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Show Packard's Address. New Orleans, 25. S. B. Packard bus issued a long addrr.rs to the republican re-publican party of Louisiana. It is principally devoted to tho recapitula-; tiyu of the history ot the lute conflict in the state. Packard claims that he i required only the recngnition of his government by the president to have! luliy estublihhed and sustained it, and concludes as follows: Had the general gen-eral assembly continued in session in the state house I should have deemed it my duty to have asserted and de-tended de-tended the government to the last, but with legislature disintegrated and no prispect of present success, I cannot can-not task your tried fidelity by asking you longer to continue to aid in the struggle I havo thus fur maintained. I tberoforo announce to yuu that I nin I'ompellpd to abstain for the prea-eut prea-eut from all active assertion of my government. I waive no legal rights, but yield only to superior force. I am not wholly discouraged by tbe fact that one by one tho republican state governments of the south bave been forced to Huccurnb to force or Iraud or policy. Louisiana the first state rehabilitated after tbe war, is tho last state whrme government thus tails, and I believe it will be among the fust to raise itself again to the plane of equal and honest representation I advise that you maintain your party organization and continue to battle for the rights ot citizenship and tree Government. We Btrive for these and not lor man or men. It grieves me beyond expression that the heroic eflorts you have made and the cruel sufferings you have undergone to maintain republican principles in Louisiana have had this bitter ending. To those who have so gallantly stood by me in the long contest we hare passed through, I tender my heartfelt tnanks. To all I counsel peace, patience, pa-tience, fortitude and a firm trust that eventually right and justice wiil prevail. pre-vail. (Signed) S. B. Packard, Governor, i By 5 o'clock thiB morning Governor : Packard and all his adhereots except 'one metropolitan, bad left the state house, and Colonei Boylan, chief of police, directed a Fquad of his men to take possession of tbe building. Packard's Pack-ard's militia left behind them about 200 stands of arms belonging to the state. Governor Nicholls boa received re-ceived many telegrams offering congratulations con-gratulations over the withdrawal of the troops. |
