Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-07-03
Gen. sheridan's Notorious Letter.


Below, will be found letter from Gen. Sheri-
dan, commander Of the Fifth Military District,
Louisiana and Texas, to Gen. Grant. The said
letter which Gen. Grant has not yet answered,
has necessarily attracted universal attention, and
excited, among all but the dcepest-dyed Radicals,
intense indignation. This impertinent and ego
tisical letter is addressed by a subordinate to the
President Of the United States, whom, the Con-
sti,utien says, "shall be Commander-in. Chief OF
tic army and navy of the United States" The
registration in Louisiana having been conducted
pretty much in accordance with Gen. Sheridan's
own individual views and plans, (Which look to
the exclusion of all who will not voto on the
Radical sidc) he was ordered by the President
to extend the registration one month, in order to
have fair and full registration according to law.
Gen. Shcrdan's letter shows for itself; there is
no use discussing it. He has clothed himself in
the robes of Jupiter Olympus and impcTtincntly
hurled his thunderboits into the faces of the
President, the Constitution, and the Supreme
Court; for the hitter body said expressly, when
the Reconstruction Acts were before them for
consideration, that tho duties imposed on the
several Commanding Generals "must necessarily
DC performed under the snperUi.ion cf,the Psesi-
dent as Commander in Chief" But Gen. Shcri-
dams whole course in Louisiana aud Texas-long
before the preparation of this lettcr-has proved
him to bc au unscrupulous agent of wickedness,
strife, confusion, and party ,cfshncss Hc de-
serves punishment and ma no be caught in
ruin ten times worse than ours, ere be succeeds
in his infamous designs upon our country.
HEAD'Rs FIFTH military DIsTRIcT,
New ORLEANS, La, June %, 1867.
General u. S. Grant, Commanding Armies United
States, Washington, d. c.:
Gcperal-I am in receipt Of telegram from
the President, through Brcvct Major Gen. &. D
Townsend, 4. A.. &. U. S. Army, directing me to
extend the registration in this city and State
until August l, unless have good reasons TO the
contrary. aud ordering me to report such reasons
for his information. Also, stating that in hi:
Judgment this extension. is necessary 10 aful and
fair registration, and that the time should be thus
extended because the other district commanders
will not get through before that timo
Ny reasons for closing the registration in this
city were because haa gwen INC city Two anu
half months and there were no more to register
I have given the State two and . half months
and registration will be exhausted by that time.
I did not feel warranted in keeping up boards
of registration, Mt large expense, to suit new is
s.ues coming in at the eleventh hour.
The registration will be completed in Louisiana
at the time specified, unless am ordered to carry
ont the law under Mr. Stanbcry's Interpretation
which practically, in registration, is opening !
broad lnacadamizcd road for perjury and fraud tt
travel on. I do not sec why my registration
should be dependent on the time when other dis
trict commanders get through. 1 have given
more time for the registration Of Louisiana than
they propose to give in their commands, for
commenced six weeks before they did. regret
that should have to differ with the President
but i: must be rccollocted that I have been or
dercd to execute q law to which the President ha,
been in bitter aptagonism. If, after this report
the time is TO be extended, please notify me, and
it will be done. 1 would do it at once, but the
Presidents telegram was conditional, and there
is sufficient time left to issue the necessary order
p. II. SHERIDAN, Major Gen'l.