The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-28

Pm. SHERIDAN Is rapidly showingup to
the country how easily mere military
person, knowing nothing outside of the
drill room camps marches and battle
fields, can deyelopc into an unmitgated
fool, when undertaking TO play the role OF
civilian. His late rapid career In New Or
leans has done more to open out the silly
rccklessncss Of his composition and the inn
beciity of his mental caliber than all the
incidents of the war. A shaggy bull clerk
Ing in n china store or monkey playing
and chattering and lighting upa powder
house with ilre-crackers would br no
more absurd, than to install this fussy little
shouldcr-strap in positions where civil
laws are to be administered and enforced
with enlightenment, judgment aud Impair
tlality.
A few Of the merest partisans, here and
there, are patting the little fellow on the
back and Initiating his swollen selfsuni-
cheney with their fippant concentrations.
but they are rare and belong exclusively to
the malignant and narrow minded hnters of
the President. The following, from the
New York Times, Radical enough, in all
conscience, is Of a different style. The
Times Is aluding to SHLRIDAN's letter to
General GRANT, Ia which he percmptorily
rebelled against eAecutingHn order Of the
President:
Very unusual and extraordinary Ian
guage We remember no parallel to it In
recent military history. IL Gen. Sheridan
were engaged in popular canvass he
might, perhaps. properly make such an
issue with the President. But he Is hold
ing an appointment under the President.
and Is directed, as a subordinate officer of
the army, to execute certain law of the
land. How can he alt in Judgment upon
the orders he receives from the President
In regard to the performance of his duty ?
What right has he to recOgui2c-still less
TO assign rs reason for protesting against
the Presidents orders - the Presidents
opinion on the subject before the law was
passed: suppose every army officer should
thus assume the right TO sit In Judgment
ON the orders hc receives, and to hold up
the Presidents private opinions as u rca-
son for hcsitating to obey his orders?'
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives this opin-
ion of his rebcllious arrogancc-and it Is
what every man will feel who is not too
deeply impregnaied with the venom of
Radical poison:
~ lhl dS We ldNt ltdEntil, llllS military
Satrap, who thus puts himself at issue with
the President and the Executive authori-
ties at Washington, has been suffered to
retain his position by the latter. They par
TALLY submit to the Snubbing, if not def
ance, which they have received at his hands
and continuc to allow him to do ~ he
chooses in this matter. The President of
the nited States has submitted to much
disgrace and humiliation, but none that Is
equal To this insult from one Of his subor-
dlnatcs. II II l. not resented in the only
way in which It can be resented by the
President the removal of General sheridan
ana his public rebuke, then there is no low
er pool of degradation into which the Pres
idential office can descend
There is hardly any language which
will suitably describe the enormity Of Shcr.
idan's conduct in Louisiana. II seems tC
have been his aim to 50 manage affairs rs tC
make Generals Butler and Banks. who
have been considered prodigics of cruelty
and bascness, respectable In compnrisoi
with him. In this he has met with great
measure of success. Butler and Bank,
may have been more rapacious and person.
ally corrupt but their tyranny was not sc
wantonly oppressive, and was not charac.
teriled by such mean and malignant
spirit. Butlerand Banks have the apology
TOO, OF being commanders there while III,
war was rogressing-when the popular
passions, North and South, were excited to
an Intense degree, and when cNcesses o
authority were more pardOnablC. But fui
Sheridan there has been no such excuse
In state Of profound peace, he has KEEP,
up the most oppressive OF the war meas.
urcS, and he has done il i'm the most AFRO.
giant ana offensive manner that il Is posi-
bic to conceive of.
The real elements of man are general,
better demonstrated by comparatively triy
inl than by incidents and circumstances o
dignilied prominence. Little airs and lit
tie tricks-fussy arrogance and vulgar pre-
tensions, often come to the surface and ex
pose the little soul which had affected i'm
mense greatness and strutted upon tn
public stage with bladder-puffed windnes
and vain esteem.
correspondent of the Boston Post re
lates these personal incidents Of SHERIpA An
when he was putting on his airs of dig
nifty
being fellow passenger from New or
leans ON the cars for Berwick Bay, on tn
9th of November last, had favorable OF
tion.
" As the road was short of rolling-stoel
and the train crowded to excess this Office
and his stan, consisting of four and tw
orderlies, took possession of one car en-
tirely, and stationed a soldier at each doc
TO prevent common people from occupyin
seat therein. In consequence many
the passengers had to take turns in siftin
during ride of eighty miles. in the war;
days of autumn. On arrival at Berwick h
cnsconced himself and military family /
the social saloon, and no outsider was pei
mit:ed to enter, though each passenger la
AS much rightthere as the party who apprC
prated it exclusively to themselves, Til
modesty of Farragut, when he conquere,
New Orleans. in comparisCn with the arrC
giant assumptions of Sheridan, is a cnntra
by no means favorable to the latter"
In all this what other characteristics ca
be discovered in such fellows mental an
moral makeup than those of "a vulga
lOw-liyed snobg
Effects of Emancipation.