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


violence, for
PACKAEDS FORCES WILL NOT RFsls
WHEN TIE TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN
The idea struck Gen. Giant at one
II they were withdrawn ON Satnr,il
Nichols would take the State IIou<
Sunday, during the intcrrcynum, an
thus to all intrnts and purposes bot
his own outgoing aud the incomiD
administration of Hayes would h
free from complication in tho prem
Uses. He could practically 90 out q
Office Saturday night. leaving TIL
Packard government sin stntu quo.
Hayes could come in Monday morn
! ing and find the Nichols government
This idea met the instant approbatio,
of Gen. Grant, and he timed his orde
IN accordance with it. o.
The memorandum which he revised
for Burke WAS designed to acuuain
Nichols with the fact that lien. Gyun
expected him to take the State Hous,
on SATURDAY, The 18th Of March.
This state of facts was made known
to Kellogg by an individual who wa,
in the confidence of the President
but as | am unable to say whethe,
the act of this person was ore OF
deliberate treaclc,y Or of indisclcct
tale bearing, I will neither mention
his name nor characterize his motive
1t was this knowledge which moved
kellogg to such d. >pcratc cxcrtion.
And bnt for this knowledge, Don
Cameron never wonld Lave vcntured
upon step so extraordinary as
The Suppression Of an Of1cr Of the
President.
Now. then, 4 word about Cameron.
| asserted that he suppressed the
Presidents order because lie knew
that the President designed to wink
at comp d'efof by Nichols. Col Le-
Wy courteously gives Cameron the
benefit of Own Justification on Il
point of official etiquette. But search
Col. Lcvy's reported conversation in
vain for any iutima'icn that he in
dorScs CamcroDS version of his own
motives in the premiecs. ! venture
to assert that Col. Levy. like myself,
does not believe a word of Cameron'S
declaration that he was moved to
that extraordinary step by considera-
tons of official etiquette. From first
to last Cameron played a game of
The most Wretched DupIicity
with the Louisiana people. He was
hand III glove with Kellogg and at
the same time he was most artfulIy
}ccc'vinS and misleading his old col
lcgc claSSmate. Randall Gibson, with
of earnest desire to see
the Louisiana case eqnitahly adjusted.
Gibson believed Cameron, for the
his b>ooding render him incapable of
compromising the miserable durliri-
ty and Tie rank di>!lonor of which
Don Cameron is capable not only, bnt
in which he revels with Il delight
known only to such human swine as
he is.
Indeed, so implicit was GibSon'S
faith in the smooth pretcnsjons of his
old c'assmatc, and so incapable WAS
he Of compromising that any man
could be guilty Of deliberately vinIa-
ting the sanc'i,y Of such Il friendship,
that, on one nr'aSin&, when ! ven
turcd to caution HIN and impugn
Camcron's sincerity with some harsh
ness of epithet and Insurance of ex
plctive, he checked me will, warmth
md declined to listen to further adj
madvcrsion. | then sought Burke at
Wizards, and asked him to warn
Gibson. and. in fact, the entire Lou
siana delegation, Of
Cameron's TreacIiery,
Burke laughed and said that Came
'ou's dnplicity wonld be rendered
by higher power in case
my apprehcnsions concerning him
should tnrn ont we'll founded. That
hey had foundation is Il matter of
history. And that Cameron duplici-
y availcd to render nugatory the
,dicts of Burkc's "bigher power' is
equally so.
These arc the facts in full. They
nave an historical value in this, that
when the historian of Grantism
reaches the close of Ills volume he
will have to record that the very last
considerable act of Grants political
career was an endeavor to dodge a
stern responsibility that, in the very
act of loosening from his shoulders
the robes of Office that he had worn
for eight weary years, he attempted
to avail himself of a peculiar acct
dent Of dates as
A Miserable Subterfngc
by which to hide the deepest, darkest
stain he had brought upon them; and
that even in this last subtc,fngc of
expiring tyranny, he was thwarted
by one of his own creatures, who
showed a contempt for his chief
which would have been criminal had
it not been just.
However, we can readily app,eci-
ate the holiness Of the considerations
which impe|led Col. Levy to with
hold this sickcping paragraph from
his recital. Nor need the fact that
Burke was the author Of the sugges-
ion be taken as II reflection upon that
gentleman. Burke's business was to
10 what he could to save Louisiana;
md tho dpsnrratinn Of thn nyivrncv