The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-03-20

/ TIE telegraph informs US that General Sheridan
has been appointed to the command Of the Fifth Dis
trict composed Of the Territories Of Louisiana and
Texas Headquarters at New Orleans and that other
instructions further than official copy Of the Military
Bill will be forwarded to him. It is more than prob
able that ere this reaches the eye of the reader Gen
Sheridan will have received the necessary credentials
. and the regime be inaugurated The question is
often asked us what shall we do? what is to become
of us? Our invariably is, keep cool and cling
to the anchor Of hope The less have to say about
the matter in anger the better it will be for u.s. One
of the objects of the Radicals in the passage Of the
bill to drive the South into some extreme measure
so as to give them some grounds for proceeding to
general confscaon. Then, for the ronce let US drop
politics and go to work and develop the resources Of
our country for one thing is certain, political dis
franchisement can prevent from doing that. Neither
can they deprive Of moral character nor intel
ectuai Abilities legislate they will. Our present
status demands the greatest prudence and crcuuspec
ton on part. IIasty, conclusions, rash express
sions, and Tndictse inveetves capable of produ
cling much mischief We agree with the New Orleans
Times that cloud talk, fiery denuncations, savage
phillipics, heroic threats-with bitter sarcasms and
taunts against those who may invoke thought and de-
| Internationally only asgravate evils and embarrass
any practical measures for mitigating them.
"The noisy declaimer,-who is always ready to die
in the last dtch,-the time-serving demagogue who
seeks to make little capital by cheap explosion of
wrath against all who will not echo his high sounding
but impotent words, as truckers and recreants can
give US little assistance, nay, will place clogs and OBJ
stacles in way through our present difficulties
The men of firm minds, high courage and self.com-
mand, who think, who can propose something
practicable and wise, and who are not afraid to take
the responsibility face the camor of the thought
less and passionate, and to despise the arts of the
demagogue-these are the men we now need to guide
and direct the sentiments of the people. Have we
not men of this class in State, whose heroism
has been attested in the trying scenes of the re-
cent terrible war, upon whose vaor and devotion the
people relied in the hour Of nict and who since
the close Of the war have been the chief counseors
Of wise, peaceful and calm demeanor? There are
such among us: Let the men OF that class indicate
the course and suggest the to be adopted by
our people! Let them give their views and counsel
in this dark hour Of their country and we venture
the opinion that they will carry more weight and inhu
ence than all the constitutional arguments and indig
nant harrangues Of the political orators. What re-
may proceed from them will command
harmonious support and approval. Unfortunately, all
propositions and schemes emanating from political
bodies, are apt to produce divisions disagreements
heated discussions eaousies and suspicious. But no
such feelings and effects will attend the deliberations
Of citizens of the class described and we earnestly |
nope that they will afford to much embarrassed peo-
pie the light Of their counsel to guide tn EN- in the
present crisis Of our affairs