Louisiana Politics

[Compilod from the Houso Procccdingj.] Mr. Hale, of Maine, said he had boeu proouudly moved with hia observalion oí the couree of events in Louisiana for tho past year, and eapecially for tlio pa9t six months. Iu tüo jegimiing ho had w&tohed the experiment made there hopefuliy, believing that tho majuinimouti and conciliatory courso pursued by he President toward that peoplo would bo met jy a gouerous and hearty return, bat he had eeen that honor and the plightod support pledged iu return for gonorosity had been forfoited ; that tho rosolutions of that State Lcgislaturo went for nothing, and thát io!itical proseoutions were urged to-day in Louisiana with a pirit of violeuce which remtndod ïim of older dnys. He therofore conld keep eileuce no longer. Ho reviewed the oourae of evento iu Louiniana from the close of Orant's admimtitratiou, bringing forward prominontly the fact that the title of the Packard Govornïnentand the Paokard Legislatnre had boen settled by the Electoral Commiasion, it being Mtcd on the count of the Iteturning Board, ;he Kame Board whose actiou in the cae of the President had been confirraed by tho Electoral Commisüiou whoe decisión had been accepted by both honsea of Congress. Itrf title had also stuce been affirmed by the Senate in the admission to a sent iu that body of KeJlogg, elccted to the seuaie uy me x acuaru juegisiaiuro. Me spoke ;f the cali of tbat Legislatura on the Federal Ciovornment for protection against domostic violence. He did not know, and nobody oould teil, the reilections that pa&sed through the mind of the X'resident on that subject, but he could sec that the f rosident, looking on the subject with a desire for peace, wiih a disposition for couciliation, with a teudency toward tonderness, determinad to start out and commit hia adminiotraüon to a oourse, not of repression or a stroug iron hand upon the pcoplo, but of concession. of magnaniniity, and diaregard the caJlof the Legislature of Louisiana. He went on to speak of the sending of the comniission to Loiusiaua by the President, the result of whose missiou was the disintcgration of the I'ackard Government and the installation of tho Nicholls Government, and he deolarei that no experiment In that direction had ever been made so thoroughly as the President had made this one. The Legislatura and Oov. Nicholls had promised a pardon for all political offeusoH. He asked the House to turn back its mínd, and he a-ked President Hayea to turn back hie mind six inontns, to the lat of May, 1877. Would anybody have boen fonndthen toprediot that in less than sixty daye the men who, foremost of all, had made t'nemselves offensive to tho Louisiaua Domoccracy, b? cause they had earried out the law of that State and had thereby become political offënders agains, that pat tv" in Louisiana and througlioul the couutry, wonld have been prosecutert ? Would tho President have believed it? Wou'.d anyone havo believtd it ? Mr. Hale argued that thero was no legal ground for the profeention of Anderson, of the Returning Board, who had been for twenty year elecled to the Legislature from hie owñ paiish, who had always tood high in public and private e.stiniiitu, and who Ead nover beforo been cousidered an outcast oud malorRetor. in conürmation of hiu statement that there was a compact that there should be no political prosecutions in Louibiana, he quoted a letter in a New ïork paper. Mr. Hale went on to say that the adhereuts of the Democratie party in Ihe South, who wero now do eager for npholding tho law and for the punisbment of auy infraciion of it, hukod in the swamps and on the hill-sides and in the ravinea of the South, to ambush and shoot down officers of the rovenue. It was a party so Bensiüve to-day that it robbed con■tituencies of their represeutatixes on this Hoor raid cast decisive votes in Iho House, at tho hands of meu who had no more right to ;wats Ulan Dick Turpin had to the booty which he had phmdorcd on the higuway. Mr. Atkins iudignantly denicd the statement of Mr. Hale as to the aiubushiiig and murder of rovenue oflïcers. Mr. Hale said that thero was a profouud impression that the proeeeding iu Louisiana had lts root, iU miiuspring, its aource elr.ewhore ; that thero wero mauy who believod that the whole performance had been dictated and iriven forward by the re-stless men who did uot mean ever to admit that the Presidential title has been ettlod. The President of the United States was learuing to-day a lesson of misplaced confidünco. It was tne old, old Btory. 