New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-27
ORLEANS SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 1877
Pierson. acting judge, or go to jail. What
nextl Answer Immediately.
ED. EZERNACK,
Preaihant of Pnlina .Inrr

Pierson. acting judge, or go to jail. What
nextI Answer Immediately.
ED. EZERNACK,
President of Police Jury.
NATcHITocHEs, 4:lO P. M, January %.
To s. B. Packard, Governor, New olleaaE:
Colonel Dave Pierson qualified and took
possession of the office of district Judge on
the twentieth of January, and suspended
all Republican officials on the same day.
Please answer to my dispatch.
ED. EZERNACK.
From these dispatches it appears that
Mr.. Person he's not only taken possession
OF the office of district j jadge in defiance of
the Presidents instructions of January 16
that the present status throughout the
State should be maintained, but has also
suspended Republican officials, whose elec-
tion to their offices in that parish is not dis
puted, and has ordered the president of the
police jury to approve the bond of his ap-
pontee as sheriff under pain of imprisoB-
ment. The preside Mt of the police jury can
not La wfully recognize the pre- sent usurpa-
lion of the judgeshp, and yet Mr. Pierson
has the force to imprisOn this officer If he
fails to comply with the illegal demand
From the copy of the communication of
General Nichols of this date, which you
transmit to me, gather that Mr. Nichols
is either unable or unwilling to control the
action of the defeated officers whom he has
commissioned and who are now taking pos
session of the government in the different
parishes to the manifest disturbance of the
present status.
l note your statement that you will for
ward all the papers in these cases for the
information and action OF the President.
The matters appear to me to be so urgent, es-
Iecially in Natchtoches parish, that if your
present instructions do not permit you, in
your judgment, to remedy or prevent the
wrongs committed and being perpetrated,
l respectfully ask that you lay the facts be-
fore the proper authorities by telegraph.
1t seems to me that either the Supreme
Court of the State, which the President has
indicated has been illegally thrust aside,
should be reinststed so that officers illegally
dispossessed may seek their remedy through
the proper channels of the cnurts, or that
the General commanding the United States
forces should be authorized to compel COM
pliance with the Presidents directions by
ejecting those persons who, in violation OF
the status quo, have, since the sixteenth OF
January, seized upon Offices to which they
were not entitled, and under commissions
from General Nichols continue to foPcibly
hold possession of the same.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
S. B. PACKARD, Governor.
The Governor also telegraphed to Mr.
Ezernack as follOws:
New ORLEANS, January 25 1877.
To Edward Bzermsek, President Police Jury
Natchitoches (sia MindeDl Louisiana:
believe military authorities will ordel
ejectment of intruders in few hours. Ad
wise you to hold out till they turn key or
you. Then, if necessary to obtain release
approve bond under protest.
On the morning of the twenth.sixth Gen
eral Augur, through an officer of his staff
informed Governor Packard that agreesbll
to his request he had laid the facts befori
the President. Governor Kellogg and Mar
shal PitlHn also telegraphed that they hat
seen the President on the subject.
Last evening General Augur transmitted
to Governor Packard the following dispatcl
from the Secretary of War;
| [Copy of telegram received at Headquarters De
partment of the Cult.
WASHINGTON, January e. 1877.
General c. G. Augur, New Orleans, louisiana
Your telegram of yesterday is received
and shown to the President, who says tina
he has heard both sides of the question Il
which you refer, and thinks that in the cas-
| of Ouaehita the status has not beef
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has been, and that it should be restored t.
the same status as previous to the sixteenth
j. D. CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
! HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF
New Orleans, January 20, 1877.
Official copy respectfully furnished 70
the information of Hon. S. B. Packard.
C. C. AUGUR,
Brigadier General Commanding.
This effectually disposes of the Nieholl
usurpation in NatChitoches, and does no
lend an air of much probability to tn
statement made in this mornings Pieayute
| 1t is probable that the officials elected a
the late election and the appointees of tn
| Governor Nicholls] will shortly take thei
| positions, hs it is now generally oOncede
that the peaceful installation of officials cs
not be considered as a breach of the stat
quo.
Probably an equally satisfactory resul
might have been arrived at in the parish o
| Ouachita had some of the officials of ths
parish stood out as firmly as Mr.. Ezernac
in Natchitoohes. But, then, as Senate
Morton said the other day, 'there was ono
a geological period in the worlds histor
when there were 'skulless vertebrates.' W
have now arrived at a period when theI
are 'vertebrateless skulls" If any or
doubts that the effects of brutal bulldozin
remain long after the acts themselves b
can find the proof in the contrast presente
by these two parishes.
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Congressional Proceedings.
On Wednesday the Senate discussed til
electoral bill. Sargent, of California, o.
posed, and Conkling, of New York, an
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