The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-04
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
No ClaBds In View to Mar The Prospects
Of Louisiana. -.r. t- r.
How The CoBspirators Tried to Take Adj
vantage Of Grant.
A Picture Of william Pitt r.attsred.
Burying The Hatsh,t with Ben Hill and
Everything Ls4ely.
Especial Correspondence N. Demoerat.1

NAshiFaFu%, saH' Oh, lbtts
At This writing 1t is far pres5mptioa that the
days of Louisians's torment 19-s, ngh the end.
The last desperate resort Of the Es5ia a7ao has
been baftsd, aud The prssdent, ,sfn ly sd vsed of
the facts, has ipfieHibly sst hissstubborn head
against sny further thimble-tiggefy as the hands
Of The Kellogg Packard crew.
Perhaps II would bs wei enough to silt few
words Of fairness upon the much belab rsd head
OF The President nj this poiut. will not ndsr-
tabe 10 d.s cuss how, why or wherefore thugs
have come TO etteh paas that hiuple iuatige on
the Presidents part toward L4uisisna is al oct
TO call out especial eommeniation. But will
uBy in bulk, and in go sa ing will repeht almost
his own words. 'he has been tuialea and deceived
u long time; now he knows Tho fsets, al 4 can TO
Longer stake his reputation u2BH
FpsfAtktHa THE nErunF1se BOARD"
You must hnow th9b the eonspirators nj .
o'clock last Ennd sy afternoon wefe very aty Ut
their last gasp. They had but enc chance left.
aud that ginin.red htfaIly. twas the fotlotn
hope THAT the President N ght be induced TO re-
ePgnizB Packard finally and eonousively, which
would place him he presidsnt) il an attitude Of
potential antagoaisn b., any aeian the tfibunsl
| ght take back Of the #etion Of .be board This
scheme WAS carefully planned John shsrs
man. Morton, Sargent, GarHdd, Chandler,
| he niggsrs and tho carpet bRgsers had fully
oanvhesed itB features and mstursd its Hiruolure
And Kellogg,
PiTRtNs, THE EeoH 1str1ALHp.
Don Cameron, aud two other choice spirits Of
the grand eouolaye, were delegated 10 approach
tho Olympian presence Of His Exeslsuey They
| t.E. 4
they retired they carried with them robust
IDEAS n their several eapeoious ears. The our
brent particulars have spsd 10 you, by telegraph.
~ they transpirsd. II 10 not my purpose 10 re-
hash by mall tbe substance Of your Washington
speeisls. / make no pretease .has tbis ia q
"nswsy' lsstsr. Bus | shall sock 10 give IL =
eharaster partasing Of the histsrictl.
wHK FAST Two wRERs
have been big With history. The fase Of fer.y.
four millions Of people balanced spon the pivot
OF Louisiana. Tor . long lime no enc could tell
which way 10 would tsrb, 30 hairlks WAS the
| esenness OF the equipose for the !ims between
tho forces of the popular wall and these Of des-
potie usurpation. Two weeks ago Sunday, the
eonBpirators succeeded in obtaiuing, through
gross misrep presentations, Tho Presidents signa-
turs TO q telegram.
| This telegram. tho conspirators told the Presi-
dent, was intended merely ~ deauition Of
orders previously given TO Gen. Augur. Blu. no
| sooner had the regular signature, 80. B..
Grant," been appended 10 IL, ihan Packard, In
pursuanos Of the covert programmes, construed
il into formJ recognition and assumed that IL
gave b in authority to call on Gen. Augur fJr the
usual assistance Of the troops.
| Now, have information that cannot bs ques.
toned, TO the tff5ct that when the President
| aligned that telegram he had no more intention
OF formally Recognize ng Packard, or Of propping
up his governmental fraud. than he has now
and any of the conspirators will tell you that he
has no such intention now He understood the
telegram to mean amply that he the President,
desired Gen. Augur TO keep tho peace between
Packard and Nichos pending Congressional in
quiry into the late election that no believed 1t
necessary TO designate for that object
| State GOVERNMENT AD 1HTrnIu
which should be supported by tho Federal power
40 u means OF preserving the peace; and that he
selected the Packard governa ent because, in his
judgment, ii had the prtrna Jacte right, eubject
TO final ratification or rejection by Congress, as
events might determine. This was President
Grants view. From his standpoint, perhaps,
his view cannot be criticised. From our sta d.
point don't know that there is any occasion to
criticise 1t. But ii was his view, honestly enter
tanned, and dtrived from the best means Of in
formation that were at his command. Now,
whom the President learned that the congpirs-
| tors had sough:
| TO PERyERr HIS TELEGnAM
| to their own uses, ana when he was advised that
they had abused bis faith, preeencerteGIy and
deliberately, he was wroih. In fact, as the
young men about the White House are wont to
cay, affectionately and facetiously, "the old man
got way up on his ear"
| It had on5y needed something like this to open
the eyes OF the President to ths dastardiy nature
and desperate character OF the men who had sur
rounded hin. And when his eyes were opened
and his obstinate head set in the right direction,
LOUISIANA WAS AS SAFE
| in his hands as though It had been the 5th OF
March and Mr.. Tilden had been inaugurated
| Let us render unto Grant the things which are
Grants. And let me particularly do 80 for that
learn was made use of by the consprators, an
unwilling and an unwilling instrument in the
furtherance Of their designs. / had spoken with
| some fippancy Of the inside OF the Casey pro.
gramme, both in these columns and in those Of
| the St. Louis Times. These fippant, though not
ill-intended, comments were carefully conveyed
10 the President. "Here," said the conspira tors,
''ars the Democrats already fe icitating them
selves upon having captured you through your
brother-in-!aw, Colonel Casey" etc. Perhaps /
erred in esiatlDg the delicacy Of the feelings of
those was dealing with. But it is more p,ob
able that when wrote those vain and facetious
things about the Brother-in law and the Demi-
john, had no notion that his excellency would
ever see or be aggravated as to his soul by them.
certainly intended no reflection, and had no
purpose TO cast dscredit upon either the Brother
in-law, phom have loved, and whose fine cigsrs
hare delighted TO sample 10 these many years,
or unon The Demi iobn, y hose contents, am In
formed, are OF nectar--ht for the code