The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-24

Hayes said to Senator Patterson to-day
that he did not believe In keeping troops
there to bolster up either government.
He may move out @ few troops from
bulk of them there. Senator Angus
Cameron, who was chairman of the
Senate investigating committee that
visited South Carolina, called upon
Hayes this evening at his request and
told him that he believed that IL the
troops were withdrawn. q conflict should
ensue, and single Republican should
be killed, the colored people alone
would set fire to and destroy the city Oh
Columbia.
THE LIAR ON RECORD.
Kellogg Is Interviewed and says Rasi,
Things PrGmiscuOusly.
Especial Chicago Times.l
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Gov. Kellogg
had long interview with the President
tonight. After it Times representa-
tive had an interview with him. The
Governor was very much in earnest,
and seemed to be deeply excited about
the statements that have been made |
by the Louisiana Conservatives here in
the city. He said he would stake his
positive Judgment, aside from all ques-
tions of feeling, that the troops would |
not be Withdrawn sfrom Louisiana. |
When asked If he based this on the |
statement made to him by the Pres1- |
dent, he said: 81 say nothing of |
that. do not say that the President |
has said nothing one way or the
other, but my judgment is absolute and
unqualified that the troops will not be
withdrawn" He also said that the men
that were here representing the con-
servatives were so impecunious that
scarcely one of them had enough money
to get out of town that they borrowed
money to come here, and that they did
not represent the wealth nor even the
taxpayers Of the State Of Louisiana. He
said that the good people OF the North
professed to be very much worried
about Mr.. Packard's ability to run
the State government provided the
people should refuse to pay taxes.
He said that this was one Of the great
est absurdities that could by any pos
sible combination be invented. Four
out of five of the laboring classes
in Louisiana are colored. They repre-
sent the producers, and they as class
support Packard. Nearly all OF the
heavy taxpaying parishes where the
sugar plantations are located are col
ored parishes. He said that Packard
would willingly sign guarantee that II
allowed to go on and run his govern
ment he would not ask single white
Democrat in the State to pay cent OF
taxes, and at the end Of six months he
would have $4,000 surplus in the
Treasury. He also said that Packard
was not going to run away.
He vas going to stay bnsa, there
dent could not consistently go back
on him: He said the men who tried to
beat Hayes, and who counseled his
assassination, now come here with the
cheek of Government mules to ask him
to create q government for themselves,
and thereby negative the vote OF the
State whereby he was elected. He said
that out of the five thousand men under
arms tonight in New Orleans to sup
port the Nichols government, there is
not one in ten who is taxpayer.
He says that there is no doubt
that majority OF the merchants
of New Orleans are in favor Of
the Nichols government. They want
to see the old times of slavery restored, !,
when New Orleans was the centre OF
the commerce Of the South. One OF
the strongest reasons why they favor
the Nichols government Is that it ls the
stronger Of the two governments. Ihere
has been so much misrepresentation In
the North upon the subject OF the men
that wers supporting Packard, that he
SdlQ III Was very COLuH4oa Luz PSOplo ~
suppose that Packard had no following.
Time, he thought, would demonstrate
whether Packard could support himself
or not, if the United States troops are
left merely for the purpose Of preserv-
ing the peace. II they are drawn away
it will be an open fight, and no one OF
the Packard government was going to
run.
THE CHARGE AGAINST CONANT.
Net Much Expected to be Proved-The
Policy of the Department.
Especial to the World.]
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The investi-
cation into the charges against Assist
, ant Secretary Conant and Mr.. BigeloW.
ex-chief of the loan division. OF the
Treasury Department, OF fraud in con.
|. . nection with unpaid interest, does moi
! seem so far to amount to much. In
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