'ihere had been nothiug which the President could do to ruuko ellicacious his course toward tho South which he had not done. Ibera had been no encouragenient wbich c-uid bs held out to that seetiou showiugthc President' good faith which the President Imd uot resortcd to. He had appointed CabiDot Ministers, Foreign Ministers, and olher high officials from that section becanse he had boen anxious that, if the experiment failed, üobody shoiild be able to say it had failed Xrom any lack on his part, and how tic return was reieived from Louieiaua. Ia conclusión he intimated that il might be the conutitutional duty of tiio l'res.dent to toe to it that no injustice was done to a citizen of the United States. Mr. Gibson replied to Mr. Halo. He denied that thero had been any snch compact for immunity for crime as had been aeterted by Mr. Halo. As to the case of ths mnrder of Webber in Feliciana pariuh, of which Mr. Hale had spoken, he (Gibson) had interes ed himhelf in o&ving the guilly iarty brought to JrtBtloo, and the inrotmatiou which ho leceived waa that it was tLe gen ral imprtssion that Webber had been imirütred by a man of his own party, a personal enemy. Ho poitrayed the state of affairH in Louisiaua duriug lite years whon no guilty man had beon punished, and when no honest man lelt hm life secure irom lawlessno6ö, but since the Nichcrlls Government had been inaugurated, no man, whether poor or rich, who committed a crime had oscapod punishnient. He denied that tho ileturning Board was leiüg persecutcd on political gronnds. Who had anytttiüg io gain by that? (Jertaiuly not the people of Louiiana. ('ertainly not tho National Democratie party, for Haves' title had baan paeded upon by Congres1). The Ileturning Board Wa being prosecuted for forgery. l'hat crime of f 01 gery was trivial in so f ar ás the recent electiou was coneerned, but it wax a crime of enormous pruportiens, and the man who f aldiñod ihe returns stiuck a blow at civil hberty and free governmeut. If this move ment in Louisiana which appearcd to be a very Himple o:ie was to excito the public mind, to cxciie animoMcie-i, which ho had hoped wero sleeping in Northern communities, he Khould dupiore it m ro thau any olher min. Jieverting to the charges of a compact between the iiuthoritii s of Lonisiana and the Federal Government, he dènieJ it not only for the Nicholl Government, uot only for his friends, but he denied it for the President and hit Gabinet. They conld not be gnilty of such a crime. Mr. Qurlisis quoted from a speech made by President Uayea feo prove that the troops were vvithdrawn from contiiituüonal duty, and uot a an act of eouciliation. Mr. Halo askcd then if the people of the Sonth Y( .10 placed uuder auy obligation by it. Mr. Qibaon replied that they were placed nnder tho higliest obhgationa that American citizens could atiriume. 'ï'iio obligations of freeinen in a f roe. Stato in the Amurican Uuion, to obèy tile láws of the Uuiled Htitles, and to obey the laws of that State. Mr. Clymer ad every portion of tho country outsiüe the bordeis of Louisiana as woll as in it nas intereated in the proceedings now takiiig place in that State. In behalf of the people whom he representad he could say that thoy dosire tliat the persons connected with tho flect!ra! fraud as principáis hliould be lui.i-hed ; and that all who were abettors and aidor.s should be punishcd, becauso whilo the country niight have to ubmit to the conuequencea of that fraud, iu tho interest of human hberty .ijl people everywhere should know how and by whom this great crime had been perpebratéd. Thé qaestaon hould notbe concidered as a 1 K'il ono. Tho whole peop o shüuld give encouragement to the people of Lonisiana to I go forward nd discover who wero the prinoi, pa.1.