New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16

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Republican. He subsequently transferred
his presence and influence to the Mich
oils lobby, and was honored with reeep-
ton and permission to speak before that
august caucus. This equivocal politician
then wore the Republican livery until the
Republican State Central Committee
stripped that livery over his ears and dis
charged him from the service of the par
ty without any other certificate of char
acter than that which he had brought
into the party. Therefore, when the
President is told by him that if he
Desires the welfare of the colored people
and their prosperity and cOntentment, he
ought to recognize the Nichols govern
ment-
1t will become proper for the Presi-
dent to inquire what the colored people
of Louisiana really do desire. And upon
this point he may be referred to the APP
peal of the colored people of Louisiana
to the people of the United States, adopt
ed and published few days since. They
ay:
We assume that there is no question
among the Republicans of the United States
that Mr. Hayes was righgtthy as well as
LAWFULLY accorded the electoral vote OF
Louisiana.
They add:
We who know what crimes have been
committed upon people of our race for pO-
L A.,-
most righteous and just decision.
They reason further:
While the national Republican ticket was
accorded majority in this State, Governor
S. B. Packard received over 600 more votes
than the third lowest Republican eleetOr.
And conclude:
Mr.. Packard's title, therefore, to the
office of executive of Louisiana is removed
beyond all question, at least from Repub'
lican sources
They demand the maintenance of this
government, and thus conclude:
We desire to enter our most solemn pro
test against the proposition of certain half
hearted and trimming Republicans to trade
off the Republican State of Louisiana and
the interests and rights of the cOlored PEG
pie to the Democratic party for any consid
Grafton whatever. We deny the legal and
moral right of any small oabal of politicians
to do anything of the kind.
This declaration, of course, extin.
guishes the pretense of Democratic
agent to ''trade them off, for any consid
Grafton whatever.
Now, when a question of what the col.
ored people desire is presented to the
President, upon whose opinion shall ht
act? Upon that of the disappointed and
discarded member of the Republican
party, or the colored representatives who
have signed the appeal quoted from
There is the signature of the Lieutenant
Governor, seven Senators and more thar
thirty members of the House of Repre-
sentatives who oppose the recognition o
Nichols, denounce the abandonment o
Packard, and by consequence oppose thu
''direct and absolute military govern
ment" of the State.
The recent deposition of Mr.. Pinch
back from the presidency of the Stat
Central Committee renders his assertions
nugatory. This committee has right Il
speak for the colored people, because o
the twenty-three or twenty-four member
of which it is composed eleven or twelv
of its members are colored. Both thes
representative bodies have, therefore, tol(
the nation exactly the opposite of wha
the Democratic ambassador would hav
the President believe. The Reputation
Of this pretended wish of the colored PEG
pie, and the political degradation an,
deprivation of Mr.. Pinchback, may per
haps be at the moment acceptable to him
He will be thereby purged of the disqual
ification of Republican trust, and ma.
Sustain fall" upon the soft feather be-
of fat Office, as did his predecessor
The REPUBLICAN has no future concern il
the instructions or rewards of Democrat
diplomacy than to assure President Haye
that no one has authority to make an
concession or compromise in behalf of Nh
Packard or his Republican constituents
white or colored, and to repudiate on hi
behalf any one pretending to any author
ity on the subject whatever.