The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-31
5 NO. "a.
he Democrat" to Packard.

If anything could possibly lower
Packard in the estimation of meu
who value civilization, it would be
the correspondence between him and
Gen. Augur, which was made public
yesterday.
What spectacle do we behold in
this wretched miscreant! He claims
to be Governor Of a proud State and
a civilized people, and there does not
attach to him one single element
that enters into the character or
composition of such functionary.
| On the Sth of January he was in.
augurated { God save the mark!) in
a barricaded State House, hidden
from the eyes Of all citizens who
could give support or render respec-
liability to his government, and sur
rounded by armed men and yet from
that day to this, he has not been
able to perform one single function
appertaining to the gubernatorial Of
flee. And this disgrace to civiliza-
ton and his species talks of Governor
Nichols having been permitted,
"with my full assent to go through
the form of an Inauguration" 'Per-
mitted!' Why, Marshal Packard,
you pervert the whole tenor ofthings.
AS surely as you live, Gov. Nichols
permitted" you to enact your dis
graceful farce in the St. Louis Hotel.
You had no power to prevent his in
auguration, whereas he drew from
the hearts of a long oppressed peo-
pie the power that could have ground
you and your thieving band into
powder at the moment of the order.
Marshal Packard, Governor Mich
oils was inaugurated in the open dav
under the broad canopy of Heaven,
before forty thousand unarmed men
and women, who love him and honor
him as the representative of all that
makes man acceptable in the eye Of
Him who made him. You were in
augurated by ticheted band ofcon-
spirators against law and order and
civilization, and you even had what
you call your oath of Office admins.
tered to you by man whom the
highest judicial tribunal of the land
has pronounced villain.
Gov. Nichols was inaugurated as
all honest, honored and useful men
will emily be; you were inaugurated
as all low, vile conspirators against
human happiness for sordid ends
seek to be. Gov. Nichols is loved
by all who know him, thoroughly re-
spected by his political enemies, and
feared by reckless evil doors. Your
whole political career expels the
idea OF love from even your warmest
partlsans; your political enemies
loathe you, and no man could posi-.
bly, fear you. You stand today the
representative of that damnable po-
litical fire that enters every house.
hold and leaves its record of destruc-
ton. GOV. Nichols comes to drive
you from the feast you would make
On the yitals of civilized society and
to spread the mantle of glooious
peace over all. You took up arms to
fix yourself on the throat of your IN
tended victim; with those same arms
Gov. Nichols has kept you in your
filthy lair as harmless as any other
barking cur. And now you whine
and lick the feet ofcentral power and
beg to have your master put aside.
Herein you illustrate Stephen b.
Packard and the cause he represents,
butyou disgrace your species. The
English language has no power to
define you beyond stating that you
are if possible, worse and meaner
than Kellogg. = N. 0. Democrat.