The Morning herald., 1877-03-19
WILMINGTON, March 10, 1877:
EDITORIAL VARIETIES.

The Wall OF THE CARPET BAGGER.-l
The white Republicans of Louisiana
that is the carpet-baggers-havc issued an
address to the people of the United Statc7,
which is interesting and instructive read
ing between the lines. They make de-
mand that they shall be governed by Off
GERS elected by a majority of the people
that is, by Packard and his adherents
they deny that Nichols has possession of
the entire State except the half-acre occu-
pied by the St. Louis Hotel, in which
Packard has fortified himself, and claim
that Packard's authority is recognized in
the greater part Of the State outside of !
New Orleans, and they support this claim
by the assertion that in at least twenty
eight parishes CT counties Republican Of
iicials were chosen at the last election an i
now In the exercise of their function
According to their representations PacE.s I'd
is not only the lawfully elected Gov, sr nor
Of the State, but has the hearty and 2 e; lions
support of large majority OF the cit liens
OF the State. Therefore u.ey dem anfl that
the hand of justice shall be speed lly exten.
ded to the lawful govs ,rnment of the State
that is that Pre- sident HAYES shall at
once recognize Ia ckard, ,and fu mish enough
troops to enable him ITO maintain himself
to the END that the Republicans of the
State shall not be Compel ed to follow the
example of the Nichols party,and attempt
to set' .e legal questions by the use of the
rifle and cannon" Now on the face o.
tn '.ngs it is an absurdity for men who
claim to be the legally elected officers of
State government their election being the
clearly expressed will of majority of the
voters, who, if their claims ale based on
facts have the whole machinery of Gov
ernment in their hands, including the
control of the militia, to be making con-
stant and persistent demands upon the II.
S. Government to sustain them by force.
If the Packard government is what it's
supporters claim that it is. it ought to be
able to sustain itself, except perhaps in the
face Of sudden and unexpected revolu-
tionary outbreak, without the assistance of
United States troops. In coniessing that
it is not able to sustain itself without such
assistance, ii practically acknowledges that
it is not what it processes to be, and that it
does not really represent majority Of the
citizens Of the State. This is the plain
English Of the Louisiana situation, and as
the people Of this nation are heartily tired
of having bogus governments in the
Southern States propped up by United
States bayonets, we think that President
Hayes will be doing an eminently wise
and proper thing to order the troops now
in New Orleans to their barracks and rive
the men who issued the address to which
we have been referring an opportunity to
carry out their threat to attempt the settle.
ment of legal questions by the use of the
rifle and cannon. The making of such a
threat is, in view of all the circumstances
OF the case, at once confession of impo-
tence and of a lawlessness of d;sposit.ou
that viii! not hesitate, if opportunity offers
TO complete the work of fraud by means o
force. We do not think, however, that
there is the slightest danger of the inaugu,
ration of rifle aud cannon policy BY
Packard and his adherents they a,e moi
that kind Of men, and they believe mo