The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-08-25

GRANTS ORDER FOL: THE REMOVE AL y
TROOPS FROM THE PACKARD STAT
HtloAq's DrycIish Scheme 0nd DO
Cnmcron's Ti'uckerous Suppression
Of the Presidents Order
The Mining Link Supplied.
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New York, August 8, l~;;7.
The New York Times of to-da,
copies from the Notchitochcs Tndi
Gator an interesting chapter Of his
tory, from the Ii pS Of my distinguished
and most valued! friend, Col. VIM. NJ
Levy. Bat that gallant gentleman
seems to have felt restrained from q
complete recital of the facts. At al
events. he has omitted the most in.
teresting single fact of the whole oc.
cnrrcnce. My knowledge of the char
actcr of Col. Levy leads me to sup
pose that he was impcllrd to sup
press this particular fact by consi-
derations Of delicate personal cour-
tcsy to Gen. Grant; and tie nature
of this ronlfrSy Will be- rra1i|y APP
parent when the nature Of the fact is
known. Ia order TO preserve this or-
cnrlrncr in complete form To-. the
n,"> # istoIv. it will b" rrpui site to
,.Ni'.. i'i]I IL" preceding events.
i"i ~" time Winr t, Lii, :; and
ri 1T March
coz. JAS. I. CASEY
had been operating apo" t'r mi1h If
Gen. Grant t;ivolably 70 the cause of
the people of Louisiana ausl arainst
the pretensiors Of the warning dvuas-
ty of the carpet hAS,trS md Col.
CaScy's operations we've duly exploit
ed in the DeWo"'urs current WASH
ington correspondence of the period.
| am confident thai / shall not place
too much stress upon what has now
become comparatively unimportant
fact if say that the frame of mind
which made Gen. Giant so accessible
to aud so kindly toward the real re-
representatives. of the people Of Loujs,
lana, Col. Levy. Gen. Gibson. Mr..
Ellis. m! friend Burke and Others
during the latter days of his admin
lStration, was almost entirely 1ne to
the lahn,> of Col. Casey Be this as
it may. it is a fact that Gen. Grant
had fully determined to sustain the
carpet, oaggers, no longer, and he
preferred
THE ORDER or THE REMOVAL OF THE
TROOPS,
th" fate of which is so cntcrtaningly
Or %' to the ,xs; TXS II fis o'fdtr al
interview occurred between Cen.
Grant ON the one hand. and Gibson,
Buke, and perhaps one or two 9th
rr Louisiana Gentlemen on the other
hand. at which Grants views, as he
expressed '|".", We're reduced to
writing by Barke in form Of
A MEMORANDUM,
and Burke requested permission to
use them for certain purposes which
ii is not now necessary to state.
Whereuroa Gen. Grant made few
verbal corrections with his own hand.
then remarked:
The paper is now substantially
correct in fact, it is absolutely cor.
rect, for have revised it. You may
use it as You rrGnc>t.'
You ale, of course, aware that the
situation in Washington at that time
was lively, and that Louisiana Was
the focus Of attention. Kellogg was
struggling to avert his fate as | have
never seen any other man struggle,
and was using appliances that | pro.
sumo no other individual this side of
hell could have devised. He certain
]y knew that Grant intended to issue
the order, and he had ascertained by
a bitter experience in a recent inter
view that it would be futile to ask
him to withdraw it. Accordingly he
formed the desperate plan of inter-
cepting it in tyansitn. | presume this
IS the only instance in the history of
our government where any civilian
has successfully conspired with a |
Cabinet officer, to not merely disre-
gard, but actually to suppress by vi
client interposition military order of
the President, acting in his capacity
of commander-in chief of the land
and naval forces Of the United States !
However, such. are the facts in this
case. Camcron's action in violently
intercepting and practically nullify-
ing the order of the President for the
removal of the troops was due to the
FRANTIC LABORs OF KELLOGG.
And Kellogg was moved to snch
frantic exc, tons by his own knowledge
of luc t.tt to which alluded at the
oAt>ct Of this letter the fact which
Col. Levy, out of delicate Scrup'es
respecting his personal intercourse
with the President, seem to have felt
bound to omit from his recital. 1t
was this
The Presidunt had become fully
satisfied of the impossibility Of furth.
er successful
BY THE FEDERAL Gov
ERNMENT.
in the affairs of Louisiana. But he
did not like to back down from the
position he had so long maintained,
quite so squarely as would have been
involved in a formal recognition of
Nichols. And he was likewise desir-
Gus to have the Louisiana imbroglio
settled before the close Of bis term,
or at least before his successor should
assume the reins of power. How to
the latter object without
undergoing the humiliation of a