Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-05
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Sheridan at Work.

FROM New } Ork comes the gfallIN wing
intelligence that General Sheridan, in pur-
suance ofthe authority conferred upon him
bv the new Reconstruction Law, has re-
moved from office Mayor John I. Monroe,
Andrew J. Heron, .tuorney General of the
State, and Edmund A)ell, Judge of the
First District Court of New Orleans, and
appointeh loyal men in their places. Three
more virulcnt or mischicvouS rebels could
not have been selected as an example in the
whole Southern country. Whoever has
read the history of the massacre of July
seth, and especially the report of the Con
gressional Committee, must have been i'm
pressed with the conviction that these three
men, more than any others, were response
ble for that savage butchery of innocent
and unofiending men, and tor the subse-
quent reign of terror that has made Louis
lana an unsafe residence for conspicuous
Union men ever since. The announce
ment that they have been removed. and
that the Government of the United States
is actually supreme there once more, will
PEELED to fly for their lives The Union
men who were turned out of office in 1860.
TO make room for men fresh from the armies
OF Dick TAYLOR and General Lee, before
they had time tn exchange the Confeder-
ate uniform for the habit of civilians, will
hold up their heads again, in the assurance
that the power of the Government and the
sympathics of the American people are
tir,. t.,r thnfr -,
place of Mayor Monroe. than whom,
probably no worse enemy of Union men
lives, General Sheridan has appointed Mr..
Edward Heath, a man whose sympathics
have always been with the cause OF the
Union, and of late with the Radicals
Monroe has filed the police force with
eX-rebcl soldiers and ruflianS, and carefully
excluded every man who ever served in
the Federal army. or was suspected of
sympaihizing with il in any manner In
fact, il Is saId he would not entertain an
application for appointment on the force
unless ii was accompanied by a certificate
OF service in the Confederate army. The
character OF his police was sufficiently de
monstraied hy Tie wholesale slaughter
they perpeirated i'm July. The first duty
OF 1Ir. Heath will be tO dismiss this gang
of rutlianS and murdeTerS rs fast As he can
supply their places with competent and
loyal men, This viii not bc difficult, rs
under the military rule Of Generals Butler
and Banks, loyal and efficient force was
organized and ofiiccred 10y men as compe-
tent as any in the country. OF course they
were all dismissed in lS6i. but it will now
be only necessary to recall them To- pro
cure at once well disciplined loyal police
force. Doubtless such will be required for
Monroc's five hundred rufiians will now bc
turned loose upon society, smartIng under
the humiliation of official discharge from
the places they have disgraced
The same principle that regulated the
organization of the police, controlled in
every department of the so-called govern
ment. Every Office, whether filled by
election or by appointment, was given
either to a rebel soldier or to man who
had made himself conspicuous in civil
capacity as friend of the rebellion and 4
haicr of " ankeeS." To this rule Cover
nor Wells formed solitary exception. and
he was tolerated because il was thought he
had influence in Washington, and because
OF his open apostacy to- the Union cause,
which he has since professed TO repent SO
bitterly. The Auditor, DOStic, although
elected by the people. Was expelled from
his Office by force and without tlt shadow
OF law al the Governors order. and a man
was installed in the place who was then "a
believer in Johnson and his policy, but
whose subsequent experience has made
him Radical and an avowed friend of ne
gro suffrage, he having discovered that the
smiles of the rebels were transient and de-
ceptive, and only Il mask for furious and
reyengefGl hatred. The Sheriff was turned
out in open defiance of provision of the
State Constitution to make room for a
rcputed rebel fugitive from the battle OF
Shiloh. And within the last eight months
every school-teacher who consented to
teach under ''Y ankee rule, has been turned
out to give place for those who were either
I too malignant in their hatred of the Gov
ernment to teach under the national fiag.
or those who unsuccesStully applied iol
positions and failed because of incompetent
cy and then represented themselves Confed-
crate martyrs. None were spared who
were found teaching at the time of the sur
render ofthe rebel armies. To comprehend
the full depth of the malice which dictated
I this sweeping prescription, il should bC
understood thar many of the teachers ''ir
/ Yankee times" were known TO sympathiZC
with the rebellion, but accepted place:
solely as means of support. Many o.
them had aged parents or young children
dependent on their salaries for their daily
bread But these were turned out as re
morselcssly as the avowed Unionists. Th'
fact that even want and threatened pauper
ism had driven these ladies to teach schoo
under Yankee rule, and TO execute the or
ders oftheir superiOrs in teaching the pupil
to sing the national airs, constituted al
I offence which the generous Monroe an,
his associates could not forgive. Every
competent teacher who was driven from
the schOOl-roOm because of Union senti
ments, will doubtless be restored now tha
Heath, and not Monroe, is Mayor CLica9
| Tribune.