The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-21
WASHINGTON AND NEW ORLEANS.

WASHINGTON AND NEW ORL Fans
Our special from Washington, re
ceived late last night, will, to {
degree. lessen the great opinion
the country had formed OF thu
flrmness and courage OF Mr.. Hayes
The President has a very plain ant
simple work before him; but IL he Ii
weak enough to be influenced or con
trolled in any measure by those leaders
Of his party who, for ten years, have
kept the country in turmoil and the
civil power under the heel OF the mill.
tary, he will find business upon his
hands which neither he nor his Cabinet
nor his army, can settle except through
bloodshed. ruin and devastation.
His simple message of peace, his UNI
guaranteed promise OF justice to the
South, sent forth on the Fourth of
March, filed the whole country with
gladness. Even those in the North who.
under the excitement of heated politi-
cal canvass, had followed the banner OF
the bloody-shirt, applauded and re-
joiced; while here, 1t Immediately en-
HANGED the value Of property, revived
confidence and set millions, who for
years had CROPPED in the gloom and
misery Of political bondage and fnan-
cial ruin, to work with new born hope
and energy. We're Mr.. Hayes in his
weakness or his treachery to turn back
now and falsify all his utterances and
all the pledges Of bis nearest friends and
advisers, the temper of human nature
would not bear 1t. and ere q month this
stately tree which sprung In a night
from soil rotten with fraud and per-
jury, would bring forth, instead of the
golden blossoms we have been prom
ised, the bitter fruit of civil strife.
bloodshed and anarchy. Mr.. Hayes
may tremble and quail before the fiery
Blaine and the cold, resolute and i'm
perturbable Morton; he may give the
lie to his noble inaugural he may
shame the men who have promised so
much for him, by becoming the misera-
BILE, contemplate and despised tool of
the worst set of politicians who ever
cursed and robbed a nation; he may
cover himself with shame and infamy,
and make Of bis administration before
1t be six weeks old, miserable wreck
something to be kicked, spit upon and
laughed at. All these things, by aban-
doning the policy he outlined in his In
augural, he may do, but we tell him
now, and the warning will be echoed
from every parish and neighborhood of
the State, he and his army cannot make
8. B. Packard Governor Of Louisiana.
II he should finally yield to his evil
advisers and determine to attempt any
such wicked and desperate thing, let
him prepare for war. In the prosecu-
ton of such scheme he will have to
fight the armed and disciplined citizens
upon the streets of New Orleans, and
he will have to invent some new and
ingenious process OF hateful tyranny to
protect the creatures who attempt to
hold office under Packard In the par
ishes, for they will ts hot down, as IL
they were mad dogs, in every locality
they may venture to invade. He may
finally whip out, by numbering them In
such an infamous warfare, the citizens
Of New Orleans, but he will have to do
1t by sending reinforoements OF federal
troops here, and with the fires OF civil
war raging in one State, rotten title
backing him in Washington, and vast
number OF men In every State In the
Union fo Iiorrrfn md hr1,
oy arms his usurped authority, can he
venture to send reinforcements OF
,roops to Louisiana on such an errand |
Let not Mr.. Hayes be deceived, how
,ver. The people OF Louisiana, in the |
,vent that an effort shall be made to
sustain Packard's pretentions, will
ely upon their own arms and re-
sources. They will feel that they
night as we'll make desperate fight as
20 acquiesce in inevitable ruin, and they
will drench these streets In blood before |
hey yield them to Federal troops, or
my other power that seeks to set over
hem another Infamous and detested |
lsurper as their Governor.
We have written, perhaps, more
than the occasion warrants i
put our purpose Is to show, not
only the fearful consequences which
would flow from an attempt to make
Packard Governor Of this State, but
slso the wickedness Of any such des-
oerate folly.
We have no fear that Mr.. Hayes will |
attempt to recognize or sustain Pack
ard's pretensions. What we are led |
% apprehend from our dispatches this
morning is, that, in his weakness, in
1uenced by Sherman, Blaine and Nor
on. the President may adopt line OF
action, the sending Of another Com
mission here for instance. which will |