New-York tribune., 1867-09-07
SHERID4N,S SINS.

head of the Government, as his own explana-
tions of his recent coup d6tat are vapd and
valueess, must be judged by the excavations
promulgated by his professed friends, who, if
not numerous, are at least noisy. According to
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gen. Sheridan, who
is civilly written down "A One-hOrse Radical
martyr,n was removed from his command,
first for being /" thin minded" secondly, be-
cause his admirers " are essentially shallow
pted;n thirdly, "because he was as ready
"to dance as the Radical fiddlers were to sup
"ply the music" and fourthly, because he
made mess of his administration" linen
| Stanton went, we suppose, for the same reasons
because he was q fool, because his admirers were
idiots, because he had his peculiar notions
about dancing, and because he was bad Sec
retary of War. Gen. Sickles in the same way
was decapitated, on account of intellectual te-
| nuity, of the shallow pates of his admirers
of his views of the Terpsichorean art, and OF
his failure to keep his administration out of
| "a messn Whoever else may go, Will go Tor
| the same reasons, for being thin minded, for
being admired by the shallow-pated, for dane
ing to suit himself, and for making . mess"
| We wonder how the President would like his
| own physic administered to meet his own prl-
yate complaints by the popular doctorsg
In the first place, the President pro tenn. 1--WE
must write it so once for our own satlslactlon)
NAV not be thin minded" but whosoever has
read his speeches will acknowledge that he is
not what may be properly called an intellectual
luminary. We should like to have constltu-
tional opinion from Mr.. Stanbery as to the
relative delinquency OF thin-mindedness ana
thick -headedness. We have never heard any
body Except one country postmaster In state
of dismal and judically disqualifying appre'
hension) venture to affirm that Mr.. Johnsons
"mnd" was of the first order, or that he was
a logcian, philosopher, orator, statesman,
scholar, lawyer, and general sage, all rolled
into one overwhelmingly great man. Indeed,
we have always thought his speeches to IN
dicatc that degree of confOunded confusion
which results from cerebral density. Most OF
| these philippics have borne a close resemblance
| TO eternity, and have been without beginning
middle, or end and we have often believed
| that they would have, rather than else, more
sensible sound if they should be read back
ward. We say nothing of insults offered to the
shade of the lamented Lindley Murray. We
say nothing of passages in which the inteipoa-
ton of hccougl" has been strangely omitted,
out of carelessncss or benevolence, by the re-
porter. We are speaking now merely of the
striking and curious muddlc of thoughts, IDEAS,
arguments and illustrations. a " "thln-mmded
"manr like Gen. Sheridan might escape this odd
bewiderment; it is only your thick-headed
! gentleman who involves himself in labyrinth
| of expression, and is obliged to bolt from the
connection, or break lamentably down. Upon
the whole of the two head pieces we prefer
gallant Phil. SherdanS.
In the second place, if the admirers of Gen.
Sheridan are essentially shallow -pated,' we
do not well see how he can be fairly punished
for their nGrmities and Deficiencies. We have
| ourselves been weak enough 10 find much to
| admire i'm the career of the gallant General !;
but we must, with what force we possess, pro-
test against holding him responsible for our
errors of judgment. Are those who yenerate
the President, and who consider him 10 be
thick minded, deep -pated, good as great, and
a. great as any other man, dead or living; are
those who peal his praises and clamor of
| his perfectOns, remarkable for accuracy OF
Judgment and for greatness of mindl We are
fairer than the President Because this Custom
House ass, or that Post Office lickspttle thinks
al
parchment When that bad bard, B. B. French,
esq, wrote a string of the worst possible deca-
syllabcs in praise of A. Johnson, esq, We sim
ply castigatcd Mr.. French, and merely pltied
Mr.. Johnson. We did not hold the President
responsible for the broken-b backed verses OF the
poet When A. j. is willing To be judged by
his friends and companions, we do not think
| that Gen. Sheridan will shrink from Il similar
ordeal.
Thirdly fault is found with Gen. Sheridan
because he dances TO Radical tunes. Cnfor-
tunately for the President he dances to no
tune at all He sticks pretty well to the figure
of Cavalier seul," but nobody can tell, as he
treats us To his writings and boundings, what
new steps nc may next introduce into his ex-
traordinary performances. Better " Radical
music say we, than the not over melodious
whistling of the Attorney General! Better n
little plain, honest figuring than the Presl-
dents perpetual double shuiiles!
Fourthly, Gen. Sheridan is supplanted "be-
"cause he has made mess of his admnistra-
"tion.n Here the President invites us to
consider the steadness, conference, and general
responsibility of his own public management,
There are those who think that something like
"a nessr has been observable in affairs in
Washington, and may, by tho aid of micro
scopes, be discovered there now. AT any rate,
the Executive affairs are in such condition of
promiscuous disarrangemcnt that he must be a
bold man who ventures to predict what may
happen next. God help the President if Major
| Generals are to be supplauted "for making n
'messw
The President is provoking a comparison
| between the condition of things in Washing