having rather incidentally than by deliberate purpose taken some subordinate part in the discussion of this question when it was before the Senate on a former occasion, I propose now to submit concisely my views on two propositions: First, that the President of the United States was authorized by the Constitution, standing alone, and that he was also authorized by the statutes of the country, to send armed protection to Louisiana; and second, that Congress is not authorized to order a new election in that State.
And I may here say that while I cannot agree with the conclusions of the Senator from Wisconsin, [Mr. Carpenter,] I trust I do not violate delicacy in stating that I admire the marked ability with which he has presented his views. He has so presented the case that he may properly demand and not petition for it a serious and careful consideration. It is to the labors of that Senator and of the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Morton] that we and the country are indebted for an understanding of this somewhat complicated subject.
I submit that the President was authorized by the Constitution, standing alone and not enforced by any statute, to send the protection he did to Louisiana. Mr. Kellogg was the governor de facto of that State. The President told us that he had so recognized him, and that he would continue so to do unless Congress directed to the contrary, and we purposely did nothing.
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