The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-08

New ORLEANS, March 4.-GOvernOr
Packard to-day made the following
statement to an associated press re-
porter: 81 cannot say that anticipate
any immediate attack upon the state
house, though in the excited condition
of the public mind, tomented by constant
sensational dispatches to the local press,
such thing is possible. think it more
likely that, under cover of pretended
process of law from courts not recog-
nized as having any legal standing, some
effort will be made to arrest the officer of
the government or to serve process
on them, and to enforce that service by
posse OF the White League or the Mich
oils militia as police, as they are now
termed. shall regard any such posse as
a mob, and shall resist it accordingly.
The state house Is amply provisioned
and guarded, and cannot be successfully
assaulted by any movement short Of q
general armed instruction against the
government which has been legally in
augurated under the state laws. / be-
lieve the ultimate recognition of the Re-
publican state government is assured. l
attach no importance to the reported Of.
forts OF Pinchback, West, George Sheri.
dan, Sloaneker, George Carter and
others to prevent 1t. The unloading of
these men 10, in my judgment, positive
benefit to the Republican party of the
state. 1t enables us to attach firmly to
our standard such old citizens az Attor-
ney-General Hunt, George Williamson,
minister to Central America A. IL. Leon
ard, Judges Taylor, Beattie, King, Bow
man, Hunter and others, who stand
ready to join the party when thus
purged, most Of whom are old.line
Wings, natives OF the state, thoroughly
identified with its every interest, and
who are now acting with us, most of
them tor the first time. The people de-
sire good government, and this can
best be obtained by dividing the people
other than on the color line. The acces.
sion OF such men as have named, and
others, will equally divide the whites in
intelligence, wealth and influence. The
sloughing of Of the so-called Republic
cans who now have allied themselves to
the opposition is positive benefit to the
state. Their only motive in adhering to
the Republican party hitherto has been
desire for the spoils Of once. Their
detection enables the party to purify it.
self. Ientertain no doubt OF my ability
to maintain the government when once
recognized as the constitution aud laws
OF the United States require. OF the
fifty thousand men in New Orleans ca
pable of bearing arms not more than
i've thousand are in arms against the
government. Of the fifty-seven parishes
comprising the state, only FIVE, known
as the bulldozed parishes, are really in
resistance, and they only in regard to local
offices. OF the eighteen judicial districts
In the state, there IL barely one outside
Of the city OF New Orleans where any
mandate of the Nichols supreme court
could be enforced by the officers of that
court. President Grant himself, In his
military orders, spoke Of that court rs
entitled to no moro respect than would
be the decision OF any other five lawyers
appointed by any other private citizen.
Even in the city OF New Orleans not one
Judge, sheriff, or clerk Of court, so tar
a. l know. has had spread upon the min
utes OF court his Nichols commission
or qualification, In accordance with the |
customs heretofore prevailing. General
Nichols government Is bounded BY the
limits Of the White league, and his
authority u nowhere enforced outside OF
their influence"