The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-04-27
THE BREAKUP,

The events of yesterday and an &C
count of the complete breakup of the
Packard conspiracy, will be found at
length in other columns of the Demo-
crat this morning. How entirely the
wretched and corrupt administrations
which have cursed this State during
the last eight years, lived upon the
breath of the Federal Executive may
now be seen by the whole country.
The removal of the squad OF soldiers in
the Orleans Hotel was not necessary
to the complete collapse of the whole
carpetbag governmental system which
has usurped Louisiana, plundered her
citizens out of millions of money, cost
the general government vast sums to
protect, and kept up, for years, the Bit
terness engendered by the war. The
President simply declared that the SUI
premacy of the constitution should be
restored in Louisiana AS in other States,
and that the army should no longer be
used to override the law, and the
whole vile, infamous and oppressive
fabric fell to the earth.
We may expect, during the next
few weeks, to hear any number of high
sounding protests against, and fierce
denunciations of, the action OF the
President in this matter. But this will
not disturb the country seriously. The
people of Louisiana, for eight or ten
years, have endured the rObberies and
oppressive measures of Warmoth, KEEL
fogg, Packard and the others of that
tribe, and we think the President can
bear, with proper equanimity, their
angry and disappointed rantings. Mr..
Packard and his followers, however,
should put the blame where it justly
belongs. Their dastardly reign in this
State has been checked, ended, in fact,
by the American people. The Presi-
dent was the direct instrument in this
work, but in what lie has done, he has
simply obeyed the demands of Il public
opinion which he could not resist, and
which would have cost him his new
place had he attempted to resist it.
We recommend Mr.. Packard, and
others with him who organized polit-
zeal rascality, public plumber, perjury
and lawlessness into Il governmental
system, to notice the political history
of tho world. If they do so, they will
find that though creatures, such "a they,
have, in different periods, for brief
intervals OF time, grasped and held
power among men, their Ubiquitous
rule has always been brought to Il
shameful end, and truth and justice
resumed their sway. In the nature of
things, under the immutable laws of
God, their reign of crime and protiigacy
could hot have lasted longer. Let
them, then, accept tho inevitable,
with as much grace as they can,
and endeavor to find some honest
occupation for the future. -
And we must bear under this new
and happy dispensation as be comes
honorable and magnanimous men.
Our enemies are whipped; our per-
secutors are under our feet; but it would
i'll become us to retaliate upon them.
The prosperity of Louisiana cannot be
restored; our waste places cannot be
built up, by inaugurating within these
borders a policy of vengeance. Our
trade and industries, our social institu-
tions and relations require, above all
things, peace. Let the past, with all its
shame and suffering, be sent aside; let
the men who have wronged us, robbed
us, and oppressed us, be undisturbed;
extend to them the broadcast protection
of the law, and let it not be said
abroad that the people of Louisiana
stained thier glorious triumph by Il
single act of violence, persecution or
vengeance.-N. O. Democrat.
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