The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-20
Ritllmoud 1ispatth.
TUESDAY .,......AUGUST 20, 1867.
The New Shuttle of Commanders.

Inc new VI >.
Tho telegraph brings the news Of the
removal Of General SHERIDAN from the
District Of Louisiana and Texas, and bis
appointment to the Department of Mis-
souri,. He is succeeded by General
THOMAS, who has heretofore commanded
the Department Of Tennessee and ken-
lucky. General THOMAS is succeeded pS
General HANCOCK, an officer who belongs
to the class of kind and conslderate men.
Those ,novements on the chess board OF
national politics must be perpiex'he y
the Radicals. While we can see ID 'hen.
no immediate advantage to result W VI,
ton States now undergoing the pain'u
process Of reconstruction, We can wen nn-
dcrstand how they both vex and perpleA
northern Republicans. SHERIDAN certain
u is transported entirely out OF the terri
tory Of rcbeldom, and goes to the State OF
Missouri, where he can by no means
make things worse. His remover IS ollen-
,;vc 70 Radicals, and will excite their
rage: but, then, THOMAS IS appointed IN
his place, and he being Republican ana
Union man of sternest stamp, and DIS
,;rcrished for services in the iicld-ln TINS
particular excelling SnERIDAN--this rage
will be deprived of its effect, and It's force
will be broken like the waves that dash
rnon rocky cliff. THOMAS is a man
somewhat after the order OF GRANT,
though less generous and forbcar'ng TO-
wards the South. We don't know that
we NAV decidedly congratulate the people
Of his district upon the exchange OF Shh-
r,,,v for him. Yet we confess we would
prefer him.
|, has been suspected in some quarters
tba, the recent change at Washington, and
this which now has taken place, were de-
signed to throw confusion into the Radlcai
camp. 1t was supposed that by the re-
moyal of SHERIDAN it was Intended to
lr;pr new and formidable candidate for
tlc Presidency into the field, in order to
break up the game already far advanced.
But the putting Of THOMAS in his place
somewhat confoundS this prophecy, by
taking away from SHERIDAN all, or nearly
all, the advantage in popular sympathy
which he derived from his removal. He
is left like frosted apple, much shrlvelled
aud ,tuntcd, and not destined to attain full
growth.
GrANT has been claimed as RcpubG-
can. His consent to be the instrument
with which to turn out STANTON has much
mmrcd his favor amongst the extreme Ra-
dica!s; but tic man he succeeds is as little
cut out for nominee for the Presidency
as Il fish is for q residence upon the land.
So that what GRANT may lose in the pro-
cCcding is not added to STATIONS capital,
and it is not at all clear to whose benefit
il will cnure, if to anybody's.
Thus far we cannot see that GRANT Is
much injured, while We do not perceive
that Il lift is given TO any Radical aspirant.
Further Developments must take place
before it can be clearly seen that any one
motive yet attributed TO the Federal Adj
minstratiun is that which actuatcs it in
the recent movements. We cannot see
that these movements are 10 be especially
beneficial to the South. The poor South
must go through the forms Of conformity
to the reconstruction acts, which no hand
can lit up from off of the ten rebellious"
States. Nor can we see that by any arti-
fee the conduct of the President can be
made the prctcxt for further expressions
Of our people. That General SHERIDAN
had assumed more authority than any Of
the commanders is clear, and the Pre-
sidcnt may well have conceived that his
removal was demanded 10y considerations
Of justice as well as peace. But as q Re-
publican general of austcre Union scnti-
mcnts takes his place, no ground is left on
which the dominant party of tho North
can accuse the President or demand
further disabilities Of southern people
to insure the contamination of congress
sional reconstruction.