The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-07-26

be dependent on the time when Other district
manmanders get through. / gave more time
for the registration of Louisiana than they
propose to give in their commands, for COM
menced six weeks before they did. regret
fiat should have to differ with the President,
bus it must be recollected that 4 have been
ordered to execute law to which the Presi-
dent has been in bitter antagonism If after
this report the time be extended, please notify
and it will be DONE / would do it at once,
but the Presidents telegram was conditional,
and there is sufficient time left to issue the
necessary orders
PHI. SHERIDAN,
MAJOR General United States Army.
Gen. q s. GRANT, Washington.
Can any reasonable man now find any ex-
cuse for General Sheridan's hesitation to
extend the time to the lst day of AugustT
1t added only fifteen days more to the time
which he had voluntarily given Could
there have been any other motive but to-
set himself up, his huge self, against the
President? But it is not till the 29th Of
June that he concludes to obey, as will be,
seen by the following telegram:
Received $40 p. m.
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEoRxr1E.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
New Orleans, Louisiana
June %, 1871 a. m.
GENERAL The registration in the State Of
Louisiana will be continued, in obedience to
the orders of the President, unless / receive
orders from him to the contrary.
P. H. SHERIDAN, Major General.
Gen. e. d. TOWNSEND, 81
Assistanr AJatant General.
Mr.. Speaker, have no words with which
to characterize that communication to Gen.
eral Grant. 1t has never up to this time
as | am informed, reached the President,
except through the public papers. 1t ex-
hiblts a wanton and deliberate determine
ton to insult his superior officer, the Com
mander-in Chief of the armies of this great
nation, Or a shameful ignorance Of tho
meaning OF the language used. There is,
as we have seen, no excuse for it. 1t must
forever disgrace its author in the estima-
ton of every honorable and high minded
| officer In the army and every lover of the
military profession. 1t is in my Judgment.
an act of INSTRUMENTATION which, if not sat-.
isfactorily explained and apologized for.
should by the judgment and sentence of q
court martial Danish him from the military
service at once and forever.
Mr.. Speaker, president or the brain
Is very bad disease, and wonderfully prev
alent at this time. 1t attacks heads one.
would scarcely suppose had Drains enough
to be infamed. 1t is less likely to prove.
fatal perhaps on that account. 1t is this
disease l presume that makes this bedizen-
ed military genius cut such fantastic tricks
in his department, play the little corporal,
insult his superiors, and endeavor to show
his consequence and importance by insub-
ordination.
And this, Sir, is the officer that this
House honOrS by its vote of thanks
Thanks what has he done to entitle him.
self to thanks in the conduct of his Office
in his department? Who knows what he
has done or what he has left undone? Has
he made any report of his proceedings?-.
Who has seen it, and what does it contain2
Upon what did you base this cheap and
empty compliment? What reasons has he
given for his removals from Office and his
appointments to ofice7 What cause ex-
listed for his high-handeG and illegal opera
tons; his playing shuttle cock with tho
judges, mayors and Governor Of a greas
State?
Make him President, and the lessons xrr
are now teaching him will be played UPON
yourselves. His capacity eminently fts
him to be tyrant, and lord it over sspe-
rior men. Make him President, and bis
lofty head will swim SO that he will play
harlequin with all the variations
But, sir, by what right or authority do
you make this military general, great OF
small, the legislative, executive, and judic-
lal power OF great State? You talk Of
conquest. The conquest you arc claiming
is not alone of the territory of Republic.
lour subjugatlons are not alone of its eiti.
zens, or of those who have wronged the
l lnInp nrHr kok.
but you are subjugating the Republic tho
Constitution, civil liberty, and all that to
the freeman makes life desirable or even
tolerable Your triumphs are not alone
over fallen enemies, but you are triumph
ing over the fall of your country, over the
destruction of the States that compose the
Union, over the destruction of the essen
tlal, the underlying principles of republic
ism, over civil government.
| History declares the Roman republic ru-
med Itself by Its triumphs, the excuses of
Its conquests and power. Rome, the mis-
tress of the world, when enslaved BY ty-
rants and oppressed by military govern
ments, had reason to deplore the success, of
It's arms and to look back with regret on
these happy times when its power did not
reach beyond Italy, or even when its do
minion was almost confined within its own
walls.
Like Rome, may we not when too late,
have occasion to regret our excuses, our
conqueSts, our military governments, our
expressions. May We, in yielding to the
demands of party passion, to political ma
lightly, and the animosities engendered by
our recent struggle, not fluid that we have
lost our Constitution and the free govern
ment it was intended to secure.