The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-26
LOUISIANA.

HIS ASSOCIATES.-THE FEDERAL
TROOPS REMOVED FROM ORLEANS
HOTEL AND FROM NEW ORLEANS
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS GOVERNOR
S. B. PACKARD.-GOyERNOR PACK
ARD REPLIES.
Louisiana, like South Carolina, is no
longer aRepublican State. 1t has been,
like South Carolina, surrendered to the
Democracy. The result of the Presi-
dents Peace Policy thus far has been
the surrender of the legal Republican
Administration of South Carolina and
Louisiana to illegal DemocrnticAdmin-
istrations of those states, the surrender
of Governor Chamberlain and his
Associates of South Carolina and Gov
ernOr Packard and his Associates of
Louisiana, and the Republicans of
those states who elected them, and
elected President Hayes, to their
enemies, Wade Hampton and Francis
T. Nichols, permitted to usurp authori-
ty and power by force, and the De-
mocracy who support them in their
usurpations. However successful such
Policy may be in restoring Peace,
harmony, and goodwill, it is unjust in
every respect, and ungrateful in the
extreme. And Notwithstanding the
promises of Wade Hampton andFrancis
L. Nichols to secure equal political,
property, and educational rights and
privileges to all, cOlored as well as
white, as the end is not yet, the Presi-
dent may live to see fruits altogether
different from what he hopes, antici-
pates, and expects from his Peace
Policy. But he is honest, sincere and
hopeful and the surrender being made,
and the work done and cannot be
undone, it is best, though not APPROX
it, to give his Peace Policy fair trial
and make the best Of it.
The troops stationed at Orleans Ho-
tel, New Orleans, vacated it at noon on
Tuesday, the oath, and proceeded to
Jackson barracks, out of the city three
miles down the river. General Augur
in reporting to Headquarters, says:
This hotel-referring to Orleans Hotel
is the only building in the immediate
vicinity Of the State house that has
been occupied by troops during the
past year, and not once during that
time have the troops occupied the
State House or any part Of it.
Republican Members of the General
Assembly have made an able address
to Governor Packard, in which they
express briefly their appreciation of
the fidelity he has sought to carry out
the obligations which he assumed
when he took the oath of office, and
state the condition of affairs of the
Government. The General Assembly
by resolution called on President
Grant to accord the legal Government
support against domestic violence
which threatened it's overthrow. He
issued an order setting forth that
Packard had been legally declared
elected Governor Of the State; that
Nichols Supreme Court was destitute
OF authority, and directing, if necessity
for recognition should arise, that re-
cognition must be given to Packard and
not to Nichols. The General Assem-
bly, remained in session and after the
accession of President Hayes, with a
quorum present in both Houses, adopt
ed and transmitted to him concurrent
resolution reciting domestic violence
prevailing in the State and requesting
under the constitution an dlaws of the
United States aid to suppress it. 'No
reply has been vouchsafed to that re-
quest" After referring to the action
of the Presidents Commission sent to
New Orleans and the action of the
Administration the address closes as
follows:
Under these circumstances, whilst
aDatlng none Of our belief in the right
tulness of your title, we cannot but
feel that forces which neither you nor
ourselves are able to resist render it
impossible to enforce your rights at the
present time. To attempt to do so
would only add to the blood which has
already been fruitlessly shed in defense
OF Republican principles in this State.
we therefore arerespectfully constrain-
eel to advise that for the time being you
refrain from actively asserting your
unquestioned rights, trusting to the
future to vindicate the righteousness
OF your cause.