New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-26

homes); men with the greatest stake in
ths o6u1tEy, ready % o6ey ne laws, but
resolved to- compel Federal control, q
military gogernment,s of to enjoy their
constitutional right.
Such appeals were, not made in vain.
Day by day, the President became more
favorably inclined, Governor Nichols
and his associates cordially Endorsed these
assurances, and supported the delegation
with their absolute confidence and, CO.
operation in every measure suggested.
Having conducted the conviction
of President Grant to this point
Mr.. Gibson goes on /: ta ~ Htl "a
It was at this juncture wrote to the
Governor, requesting that he would send
special personal agent, with special and
full credentials, to confirm and enforce
the assurances which we had given Presi-
dent Chant, to gather and furnish infor-
nation, and to Cooperate with the dele
cation. l del red that the Hon. Louis
Bush might be sent; but the Governor re-
piled thet he could not be spared, and
gave a similar reply with regard to the
Hon. E. d. White, as both held important
Offices and could not be, absent. The
Governor then suggested that he might
dEhlA hAuaC4 Vi 1AhtOI Dh1A0 bCANlCO5s
who was going to Washington in the in
terest of our Presidential ticket, having
had charge of our, registration bureau
during the canvass. il concurred.
wrote to him that Major Burke could ae-
compliGh the purpose in view, and he
was accordingly commissioned and adj
vised.
Mr.. Burke was then ranked No. 3
in the order of persons deemed pro-
per to bring on these dispatches
from Governor Nichols to those
conducting the negotiations. Even
this agency seems to have been con-
firmed by Mr.. Gibson somewhat be-
cause Mr.. Burke was going to Wash
ington anyway. Governor Nichols
suggested the name and the reasons
why Mr.. Burke would be a suitable
messenger "if 1 [Mr. Gibsonl con-
Cured" Mr., Gibson wrote his ap-
prOval, and Mr.. Burke twas accord
ingly commissioned" Perhaps there
have been other occasions in which
the bearer of dispatches has claimed
the sole event of the negotiations,
but it would require more research
than we can command at the mo-
ment.
To annihilate wholly all such pre-
lenses, we have the following
Now it has been asserted over and over
again by our opponents that there was some
bargain or formal agreement by which our
candidate for the Presidency was betrayed,
as the price of self-government to Lou
| isiana.
Fellow citizens there is not one word
of II attn in the allegation. During the
whole winter was in close and constant
| communication with Governor Nichols,
a friend from boyhood, and with my col
| leagues, the Hons. e. j. Ellis and William
M. Levy, and with our able and energetic
assistant, Major Burke; and l declare to
you that no one was authorized by Gov
ernor Nichols to do anything in his be-
half that might be detrimental to the
claims of Mr.. Tilden Nay, more; there
was no necessity for this, and no desire
on our part. -FOUR isalics.l
| Anu subsequently:
| Major Burke, who was selected as agent.
was active during the campaign at the
head of one of the most important COM
mittees in the State, and was coming to
Washington to help justify the claim that
Louisiana had cast her vote for Tilden
and Hendricks, and labored zealously to
this end Mr.. Cavanac was already there,
| giving valuable assistance and informa-
ton to our committees and counsel.
These were the very gentlemen above all
others most earnest for the Democratic
ticket. -s
This would be sufficient, one would
suppose, to annihilate the SUPPOSE
ton that anybody holds any secret
compact made on behalf of any high
contracting parties at the restaurant
as has been mysteriously pretended,
or that it was worth a cent if they
had. ,l..
We terminate at this point our
comments upon this address with
the admonition to Mr.. Gibson that
unless he returns and disabuses his
Democratic mind of its error, he may
find his constituents committed to
the error that the Nichols govern
ment owes its origin to heterogeneous
protocol of the restaurant secured by
Mr.. Burke, and that the continued
existence of that government will
depend greatly on entrusting che
keys of the public cash to the same
gentleman. We greatly spprehend
that the result is to add new version
of this old Southern refrain:
Snake bake de hoecake,
| An set de frog TO watch it;
Frog went to sleep,
An de lizard come an cotch it,
| pTuTonVrT1 nnyTdTra