The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-10-01
CARL SCHURX.
He Replies to General Emory's Pro-
testation, and .Renews the At
tack upon Marsha
Packard.

following remarks on tho correspondence
between Marshal Packard and General
Emory in Louisiana: al notice that
General Emory, with commondabe spirit,
rspols the idea that United Sts,es troops
could DO usei for political purposes. No
doubt he describes the sentiments of the
honest soldier CORRECTLY when he SAYS
sucn an attempt would DO resented BY
them with indignation. For this honor
| them. / should DO tho last man 10 cast
any slur upon tho honorable spirit and
good faith of tho rue solder, but 1 submit
that General EmOrys protest does not
moot tho oooo. no says in his letter TO
Mar hal Packard that no docs not zee
how United States troops can be used for
political purposes. just there is the
trouble. | venture 20 cay that Marshsl
Packard, in his capacity rs party man
sger, does soc many
THINGS WHICH GEN. EMORY CANNOT SEE,
just because tho latter is an homes. soldier
and not party manager. Campaign man
sgcra Of the Packard stamp arc apt to see
many things which the houest soldier may
hnd 1t difficult TO appreciate. We remem-
Der the use United States troops were put
TO in the Kellogg usurpaiion in 1872.
For weeks they had TO stand guard over
the Sta!ehouse while State government
and Legislature were put in power, which
had nottno least evidence of an election
by the people but was evrtually created
by an act oisthe
oRossEsT UsURPATIoS
on tho part of Judge Durrell Tho hon.
eat soldier may not have seen the outrage
Gus character Of that proceeding, or If he
may, have been indignant at It, but he
simply had 10 obey orders. And who pro-
cured those lSmontsbe orders? Tho par
~ managers in Louisiana, ana among
them Marshal Packard. They knew how
to obtain orders for the honest soldies then
and they may try again on the same plau-
sible prete1t 10 obtain orders for kind
red purpose now, which the honest soldier
VIII have to obey, indignation or no indig-
nation, or they may use arguments them.
selves. Tho soldier will have 10 play a
| part without being able to see through
them. / hops they will not be az success
full az they were in 1872, but however
that may be, j say again inasmuch as IL lie
OF the highest importance, that tho peo-
pie OF Lousiana not only should have
FAIR ELECTION,
But also be made to feel and believe
that they have one. No man who was
an accomplish in the usurpation of 1872
and who ut this time 10 the manager of u
! political party in tho pending election,
and especially Of that party Tor whose
benefit tho usurpation in 1872 was accom-.
| plished, should have tho least influence
ovor the employment of United States
troops in that election, because such
man cannot inspire confidence. Bu. 20
farther. We learn through all the news
that Tho Il ~ 80
government, who but recently, after a
successful revolution with 10000 armed
men at their command, dutitully bowed
down before corporate guard sn1er the
national flag, and promptly submitted to
tho roiustGllmont Of Kellogg, have been
making an honorable and loyal effort to
secure fair election in their conferences
with tho chiefs OF tho Kellogg party.
They proposed that tho returning BOARD
should DO composed of TWO members from
each party, and that the fifth should be
designated by tho two parties together, as
a sort of an umpire. And l Understood
the opponents of Kellogg agreed that this
umpire might be taken from the Republi-
can ranks, provided he had tho character
OF fair and Just man. This was no cap
tious demand, for it is well known that in
Louisiana elections arc apt TO be decided,
not by the people who cast tho votes, but
by the party managers and their tools
who count and return the votes. The
granting of such request was therefore
not only proper, but absolutely necessary
to produce
CONFIDENCE AND GOOD FEELING.
Even many prominent men Of tho Kel-
logg party recognized the evident fitness
OF the proposed arrangement; but, as the
newspapers inform US, there was no man
opposing 1t 10 the last, even against his
party friends. One man who etcrnously
insisted that the party managers and their
tools should keep the power Of COUNTING
and returning the votes, and thus dccid.
ing the election. That man was
MARSHAL PACKARD.
Mr.. Packard is an officer of the national
governments AS such, and through his
assistants, he exercises IN Louisiana a great
power in the name Of the national govern
ment. lie represents the authority, and
Ia supposed In n great measure to repro
sent tho sentiments of the national govern
ment. And when such federal officer at
the same time plays the part of party man.
ager in a state, and stsnds up as the prin-
clpal and perhaps the only obstacle to an
arrangement so necessary for securing A
fair election, so eminently proper and lust
that every t6lr-mindod man would unhss- |
tstlngly accept il, so evidently conductive |
to peace, order good feeling and good gov |
eminent, that every friend of fair dealing
and democratic institutons-nay, every
patriotic American will cordially np- |
Flaud IL. Then, such man does not only |
inspire tut no does not deserve confidence |
and II ia for tho national government TO |
consider whether such man, aside from
tho
CONTROL or TROOPS IN a CONTESTED ELHC-
TON,
Can ia entrusted as the representative of
tho authority Of the national government
IN any manner or sense at all 1t ia of tho
highest Importance that now, more than
ever, the whole people Of Louisiana be in
sp'ri' With new confidence in the fairness,
JuS'ee aho good will of the national gov.
efhheht. nut tho past performances and
present attitude Of Mnrshal Packard
clothed as no Is with federal authority
and webbing so much of the federal power
= surely calculated TO create intense dis
trust, i.s.esd Of nhdence; resentment In
stead OF affection. The condition of tbipps
In louisiana Ia critical, and this United
otates officer has Professionally stood In the
way OF a fair, just and satiifactory solution
Of the most essential part of the pend NO
difficulty. His very existence as a United
states officer, puts tho National Govern.
nent Ia light In which, as respec,fully
uggest, FOR its own honor, and for The
,ubiio good, 1t cannot well afford 10 an.
,ear. affirm that what / say docs no,