Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1877 — Grant’s Last Letter to Packard. [ARTICLE]

Grant’s Last Letter to Packard.

The following letter —being the last official communication addressed by President Grant to Gov. Packard—has recently been published for the first time: Executive Mansion,! Washington, D. C., March 1, 1877. / To Gov. S. B. Packard, New Orleans, la.: In answer to your dispatch of this date, the President directs me to say that he feels it his duty to state frankly that he does not believe public opinion will longer support the maintenance of the State Government in Louisiana by the use of the military, and that he must concur in the manifest feeling. The troops will hereafter, as in the past, protect life and property from mob violence when the State authorities fail, but under the remaining days of his official life they will not be used to establish or to pull down either claimants for control of the State. It is not his purpose to recognize either claimant, t3.\U. Sniffen, \ v Secretary.