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Show LOUISIANA AND THE PRESIDENT. Tho NichollB party have captured enough of the Packard legislature to give the former a comploto returning , board quornm in both branches of tho ' Louisiana legislature. As this wiw 1 one of tho primary objects that thn presidential commission was i tut met- ed to bring about, the aicuriug of , this result should lead to tbe with - drawal of the troops from the state house and tho recognition of tho le- J gittraate state government by tho . president, which events will probably 3 take placo immediately. Too much time has already been Bpent and too 1 many words wasted in carrying out j Ihe programme which should have - been established early in March. A just and wise act has lest much of its r merit by this tardiness. Hayes I might havo taken ths country by ' storm and demoralized tho enemies ' of his policy had he promptly acted-I acted-I upon his early inspiration and ro-! ro-! leased South Carolina and Louisiana from the chains which should never i have been imposed upon them. His . Miilinn must h a! I rihn tod rn hi da - sire to conciliate as far as possible the party that elected hiiu, but he has only given tho extreme radicals au opportunity to organize an opposition, opposi-tion, which may become quite formidable for-midable in the next cougrcw. From a if accounts the democratic lines will not be broken in the next house of representatives, as' was at one time thought probable, party Bpirit in the south not having been broken to any perceptible extent. The democrals will without much trouble elect their caucus candidate for speaker, and the new president will find himself without with-out a majority in tho popular branch of congress, a state of aflairs which is believed to have no precedent with a new administration eince the commencement com-mencement of the government. The senate will also be yery close, the republicans re-publicans having not more than three or four majority. Hayes will have to adapt tho measures ot his administration administra-tion closely to popular sentiment, and with duo regard to the opinions of the opposition, to get along without creat trouble in congress. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing his conservatism, the shadow of his fraudulent title to the presidency presi-dency seems etil! to be hanging over his head, and it will be exceedingly difficult to remove it. |