-. lio donied itiat any agreement iinplied from the rosolutions adopted by the Louisiaua 1 llatuïij er any oxpiession used by Gov, Nicliolls was binding on bim or anybody. The Ketaruing-Board prosecutions could do no harm in the preeent, and they mghtbe uf immense valuo ui the future. Mr, Gfttiield iiext obtained t-ho floor and naid that tho gentlemen from Pennsylvania (Clymer) callod npon the peoplo of Loumiana to holp the Democratie party get at the great erimo of the Presidential connt. This he (Garfield) characterizod au tho entering point of the wcdge which wan to drive home what was eallod the groat crimo of tho contury. Ho did not intend to raake au iuflammatory speech. If there wan a people on earth that had tho right to be weary at heart of politica and partisanBhip it tob "the American peoplo. Ho nictured the stages which a country munt unaorgo in trausition from a stato of war to a stafo of peace. First, there was the military stage, when in bloody battles soldiere met to decide by power of strength tho questions involvod. Noxt carne the stage that was semi-civil and Bemi-military. It was in thi tago that Gen. Grant had taken the roins of the (iovernment, and had endeavored to keep his administration within the proviuco of civil and military power. When he had been succueded by President Hayes, that gentloman had thonght it was possible todoclare that the semi-military period uad gone, and that tho period had corue whou only poaco methods should be inauguratod. In nis judgmont President Hayes was au optimist, who looked only on tho bright eide of human nature and diBliked to look at its dark side. His (Prosident Hayos') faith and hopo had been largor than tho feith and hope of most people. He hal gone forward to the very vorge of tho constitntion in offoring both hands in fellowship aud in offering the olivo branch of peace. He had gone to the limite of hia power in ordor to brlug about an era of good foeling and pacification. No man had hared more heartily the aspirations of the President than he (Garfieldï had. Ho had trieü in every way to aid the President in hia project, and in order to do that there was a vrorld of things to bo forgotteu and forgiven on both sides. If tho utrict letter of law had been adhored to at tho end of the rebelh'on, there would havo been no end to the awful spectaoles of prosocution and puniahinont (undor tho law signed by Goorge Washington) against thosc who had committed tho crime of treaeon. Mr. Waddoll cslted if the troops had not been removed from tho South aa a matt?r of oouutitutional dut y, and did not tbe Iiepublican party make war on the President f or that? Mi'. Garlield replied that the withdrawal of Uie troops from the Governor'B room and office in New Orleaus was a constitutional duty. As & political atudent he (Gsxfield) had néver donbted and did not doubt to-day that Packard had beon houeatly and fairly olocted Goveruor of Louiaiana. Mr. Garflold went on to say that the action of the Prcsidont in rornoving the troopa had been looked upon by tho poople of Louitiiana as a gonorouu aud magnanimou actfon, and they had gftiiandcd tho man who had performed it wiüi the riohest praiBe. In that era of reeoncillation both sides had forgiven and forgotten much. There had boon bloeding heart in the land at the recitals of tho msesacro at Hamburg and Ellenton, but these horrible storios were never hoard of now. WhyV Beoaimi tberehad been a filent determinatlon to !ot all that terrible chapter sleep. All tho outragea whioh had bcon committed in Lonisiana during tho late elecliou had been covered with tho veil of obhvion. Who had begun the lattf r revival of the ohapter ? Whilo that work of conciliation had been goiDg forward, thero had commonced at the Norlh fte afarmod it boldly) the procesa tor laying the keel loranotherl'residentialcarnpaign, and the order had gono fortli to Louüiaiia to open upon the membfirs of tho Roturning Board - to diaguise it under the form of a State proceeding, but 'to enter a wedge - and then the Democratie power, as (he gentleman from Pennsylvania (Clymer) had statod, would Rtmmon all its strength to drive tlio wedge to its head and stamp tlio great f rand of the eloction as it deserves. Contimiing, ho eaid that m&ny weeks ago details of all that was nów taliing plaoe in Lonisiana had been foreabadowcd by niany persons as a part of the prograinme. The ïmpressiou was abroad that the prosecution of the Hetnrning Board wns the beginning of a purpose to reopen the whole qneption. One by one ovonts were developing which would make it inupossible to tinti tho brotherhood and pacification which was so earnestly dewred. It would be imposi-ibic to continuo that coursc of pacification and brotherhood unless there was some reciprocity aomowhere. It had been denied that the procctdings of the State Uourt had been irregular. Thoro was a letter in to-daj's New Yorks papers from J. Madison Wells. Io that letter Wells stated that five succestsive Grand Juries had refneed