Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-30
from the Chicago Times1
SHERIDAN AE0 HIS LETTER.

] 4IE tDulLIE mas AiGl enough ana GliEc
than enough, Of Philip Sheridau's impu-
! Gence. He has done nothing
/ hut make mischief aud trouble since he
WAS appointed to command in Louisiana
and Texas. He as assumed, as Attorney
General Stanbery said in his opinion,
that he was the state, and has made aud
unmade governors, judges, attorney gen
erals. mayors, levee commissioners,
and suuuiled statutes, at pleasure.
! His last letter to Gen Grant should pro-
| cure his dismissal in disgrace from the
army. A more impudent connection
was never conceived by a military Off
Ger, and Sheridan would not have dared
to write it had he not supposed that con
gress would meet in a few days. aRAAo
tie the hands Of the president IKE
district commanders ind5pendeyI fefblm-
It is this idea, and the inclns with
which he has been fed on me radical
press, (which has stuffed MA with vanity
and ms Aence.~He imagiues Ii TO be. hi
l%prUvluls to Es5uke the president, and, in
writing to the officer second in command
IN the nation 10 question the motives Of
him Who Is highest in command, and to
berare and villiry the attorney general Of
the United States, because, forsooth,
that eminent juri,t has seen proper to.
declare what are the provisions Of a law
submitted to him for examination.
It Is charitable to suppose that Sheri-
dan was dTuuk or crazy when he wrote
this letter@o Gen. SAnt. It is in fact
an insult 10 - assumes that he
oftne president and the Acknowledgement.
Ii assumes tnat Grant viii approve OF
conduct u~nbecomiug an officer and q
gentleman, and will sympathi4e with
the feelings which actuated the writer.
Sheridan has forgotten the rebuke which
Grant gsve the radicals in Cincinnati for
di7respect shown the president.
The letter intiunates that the writer
has the affairs not only Of Louisiana and
Texas on his hands, but those of the ma
ton. He refuses 10 comply with the
presidents Instructions, because "he
does not feel like keeping up expensive
boards Of registration to suit new Issues -
What have his feelings to DO with the
matter? What new issues were raised
by the opinion of the attorney general?
sheridan E9d his-orders lie refused 90
obey them, q assigned a lie a. "a mason
fer doing 50. The opinion rsissd no new
issue. Ii settled old ones. It settled issues
which the vanity and malcvoleuce and
eoutemptoflaw ia Sheridan had raised. It
defined his Dowor and those of boards of
registration, and if the registry has Ueau
completed in Louisiana, il has been done
in defiance of law, and thousands Of
voters nave been excluded from the lists
who were entitled to vote under the law.
He "does not feel like" affordiug to
white men an opportunity to vote, but
he does 'tfeel hken registering the ig-
norant and degraded negroes in Louisi.
ana, and placing them IN control OF the
government Of New Orleans and Of the
state. This criminal and Infamous work
suits him. He feels ike performing it
al the bidding or venOmous prOhigates,
who play the toady to him in his apostasF,
and who, were-hs true to the political
principles which he advocated before he
became debauched by the advancement
ne has received, would cure him as q
rebel, a drunkard and "a red moutned
Irishman.n His head is turned by sdu.
alton He pirates of the
opinion Of the attorney general as open
ING a road for perjury and fraud to travel
On" The registration which he says IS
completed in the state, was carried on
by these very agencies. It was carried
on contrary to the law which he had
sworn TO support. 1t was carried on
undar his direction in all lis stages. and
the uuanswersoie argument OF the attor-
Dsy general writes periured broadly.
across the forehead Of Philip Sheridan.
We haVe seen for what the perjury was
committed. It was 70 assist Ia the per
petratiOn Of a crime so enormous and
revolving that, in comparison with il.
deliberate perjury is a trivial error.
We omit much Of this article, beeaun
we 10 not know that the iga it
contains against the persoS4Tlts OF
General SHERIDAN ere well founded
and also because the rights and interests
involved are entirely too grave ior such
collateral issues to be pertinent. What
the personal characters, habits or ante
cedents Of Generals SIcKLEs or SHERI- I
DAN may be, Il Of no importshce. erhe
n%surpations are the same, no matter by
done & i31la
General SHERIDAN Is q soldier, served
long before The war, and was a Second
Lleutensnb We believe, when the war
began. He graduated low in his class,
but proved himself brave and capable
turing the war, aud deserved his promo-
1t Is not presumably that he has either
OF qualifications for the admin
.sgvation Of civil government, or the
lnoxledge Of law that cad ertitle him
o retain his own opinions or the con
truction Of = Statute. against the DELHI
rate decision Of the Attorney General,
ustainsd ~ the President and al the
save one.
Above all, being a soldier, and well
moving the rules Of the service, be
new that his letter xas improper. III.
Iecorous and not allowable b. the rules
4 amy service ia the world. Hekasw Il
> Dc a violation Of the Articles df Var
+ GeBeral aRAE9 had done as duty AZ
solcier. be would have placed hsm IN
: moment be read the lattel. Ifi'
H. Is not utterly eeHaded Of
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