Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-05-30
Mayor Monroe and the Dispatch
VS.. General Sheridan.


from the true province of journalism
to notice the billingsgate and low
abuse, which the editor Of the Dis
patch is SO free to heap upon all men
who have dared to be loyal to their
government. Our aim is to furnish
our readers with discussions Of prs"-
siples, not with abuse of men. But
when the Dispatch attempts IN one
breath, as it has attempted in a late
issue. to laud and extol that notorl-
GUS rebel and cut throut ex-Mayor
Monroe of New Orleans, and to vii
hfy and denounce that brave ana
gallant soldier of the Unlsn army,
Gen. Phil. Sheridan, we are COM
PEELED to speak. 1t is matter of pub
lie notoriety, that Mayor Monroe
has been Of all rebels the meanest
and most contemplate. He has not
only been guilty of treason against
his government, which he had time
and again solemnly sworn to protect
and defend, but to this he has added
the crimes of the assassin and muir
derer. The evidence taken by the
Congressional Committee in the in
vestigation of the New Orleans riots,
shows beyond question that Mayor.
Monroe net only sympathized with,r
but assisted in planning and organic
ing those bloody riots of July last,
which resulted in the massacre of SO
many innocent and inoffensive men.
1t is also matter of public notoriety,
that since the close of the war Mayor
Monroe has done as much, if net
more than any other man In the
South, to heap insult and abuse upon
our officers and soldiers stationed in
the Southern States, and retard the
restoration of the power and authori-
ty of the General Government in
that section Of the country. In a
word, if there is one rebel more low
lived, contemplate and mean than
another, that one is ex-Mayor Mon
roe. 1t is also matter of public no
toriety that Gen. Sheridan from the
commencement of the war cast in his
lot with those brave men, who deter
mined to save their country or lose
their lives in the attempt, and he
perhaps as much as any other one man
contributed to the success of our
arms. Beloved by his own men, he
at the same time commanded the
respect of his enemies by his valor
and bravery. Yet this man the edi-
tor of the Dispatch, has the impu-
dence to villify and denounce as
"that Satrap Sheridan" because he
removed from the mayoralty of New
Orleans, man whose reasonable
and murderous practices made his
longer continuance In Office dis
grace to the city, and an insult to
the nation. Yet we are not so much
surprised at this "hewl'' from the
Dispatch, when we consider the ma
ture of the animal that produced it.
In his view the greatest crime man
can commit is to have fought fer his
country, while the meaner the rebel,
the stronger his admiration for him.
Let the "boys in blue" of old Gallia
remember these facts, when this
thing" comes whining about them
with his talk of "negro equality and
''unequal taxation" and his loud
professions of friendship for the
soldier. You can just put it down
in black and white, that wherever
you find man denouncing and abus-
ing the officers of the Union army,
he has no more love fer the crank
and fle," his own professions to the
contrary notwithstanding. He has
the same occasi ien to hate both, they
were both loyal to the Government.
When you meet such man, soldiers,
''spot" him. He is not "reliable"
And while we are willing that the
editor of the Dispatch, or any other
man who wishes, should lick the
shoes and kiss the big toe Of Mayor
Monroe from now to eternity, they
must not presume to couple there
with insult and abuse. of the brave
officers and soldiers of the Union
army.