If, therefore, Mr.Hayes was legally or mortally entitled to the electoral votes of those States, without which he could not have been elected, those men were entitled to be recognized and supported as Governor of their respective States.

But it was a well-known fact that without the support and backing of the National Administration at that particular time, they could not maintain and enforce their authority against the organization of the Democratic party.

The public announcement of the southern policy of the National Administration put an effectual end to any further effort on the part of either Packard or Chamberlain.

The Administration not only deserted and abandoned those two men and the party for which they had so bravely and so gallantly stood, but it allowed the very men whose votes made Mr.
Hayes President to be harassed and persecuted for what they had done in that direction.

After Packard surrendered to the inevitable he was tendered a position in the foreign service, which he accepted.