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Grant's legal adviser, to call out troops in order to execute the mandate of his court?
The President was supposed to have two objects in view at New Orleans; first, to secure the State vote for his second term as President; second to procure the State senatorship for his brother-in-law, James B. Casey.
For either of these purposes Federal troops might be employed by an unscrupulous President; but Judge Durell was trying to get the Senatorship for Norton, and therefore unlikely to assist in bringing Casey to the front.
Neither Governor Warmoth nor General McEnery could make it out. Against whom was Packard to march the Federal troops?
Time solved the mystery.
Stephen B. Packard got his telegram on Wednesday night. Next evening, Durell sent for him to his private lodgings on important business.
Billings, an attorney acting for the scalawags, was sitting at Durell's table, writing out an order, which the judge explained to his visitor.
Packard was to ask for troops, to march on the State House, and to hold that edifice against all comers.
In New Orleans the Capitol is both executive office
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