The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-01-17
PACKARD PROCLAlMS.


of that dispatch, Packard at 3 o'clock
this morning issued the following pro-
clamation:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
ExECUTIvE DEPARTMENT.
WHEREAS, There exists an organized
and armed combination and conspiracy
Of men which Is now Offering unlawful
and violent resistance TO the lawful au.
thority OF the state government ana
whereas an unlawful and revolutionaf!
body. claiming to be a general assembly
is now holding session and assuming 10
act as the legislature In the city OF New
| Orleans: and whereas, certain persons
are without authority and in defiance Oh
the law assuming to act 40 executive auu
judicial officers in places 10 whien they
have not been elected or commissioned
or legally appointed and whereas
certain persons are. without authority
aud in defiance of the law. assuiil-
ing to act as judges OF the SUI
prcme court and whereas during the
past week the aforesaid combination and
conspiracy has eliminated In the mass.
ing Ia the streets of the White League
under arms, in large bodies organized III
companies, but under commanders,
which armed bodies have taken posses
| sion of the streets and thoroughfares,
have marched over the city, have taken
unlawful and iorcible possession OF the
stations OF the metropolitan police OF the
state arsenal, arms OF the state, OF the
court room, of the municipal judges and
| of the Office of recorder oil mortgages,
and have also taken iorcible possession
of the rooms OF the supreme court. and
OF the records and archives OF the same.
lax xtnla,.flx- tod tho ltllGIs
| thereof IRON access 10 the same.
| Now. therefore, |, stephen Is. Pack
ard. governor OF Louisiana. and In the
name and by the authority of the people OF
Louisiana, command the said body Of
persons pretending TO be 8 general assem-
bly, to desist from the further prosecu-
ton OF their lawless and treasonable
conspiracy and 10 immediately disperse
and | command the persons aforesaid
claiming to act as judges of the supre me
court. and all persons supporting. ALL
ing. or abetting thereby. and all persons
unlawiully assembling to act as exeeu-
tive and judicial officers. and
all persons having possession
of the police stations and
; assuming 10 act as policemen on ih'
streets. and all armei bodies Of mel no.
| acting under the authority Of the Lawful
4 A. &DNNt a.
| sieiy Jesist from tire aforrsssi ,'4'sA is4
aets. and disrserSe s,ruf retire 10 ttseal
| homes under the pains and penAiilcs "i
the Law. sDd command ali persons nav
ing in their possession ar unocr iiaea'
care and control any arms and mnniists'l'
J or other property belonging 10 tbc s,&''
tnle,. from the lawful cIlsiodiSns thereof
10 Immediately deliver up THE same q
the props; A1,hosii5ts.
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This dispatch, coming zlInosi az tbs ssIo'
time with ihs Grant telegram, certainly
Indicates that the two have certain def
lite connection. and form part o. the e.
fort to ineite the Radicals 70 make al
offensive Demonstration. The proelsrns
ton OF Packard was the natural sequence
Of the dispatches. and Va. intended 4
carry out still further the bluff game tn
: Radicals are playing.
!. EVERY IRKrAEATIoS HAS BEg1s MADE
: BY the governor to quell any di.tur
y bance which may be raised by the rabbi
, OF the St. Louis hotel. and the orders ar
{ persmptory that any such tumult O
e emeute Oh the part Of the follower
I OF Packard shall be quelled by the sc
6 verest measures and at any cost. Ii /
a thought that the telegram Of Chandle
8 and Grant have the still further object o
. giving backbone TO the hall party alter Ia
, decentralization which the Pinch back Sc
[ cession caused.