The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-31
The Commission.

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the two committees of this year, as
we'll az the several who preceded
them in former years. are not sniff
cicnt in the way of ''commissionS' to
give light upon and settle the "Louis,
lana Question:" The President, how
ever, has seen 1T to send another for
his own particular purpose: what that
purpose is no one knows, and we sin =
crrrlv hope it will he the last. View
Ing this "comi'lg' logically, there
seems to- exist some cause for it.
President Hayes has inanrnratel a
new policy. entirely opposite to the
former line of actinr of the preceding
Republican administration. TO this
policy he has some hitherto very pow
crfHl opponents notably Blaine, all
c,l and assisted hv the wreck Of Bonr-
bon Ralica|S and Northern Democrats
III the Senate
1t is an nndouhtrd fact that at the
time of the meeting Of the Cabinet
tive policy Of removing the troops was
fixed. and that policy WAS only post
poncd in its consun1nlation hv the acts
of Packard on Monday and Tuesday
Of last week. 1T the suggestion Of
Blaine and followers. Packard, see.
inc that he must 90 down unless Nv.
Hayes plans were checked, proceed
ed to enlist fnur or five hundred NC
rroes, and prnrlaimcl abroad his de-.
Termination to defend his position by
arrrrSsirn-that is, by making his ne.
gro recruits drunl, and forcing them
ont into the streets to be shot down
in q vain attempt to reraptnrc public
bindings
The very fact of this slaughter
would have raised a howl all over
the North, and being linked with
Hayes pacific policy by designing
Blaine and his crowd. would have
loaded down the President at the
start of his administration with the
dead weight of the "murtlcr of 500
iunncent ~ blacks' in New Orleans.
This action Of Packard called a halt
and the commission now named comes
here, not for the purpose as many
suppose, to compromise or adjust the
rights of Nichols or Packard, hnt
simply TO untancle, if possible, the
web Hlaine'S ShrewlncSs has wound
around the question when upon its
last legs.
If this commission fails to iuAnce
Packard to come to pacific terms
than the knot will be sunmnyily eat
with Vice President Wheeler on the
ground to keep down the negro mol
that Packard would desire hutchcrcd
This, we consider the question OF
the commission in a mt she'll its
purposes and objects, and time will
decide it.
Since writing the above, it seems
the Cow mission plan has been ahan
! IRIS rHHUre Is. as we take it. that
the President could not Get PARTIES
of the proper standing to accept po-
sltion and come down, and that thci,
reasons for so doing, as explained in
our kilograms. were the want of
inrisdiction-and power in the IRE
misses. It seems strange this was not
thought Of before the country was
startled with the news of a Com.
mission.
We admit that Hayes policy is, to
us, hardly to be understood. but the
assurances of our friends, we take as
fnil evidence Of his good intentions.
Az for the matter of recognition
Governor Nichols never has asked
that of Mr.. Hayes or any ore else
nor will he. All that our Governor
desires Is, that Mr.. Hayes will not in
tcrFc'e in the settlement of orr local
affairs, and so far Mr.. Hayes ASST
RANGES are that he will not,
IN the mean time the status ono
being q thing Of the past, our rco-
pie must 60 on and build MP their
government with their own hands,
and OF Snch strength that no power
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