Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-20
LOUISIANA.

and in the long run injurious to all.
LOUISIANA.
Our readers doubtless are eager to
learn further tidings about the gallant
attempts of the people of this State to
shake off the hideous nightmare of
carpet-baggery under which they have
been all but sufiocated for twelve
years.
The actual changes which have oc-
Cured since our last weeks issue are
not of much Importance; the real points
of interest are the means of conjectur-
ing the future furnished by the CORES
pondenee between Gen. Grant, Gov.
Packard, Mr.. Don Cameron and Gen.
Augur.
We left two governors and two leg
islatures claiming to be the government
of Louisiana. The one represented by
Gov. Nichols, elected by he people,
the other by Dir. Packard counted in
by the board.
Gov. Nichols government is enthu-
siastically sustained by the people who
voluntarily, as in South Carolina, con-
tribute to its support, and is in possess
sion of the police stations and the
courts of justice and is performing all
the duties of a recognized government.
Mr.. Packard's bogus government is
in possession of the State House,
and has been most of the time with
out a quorum in its legislature !;
it has however, in the brief in
tervals during which it could com
mand a quorum, elected Ex-Governor
Kellogg United States Senator.
Packard has also issued proclama-
ton in which the Nichols government
is denounced as an insurrectionary
horde and required to give up the po-
lice stations and law courtsi in its pos
session. The drunken undisciplined
gang of negro police which can be kept
together by him has been stimulated
with strong drink to attempt to carry
out these measures; but the negroes
can't see it; it is too evident that they
have the whole city against them. 1t is
evidently the desire of Packard to bring
on in some way breach of the peace,
as an excuse for demanding the aid of
the United States army, butthe will of
the people is soberly and TRANQUILITY
asserting itself, the bogus police exer-
else the better part of valor which is
discretion, and ali is so far quiet.
Meantime the President and Secre-
tary of War issue conflicting Dispatch
es. The President instructs Gen. Au-
CUR to recongnizc neither government
till further orders but in doing so ex-
presses opinions in favor of the Pack
ard concern and against the validity
of the courts now sitting. Cameron
dispatches that he hears of armed
bands of insurgents in possession of
the city and wants some account of
them; but Gen. Augur seeing that
these armed bands are qualified police
of Gov. Nichols is governor, and that
to treat them as insurgents would be
to recognize the other government,
biographies for further instructions
and especially inquiries whether Gen.
Grants orders are still in force, that
neither government is to be recognized
till the congressional committees re-
port on the condition of the State.
Gen. Grant responds that those orders
are still in force, and there the matter
stands.
Under all these discouragements the
carpet bag gang is terribly demoralized.
Warmoth and Pinchback declare
against the Packard government and
the very returning board which count
ed them in revolts and threatens dam
aging disclosures, and the whole con-
Germ resembles the rotten old hull of
an abandoned ship, the very rats in
which are, some of them swimming off
to find a safer refuge and some fight
ing lerociously for the possession of
so much as remains above water
What in the end Gen Grant will do no
man can say. Some think he Is pur-
gosely temporizing with the two sec
tons into which the radical party in
Louisiana is dividing; but our own
conjecture is that he desires to aid the
Packard concern, only public opinion
has declared itself so decisivcly in re-
lation to his military interv eutious in
State affairs that even he is deferred
from doing so unless furnished with
an excuse by some indiscretion on the
part of the Nichols government.