Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-31

since given to the the public, by a secret
writing now in the hands of E. "A. Burke,
and other ways, the agreement was authenti-
Gated: and President Grant was immtdi-
ately requested by Governor Hayes coun-
sci on no account to recognize Packard or
Chamberlain, but to leave the ultimate de-
cision as to their fate to the incoming pr. E.
ident.
After the Inauguration the bargain was
speedily fulfilled. As soon as the electoral
vote OF their states was safe, Governor Pack
ard and Chamberlain had been notified by
Messrs. Matthews aud Evarts to get out.
Governor Chamberlain was now summoned
surrender. He protested against his taking
Hampton demanded the performance of the
bargain. Mr.. Matthews wa sent for, came
from Ohio, and within twenly-four hours
the United States flag wa ordered down in
Charleston and Governor Chamberlain
stamped out.
As to Louisiana, the fulfllment proceeded
more slowly, but none the less surely.
Packard had made, March 81, a constitu-
tional call for federal aid. which it was diff
cult TO withhold from one as eurely governor
as Hayes was president. And yet there was
the bargain.
AS a subterfuge, an unconstitutional COM
mission, consisting of Messrs. NJ. Harlan,
Joseph r. Hawley, G. B. Lawrence, Wayne
McVtagh, and John c. Brown, was sent to
New Orleans, instituted to gradually destroy
the Packard legislature by seducing or
forcing its members into the Nichols legis-
lature. But they proving too stubbornly
republican, the commission te%legraphed the
president that nothing would destroy Pack
ard but the actual order Withdrawing the
troops. At the word the president gave the
order,
PACKARD WAS CRUSHED,
and the commission returned triumphant to
Washington to be "reccgnized"-o n of
them, General Harlan, by an appointment
as supreme court Judge; another, Mr.. Law
renee, by the release of Jake Rehm, the
great whisky conspirator and defrauder Of
the revenue at Chicago; General Hawley
was offered the appointment as chief com
missioner to the Paris exhibition, but de-
ellned because the salary was to be only
$4,000; and three Offices were rendered to
Mr.. MacVeagh, but declined on the ground
.Aos AAs oASuaA seINACes ueiudIiueu iHoIe
ample recognition; the English mission was
made its delivery inexpedient OF impossible.
Packard. He had a Law full court of justice,
two vacancies, and it required all three OF
the..iudges, Ludeling, Leonard, and John E.
King to make a quorum. Judge King was
m mo1iato1v opnointoI oollooto. of Nou
Orleans, Packard's court was struck down,
and the Nichols mob-government reigned
supreme. The bargain was in every way
fulfilled, and Burke had no occasion, a. had
been threatened, to make public the secre,
agreement. Hayes had been made presi.
dent by the fidelity and courage of Packard
and Chamberlain and their devoted follow.
ers, and his administration had trampled
them down.
Mr.. Chandler goes on to quote from the
presidents speeches in the south and quotes
a telegram in the New York Tribune, say.
ing that Governor Wade Hampton is still
with the patty, and is introduced by the
president to every audience as an honest and
patriotic man." and that at Atlanta, Hamp-
ton said of the president: "When l saw
him carrying out the policy for twelve years
advocate by the d. mocratic patty l said !
would sustain him in that policy as long as
he continued in that path"
Mr.. Chandler proceeds: GAS the policy
of the democratic party was to be carried
out at the south, q southern confederate gen.
eral, Mr.. D. NJ. Key, a democrat. who had
opposed Hayes election, and in the senate
denounced his title as fraudulent, was ap.
pointed postmaster general, and commenced
the distribution of the southern postoffices
to rebel democrats.
"The negro murderers Of Hamburg ano
Ellenton had been indicted in the fedora
courts of South Carolina. The great and
good Hampton appealed for their release
and it was accorded by the president, in /:
letter of May II, granting general amnesty
to negro murderers as political offenders.
To make immunity more certain, the policy
of appointing as district attorneys and mar
shals men agreeable to the white people o
the eouth-that is, democrats-was determ
ined upon.
cat the dictation of the most trusted anc
potent adviser of the administration, Gene
raj Gordon-captured by Grant in 1865, pu
in federal command by Hayes in 1S76-on,
o. P. Fitzsimmons, a rebel democrat and s
cousin of Wade Hampton, was appointed
marshal in Georgia, in place of one Smythe
a competent and honest republican, was con
6rmed by the democratic senator's votes ane
that CT Stanley MATHEWS alone.
And so General Gordon procures Samue
J. Tilden-no, Rutherford 3. Hayes Ito
turn gu, Smythe, a republican, change from
Huff, a liberal democrat, to Fitzsimmons, {
rebel democrat, and make the latter marsha
to protect the poor colored people of Geor
giaw
HOW 1T WORKS.
These significant instances of q surrender
of the power of the federal courts to rebe
democrats, the prompt and complete am