The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-29
SPEECh OF SENATOR SCHURZ,

SPEECh OF SENATOR StHURZ.
MACON, No, Sept. 2s.-Mr. Sckuz to-day q
dressed meeting here on State aIKl nation
} pontics, and In the course of his fpeach ma,
. ! me Following remarks on the correspondence b,
tween Marshal Packard and Gen. Emory
Louisiana: l take u tice that Gen. Enor
| with commemorate spirit, repels the idea tn.
United States troops could be used for petite
purposes.
No donbt he describes the sentiments Of u
honest soldier correctly. when he says such .
attempt would be resented by them with indisrs
Ton. For this honor him. l should be til
last man to cast any slur upon the honorabI
spirit and good faith Of the true soldier; but
omit that Gen. Emory's protestation does NO
meet the ease. He saws, in his letter to Marsha
Packard, that he does not see how United State
troops can be used for political purposes JUS
there is the trouble.
venture to say that Marshal Packard in hi.
capacity as party manager does many thing.
latter Is an henest soldier and not party mana.
scr. Campaign managers OF the Packard STAMP
a'o apt to see many things which the honest
solder may find il difficult to appreciate We re.
member the use United States troops we've put
t. In the Kellogg Government in 1872 For
weeks they had to stand guard over the State
House while State Government and Legislature
were put in power which had not the least evil
dence OF an election by the people, but were viz
tually created by an act OF tho Erosscst usprpa-
ton on the part OF Judge Durell
The honest soldier may not have seen the out
raSeous character Of thas proceeding. or. if he
did, may have been indignant at but he SIM
ply had to obey orders. And who procur d those
lamentablc orders? The party managers in
Louisiana, and among them Marshal Packard.
They knew how to obtain orders for the honest
sodler then, and they may try ON some plausible
pletext to obtain orders for q kindred purpose
now, which the honest soldier will have to obey,
indignation or no indignation, or they may use
the latitude OF their power to make arrange
ments themselves The soldier will have tn NAV
part without being able to see through it.
hope they will be as successful as they were
in 1872, but, however that may BE-, l saw again
inasmuch as that it NAV be OF the highest inn
portance that the people of Louisiana not only
should have q fai. election but should also be
made to feel and believe that they have one no
man who was an accomplic. in the usurpation Of
political party in the pending election. and
especially of that partv for whose benefit the
usurpation in 1872 was accomplished. should
have the least influence over the emnloyment Of
United States troops in that election, because
such man cannot inspire confidence.
But go further. We learn from the papers
that the opponents of the Kellogg Goyernment-
who but recently, after successful revolution.
with 10 600 armed at their command dntifnlIv
bowed down before eorporai's gnard under I n.
national flag and promntlv subm;tted ~ thu -.
instatement of Kellogg. have been making nm
honorable and LOYAL @ffort to secnra a fair olac
ton In their conferences with the chiefs OF the
Kellogg party. they proposed that the return
ing boa I'd should be- comDosed of two memhe,
rom each party and fiat the ffth shoniI BE
design ted by he two nartie, topether M . sort
OF an umpire: and understand the onnorents OF
Kellogg agreed that the uI1pire shonig be taken
from the Hepubiican ranks provided he have the
charaeter Of a fair and inst man
This was no can,ious demand. for it is well.
known that in Tnuisiana elect,ons are ant to be
decided not by the neonIe who cast the votes. but
by the marty mana gers and their TOOLS who count
and return the votes. The granting Of such re-
ouest WAS therefore not only proper, but abs0-
intelv necessary to produce confidence and good
feeling even MANY prominent men of the KEEL
lopo partv recOpnize the evident fitness Of the
nrnna.ed ARRANGEMENT. but. a. newspapers in
torn us. there was one man opposing it to the
last even against his party friends, one man who
,strenuously insisted that the party managers and
I.heir tools should keep the power OF counting
nd returning the votes and thus deciding tue
el ction. That man was Marsha Packard.
W Packard Is an officer OF the National Gov
exc,c;ses in Louisiana, great power in the M
tionsl Goyernment. He represents the authority
and !. supposed in great measure, TO represent
tn s.ntments Of the National Government, and
when such a Federal officer At the same time
nays ,bs mart OF party manager in State, and
sta nds up as the principal. and perhaps tue only
obstacle to An arrangement so necessary, fer
aecu4ing q fair election. 20 eminenty
prnner and inst thai every fair minced
mar who world unhesatingiy accep; it, 80 evil
d4nt,v conclnsve to ,eacc, order, good feeling
and GOOD government, that every friend Of fair
1enli,,o and Of Democratic institutions, nay,
.v,.ry outrjotj, American will cordially applaud
i, then surh :, man does not only inspire, out he
does not 1nserye confidence and it il for the
National fio,rrnue II. 10 consider whether such
m osidn frn,, the control OF troo,s in a con-
tsxt, 4 elcrtion can he entrusted with the repre-
sentative authority OF the National Government