Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-14
MEMPHIS APPEAL
JUNE IA, 1873.
HAYES REnOvED THE TROOPS.


The fraudulent President stole the Office he
occupies, and he hiss been stealing, since his
Inauguration, honors that belong to another.
1t has been asserted for the past few months
that Hayes removed the troops, and thereby
gave home-rule to the southern people. In
other words, his southern friends say that
when Hayes was inaugurated President, he
found State governments propPed up by
bayonets, the southern people ruled not by
themselves. but by carpetbag usurpers, sus-
tanned by military power. This falsehood
has been repeated so often that many deluded
people really believe that the south is indebt-
ed to Hayes for home-rule. But the facts
show that the troops were withdrawn from a
support of the bogus State governments, end
that Hayes had nothing to do with their re-
moval. 1t was General Grant that inaugu-
rated the southern policy which Hayes claims
as his own. Here is the proof:
WASHINGTON, January 7, 1877.
To Governor kellogg. New Orleans:
am constrained to decline your request
for aid of troops to inaugurate new State
government tomorrow. To do so would be
to recognize one of two rival governments for
the State, executive and legislative, at the
very time when committee of each house OF
congress is in the State capital of Louisiana
investigating all the facts connected with the
late elections, at which each of the contest
ants claim to have been legally elected. All
the troops can be called upon to do will be to
suppress violence, if any should take place,
and leave constitutional authority and means
to settle which is the rightful government,
and which the legal legislature. This done,
the troops may be used to uphold the right
full government in the State, If called upon In
the spirit and meaning of the constitution.
u. S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, March 2, 1877.
The following kilograms have been fur
nished by the. war department:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
WASHINGTON, March 2, 1877. !
To General G. C. Anger, Commanding Department
New Orleans:
The following dispatch has gene to Cover
nor Packard, and is hereby sent to you for
your information and government.
W. T. SHERMAN, General.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, March 2, 1877.
To Governor S. B. Packard, New Orleans:
In answer to your dispatch of this date,
believe that public opinion will longer sup
port the maintenance of the State govern
Inent in Louisiana by the use of the military,
and that he must concur in this manifest
feeling. The troops will hereafter, as in the
past, protect life and property from mob vio-
lence when the State authorities fall but I'M
der the remaining days of his official life
they will not be used to establish or to pull
down other claimants for the control of the
State. 1t is not his purpose to recognize either
party.
C. C. SNIFF, Secretary,
As early as January, 1877, Grant inaugu-
rated the policy which Hayes claims as his
own. He tells Kellogg that the troops can
No no for nl h I'LL,
State government or for party purposes. On
the second of March, three days before the
inauguration Of Hayes, Grant refuses the u.s.,
of the troops to sustain the bogus govern
ment Of Packard. 1t will be seen from these
dispatches that Grant tells Packard that she
feels it his duty to state franklysthat he does
not believe that public opinion will longer
support the maintenance Of the State gov
eminent in Louisiana by the use of the mill
tary, and that he must concur in this man.
fest feeling" Grant might have added that.
this public opinion" against the use of
troops in Louisiana was created by the Dem
ocrahc party. This refusal of Grant
caused the Packard government
to fall. 1t gave the peo-
pie of Louisiana home-rule; it made Nichols
governor, and now the friends of the admin
istrahon come forward and claim as exclu-
sively the honors which belong to Grant
The tax-paying people of Louisiana elected
Nichols governor; Grant refused to aid
Packard in his efforts to foist upon the people
his bogus government, yet Hayes claims all
the credit. Hayes never lifted finger in aid
ofthe southern people while they were groan-
ing under the military despots who treated
them as "banditti." During all the long
years of reconstruction and misrule, he sus-
tanned all the prosecutions and extreme
measures of the Radical party; but after the
Democrats had triumphed in spite of his OPP
position, after Grant tells him that public
opinion will no longer support the use of the
military" and therefore withdraws the
troops from Louisiana, Hayes comes forward
and talks about his southern policy" The
south owes Hayes nothing, unless it be that
contempt and hatred which is inspired for a
man base enough to steal the Presidency and
honors he never won