to find u truo bill of indictment against him, and from othir statements he (Garüeld) underetood that three juries had refused to find a trae bill against Andeifon. Ho askcd hiR Northern colleagnes whatwould be thought of a District Attorney who, having tried to get an indictment against a citizen and failod, shonld lodgo an information and have him tried. What IYosecuting Attorney in the North conid stand in tho face of an outraged people and do that ? He went on to say that there was an ulterior purpose behind all this persocution. It was bnt a cloak and cover for a raid to be made for political purpoBoa iu the name of the Democratie party upon the title of tho PreEideñt of the United States. It was in view of that that tho people that he represented feit their efforts at pacification had been met not in tho spirit in which they had been offerod, and if this sort of procoeding went forward tho President wonld he crippled in his conciliatory policy and overy man who supported him wonld becripplcd. If the Demócrata desired to rob him of whatever support he hitherto had they were taking the boit course to do it. Tlio hope that both sections of tho country were standing hand to hand agaiii iu old fellowcihip was weakeuing day by day, and would disappnar if that line of couduct were persisted in, aud it was in the light of that fact that he had attempted to state the spirit in which all those proeeedings seemed to cihibit themselves. The Affectionate Gorilla. Col. Thomas Scott sat in the Grnnd Central Depot at Timbuctoo, arguing with a venerable gorilla on the necessity of extending the Cairo and Tirnbuctoo railway through South África at public expense. "It -will onlycost one huudied and fifty ïniUions," said Torn, and, really, Mr. Gorilla, you and yonr people are too much out of the world. " The venerable Afrioan listened with tlie dcepest respect to the utteriiuee of the raihvay magnate, and answered him thus: " We don't need the railroad, and eiui't aflbnl to pay one hundred and fifty millions for it ; and, besiden, we gorillas travel on our muscle, nofc f y rail." "Wliat do you suppose I'ra here for?" replied Col. Bcott. "The railroad ska.ll be built, if it takes the last ounce of gold-dust and the last gallon of palm-oil in the country to pay for it, That'n tho eort of toothpick I ani." "Is that so?" softly niurinured the venerable gorilla, who thereupon him, the said Scott, iu kis arrns did enfold, and to his keart passiouately did press till the last breatk had left Tom's body, which was carefully laid in a convenient palace-car, with the parting worde, "Good-by, Toni. That's the sort of gorilla I aai." Moral : Never oount your chickons before they are hatched. - New York Sun. Uolden llair at the Chanccl. A friend living in Philodelphia has a sweet, gslden-haired little daugkter, aged 3 years, who is devoted to her fnther, and endcavors, after her baby fashion, to govern her actions by his own. This habit causes much amusement iu tho family, thongh the litUe oue seems quite unconscious that she is the cause of it all. Not long ago tbfl ohild attended divine service for the iirst time with her father, and sat quietly and gravely in the pew until the close of the sermón. It okauced to be communion Sunday, and, Mr. ■, being a communicant, went with otliora toward the chancel, unconscious that his little daughter was followiug kim. As he knelt and bowed his head, the baby of 3 years beside lüm nlso knolt and bowea her sweet face npou her tiny hands. Those who saw the toudiiug sight were affeoted almost to tears, and nobody attempted to remove tho sniiill communicant. Not until my friend ros?. to return to bis seat did he discover the cbild, who nlso roso, and, slipping her little hand into kis, walked gravely toward the p-jw. The clergyman, speuking of it afterward, Raid it was in his opinión the most beautiful sigkt he had ever secn. - Harper's Magazine for March. tVonls (,'oincd by Lincoln. Noah Brooks, writing of President Lincoln in Scribncr for March, says he was addicted to ooining words and to using words whick, though not found in the lexicons, seemed to express his meaning botter than auy otker. Tkus, of peiple who were pragmatic and meddlesome, iie said that they wero " intermptioua." The quality of being easily duped he called " dn-peu'-auce," and of a man who liad been overtaken by a just retribution he said. t.kat "ke had go t I lïjtj come-up-eac-í!,'1