The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-28
THE PROPOSED SOUTHERN COM
MISSION.

What would be thought of the wisdsm of
the British government were it to appoint a
commission to go to Newcastle and investi-
gate as to whether or not coal was there to
be found2 Suppose Governor Williams was
to appoint commission OF learned men to
anaIyze the soil of the Wabash and Miami
bottoms and see if it would grow corn.
What would be thought of judgment or
common sense were he to do such a thing?
There is the same propriety for the appoint
ment of committee to go to Louisiana and
investigate who had been elected governor
of that state as there would be to see if coal
could be found at Newcastle or corn be
grown on the bottom lands of
the Wabash or the Miami. With all
the election machinery in the hands
of kellogg and his thieving gang, Louisiana
gave majority OF ten thousand in favor of
NichoHs This is as certain as that Louisiana
is a state, and that thieves and scoundrels
have ruled her for these many years. 1t is
as certain as that two and two make four, or
that Hayes is fraudulent president, and yet
that fraudulent president and his cabinet
New Orleans to investigate the question as to
who was elected governor Of Louisiana last
November. The creation of this c. mmission
is a false pretense. 1t is for the purpose of
deceiving the public and making it believe
that Hayes and his advisors want to get at
the bottom facts before deciding whom
to recognize as governor of Louisiana.
1t is to hoodwink the people of
the south and have them believe
that the presidential fraud intends
to do them justice. Since the 9Th of the
present month the people of the country
have been hoping that Hayes would make
good the promises of those supposed to be
near him and call off the troops from Lou.
isiana and South Carolina. But ''hope de-
'ferred maketh the heart sick" and the great
heart OF the nation is now sick almost unto
death. Knowing that if the federal troops
we're removed from the capitals of Louisiana
and South Carolina the carpetbaR govern
ments of these states would not last day,
and his own fraudulent title to the pre- j.
dency thus be made manifest, the incumbent
of the white house declines to give the order
which would make his usurpation apparent
to the country Instead of this he
trims and shuffies and tries to find way out
of his embarrassments by sending south a
lot of men charged with a duty more diff
cult than the discovery of the northwest
passage. 1t is to satisfy the country that
Packard was elected governor of Louisiana
and Chamberlain governor of South Caro-
lima and that it would be proper to main
tain them in their offices by federal bayO-
nets. II these men were not elected to the
Offices they seek to fill, it follows as a logi-
Cal sequence that Hayes is fraud and a
usurper, for his right to the electoral vote OF
these states stands upon the same foundation
as that of Packard and Chamberlain to the
offices they claim. Therefore. the presiden-
tial fraud will be forced to eveRtu-
ally recognize these carpet-baggers to
be. the governors OF the states cursed
by their presence. for to do otherwise would
be to confess himself political bastard and
fraud
Many good men have been deiuded into
the belief that the creation OF Wells and
Bradley and their gangs wonld so demean
himself officially as TO give the people of the
south cause TO bless him. but the creation OF
the southern commission must dispel all
such deIusive hopes. Military courts dur
ing the late war were organized to convict,
and the commission to investigate southern
affairs will be created to find an excuse for
Hayes to use The biyonets OF federal SOL
diers 10 uphold the rotten governments OF
the south. Hayes is fraudulent president;
his Legitimacy to Office is u lie, and nothing
good can come frauds and bastards.