New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-11

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Republican. He subsequently transferred
his presence and influence to the Mich
oils lobby, and was honored with recep-
ton and permission to speak before that
august caucus. This equivocal politician
then wore the Republican livery until the
Republican State Central Committee
stripped that livery over his ears and dis
charged him from the service of the par
ty without any other certificate of char
acter than that which he had brought
into the party. Therefore, when the
President is told by him that if he
Desires the welfare of the cOlored people
and their prosperity and contentment, he
ought to recognize the Nicholls govern
ment-
1t will become proper for the Presi-
dent to inquire what the colored people
of Louisiana really do desire. And upon
this point he may be referred to the ap-
peal of the colored people of Louisiana
to the people of the United States, adopt
ed and published few days since. They
say:
We assume that there is no question
among the Republicans of the United States
that Mr.. Hayes was TightftILy as well as
lawfully accorded the electoral vote of
Louisiana.
They add:
We who know what crimes have been
committed upon people of our race for po-
litioal purposes, affirm it to have been q
most righteous and just decision.
They reason further:
While the national Republican ticket was
accorded q majority in this State, Governor
S. B. Packard received over 600 more votes
than the third lowest Republican electOr.
And conclude:
Mr. PAckard's title, therefore, to the
Office of executive of Louisiana is removed
beyond all question, at least from Repub-
loan sources.
They demand the maintenance of this
government, and thus conclude:
We desire to enter our most solemn pro.
test against the proposition of certain half
hearted and trimming Republicans to trade
off the Republican State of Louisiana and
the interests and rights of the colOred PEG
pie to the Democratic party for any cODsid-
GRAFTON whatever. We deny the legal and
moral right of any small cab4l of politicians
to do any thing of the kind.
This declaration, of course, extin-
cuisines the pretense of Democratic
agent to trade them offs for any consid-
Grafton whatever.
Now, when question of what the col
ored people desire is presented to the
President, upon whose opinion shall he
act? Upon that of the disappointed and
discarded member of the Republican
party, or the colored representatives who
have signed the appeal quoted from?
There is the signature of the Lieutenant
Governor, seven Senators and more than
thirty members of the House of Repre-
sentstiVes who oppose the recognition of
Nichols, denounce the abandonment of
Packard, and by consequence oppose the
''direct and absolute military govern
ment" of the State.
The recent deposition of Mr.. Pinch
back from the presidency of the State
Central Committee renders his assertions
nugatory. This committee has right to
speak for the colored people, because of
the twenty-three or twenty-four members
of which it is composed eleven or twelve
of its members are colored. Both these
representative bodies have, therefore, told
the nation exactly the opposite of what
the Democratic ambassador would have
the President believe. The reputation
of this pretended wish of the colored peo-
pie, and the political degradation and
deprivation of Mr.. Pinchback, may per-
haps be at the moment acceptable to him.
He will be thereby purged of the disqual-
ifcation Of Republican trust, and may
''sustain fall" upon the soft feather bed
of fat Office, as did his predecessor
The REPUBLICAN has no future concern in
the instructions or rewards of Democratic
diplomacy than to assure President Hayes
that no one has authority to make any
concession or compromise in behalf of Mr.
Packard or his Republican constituents,
white or colored, and to repudiate on his
behalf any one pretending to any author
ity on the subject whatever.