Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-03
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

Louisiana Affairs.
At IL o'clock on the 24th, the troops
were withdrawn from New Orleans, and en-
barked on steamboat for the barracks. On
the following day, the members Of the Legis-
lature, in body headed by Gov. Nichols,
took uninterrupted possession of the State
House.
Packard issued an address to the Republi-
cans of Louisiana, closing as follows:
II therefore announce to you that l am
compelled to abstain for the present from all
active assertion of my government. l waive
none of my legal rights, but yield only to su-
perior force. I am not wholly discouraged
by the fact that, one by one, the Republican
State governments of the South have been
forced to succumb to force, fraud or policy.
Louisiana, the first State rehabiitated after
the war, is the last State whose government
thus falls, and I believe it will be among the
first to raise itself again to the plane of equal
and honest representation. advise that you
maintain your party organization and contln.
ue to battle for the rights Of citizenship and
free government. We strive for these and
not for man or men. 1t grieves me beyond
expression that the heroic efforts you have
made and the cruel suffering you have under
gone to maintain Republican principles in
Louisiana, have had this bitter ending. To
those who have so gallantly stood by me in
the long contest we have passed through, |
tender my heartfelt thanks. To all [ coun-
sci peace, patience, fortitude and firm trust
that eventually right and justice will prevail" !"
S. B. PACKARD, Governor.
The Presidents Policy.
- Secretary Evarts, in speaking recently
of the Presidents policy, said that, under all
reasonable contingencies, there were no
grounds whatever for apprehension in the
minds of the people of any section. He ad
mitted that the President might have with
drawn the troops within twenty-four hours af-
ter his accession to Office, but had he done so
this would have accomplished the same re-
suit. The result of the apparent delay has
been the bringing of order out of chaos and
giving those States lasting government. In
the settlement of the controversy nothing was
done except within the strict province of ex'
listing constitutional and statutory provisions.
The Government found no necessity for recog'
nizing either government under the Constitu-
ton. This right belonged to the Legislature
in canvassing the votes for Governor. Com
plimenting the work of the President, the
Secretary said that President Hayes had no
desire for reelection, and, so far as he knew,
none of the Cabinet had aspirations in that
direction. Referring to the fears expressed
that the President had left the colored man
to the hands of class inimical to his inter-
ests, Mr.. Evarts said that Mr.. Hayes believed
the Southerners to be an honorable people,
who would take especial pains to carry out
their pledges in regard to the colored people,
and that no apprehension existed in the mind
of the President touching the future condi,
ton of affairs of the South.
The President is reported as saying that he
does not see how Messrs. Wade, Blaine & Co.,
can give force to their opposition. He says
they could not do it by thwarting any per-
sonal plans or prospects of his own, because
he had none for them to thwart; they could
not do it by defeating his nominations in the
Senate, because he never would send any
name to the Senate in whose confirmation he
had an interest beyond that inspired by his
general views as to the good of the public
service He did not see that they could do
anything beyond denounce his policy in
speeches. Even if they could find majority
in the Senate opposed to his Southern policy,
the Senate could not undo what had been
done. 1t could not restore the troops to the
State Houses, nor could it rehabiitate the
governments which have vanished as soon as
federal troops were withdrawn from their sup
port.