President Hayes has finally removed the United States' troops from
New Orleans, and the remaining members of the Republican State Legislature therefore deserted to the Democratic Legisla- ture, leaving the Governor almost alone in the State House. Mr. Packard, in consequence, finding further resistanoe impossible, surrendered the building, and the Nicholls Government is fully installed. All the States of the Smith are now in Democratic hands, and the experiment of ruling them through Legislature( more or less packed may be considered abandoned. It ought never to have been tried, but as the alternative was military rule, it was tolerated for a time. The point now is whether the whites who are reinstalled in power will consent to role without de- priving the blacks of their franchise, and without passing labour laws in the interest of a caste. There is no danger of a revival of slavery, but a good deal of the establishment of veiled' serfage through contract laws and vagrant laws.
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