The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-14


ltion with a calm and conciliatory
lspir;t. If it be too much to ex-
pect complete concurrence in a
Single government for that State,
at least the President may antici-
pate a submission to the peaceful
recourse of the laws and the con-
lstitution of the State, Of all their
dissensions, at once relieving
themselves from the reproach, and
irfellow-citizens Of the United
states from the anxieties which
must ever attend a prolonged dis
pute as to the title and the admin
istration of the government of one
of the States of the Union.
ONE GOVERNOR FOB LOUISIANA.
The President, therefore, desires
that you should devote your first
and principal attention to a re-
moval OF, .thseDbstacleS to an ac-
acknowledgement ofsone government
for the purpose of an exercise of
authority within the State, and q
representation of the State in it's
relations te the General Govern
ment, nnder section four of article
four of the Constitution of the
United States; leaving, if neces-
sary, to judicial or other constitu-
tional arbitrament, within the
State, the question of ultimate
right. rr9. .la \
/ THE LEGISLATURE.
II the object should prove inseparable
from whatever reason, and the hope of
!. single government in all lis depart ments
be a disappointment, it shonld be the
next endeaycr to accomplish the recog-
hilton of single Legislature as the de-
pository of the representative will of the
people OF Louisiana. This great depart
ment rescued from dispute. the rest of
the problem could gradually be worked
ont by the authority which the legisla-
tive power, when undisputed, is quite
competent to exert IN composing con-
tiictS Ill coordinate branches of the
Government. 81 EFItTe
NO MILITARY INTERFERENCE.
An attentive consideration of the con-
ditious under the Federal Constitution
and the acts of Congress to provide or
permit military intervention by the Pres
ideIttih the protec ion At Is State nt,ainst
violence, has satisfied the Presided that
the Use Of this authority i'll determining
or influencing the disputes in State is
most carefully to be avoided .cvlr
THE FEDGaAL GOVERNMENT HAS THE RIGHT
! 10 INTERFERE.
! Undoubtedly, as was held by the Su-
preme Court i'll the case Of Luther vs..
Borden, the appeal from aJState may
involve such an inquiry as the lawfulness
OF the authority which invokes the inter-
ference OF tue President in the supposed
pursuance Of the constitution, but it is
equally Itrne that ueither the constitu-
tionai provisions nor the acts of Con-
gress were framed with any such design:
both obviously treated the case of do
; nestle violence within a State as of an
outbreak against law and the authority
OF established government which the
state was unable to suppress by its own
strength.
= The PRESENT DIFFICuIr CASE q
A case wherein every Department Of
the State government has a disputed
representation, and the State, therefore,
furnishes to the Federal Government no
internal political recognition of authority
upon which the Federal Executive can
rely. will present case Of much diff.
Guilty. That it is of pressing Importance
to AL interested in Louisiana that it
!, shorld be avoided. A single LEGISLATURE
would greatly relieve this difficulty, for
that department of the State government
is named by the Constitution as the ne
cessary applicant, when it can be con-
! yened, for military Intervention by the
United States. IL, therefore, the dispu-
ting interests can concur in or be re-
duced TO single Legislature for the
State of Louisiana, it would be q great
step IN composing their unhappy strife.
THE WHOLE MATTER LEFT To THE COM
! MISSION.
! The President leaves to the commission
the concihatory Influences which in
their Judgment formed on the spot NAV
Seem to them to cOnduce to the proposed
end. His own determination, that only
public considerations should inspire and
, attend this effort to, give the ascentiancy
! in Louisiana to the things that belong to
peace, IS evidenced by his selection of
the commissioners, who offer to the
! country In their own character, every
/ guarantee Of tbs sAstliods of the
transaction which they have undertaken
Your report OF the result of this en-
deavor will satisfy the President He
does not doubt of the wisdom of his
selection of and his plenary trust in the
Commission.
PUBLIC OPINION TO BE COLLECTED.
A second and less importapa subject
OF attention during your visit to New
Orleans will be the collection of accurate
and Trustworthy information from the
public officers and prominent citizens of
all political connections as to the state
Of public feeling and the onrnion IN Tho