Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

[71] recover. It will be remembered that the Supreme Court was prayed for a mandamus against Mackey to give up to Wallace the election returns. The court objected; that mandamus could be laid only on officers, and that as Mackey was not Speaker of the House he could not be the subject of a mandamus. Two days later, on a selection made by sundry taxpayers of the State, an injunction was laid on the banks, which were the depositories of the public money, to pay out no money of the State until further orders. Thus was the usurping government denied a legal House of Representatives by the Supreme Court, and its power to do mischief nipped in the bud by cutting off the supplies by which it might continue to prolong its existence.

The Radicals went also through the formality of electing Corbin United States Senator, but as Mackey was not Speaker, the election was a mockery. The House of Representatives; was not acknowledged by the Senate, and their messages, inviting the Senate to join them in electing a Senator and in counting the votes for Governor, were treated with contempt, but the Democratic Senators attended, and M. C. Butler was elected. On the 15th General Hampton was inaugurated before the Hall in which the representatives assembled, before an immense throng of enthusiastic spectators. Lieutenant-Governor Simpson also took the oath of office administered by Judge Mackey.