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is maintained in New Orleans for purposes of his own. This “reign” began, they say, two years ago, on the receipt by Stephen B. Packard of a telegram in these words :
This message was a riddle.
Stephen B. Packard is a carpet-bagger, whom the President has sent to New Orleans as United States Marshal. General Emory is a Federal officer commanding the Department of the Gulf.
But who were Marshal Packard and General Emory to fight?
No mandate of the United States Courts had been resisted in New Orleans.
No opposition was expected by those Courts.
Judge Durell, the only Federal magistrate in Louisiana, had never made a complaint.
Why, then, was an inferior officer like Stephen B. Packard, urged by Attorney-General Williams, President
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