Governor of Louisiana. He
had simply preserved those governments _in statu quo_. He had heard
all that could be said in favor of the Republican side of the
question, and seemed to believe that it was now beyond his power to
hold up the last of the Negro governments with bayonets. He was right.
It would have been as vain to have attempted to galvanize those
governments into existence as to have attempted the resuscitation of a
dead man by applying a galvanic battery. Governments must have, not
only the subjective elements of life, but the powers of
self-preservation. The Negro governments at the South died for the
want of these elements. It was a pity, too, after the noble fight the
Republican party of Louisiana and South Carolina had made, and after
they had secured their electoral votes for Hayes, that their State
officers who had been chosen at the same time should have been
abandoned to their own frail governmental resources. But this was
unavoidable. Their governments could not have existed twenty-four
hours without the presence and aid of the United States army. And this
could not have been done in the face of the sentiment against such use
of the army which had grown to be nearly unanimous throughout the
country. If the Republicans could have inaugurated their officers and
administered their governments they would have received the applause
of the administration at Washington and the God-speed of the
Republican party of the North; but the moment the United States
troops were withdrawn the Negro governments melted into nothingness.

Every thing had been tried but pacification. The men who best
understood the temper of that section knew it was incapable, as a
whole, of receiving the olive branch in the spirit in which the North
would tender it. But a policy of conciliation was demanded; the
Northern journals asked it. An ex-Major-General of the Confederate
Army was called to the Cabinet of President Hayes, and was given a
portfolio where he could do more for the South than in any other
place. Gen. Longstreet, a gallant Confederate soldier during the late
war, was made Postmaster at Gainesville, Georgia, and afterward sent
as Minister to Turkey. Col. Mosby, another Confederate soldier, or
guerilla, was sent to China, and Col. Fitzsimmons was made Marshal of
Georgia. It was the policy of the Hon. Charles Foster to have the
President recognize young men at the South who had the pluck and
ability to divide the Bourbon