The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-31
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The New York Tribune, of the
9th, has the following donble-leaded
editorial on the removal Of Generals
Sickles and Sheridan: -
What order Gen. Sicl1les has DISC
beyed, what authority he has usurped,
the people have not etbeen informed.
The President, in removing him, has
simply exercised arbitrary power,
without justification or excuse. Gen.
Sickles has been removed solely be-
cause he enforces the laws of Con-
gress according to the letter, and in
the spirit the people dictate-because
the President will not have them en-
forced. It is war upon the laws that
Mr.. Johnson has begun-plain war,
under the color of Executive author
ity to remove and appoint. General
Candy, who is to succeed Sickles, is
yet to be tried, and we need not
doubt that the President will try him.
In May, 1865, he was appointed to
the command of the Department of
the Gulf, retaining it till superseded
by Sheridan; but while in that posi-
ton assumed no responsibility upon
which his course in the Carolinas may
be justly predicted. This much needs
to be said-the successors of Sheri-
dan and Sickles, tho men appointed
by Andrew johnson, cannot escape q
certain suspicion. Generals Candy
and Hancock must be content with q
suspension of Judgment, and are en-
titled to that consideration by their
honorable record as soldiers. They
will stand or fall, as they are foes or
friends of the law.
The ITibuue has been severely cri-
ticised because it has criticised Gen.
Grant. We do not regret anything
we have said of the General of tho
Army; we found him silent in the
Presidents Cabinet, and the official
instrument by which Sheridan was
removed. We demanded to know
why he accepted such an extraordi-
nary position before we chose to sus-
tain him therein. We are now re-
joiced to say that, if his letter to the
President, if the news we print to-
day, do not fully provo that General
Grant is n thorough Republican, they
unquestionably do prove that he is
not in sympathy with Andrew john
son. Mr.. johnson has over-ruled his
arguments, and reversed his orders,
and has even gone SO far rs to direct
Sheridan to go ut once to the plains,
though Grant had summoned him to
Washington. Nay, he has gone fur
ther; he has instructed Gen. Thomas
to maintain all orders he should find
in force in the Fifth District; the
President instructs Hancock to annul
whatever he sees fit. This is direct
issue, and no man, who honestly ho-
nors Grant for his services in the
field-who honestly desires to know
him as friend of reconstruction
will fail to rejoice that it is made.
There is n gulf between the people
and the President, and those whom
the people trust must stand upon their
side of it. No bridge is possible. No
man, however great his popularity,
can reconcile belief i'll the laws OF
Congress with voluntary obedience to
the Presidents policy; and the sooner
the "open rupture" which General
Grants friends predict, occurs-the
sooner he speaks rs soldier should
the hotter it will be for himself and
for the country
TRIBUNE SCnArs.-The following
paragraphs. from the Tribune, of
Wednesday, show tbo ton,er of +bo