The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-03-30

10 the vicissItndes or paftles as
,r,lily IA double faced Satan can be
'rru. Il t" hide the accidents Of socle
~. His c,itiqntS upon his political
associates always gave hi" p"p"|a'i
I, ~i,b his political opponents. In
constant in rvtrytltin. elise Il" Las
always been constant I" III, tIad'~-
that Of pnliir>. His fist enterprise
wa, to rrvulutiuntzr the government
under hicl, Ilr was barn: tina; failed
and he fled. lie commented severely
on the life and history 1T >'ci'nrh. say
inc liza, he threw mu,- mud ut |'r'.
Graut than any d'rdgr, and argued
that the president had made Il bad
choice in his app"in'm"
He hrxt referred t" Louisiana If
fans, aud SAID when The president
was inauyulatr'l Stephen 3. Packard
Wa, governor of Louisiana within
>i>t, tit after that inauguration /"
ceased t" hr governor. " hen ilt
disappeared the will of Louisiana
was >uhvrr,r' and tr'mp|rd upon.
| If Mr.. Packard was not elected gov
rruot of Louisiana nothing can b..
more certain than that Mr.. Hayes
was not elected president of the Unit
I'd States. Without the electoral
vote Of Louisiana the whole world
knows that Mr.. lIay yes had not the
votes in the electoral college nrcessa-
rN to- constitute an election, aud il
Louisiana did not vote for Packard
the whole world knows Louisiana did
not vote for Hayes. Packard received
nearly 1000 votes mo,r than some OF
the Hayes electors. Under the con
Stitntion tho president had but one
plain duty t" diSchargcthat was to
ascertain whether the constituted
tribunals of Louisiana had declared
Packard to be governor, then to de-
frnd his authority to the extent of
his ability when legally required so
to do II they had not so declared,
then it was equally his duty not me'e-
ly to have withheld the support OF
Packa,d's pretense, but have given
all required support to the claims Of
Packards rival. 1t was his duty to
have done that, not merely on the
Goth of April, but to have done it on
the 4'h of March, Immediately upon
his assuming the Office Of president,
and if he found it his constitutional
duty to require Packard to surrender
his office, he should also have recog-
nized the duty of surrende,ing his
own. | do not mean to intimate the
doubt that President Hayes was not
entitled to the vote of Louisiana. 1t
is my settled belief that Louisiana
declared for him, but all l certainly
know is, that if Packard was not
elected President Hayes was not. II
the latter is not nsnrper Nichols is.
| can see no possible escape from tho
conclusion, either that President
Hayes has usnrped his own office, or
that he has aided Gov. Nichols to
usurp his.
Referring to Senator Hoar, Of Mass
achusttts, he said He is one of those
who, as it is understood, now pursue
the unreconciIed Democrats of the
South with dishes Of patronage, be-
lieving in their speedy capture "a
foudly as the boys believe they will
catch the birds, whose flight they ca
ger)y follow if they can only sprinkle
a little salt on their tails.
He commenced at length on the
president appointing Democrats to
Office, and SAID: Mr.. President let no
man say | d" injustice to the purposes
Of the president; am not discussing
his purposes, but his acts. l under
stand he avows himself still to lie a
Republican and the friend of equal
citizenship. 1t is not for mo to dis.
pute him, but it is for me to say that
he has offended both Republicanism
and equal citizenship az Samuel J.
Tilden never would have offended
them. Perhaps had Mr.. Tilden been
made president events would have
transplred in South Carolina and Lon.
isiana as they have TRANSFERRED. Mr..
Hampton would have been governor
in the former state and Nj. Nichols
in the latter, and after all this prolon-
ged effort at pacification, this outpou.
ring of concession and good will, the
angel Of peace refuses to descend up.
on IA. Day after day the president
sends the dove ont over the angry
foods, and night after night the bird
returns weary and leahess. In these
ve,y days that government which
rules in Louisiana, which was born of
presidential grace and not Of popular
choice, has sigr allied its !ingratitude
by an act not less insulting to the
president than atrocious in itself. 1t
has dared to accuse try and convict q
member of the state board of returns
Of the crime of forging the election
returns Of Vernon parish for 1876
Remember, sir, l do not complain be-
cause Anderson was tried for a polit-
ical oftense. II lie is guilty of tho Of
tense charged, | have no syllable to
urge in his defence. The point make
against the government of Louisiana,
ia that it prosecuted not IN the name
of public justice, but partisan malice;
that it prosecuted man guiltless Of
tho otfense alleged against him. and
proven to be gni|t|rss. Anderson is
the victim not Of mistake, bat of NAL
ice, not Of personal but partisan mal-
ice. He was prosecuted by that same
fell spirit Of party spite which promp-
ted Georgia forty years ago to offer
5000 for the privilege of prosecuting
Garrison, and which, twenty years
ago, made Sonth Carolina clap her
hands at the whipping of SUMNER
Anderson stands convicted in a court
cnminis siOnri) liz Gov Nichols who