North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-03-20
The military Dill

The Military Bill.
We see that Gen. Scho6eld "has sus-
pended the municipal election in Fredericks-
burg, Virginia" and that Gen. Sheridan
has postponed the election in New Or
leans! !" These are gay old times for o
Republic. How long will it be till north
srn people will be told uAen to rote and
hoUa BASKs offered resolution con-
demning the Canadian Confederation rs
''.kingdom " and not proper thing to be
adjacent to US. Hon. Charles A. Eldridge,
Of Wisconsin, rose and remarked that
while ten Of the States of this Union were
now ruled by military kings it was not
worth while to DO sensitive toward other
governments!
Below we give some comments Of south.
crn papers:
From The Atlanta h,telligeneer:
"The precedent is fraught with disaster
and ruin to the millions in other sections
Of the Union for what cannot and viii
not the Robespierres, Dantons and Marats
Of this revolutionary Junto do, rather
than permit the balance Of power to pass
out Of their hands. The question with
this party is not in reference to alleged
disloyalty, or outrages on Union men and
negroes; but these are made the pretexts
by which their ends are accomplished.
It is simply and purely question Of
political power and supremacy. The prin-
ciples Of republican government snbyert-
ed, the whirlwind evoked to destroy the
rights and liberties Of the people Of one
section Of the Union, may not cease when
the same power Which Set Il IN motion
says 'be still!' but extend its destruc-
tive elements to other sections, leaving all
in confusion and anarchy.
{ The Nashville Gazette says:
Tennessee escapes. Ten states whose
surface is dotted with the graves Of Ten
nesseeans that persisted in the common
cause, are consigned to military despotism,
while Tennessee, the old ..Volunteer
State is exempt. Better the death Of
the Southern land, that will know no wa
king until the general resurrection
The Augusta Sentinel says:
"The Military Bill is nothing more nor
less than despotism. President johnson
has performed his duty, and it il no fault
Of his that Sherman's Military Bill is now
supreme in this unfortunate section. Let
our people 50 conduct themselves as to
mitigate its horrors. When the awful
Brigadier makes his appearance, let him
find US attending zealously to what is left
Of our material interests. Let politics aud
demagogues alone, and the Brigadier may
not be such terrible fellow after ALL
Better any day have military ruler than
to be cursed by such q scene of anarchy
as now exists in Tennessee"
The New Orleans Bulletin says:
I've can see no immediate remedy with
ia the power Of the Southern people. We
therefore unite with our contemporaries in
recommending the utmost prudence on the
part of the people and Of the authorities.
Our remedies lie chiefly within the power
Of the coordinate departments Of the
Federal Government and the States within
the Union. In indicating the true boun-
diaries of power for themselves, they may
protect us. What is our case now, may
be in thc providence of God, some day
their own. We should not exasperate the
power which controls US, or can we be ex-
pected to make concessions of rights
which we deem Indispensable to safety;
perhaps to existence"