The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11
HAYES AND LOUISIANA.

CARDS the Louisiana question is one of vital
and supreme importance to the American
people. r. B. Hayes, the presidential fraud,
has an official existence by virtue of the
crimes that were committed in his interest
by radical conspirators in Louisiana OF
this there is no doubt among honest men of
all parties. No fact in history is better
authenticated, and no axiom in mathematics
is more immovably established.
The people will remember the infamous
farce of the electoral commission, which,
with that supreme court miscreant in the
lead, who has justly been styled Justice
Judas Bradley, refused all testimony for the
purpose of forcing into the presidential of
| flee fraud, and of compelling them to sub
! NIT to the rule of usurper, and remember
ing this, they will not be slow to appreciate
the impudence of Hayes, who, hay
ing secured office by fraud and
perjuries committed lin Louisiana,
now seeks to avoid a plain duty.by clothing
commission of his own selection and ap-
pointment with power to settle questions
over which neither they nor the presidential
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Hayes is in Office because perjury tri-
| umphed in louisiana and the triumph of
perjury was because the internal crew who
committed the crimes in his interest were
protected by federal bayonets. Without the
assistance of troops Hayes could no more
have been made president than he could
have been made an arch angel Grant, his
predecessor, the friend and patron of
thieves, placed the troops in New Orleans
for the protection of villains, that they
might reverse the decision of the people, the
benefits to inure to Hayes and Packard and
their confederates in crime. Hayes has Sc
cured his part of the swag. Packard clamors
for his share, and the troops are retained in
close proximity TO the villain because the
| infamous miscreant who inhabits the white
house dare not order them away, fearing
| that Packard, who is not only a conspirator
but a desperado, will unearth the whole
plot by virtue of which Hayes entered upon
the duties of president.
But there is a throb of public
anxiety which beats from Louisiana to
the remotest parts of the country
Hayes affects composure, but is disturbed
nevertheless. Pent up indignation break
| ing over all barriers, and pouring in upon
| him like tidal wave compelled him to bow
to the stern demands of Wade Hampton. and
Chamberlain is in his rear and will make il
hot for him. Louisiana presents a more
formidable front The frauds and perjuries
in that state, like the dry bones of the valley,
are beginning to rattle into life, and there is
danger of their coming forth more ter
rible than an army with banners.
To silence them and remand them
back to torpidity is the purpose OF the com
mission. This commission, we have be-
fore shown, is without the authority of law.
and like Hayes himself, is fraud. There is
no warrant for it in constitution or statute.
1t has no right to act or to advise. In so far
as it attempts either it usurps authority.
Evarts, who is secretary of state because he
helped Judas Bradley and his associate con-
spirators put Hayes into office, in bis in
structions to the fraudulent commission in
the performance of their unconstitutional
duties, says:
| Upon assuming his Office the president finds
| the slIudIlOD Oh III LOulSltud dS 10 JUST
| ly demand his prompt aud sOlicltOus atten-
| ton; for this situation presents as one of its
features the apparent Intervention of a mill
tary power of the United States in the domes-
tic controversies which undoubtedly divide
the opinions and disturb the harmony of the
people OF that safe. This Intervention, arts
Ing during the term and by the authority oi
his predecessor, throws no present duty upon
the presi lent, except to examine and deter
mine the real extent, and form and effect, 10
which such Intervention actually exists, and
TO decide as to the time. manner and con-
ditiOns which should be observed in putting
an end 10 it.
The facts in the case are of the severest sim
plicity. The troops are in New Orleans tC
they were placed there for that purpose and
none other; to protect Wells. Anderson and
their confederate rogues while reversing the
majority of the people of Louisiana
so as to count in Hayes and Packard. The
attempt to throw the odium upon Grant i.
cowardly. Grant committed the infamous
act OF despotism in the interest of crime by
which Hayes was made president, and i
HAYES were not coward as we'll as a FRAUD
he would at once assume the responsibility
imposed upon him by his oath of Office
But as we have said, the cowardly miscre
ant, the returning BOARD fraud. the presi
Dental lie and swindle, is afraid of Packard
who knows the length and breadth, the
heighth and depth of the frauds that placed
him in power, and hence the presidential
fraud seeks BY COMMISSIONS to obscure the