New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-23
NETWORK. FRIDAY, MARCH %. 1877

ton of the Administration in Washington Is very
difficult and delicate one Much 1t may desire to
put an immediate end to military interference IN
New Orleans. it might not be a safe thing to DO.
The Republicans of the North, on whom the fresl-
dent must rely for support have no love for Packard
or for the gang of politicians who surround him but
they do desire that justice shall be done, ana IL
Packard was legally elected and the fact was clear
" and indisputably shown, they would insist that
he should be the Governor of Louisiana, and would
undoubtedly blame the Administration for allowing
him to be OverthrOwn before making any inquiry Oh
this point Besides all this, Packard undoubtedly
has il in his power should the United States troops
be- withdrawn. to create a disturbance in New
Orleans a disturbance which might add many new
complications to the already intricate problem, and
bv arousing passion wholly prevent satisfactory
solution of it.
In South Carolina the case is entirely different.
There a canvass of the same votes by which the
HAYES electors were found to have been chosen
showed also the election of Hampton. To obtain
a majority for Chamberlain it was necessary to re-
iect the votes of certain counties which were
counted in canvassing the returns OF the electoral
ticket On the face of the case therefore, i'll spite
of the action of the Board OF State CanvasSers'
Wade Hampton received majority OF the
votes cast in the State. In other words II the votes
of those counties not sufficiently tainted WIN
fraud TO require them to be rejected in canVasslnS
the vote for electors, they certainly ought to be
good enough to determine the result upon the state
ticket In another respect the case III South caro-
lima is entirely different from that In Louisiana
While in the former State there are dual Executives
and LEGISLATURES, there is only one set OF courts
claimed by any party to be legally organized.
Those courts not only recognized Hampton as Gov
ernor of the State but they have declared III formal
opinion the legality of his election.
1t has been well known for the past two months
in the best informed political circles in Washington
that Gov. Chamberlain himself has considered his
case as an an almost hopeless one. His following III
the State which was considerable previous to the
election has almost entirely disappeared, and to-day
he exercises none of the functions of Government,
except the custody of the archives of the State and
these he holds wholly by the aid of the United
States troops posted III and about the State
House at Columbia. 1t is believed that
the most that Gov. Chamberlain has at any
time hoped for has been that some compromise
might be made by which he could withdraw with
credit 10 himself and without seeming to have been
dcpoSed from his position by force. These reasons
induce the belief that the delay in the withdrawal
of the troops sustaining Chamberlain is not matter
of much Importance and that the appearance OF the
two Governors here will be the certain prelude to
some arrangement which shall place the executive
power undisputed in the hands of Hampton.