Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-02

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Board boldly performed its duty,
gave voice to the murdered republi-
cans of the bulldozed parishes of Lou
isiana, and made Hayes President
and Packard Governor of Louisiana,
by titles indissolubly connected in
law. in morals, and by every rule of
honor that prevails among civilized
men. G r9 a
The same tender regard for the
Louisiana republicans and forithe re-
suit which they had achieved contin-
ued during the ensuing struggle in
Congress. The Returning Board
were arrested and confined at Wash
|ington by the Confederate House of
Representatives. Sick, and in prison,
they were visited by Senator Sher-
man and his associates, and urged to
Ito stand firm until relief should come
from the advent to power of the
President which they had made.
X Il M6x
With substantial unanimity the re-
lpublicans of the country seconded the
determination of their representatives
In Congress to declare and achieve
the election and Inauguration of
President Hayes; and the republican
IpRrty was never more courageous,
harmonious, or united than on the
day of his accession. eTuF
Coming to the Presidency under
these remarkable circumstances, Mr..
Chandler says the President should
have maintained faithful and scrupu-
lous allegiance to the principles OF
the republican party.
/ SERIOUS CHARGE.
4 But almost the first act of the new
administration was to fulfill bar.
/ gain that had been made during the
Presidential count. by which, il
Hayes should be President, the law.
full governments of Louisiana and
South Carolina were to be abandon.
ed, and the mob-governments in
those States were to be recognized
and established. 5''ts
i Certain democrats in the House OF
Representatives, seeing that by the
recurring decisions Of the electoral
commission, and tho regular proceed
ings of the two houses under the
electoral bill, which they had warmly
supported, Hayes would surely be
President, had conceived the plan OF
saving something from the wreck
They had, therefore, threatened by
dilatory motions and riotous proceed.
ings to break up the count and then
opened negotiations with such timid
or too eagerly expectant republicans
as they could find ready. They had
succeeded beyond their most sanguine
Expectations. Senator Sherman had
visited Ohio and consulted Governor
Hayes. Mr.. Henry Watterson, q
Democratic member and nephew
of Mr.. Stanley Mathews, had
acted as go-between and or
the one side Messrs Math.
ews, Charles Foster John Sher.
man, James A. Garfield, and on the
other, L. @. c. Lamar, John B. Cor.
don, f. J. Ellis, Randall Gibson, E. A
Burke, and John Young Brown, had
agreed: l. That the count should
not be broken up in the House, bu,
that Hayes should be declared and in.
augurated President. 2. That upon
Hayes accession the troops should be
Withdrawn from protecting Govern
ors Chamberlain and Packard, and
that the new administration should
recognize the governments of Wade
Hampton in South Carolina, and f.
FL. Nichols in Louisiana. .zt.
BY certain general and indefinite
letters since given to the public, by a
secret writing now in the hands OF
E. A. Burke, and other ways, the
agreement was authenticated and
President Grant was Immediately re.
quested by Governor Hayes counsel
on no account to recognize Packard
or Chamberlain, but to leave the ulti.
mate 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 were
safe, Governors Packard and Cham
berlain had been notified by Messrs.
Matthews and Evarts to got out.
Governor Chamberlain wasnow sum-
moned to Washington and informed
that he must surrender. He protest
ed against his taking-off. The Presi-
dent hesitated, but Wade Hampton
demanded the performance Of the
bargain. Mr.. Matthews was sent for,
came from Ohio, and within twenty
four hours the United States flag was
ordered down in Charleston and
Governor Chamberlain stamped out.
As to Louisiana, the fulfillment pro-
ceeded more slowly, but none the less
surely. Packard had made, March
II, q constitutional call for Federal
aid, which it was difficult to withhold
from one as surely Governor as Hayes
was President. And yet there was
the bargain.
As subterfuge, an unconstitution-
al commission, consisting of Messrs.
John NJ. Harlan, Joseph r. Hawley,
U. b. Lawrence, Wayne McVeagh,
and John q. Brown, was sent to New
Orleans, instructed to gradually de-
stroy the Packard Legislature by Sc
du6ing or forcing its members into
the Nichols Legislature. Bnt they,
proving too stubbornly Republican,
the commission telegraphed the Pres
ldent that nothing would destroy
Packard but tho actual order with
drawing the troops. At thu word
the President gave the order,
| PACKARD WAS CRUSHED,
and the commission returned trium-
plant to Washington to be "recogni-
zed"-one of them, General Harlan,
by an appointment as Supreme Court
Judge: another. Mr.. Lawrence, by
the release of Jake Rehh,, the great
whisky conspirator and defrauder of
the revenue at Chicago General Haw-
ley was offered the appointment as
Chief Commissioner to the Paris Ex-
position, but declined because the
salary was to be only S.. 900; and three
Offices were rendered to Mr.. Mac
Veagh, but declined on the ground
that his signal services demanded
more ample recognition ; the English
mission was next assigned him, but
circumstances have made its delivery
inexpedient or impossible.
One other hope remained to Gov
ernor Packard. He had a lawful
court of justice, and might appeal to
that. But there were two vacancies,
and it required all three of the
Judges. Ludeling, Leonard, and John
=. King to make quorum. Judge
King was Immediately appointed
Collector of New Orleans, Packard's
| court was struck down, and the Mich
oils mob-government reigned su-.
preme. The bargain was in every
way fulfilled, and Burke had mo- oc-
casion, 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 administr alton had
trampled them down.
Mr.. Chandler goes on to quote from
the Presidents speeches in the South,
land quotes . telegram in the New
York Tribune, saying that "Governor
Wade Hampton 10 still with the party,
and 10 introduced by the President to
levery audience as an honest and pa
triotic man." and that at Atlanta,
Hampton said of the President:
"When l saw him carrying out the
policy for twelve years advocated by
the Democratic party, said I would
sustain him IN that policy as long as
he contin'ued'in that path"
Mr.. Chandler proceeds: GAS the
policy Of the Democratic party was to