Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-31

since given to the the public, by a secret
writing now in the hands of E. A. Burke,
and other ways, the agreement was authenti-
Gated: and President Grant was immtdi-
ately requested by Governor Hayes coun-
gel on no account to recognize Packard or
Chamberlain, but to leave the ultimate de-
ident.
After the Inauguration the bargain was
speedily fulfilled. As soon as the electoral
vote Of their states was safe, Governor Pack
ard and Chamberlain had been notified by
Messrs. Matthews aud Evarts to get out.
Governor Chamberlain was now summoned
surrender. He protested against his taking
Hampton demanded the performance Of the
bargain. Nj. Matthews was sent for, came
from Ohio, and within twenly-four hours
the United States flag was ordered down in
Charleston and Governor Chamberlain
stamped out.
As to Louisiana, the fulfllment proceeded
more slowly, but none the less surely.
Packard had made, March q, a constitu-
tional call for federal aid. which it was diff
cult to withhold from one as surely governor
as Hayes was president. And yet there was
the bargain.
As a subterfuge, an unconstitutional COM
mission, consisting of Messrs. NJ. Harlan,
Joseph R. Hawley, c. B. Lawrence, Wayne
McVtagh, and John c. Brown, was sent to
Ncv 0rlonn. sns%r,toJ %o rroIno11v destroy
the Packard legislature by seducing or
forcing its members into the Nichols legis-
lature. But they proving too %stubbornly
republican, the commission telegraphcd the
president that nothing would destroy Pack
ard but the actual order withdrawing the
troops. At the word the president gave the
order,
PACKARD WAS CRUSHED,
and the commission returned triumphant to
Washington to be "reccgnized"- one Of
them, General Harlan, by an appointment
as supreme court Judge; another, Mr.. Law
renee, by the release Of Jake Rehm, the
great whisky conspirator and defrauder Of
the e at Chicago; General Hawley
was offered the appointment as chief com.
missioner to the Paris exhibition, but de.
clined because the salary was to be only
$4,000; and three Offices were rendered tc
MIR. MacVeagh, but declined on the ground
that his signal services demanded more
ample recognition; the English mission wal
next assigned him, but circumstances have
made its delivery inexpedient or impossible
One other hope remained to Governor
Packard. He had a Law full court of justice
and might appeal to that. But there were
two vacancies, and it required all three o
t~he..iudges, Ludeling, Leonard, and John E
King to make a quorum. Judge King wal
Immediately appointed collector of New
Orleans, Packard's court was struck down
and the Nichols mob-government reignec
supreme. The bargain was in every way
fulfilled, and Burke had no occasion, as hae
been threatened, to make public the secre
agreement. Hayes had been made presi
dent by the fidelity and courage of Packard
and Chamberlain and their devoted follow
ers, and his administration had tramplet
them down.
Mr.. Chandler goes on to quote from tn
presidents speeches in the south and quote
a telegram in the New York Tribune, say
ing that Governor Wade Hampton is still
with the patty, and is introduced by tn
president to every audience as an honest ant
patriotic man." and that at Atlanta, Hamp
ton said of the president: "When l saw
him carrying out the policy for twelve year
advocate by the d .mocratic patty l said
would sustain him in that policy as long a.
he continued in that path"
Mr.. Chandler proceeds: GAS the policy
of the democratic party was to be carried
out at the south, a southern confederate gen
eral, Mr.. D. M. Key, a democrat, who hat
opposed Hayes election, and in the senate
denounced his title IS fraudulent, was ap
pointed postmaster general, and commences
the distribution of the southern postofhce
to rebel democrats.
"The negro murderers Of Hamburg an
Ellenton had been indicted in the fedora
courts of South Carolina. The great an
good Hampton appealed for their release
and it was accorded by the president, in
letter of May u, granting general amnest,
to negro murderers as political offenders
To make immunity more certain, the polio
Of appointing as district attorneys and maj
shals men agreeable to the white people c
the eouth-that is, democrats-was determ
ined upon.
Sat the dictation of the most trusted an
potent adviser of the administration, Gene
raj Gordon-captured by Grant in 1866, pu
in federal command by Hayes in lS76-on
o. P. Fitzsimmons, a rebel democrat and
cousin of Wade Hampton, was appointe
marshal in Georgia. in place of one Smyth'
a competent and honest republican, was COZ
6rmed by the democratic senator's votes an
that Ct Stanley MATHEWS alone.
And so General Gordon procures Samue
J. Tilden-no, Rutherford B. Hayes!-t
turn GU, Smythe, a republican, change frot
Huff, a liberal democrat, to Fitzsimmons,
rebel democrat, and make the latter marsha
to protect the poor colored people Of Geol
eia"
HOW 1T WORKS.
These significant instances of q surrende
of the power of the federal courts to rebt
democrats, the prompt and complete am
nesty to all negro murderers and kuklu,
and the eager trsmplipg out of the only r.
naming republican state governments atth
south, entirely crushed all republican coul
age. at left rennhlicana at The mercy {