The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-03-10

ton had not been employed at all, but
organized intimidation is charged
against seventeen parishes in the
State, against forty in which no
such charges are made. In
those forty parishes the coIorsd
registration numbered 72,o34, leaving
q majority of eolored voters registered
Of l5,065. Those forty parishes re-
turned 65,747 Republican voters and
81, 1872 Democratic votes, so that in
that part of the State where intimida-
ton is not charged, there was q Re-
publican majority of {, 1858 votes. 1t is
not pretended that the same argu-
ments, etc, Were employed In the
forty parishes that were employed la
the other seventeen, but the results are
very different. In the seventeen par
ishes said to have been terrorized the
colored registration was q, 269, and the
white registration 20,320, giving q ma.
jority of colored voters of 8, $40, nearly
one-haif as large as the coiored ma
Jority In all the rest of the State; but
the vote as returned showed but IL, $50
Republicans to 2l,l30 Democrats In
the seventeen parishes. where there
was n majority of 10, l53 Democratic
votes returned.
The report is signed by all the Re
publican Senators on the committee.
Grant Modi6es The Status QUO with an
Order that squeiehes the Paeka
Usnrpation, UnIess IL II Revoked by
Hayes.
a copy of the following dispatch has
been sent by General w. L. Sherman
to General c. c. Augur, commanding
department, for his information and
government:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WAsHIsGros, March Is77. /
Governor 8. b. Packard, New Orleans:
In answer to your dispatch of this
date, the president directs me to say
That he feels il his duty 10 state frankly
that be does not believe public opinion
Will longer support the maintainance
OF state government in Louisiana by
the use of the military, and that he
must concur in this manifest feeling.
The troops will hereafter, as in the
past, protect life and property from
mob violence when the State authori-
ties fail, but under the remaining DAYS
of bis official life they will not be used
To establish or to pull down either
claimant for control of the State. IL is
not his purpose to recognize either
claimant.
signed. C.sNIFFIS, Secretary.
Private advices from New Orleans
up to 4 p. N. represent everything
quiet there. Although it was not
surprise To Packard and his immedi-
ate friends, his followers was stunned
by the order of the president modify
ing the status quo.
The opinion is general at the Gus
tomhouse that the order will be re-
voksd next week by Hayes and the
Packard government recognized. On
the other hand the Democrats are ju-
bilant, and confident that the policy
Of the incoming administration will
be to let South Carolina and Louisiana
settle their own troubles, and thus
break the reign of carpet bagism In
those States. The purport of the order
spread like wild fire and has demoral-
lied the Packard element in the Re-
publican camp, the Pinchbaek and
Warmoth wing of the party rejoicing
at their discontinue. A general flock
ing TO the Nichols Legislature by the
returning board members whose cleo
tion is unquestioned by their Demo-
cratic opponents, is looked for by the
Conservatives and feared by the Radi-
Gals.