The daily gazette., 1877-03-05

hope ofsecuring Southern support in the
contest over the coanting of the electoral
vote. But Governor Packard natura lly
enough, is not disposed to@be made a vic
tim for the sake ofanytcmpornrys schemes
in behalf of Hayes. So he answered next
day, declaring consistently enough that
the Nichols government represented the
same revolutionary element which Presi-
dent Grant had put down in 1874, and in
which was accorded to his predecessor,
He added, Significantly: "7he validity Of
g my title as Goeer7lor having been passed
"upon bg the only tribunal knoicn 10 the
" State lsacs, and being noto confirmed oy
I" tho decision ofthe National Tribunal, 4
90 deem 10 my duty to maintain the govern.
" inept by all means at my command: .
That il to say, Packard considers himself
and properly considers himself, to Dc
Governor of Louisiana by authority OF
the very same Returning Board and
Electoral Commission to which Geyern-
or Hayes owes his proclamation as Presl
dent. His position is unassailaole. III
the white people of Louisiana are mot
what they have been heretofore said 10
be, to wit, bulldozers, banditti and mur-
derers, then he Is not Governor of Loulsi-
ana, and Hayes is not President of the
United States. If he is not Governor, IL
is because Wells and his associates were
not justified in throwing out the majority
Of eight thousand votes for Nichols and
because Bradley and his associates were
guilty. of a serious crime in sustaining
this iniquity, and so defrauding Govern
or Tilden OF the Presidency. 80. .......
II through any curious contingency or
circumstances Governor
Hayes could be lawfully s'ecte1, Packard
must 90 into Office with HIM; and II Pack
ard is to be pronounced pretender, the
worthless. 1t is a modern marriage of
The .Siamese twins were
not Granddaughter more closely. 1t ap-
pears that President Grant was in no
way moved by Packard's protest, from
his determination to make Chang a vic
tim, regardless of the danger to Eng. He
to Governor Nichols yester-
day through leading Louisiana Demo-
Gratis in Washington, declarations which
look very like an intimation that Cover
nor Nichols might as well take posses
sionIat once of the State government:
Tine President states that instructions
have been issued which cancel all orders
for the preservation Of the status quo, and
that neither you nor Packard are longer
bound to observe it; that he means the peo
pie OF Louisiana are as free In their afAirs
LTOul r taAC PNVPtC vi
Connecticut, and that there will be no dispo-
sition 10 interfere with them any more
than with the people OF New York;
five take into account the fact that
the Republican party carried on the
canvass upon the direct is
sue that the Southern people ought not
to be trusted with power, and also the
fact that they claimed the election ON the
ground that Hayes and Packard were
victorious in Louisiana, such surrender
can only be regarded as the basest betray
al OF all the noble army of arpet-baggers
and scalawags like Wells, Kellogg, Ken
ner and Casey. Thier lying, cheating,
perjury and ballot-box stuffing have been
of much avail for Governor Hayes; but
they are to be made useless to themselves
AS the political situation now stands it
presents to us the tcurious spectacle of a
President who is said to be elected by a
collegiate majority of one vote, although
his party has lost by great majority the
three States by which he gets this beg
carly victory. In each of the three
States of louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina the pretender to the Presiden-
cy and his friends concede that the Dem
ocratic Governor was lawfully chosen,
and yet they ask a credulous nation to
believe that three commonwealths uni
ted in a common bond of suffering went
Democratic on the State ticket and Re-
publican on the national ticket and that
Governor Hayes, through this preposter-
Gus political anomaly, really achieved
1S5 votes, The very statement of the case
utterly confutes it. History will hold
that the House of Representatives made
but a moderate claim when it declared
Mr.. Tilden our lawful President by an
honest vote of l96 electors.