New-York tribune., 1877-03-10

forth palmer and more orcible language than any
one else has done the position they hold.
| II Is not true that President Haycs's Administra-
tion has determined to abandon Gov. Packard and
to recognize Nichols. TIL new Executive was in
augurated only three days ago. and the new Govern
ment has not yet been organized. President Hayes
has told the country in his letter of acceptance and
in his Inaugural Address what kind of solution
Of the Southern question he desires. "And while
in duty bound and fully determined" he says, ito
protect the rights of all by every constitutional
means at the disposal of my Administration,
| / am sincerely anxious to use every legitimate
influence in favor of honest and efficient local
sefgovernment as the true resource of those states
for the promotion of the contentment and pros
perity of their citizens" He has not told us how
this is to be accomplished and probably does not
| himself know; but it is maxim in mathematics
! that problem well stated Is half solved President
Hayes has begun his great work by making better
official statement of the Southern question than the
country has had before the last eight years 1t is
only simple justice that he should have an oppor-
tunity to consider and perfect his methods before
his policy is attacked by his own party friends
1t is demanded that the Administration shall up
hold and sustain Mr.. Packard in Louisiana because,
it is asserted, lie is the legal Governor of that
State, and received 200 more votes than the Hayes
electors Has it ever occurred to the Republicans
who have made such haste to tell the President what
| he must do that they may be demanding an irnpos-
sibility Mr.. Packard can only be upheld by the
use of United States troops Nothing is better es-
tablished than this fact. There has not been mo-
ment since the first of January, 1873 when
| Republican Administration could have sustained
itselfin Louisiana for day after the troops were
withdrawn. The military policy has been faithfully
tried for four years by Gen. Grant and has utterly
| failed either to give strength and stability to the
Republican party, protection to the colOred people,
| or to maintain government which the white peo-
| pie have been willing to accept. Gov. Packard is
| to-day weaker than Gov. Kellogg was four years
ago.
| was in New-Orleans in May. 1878. and witnessed
| the military preparations then making by the
! Republican State Administration. The city and
| almost every parish in the State was under Gov.
| Kellogg's control; he had armed and mounted his
Metropolitan Police and supplied them with equip
| mcnts obtained from Washington; he was organiz-
ing artillery and was fitting up gunboat for use Oh
| the river and bayous. He took especial pains 10
impress upon me--what he asserted to be q fact
| that he was able TO maintain his administration.
preserve the peace, and enforce the laws, without
the aid of United States troops. To-day, after four
| years of the most careful nursing, the Republican
| Administration in Louisiana represented by Gov.
! Packard a far ADLER, braver, and more determined
| man than Mr. Kellogg is unable to make its author
ity respected anywhere in the State outside OF the
four walls of the st. Louis Hotel III which the Tx
ecutiye offices are situated and he is able to remain
| there only because Gen. Augur with 1000 United
States troops keeps constant guard over INN. lie
| exercises no authority in the City of New-Oreans,
nor in any parish of the State except by the suf-
| ferance of bis rival, Gov. Nichols.
II Is true that the National Administration with
| the army may depoSe the Nichols Government and
make Mr. Packard Governor of the State DE- Jdco, as
it did Mr. Kellogg but he can only continue 50 "hle
he has United States bayonets at his back. Do the
Repnblicans who are demanding that Gov. Packard
shall be recognized and upheld propose to repeat in
Louisiana for four years more the experiment which
Gen. Grant tried for the last four years,
and which, by his own confession, utterly
failed Has the country any assurance
that military policy under President Hayes
will be any more successful in building up Repub-
can party in the South in restoring peace and con-
fdence or in afiording protection to the black
people than it has been under Gen. Grant, DO they
think that President Hayes's election was an
approval of the Louisiana policy OF the last Admin
straton and that the country Is so anxious to see
the Republican party i'll power i'll that State that 1t
is willing that that policy shall be continued four
| years longer' And how else can Mr. Packard be
| upheld except by the use of the army
But if the military policy had succeeded as III mas
not there other reasons why IL would be unwlse
at this time One of the principal of these Is Its I'M
| practicability The XLlIId Congress even, with
| majority of about 100 Republican members i'll the
lower house, never approved II, and there Will be at
| least a score of Republicans in the next House OF
| Representatives who would strenuousy oppose It's
continuance. The Democrats have small majority
in the next House. ii now stands, and II the qnes-
| ton involved i'll its organization should be the
| maintenance Of Cows. Packard and Chamberlain by
the use of the army the withdrawal OF the troops,
there would be no doubt as the ascendency of the
Democratic party. But the House controls the APP
propriations, and through them is able to say
whether there shall be an army or not. with the
most positive assurances that the new Administra-
ton contemplated change OF policy toward the
Southern States, the Democrats have just defeated
the Army bill and made an extra session OF Congress
necessary. VIII they pass that bill in June OF De-
cember if in the mean time 1t becomes apparent tEa'
| Mr. Packard is to he upheld and sustained by the
same means that employed 10 keep MIR. Kellogg
| in Office for four years
Justice can only he done the Administration by
giving it ample time consider this most perplex-
ing question before determining upon It's policy.
The Senate has been wrestling with the problem for
four wears and has thus far failed To solve 1t salts
factorily. President Hayes has not been III Office
four days vet and he certainly has right to demand
Of ms political friends that they shall not condemn
Lis Southern policy before it is announced, or lay
down for him an impossible one i'll advance.
I'll. W.
THE DEMOCRATIC BLUNDERS.
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