The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-09

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requested by Governor Hayes counsel on
no account to recognize Packard or Cham
/ berlain, but to leave the ultimate decision as
to their fate to the incoming president
After the Inauguration the bargain was
speedily fulfilled. AS soon as the electoral
vote of their states was safe, Governors
| Packard and Chamberlain had been notified
| by Messrs. Matthews and Evarts TO get out
| Governor Chamberlain was now summoned
| TO Washington and informed that be must
surrender. He protested against his taking
| off. The president hesitated, but Wade
Hampton demanded the performance of the
bargain. Mr.. Matthews was sent for, came
| from Ohio, and within "a hours the United
| States flag was ordered down in Charleston,
and Governor Chamberlain stamped out.
As to Louisiana, the fulfilment proceeded
more slowly but none the less surely.
Packard had made March 2l) constitu-
| tional call for federal aid, which was difficult
| to withhold from one as surely governor as
Hayes was president And yet there was
the bargain.
As subterfuge an unconstitutional COM
| mission, consisting of Messrs- John M. Har-
| Ian, Joseph r. Hawley, c. B. Lawrence
| Wayne MacVeagh and John &. Brown, was
sent to New Orleans, instructed to gradually
| destroy the Packard legislature by seducing
| or forcing it's members into the Nichols
legislature But they proving too stubbornly
| republican the commission telegraphed the
president that nothing would destroy Pack
| ard but the actual order Withdrawing the
troops. At the word the president gave the
order, Packard was crushed and the COM
mission returned triumphant to Wash
| ington to 'be recognized" - one OF
them, General Harlan, by an APP
| pointment as supreme court judge; another,
Mr. Lawrence. by the release of Jake Rehm,
| the great whisky conspirator and defrauder
of the revenue at Chicago; General Hawley
was offered the appointment as chief COM
missioner to the Paris exposition, but de-
| clined because the salary was TO be only
| So 600; and three offices were rendered to
Mr.. MacVeagh, but declined on the ground
| that his signal services demanded more am
pie recognition The English mission was
next assigned him, but circumstances have
made its delivery inexpedient or impossible.
One other hope remained TO Governor
Packard. He had lawful court of justice
and might appeal to that. But there were
two vacancies, and itrequired all three of the
| iudges-Ludeling Leonard and John l.. King
| to make a quorum. Judge King was i'm
mediately appointed collector of New Or
| leans, Packard's court was struck down, and
| the Nichols mob government reigned
| supreme. The bargain was in every way
| fulfilled, and Mr.. Burke had no occasion, as
| had been threatened, to make public the
secret agreement. Hayes had been made
| president by the fidelity and courage of
| Packard and Chamberlain and their devoted
| followers, and his administration had tram
| pied them down.
V.
In further pursuance of the bargain made
with the southern democrats, the new adj
ministration has adopted so called souths
ern policy.
|. Entirely contrary to the announced
principles of the republican party.
| 2. Which has been earned out by the
abandonment of all federal intention and
effort TO protect life, property or suffrage
at the south, or to enforce the constitutional
| amendments; and
| g. Has resulted in the enforced dissolution
of the republican party at the south, and its
decentralization, division and defeats at the
north.
Senator Dawes, at Faneuil hall. November
2 in defending what he admits to be
change new departure-bases it upon the
| proposition that,
When the rebels laid down their arms, the
| states and the people fell back at once INTO
| their old position, every one of them with as
much power as before the war. The rebel
went from the battle field TO the ballot-box,
| and stood there equal with his conquerOr.
Messrs. Charles Foster and Stanley Mat
| thews in their written guarantee of February
| 26, 1877, to John B. Gordon and John Young
Brown, define the new policy TO be to give
| to the southern states 1.-The right to control
| their own affairs in their own way" and
account of the bargain.
BY the New York Tribune of September
| 26, it appears that
''Governor Wade Hampton Is still with the
party, and is introduced by the president tt
every audience AS an honest and patriotic
| man." and that at Atlanta Hampton said of
the president: when saw him carrying out
cratic party, said l would sustain him in
that policy as long as he continued In that
path"
President Hayes himself also calls his new
policy only the application of the principle
of local self government" and thus eulo-
gizes the Georgians who are to be intrusted
with it:
You, here, mainly Joined the confederate
side and fought bravely; risked your lives
heroically in behalf OF your convictions. Aud
can any true man, anywhere, fail 10 respect
the man who risks his life for his convictions?
AT Chattanooga, September 20, he said:
AS demand respect for the man 1 found
fighting against me, for my convictions,
yield the same measure of respect TO him who
fought for his convictions.
AT Gallatin, Tennessee, he said:
We have differed in the past, but we have
fought out that difference. Those among you
who fought and risked your lives did so for
your principles. We fought and rislked our
lives on the opposite side Cor our convictions
and men who can do that can meet and look
each other in the face with respect always.
At Atlanta, september 3D. be said:
So, with no discredit to you, and no special
credit to us, the war turned out as ii did.
Having thus blotted out all distinctions
between loyalty and treason, between Union
and rebel soldiers, between the torturers of
Andersonville andithe veterans of the north,
he is equally explicit as TO what he means
to do for the poor colored men whom he
pitied SO much November s:
And, now, my colored friends, listen.
After thinking 1t over, believed that your
n ~ "a l. err
mass of intelligent white men were let alone
by the general government.
His confidence in his new friends is COM
plete. At Chattanooga he also tells the col
ored people,
Our confidence Is perfect, that with the bay
OuetS remOVed from the south. the DeODlo of