The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-11

to do what could not do affirmatively while I
remained here.
R.-Are you going North soon2
Marshall am, for a few weeks.
RIO Washington?
Marshal-Yes, among other points; but not to
the White House (smiing). am not after an
other office, you may count on that. have quite
different matters in view.
K-May inquire what?
Marshal-You may, but shall not answer. l
pave this office as mesnt to leeysAt-removed
wholly without cause, except 80 No. the Presl-
dent stands by bargain. To thxk Cause l am
not party. was indebted to another President
and Senate for my tenure, and I felt under no
obligation TO relieve Mr.. Hayes from embarrass-
ment by construotively coDfessing malfeasance
by resignati n at his request. My title as a
public servant IL older and, perhaps, better than
his own.
R.-Didn't you reorganze the Republican par
ty for the last election2
Marshall had certainly more to do with il
than any other Republican Mr.. Hayes would
not have received the voge he did but for my
ceaseless energy from September, rs, to Nevem-
Der, rs, in getting our ranks into dis cipline.
see the President, after profitng by the services
here of certain Federal officers, suddenly concludes
that officers shouldn't engage In political work
As the electoral vote OF L1uisi ma rescued him
from defeat, 1t is Q public misfortune that he
didn't advert to their chaste duty in bis letter of
acasptancel Bat it has b en- determined to break
down Packard. and myself as his friend. Pack
ard telegrapbed Secretary Sherman my removal
would be an "ourage," and the secretary gave
it at once to the President. Not less than two
thousand solid ctizsns have urgently "remon-
strated against any change"
R.-Wbst are Whsrton's claims2
Marshal-Claims2 Deuce take me il know.
Oh, yes, his friend Maddox said last winter be.
fore the Knott committee at Washington that he
was "the brains OF the Republican party /"
Wharton will have q dry time in this place while
he remains-the courts are about closing to re-
open in November-so he will not have to per-
spire hard. In October his nomination will 10
to the Senate and then
R.-What then2
Marshal Caughing)-I shall unload. Not to
regain the office, for dont want il, but to do
duty. 1 owe my party much, Mr.. Hayes nothing,
even were to remain in Office. You needn't ask
me any more about that.
R.-What do you think Of Hayes policy?
Mafshsl-What | told hm-my reasons will
appear later. Was he elected to arrest or pro-
apologize for the sixteenth resolution OF our last
national platform, wherein we arraigned the
Democracy? The President removes the troops
the nom mt he gets impoverished Packard men
bought over 10 Nichols, but he brings them back
~ eommander-in. csief the moment they are
wanted for Nichols Thanksgiving procession at
the head Of The White League Evarts pleaded
before the Electoral Commission in mellow terms
Tor "these poor people Of Louiyiana, made victims
Of the constitution il the Federal power leaves
hard to save Them" and which Mr.. Patton, your
Democratic chairman, promised in his circular
You cannot convince 9 negro's reason" Mr.
Hayes himself INDUCED in q pathetic weep
he now forgets he got, and less of
them. too, than did Gov. Packard
The British Foreign Secretary has already de-
manded inquiry into the murder of Mcclellan, a
British subject, in Mississippi, but the murder OF
the American Chsholms is Of no consequence
Didn't our last national platform "lmpera-
tivelv demand a Chief Executive whose courage
and fidelity shall not falter until these results
complete liberty and exact equality are placed
beyond dispute or reca'l?" Tney are certsinIy
colored voter said to me the other day, with grim
hnmor, 'Aint that Tilden President now?''
From the middle OF Februsry down to this
hour continuous barter has been in progress,
only commodities. Mr.. E. A. Burke, of the DEM
oera'ic cabsl, reached home from Washington on
the 9Th of March, and said TO you, Mr.. Re-
porter, as appeared later in the New Orleans
Times, 'the people OF the State and city must
not be impatient or imprudent- watch
and wait" And the promise intrusted to him to
convey here was kept Several other Southern
Democrats carry mortgage deeds in their pockets.
Why, the German Gazette here, whose editor is
a Democratic member OF the Nichols Legisla.
ture. said editorially on the 8lst ut., ''the Com
mission that was sent here by Hayes came to
play the part OF procurer and did play that dis
graceful part. He waited six weeks
before he removed the troops from Fort Pack
ard, and only after the members of the Packard
Legislature had been induced to come over to
our side through the Intervention OF the Commits
siop.
'Ttwas only when the Packard body had broken
up, and the price Of The deserters ,oas paid, that
the troops were removed to their barracks below
the city. Men may love treason, but still they
hate the traitor. Mr.. Hayes and his commission
may have done us some service in this dirty
transaction, but respectable men Uould not haze
dbetted IT," There is testimony from Nichols
own Legislature, and by one of Nichols own
friends | could give other and Democratic au-
thority, il chose.
Do you think / feel any annoyance now be-
cause, as the New York Sun remarks. there was
a bargain and Pitkin was sold out2 think
can comfortably stand it. The trade is not over
yet. Key said over the Union soldiers graves, at
Chattanooga, the other day, that he stood where
he had always stood, and had surrendered not a
jot OF his old principles. 30 with me, though
his principles and mine are decidedly at variance
l can't ask amnesty for being Republican or
for having been born here rather than In Ohio.
l have labored hard and done my duty. shall
not hesitate to do it outside Of the marshalship
as a Jealous Republican.
R-How about Kennedy, Stamps and Newman
writing that letter yesterday at Washington in
behalf Of Wharton?
Marshal-Oh, three of them left here self.
avowed Pitkin men. Dumont, am certair, can't
be bought. He ia a noble, sterling friend. Whar-
ton has rendered their race 30 much service, they
are doubtless grateful (smiling). Stamps cams
to me just before he left and apologized for hav-
ing unwarrantably stated in his committee, npon
information, that had no colored employees.
The Fair Grounds Yesterday
There were grand doings yesterday eve: ing OF
the Fair Grounds under the auspices of Lafay-