Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-02-24
LOUISIANA IN EARNEST.

The carpet-bag representatives IN
Washington pay almost daily visits to
Gen Grant. urging the recognition of
Packard as Governor, and the forcible
suppression of Nichols. The Presi-
dent persistently declines to see it,
leaving the problems as hickory nut
for his successor to crack. Meantime,
if the following communication from
New Orleans to the Chicago Times is
true utterance of the feeling of the
people of that State, it is quite clear
that they mean business
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. IS.-The rumors COM
ing rom Washington of a proposed COM
promise on the Louisiana question as
concerns the State government, are evil
IDENTIFY founded upon no assurances. The
representatives here of the Nichols gov
eminent will not accept any compromise
whatever. In fact it is known TO be the
sentiment OF Governor Nichols himself
that for the next four yenrS he Will he
Louisianas Governor, or she will be con-
trolled by a military Governor. Thls
means simply that although the President
may recognize Packard, his efforts through
/ the use of his troops to force his mantiate
will be resisted by force, and althougn
/ doubts that the result of the conflict Will
I witness the retirement of the Nichols party,
yet the stand will be made so that the
/ National Government viii be compelled
J to place Louisiana under military Gov
/ ernOr. OF one thing the country may be
! certain, the Packard Government Will
/ never obtain control of this State, come
/ what may Ifby any chance that Govern
/ ment should be foiste0 into de Jocto power
4 it is as certain as the rising of the sun that
/ il would not endure the day that sees 1t
! lifted to power. Such an order Will be the
| signal Tor the beginning of an era of vio-
nIglao cd a
State to the other. To submit TO another
four wears of Radical rule in this State
| would be the abandonment by her people
of every hope Of prosperity or reileI Tor all
/ time. 1t would be the jumping-oh place.
/ knowing that and knowing, too, that now
| if ever they must effect change Whlch,
| Whatever it may be, can not be for the
worse, they propose to do 1t, and the re-
solve is desperate one. For the week
! past. and latteTly especially, when 1t be-
! came manifest that the electoral vote OF
Louisiana was going to Hayes, this subject
has been earnestly discussed by the men
/ who are at the head and front ofthe Nichols
Government, and the conclusion which
has been reached Is that not single posi-
ton now held by the Nichols GoVernment
will be yielded without fight, even should
that fight be against United States soldiers,
and for such an emergency the Nichols
Government is fully prepared. Governor
! Nichols can in three hours time, put upon
| the streets an army, organized, drilled and
armed, exceeding in number all the avail
! able United States troops in the south.
Should Mr.. Packard be recognized the
| serious question will be presented whether
or not to use this force, and to what extent.
While there is an earnest desire to avoid
any kind of collision with United States
, troops, undoubtedly the prevalent feeling
is TO maintain and defend the possession OF
the State Government against all corners,
| and to yield to nothing except irresistible
force. So strong is this feeling that IL must
! necessarily bring affairs to climax very
! speedily after any alteration of the present
| status, and this alteration is not unlikely
to occur in the course of the present week;
Thnrn will he nothing like DraNa0O. ana
| no ill-considered movements. Whatever
is done Will be done with q knowledge OF
the consequences, and with the purpose to
I secure if not the Government of the popu-
| Ter choice, then the next best thing, which
/ is not Government like that OF the last
! four wears. If the decision of the executive
| authorities at Washington be adverse to
! the Nichols Government, it will not be
! accepted or acQuiesced in. This, as nearly
as it is possible to state IL, is tfe basis OF
! movements in the immediate future, and
. it will readily be perceived that II has no
| element of compromise in ii. As an evil
| dence of the strength which the armed
. forces OfGoVernOr Nichols may show, 1t is
! certain that his regularly organized State
! militia numbers upward of ten thousand
| men, and they are and have been ready TO
rally fully armed and equipped at an
! hours notice. During the past week seven
! thousand stand of new arms have been
received here by the Nichols GOvernm emit
| and every gun has now an owner prepared
when the time comes to use It, Whether
or not these indications of the Louisiana
programme are to be verified may be
known within a week, and perhaps forty
eight hours. The only person able to put
the matter to proofs the man whose pro
vince it is to say whether Nichols or Pack
ard is to be LOuiSiana's Governor.
The Democratic Legislature had a caucus
to-day, and resolved that whatever hap
pened the Nichols Government should he
supported to the last extremity. 1t is un'
. deTstOod that if Grant should recognize
Nichols the Nichols Legislature would
elect Jim Casey to the Senate six hours
afterWard.