Year: 1877

most important commercially OF all the
Southern States. New Orleans, its great
commercial city, is the centre of trade and
grand entrepot of commerce for the region
which borders on the Lower Mississippi and
its tributaries. The prosperity of that vast
region has been arrested for many years by
the civil disorder, interruption of business,
and prostitution of confidence which have
resulted from the unsettled political condi-
tion of the State of Louisiana Bogus State
governments, detested and repudiated by
the people, governments which could never
have stood for day unless propped by fed
eral bayonets, have misrulod the State, op-
pressed it with taxes, destroyed the value Of
property and difused widespread discon-
tent among the better classes Of the popula-
| ton, making Louisiana the most undcsir-
| able place of residence in the United States
since the close of the civil war. There is
prospect now that the iron heel
of military power will be lifted and the
self-government rs soon rs the electoral
count is completed at Washington. # the
miscreant flibusters who are striving to
prevent an election could have their way
this hopeful prospect would be collapsed and
destroyed. If the crazy democratic fill
busters should succeed in their mad pro-
ject Senator Morton will be elected President
of the Senate and will become President Of
tho United States. Everybody knows what
the sentiments of this champion fnunter of
the bloody shirt are respecting the people
of Louisiana. Nobody can doubt that
one of the first acts of his administration
would be On emphatic recognition of the
Packard government. Morton rs President
would pour troops enough into Louisiana to
subdue oil opposition. To borrow Scrip
ture phrase, Morton's little finger would be
thicker than the loins of President Grant
Instead of relief the people OF Louisiana
would find their oppression continued by
will as strong as Grants, impelled by
fanatical, headlong malignity to which
President Grant is stranger. If the lunatic
filibusters should succeed in making Nor
ton President the long suffering people of
Louisiana would have reason to curse them.


President Grnnt is sensible how unfor-
tunate he was in being heir to Southern
policy established by the republican party
in its fierce contests with Andrew Johnson.
He does not wish to leave such heritage to
his successor. He has signifed his inten-
ton to relieve Mr.. Hayes of all embarrass-
ment on this subject by recognizing the
Nichols government and changing his
orders to General Augur as soon as the
new President is declared elected. Such
IN act by the outgoing President would
leave his successor no choice. President
Hayes could only accept the Nichols
government as IN accomplished fact. The
fanaticAl, bull-dozing section of his own
party would have no opportunity for re-
monstrance and no means Of thwarting the
we'll known wishes Of the new President.
If this wise purpose of General Grant
should be frustrated by the idiotic demo-
cratic flibusters the Southern people will
know what value they ought to set on the
professions of their false democratic friends
in the North. The President who comes
into office on the 4th of March will be
will and the power to sustain Pack
ard, or the kindly disposed Hayes,
with his course already marked out for him
by President Grant and thereby exempted
from all republican opposition to his own
right impulses. Do the demented flibus-
ters really want Morton for President? Arc
they willing to be responsible to the country
for result which the Southern people have
SO much reason to deprecated Will tho
South ever again trust the democratic party
if it betrays them in this emergency and
surrenders them to the tender mercies of
federal bayonets controlled by such man
| as Morton?


| If the electoral count is completed to-day
| the liberties of Louisiana will be established
| on secure foundation before the close of
| the week. President Grant declared his
sentiments explicitly enough in tho inter-
view last Sunday. although it then seemed
to be his purpose to keep hands of, main
tain the status quo and leave the decision of
the Louisiana question to the untrammelled
action of his successor. But since Sunday,
knowing perfectly we'll that the views of his
successor coincide with his own, and will
Ing 70 give sS1onS suPPor' W ING moder-
ate democrats, he has decided to recognize
Nichols as soon as Mr.. Hayes is declared
elected. He expressed himself SO strongly
to that effect in conversation with Colonel
Burke, day before yesterday, that the latter
sent this reassuring despatch to Governor
| Nichols =


WASHINGTON, Feb 27, 1877.
| Governor r. 7. NICHOLS, New Orlcans:-


have just had a satisfactory interview with the
President. nc Gays he satisfied that tho Nichols
government is tho government which should stand,
and that no believes u viii stand, because II Is
tanned by the best elements OF the State; that tho
Packard government exist without tho support
troops that tho sentiment Of the country Is clearly
opposed to tho further OF troops in nphOlding a
Slate government that In his opinion thcrc would DO
no interference with tho Nichols government unless,
carried away by tho possession OF power. cxcesscs