The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-09

encouragement from Louisiana in
the furtheraDce of his little scheme
of rascality. In our issue of the
Goth of January we gave the re-
marks of Senator Zacharie on the
subject, and we now give the text
of a correspondence between Mr..
E. A. Burke and Chandler on the
same:
To Major E. A. Burke, New Orleans:
Referring to denials in recently
published interview of yours, l have
the honor respectfully to ask you
this question: Where you, as the
representative of the Nichols Gov
eminent, with other Southern men,
and Messrs. Stanley Matthews,
John Sherman, Charles Foster and
an.es A. Garfield, all or any of
them, and other Northern men,
present at u conference or confer
ences at Wornley's Hotel, in WASH
ington, about February 2Hth last,
concerning Louisiana affairs? If
SD, was any written paper, whether
signed or unsigned, and whether
with or without names affixed as
witnesses of its correctness, made
tnen or subsequently,, embodying
Or purporting to state the whole or
any part of cny agreement. under
standing or intention, resulting
from such conference or conferen-
ces, concerning Louisiana affairs,
or concerning the Packard or the
Nichols Government, or the Fed
eral troops in New Orleans? If SO,
have you now or have you ever
had that paper, or n copy thereof?
Is it in existaEce- ST., where is it
now? If not, when, where and by
whom WAS it destroyed; aud will
you or hot make it copy of it
public, if you have it?
w. T.. CHANDLER.
Dated the 2Sth of January.
To the above tue following re-
ply was given:
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20, 1873.
To w. E. Chandler, Washington City,
Before considering the subject
matter of "A telegram received this
day, signed w. L. Chandler, I de-
sire to ask if the author is the
Chandler who, as Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, travelling the
South in 1865, corruptly participa-
ted in the spoil gathered by super
vising treasury agents engaged in
robbing their Government and in
defrauding the distressed people Of
this and adjacent Statesg
Is it the Chandler who, as Secre-
tary of the Republican National
Committee, with certain Republi-
cans from Louisiana, at a confer
ence or conferences ut the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, concern
ing Louisianas affairs, about Octo-
Der, 1872, secretly and corruptly
conspired to take advantage of the
absence from Louisiana of the Gov
ernor thereof, to assemble secretly
the Legislature, impeached the
Government and use its machinery
tn carry the election of 1872?
Is it the Chandler who earned
and received a fee from Kellogg OF
three thousand dollars in 1873 and
the encomium, "You had done more
for him than any ona except Attor-
ney General Williams" in main
tanning his foul and impious usur-
patton of the Office of Governor of
this State?
Is it the Chandler who encouraged,
abetted and cohspired with infa-
nous allies in this city to rob H.
00J citizens of New Orleans of their
franchise and drag them before the
Federal courts on or about the
day of the late election; who, in
November, 1876, by telegraph guar
anteed Kellogg that the whole pow
er of the Government would sus-
tain the Returning Board in count
ing the vote of Louisiana for the
Republican candidate, and then
hastened to Florida to manipulate
the frauds of that State countp
Is it the Chandler who has Of
late been vainly seeking to stir up
the hell broth of sectional hate, and
foul bis political nest, to the disgust
of decent citizens North aud South
! If yea. permit me to say that the
inquisitorial powers of political