Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-27

| would have maintained himself in the gov
| eminent and everything have gone on in
| peace and quietpess2 Ans-I have no doubt
! that If there had been no pause or interreg.
| mum by the partial recognition of the two
governments, and Packard bad been sus-
| tanned immediately on his Inauguration,
believe he could have sustained himself
Ques-Without any breach of the peace
or civil war down therep Ans-Without
any civil war, but not without the active sup
port OF the United States government. | be-
iieve both Packard and the Hayes electors
were elected, and that but for the mob spirit
which was prevalent IN Louisiana. and which
is prevalent there to-day, Packard would now
be the presiding governor.
By the Chairman-Could Packard, a
matter of fact, have sustained his government
there for the past two years without the pres
ence of the Federal troops? Ans.-No, sir.
By Mr. Butler-I have only one final
question to ask SKY you, and that is this; | sup,
pose that 10 1862 the authorities of the United
States. and of the State of Louisiana, as a
State of the United States, could not have
been maintained without the Federal troops !?
Ans.-No, sir.
Governor Kellogg was then called, and
some discussion ensued as to the order In
which witnesses should be examined, and af-
ter some discussion on that point the COM
mittee adjourned until Thursday.
what Nexts-The Original sherman
Baltimore Gazette: What next? is tie
query. Can the original letter be produced,
or has Sherman procured it? The answer is
verJ uiiIicuit. There are six Photographic
copies of the letter in existence, made from
Photographic copy that William K. Chandler
has in his possession. 1t will be rememb ered
that Mrs. jerks, IN her testimony, referring
to the time Chandler had called on her and
asked whether she had the original, said he
had read to her something that sounded pre-
cisely like it. There is no doubt that he has one,
and there are others, but this is not equivalent
to the original by any means. 1t appears in
credible That Butler would have allowed the
witness Yesterday to escape the direct ques-
ton, who wrote that letter you gave to
Weber," unless he felt he had gone far
enough to establish the story from the Sher-
man witness that he did not write it. And
yet again, he has boldly intimated that he
believed the paper was forgery. Hence,
the original cannot be in his possession. The
other supposition is most probably correct.
Sherman has the document itself, and this
woman got it for him for big reward. Two
circumstances bear this out Iu the first
place, she is a woman of too much com
mon sense to deliberately lie herself
into bad hole from which it would be i'm
possible to get out. She has denied that
Sherman wrote the letter. This she would
billty that the committee could hold the orig
inal letter against her. She must know it is
so safe that she can hold fast to her story.
But the lines are tightening about Sherman
and his gifted accomplice. The committee is
now In possession Of an affidavit from Dan
Weber's wife, now living at Donaldsonville
She could not leave home on account of
sickness in her family, but she swears that
very recently she found the document want
ed by Mrs. jerks, as detailed in the corre-
spondence read, and sent it to he, for a sum
Of money. The two Jenkses have been in
Washington Sc leraI weeks. The moment
they arrived Mr.. Shellabarger hunted them
up, and acted for Sherman in everytL ig.
Mrs. jerks would have had neither motive
nor excuse for buying a worthless
forgery of any one, for such stock
would lie on her shelves without a
purchaser. 1t was genuine, or 1t wasn't
worth Il cent. She arrived In Washington
shortly after leaving Mrs. Weber, aud since
her arrival ali her dealings have been with
the Sherman tribe. The next link In the
chain Will be furnished by the sub committee
that will soon go to louisiana for the'pur-
pose, among other things, of examining Mrs.
Weber. If she states that the letter she sold
Mrs. jerks corresponds with the photograph
&c copy that will be shown her, Sherman had
better have his resignation drawn up in ad-
vance