New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-23

Hayes and Packard.
Stanley Matthews views as we presented
and commented upon them Tuesday morn
ing, and as SGT forth in the extraordinary
letter to Governor Packard given in our
yesterdays dispatches, should cook his
goose with the Ohio Legislature. If MIR.
Matthews does net represent President
Hayes views, then would he enter the SEN
ate as an impracticable; if he does bear the
relation of trusted adviser of the Presi-
dent, then has he exhibited presumption
rendering him unworthy of respect, in ex-
pressing opinions and offering advice on
questions of the greatest delicacy and mo-
ment of all that Mr.. Hayes has to meet
during the whole term of his administra-
tion. We do not often have opportunity to
quote favorably from Democratic journals;
but, certainly, the following from the New
York World addresses itself to the con-
scientiOus convictions, and not merely the
party, but patriotic consistency of every
citiz IN in that party sOlicitOus for the tri-
umph Of the republic throughout every
section of the Union:
1.-THE first onslaught upon the new ad-
ministrati0n was in regard to the scheme
which il was reported the President had
set on foot for the establishment of the
Hampton government in South Carolina
and the Nichols government in Louisiana.
o. this point there is vital difference be-
GW6tu nun anu us party ~ JUL uub 1lelus
he must. 1t can not yield, because to CON
fess that 1t had been wrong in it's treatment
of the South is to profess itself great lie.
The only excuse which good men had for
standing by Republicanism within the last
| eight years WAS the dread OF trusting the
| control of the freedmen and the Northern
colonists in the South to the white people
of that section. This was the oveTruling
issue in the presidential canvass, and to ac-
knowledge at the close of the campaign
| that it was a mere pFetense, to be
| abandoned as soon as the spOils were wOD,
would be one Of those acts of undisguised
dishonesty which are always Improbable.
| But the party is fettered to its Old policy
by the peculiar circumstances of the con-
| test Hayes was made President by the
vote OF Louisiana. If the Republican cleo
toral ticket was fairly chosen in that State,
then Packard, who received q larger popu-
| lar vete than the electOrs, is the fairly
elected Governor. To abandon him, believ-
| ing that his clsim is JUST, would be a crime
against all natural aud politiesl right. To
| abandon him, knowing his claim to be M
| Just, would be to acknowledge that Hayes
| has no title to the presidency; that the Eleo-
| toral Commission was guilty of a great
wrong, and that the whole party looked on
/ cOusenting in conspiracy contaminated BY
/ means of falsehoOd and fraud"
Now, let us see what Matthews afiirms
and proposes, and how Packard meets the
false and ealamitous issue raised by Presi-
dent Hayes Soi,6iSaRt adviser. Says Mat
| ihews in his letter, bearing date Washing
ton, February 81:
"Without reference to the rightfulness of
the origin of your title as Governor, / am
! of the opinion that it will be out of the
question for Republican administration
to maintain it, as it must necessarily be by
force of Federal arms. As soon as existing
military orders are withdrawn, the Nichols
government will become the only existing
| government, and will have to be recognized
! then as such. In the meantime 1t will be
the duty of the administration to take care
that the results shall not lmperil the rights
and equality of the oOlored people of Louie
lana, so far as it has lawful power TO pre-
vent it."
Nots with what assumption Matthews
speaks as for Hayes, foreshRdOwing what
as matter of principle the administration
must and what as matter of fact 1t will
do-abandoniDg the republic in Louisiana
to the tender mercies of the White League,
who have put Nichols where he is main
tanned by them by armed force; and then,
sfter such abandonment, and the fall of
Packard, and the recognition of 9 usurper,
abandoning the colored people too; for,
says Matthews, Sin the meantime" the ad-
mfnistration must care for the cOlored PEG
pie $50 far as it has lawful power"
For one We do rot hesitate to brand these
utterances as cewardly, atrOcious and trea.
sonable. Our readers have read Packard's
dignified and statesmaDlike answer. He
| reheArsea that ne received q mei0rity of the
legal votes of the State; was declared Gov.
erncr in Joint session with undisputed quo
rum of both houses; is vested with author
ity as "head of the government as perfect
as that of any State in the UniOp;" repre-
sents that government with possession o.
all the administrative offices and State
property, insignia and archives, and ther
he says.
81 am opposed by an organized and armed
mob, known as the White League, whS
have maintained force held together more
by encouragement given them from abroaS
than by any other means, by those who ap
parently sesm to measure the legal exist
ence of the government by the amount o
force it can present.
PERSONAL 2, my position has been, is, ans
will he, until the general government shal
see fit TO recognize my authority as Gov
ernor, most perilous one, and IL would b.
a source of sstisisct ion did the responsible
| ity rest unOn some one other than myself
Hundreds of Republicans who have givel
their lives as q sacrifice to the eaHse o
Of liberty and free government; thou
sands who have deposited their votes at th
| peril of life, are ever present in my mind
and demand that faithfully discharge TIL
duties which have devolved upon me
Should exhibit less devotion than thos
faithful peopleln
ii Republican administration abandon
this noble man and the noble cause he rep
resents 70 The Confederate forces whicl
compass him and it about it viii d2sery
tho execration which, if not this, theh th
next generation will heap upon it uke.
compelled 30 tBke up arms in q mort de
cisigh contest for the rightn Of man Ia th
Union than sha6 in which q million live
were ascriGnfd ard eight lhouaand mI1lon
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