The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-05
L0uisiana's New Government.
How the Change is.VieWed by the Re-
nuhlioan Press of the State,

We have been at some pains to col
lect the opinions of the Republican
newspapers of Louisiana upon the
recent revolution in the political af-
fairs of the State and the accession OF
an anti-Republican administration to
the control of the government. The
result of our inquisition is the follow
ing series Of extracts, which will be
read with general interest. 1t may
be proper to state that the ST. Charles
Herald, Homer Iiad, State Register
and Attakapas Register have not been
regarded wholly orthodox OH party
questions of late, but may be properly
classed as Independent journals with
Republican leanings.
liberia Progress.]
The world is wide. We are chained
to no mans triumphal car.
[Avoyelles Republican,
We have saved the country through
war and will do so through peace.
The qualities of Hayes are the quail
ties of the Republican party.
[Opelousas Journal.]
Louisiana now has bright prospects
of political peace, and rigid enforce
ment of the laws-for all parties have
the utmost confidence in Gov. Nichols
determination to carry out the prin-
ciples he has SO often asserted, aud
his actions thus far have been in full
fillment of his words.
INatchitoches Republican,
Let US hope, in all sincerity, that
I" all the old hidden and damned-up
food gates of Democratic persecution
and prescription" may never again
be opened up and turned loose upon
every man who expresses an honest
belief, no matter how much at variance
with Democratic hopes and aspira-
tions, and that the eventual solution
of the extended political complica-
tions in Louisiana may be cheerfully
aequiesced in, no matter what the
result.
Homer niad.]
However much we desired to see the
entire Republican ticket of Louisiana
defeated at the late election-for
which we worked earnestly and faith
fully-We can not say that we have
wanted to see Packard go out and
Hayes go in for it implies not only a
personal wrong and inconsistency re-
pulsive to all honor and manliness,
but it is a thrust at the very existence
of all legal form of free government,
which all right thinking men should
deplore.
Estate Register.
We believe Gov. Nichols is a pat
riot who will make the good of the
State his greatest ambition. He will
see that life and property is respected
and that the laws are honestly and
aud fairly executed. The people, of
all parties and colors, can ask no
more, neither will they be satisfied
with any less. The result of this
struggle has placed Louisiana in
proper position to develope the
wealth of her forests aud fields, and
to take her proper rank among the
great States of the nation.
Baton Rouge Grand Era.1
Governor Nichols has promised to
be the Governor of the wh,,le people,
to protect the negro in his educational,
civil and political rights, and to ex-
tend the protection of the law with
out regard to race or color. We can
not, therefore, do aught which will in
any way interfere in this programme.
We fervently hope that he will be
able to carry out his assurances of
peace and protection, and that he will
be assisted by the adherents of his
party throughout the State.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.l
That the result has been obtained
without violence is source of gen.
eral congratulation. 1t is not our
purpose to discuss the causes which led
this change, nor the right or wrong
in the claims of the contending parties.
F. T. Nichols is Governor of the
State of Louisiana and is so recog-
nized by the highest authority in the
land as well as by the people of the
State, and there for the time being
the matter must rest. This fact be-
ing acknowledged, it is now the duty
of every citizen, whatever his color or
previous condition, to give that gov
ernment his cordial support, regard
lesr of the. past, and the political diff
ferences which divided them. 1t is