New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09

INAUGURAL OF GOVERNOR PACKARD
We give this morning this State paper
as the chart by which the Republican. adj
ministration will be guided during its
term of service. The doctrine established
by the constitution ia laid down as the
basis of guidance. The national will is
supreme; the national authority para
mount; the jurisdiction Of the Federal
government throughout the geographical
limit of the government is acknowledged,
nor is there presented any prentense that
the State government can define or de-
fend its own relations to the Federal gov
eminent otherwise than as Congress or
the Supreme Court may authorize. The
obligation of the citizen to regard allie
glance as first due to Federal authority
is followed by the correlative obligation
on the part of the government to protect
the citizen with its whole power, when
ever it may be deemed by the Federal gov
eminent proper to do SO. We thus see the
TGAhllOu5 DtkH6cu bu0 GO0CAdA hhA hObclO
jurisdictions plainly stated, and we may
find this boundary more plainly marked
by the harmonious action of the author
tiles which administer them respectively
At all events the State administration
frankly acknowledges primary ale
glance to the national authority, and
throws itself upon the national govern
ment for the exposition of the laws and
for their enforcement. Such is the new
era. A nation supreme, and all other or
CARNATIONS, political or other, subordin-
ate. Governor Packard passes from the
strife in which his career has been beset
to the best means of promoting the do
nestle prosperity of our citizens. He
first separates the false from the true
causes of our prosperity or decline. He
employs the facts of our agricultural
prosperity, as vouched for by Gov
ernor Kellogg, to exonerate the Repub-
lican administration from the charge Of
having ruined the State. He regards the
same increase of productions as a thor
ough vindication of emancipated labor
from the Misrepresentation of its foes.
We're these people the vagabonds and
thieves they are represented by the
Democracy to be-did they lay waste the
cattle and fruits, and devote themselves to
the theft and sale of cotton in the seed,
surely this extraordinary increase in the
plantation products of the whole State
could not be possible. Emancipated la
Dor has therefore vindicated ITSELF
Governor Packard explains the causes
Of our commercial decline. Heattributes
it to the diversion of our trade upon direct
artificial lines. He denies that it can
have been caused by the maladministra-
ton OF the State government, because un-
der the same government he has just
shown the agricultural interest to have
prospered. If the Democracy, who have
governed the city, still claim that the de-
cline is due to official standardization
then it is plain that the Democratic city
government, which has collected nearly
double the State tax on the property and
business of the city, should take its share
of the responsibility.
The great question is at last, however,
how shall this admitted condition of de-
cline be impaired Governor Packard
suggests the addition of new in
dustries for the employment of all
the people, with the construction
Of railroads, for opening new trade
relations with the Western interior. 1t
will be the province of the Legislature to
give effect to these ideas, and we trust to
see some Of the measures suggested by
his excellency put into practical effect.
With a course Of action SO clear and so
cogent as that proposed in the inaugural
of Governor Packard, we may anticipate
an administration honest and upright in
the execution Of all its duties and devoted
to demonstrate that Cassius was perfectly
right when he said
The fault. dear Brutss. Is not in cur stars,
But in ourselves, that We are under ing"
With proper Federal protection and the
development Of domestic industry the
future Of Louisiana viii be, upon the
doctrine of Governor Packard, perfectly
assured.
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