The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-24
Another Determination Demanded.

iected by President JOHNSON to take
charge Of the various Military De
partments Of the South, organized BY
Act of Congress, Gen. SoHoFIELD was
regarded as the most conservative
Even the Democracy had unlimited
confidence in his entire freedom from
any and everything that sayored Of
Radicalism. One Department at
least, they thought and said, would be
managed according to the President s
ideas of reconstruction. One Depart
ment would be kept out Of the hands
of the negroes and their aids and
abettors. Gen. SoHoFIELD went to
his post and assumed the response
bility of his position. There is every
reason to believe that he conceded,
politically, with the views Of the
President. 1t is evident that he de-
sired to carry out the law of Congress
for the reconstruction of the States
in his Department in good faith. lie
now learns that it was no part of the
design of either the President or the
Democratic party that the law should
be enforced in good faith. He was
expected 10 defeat the law and not
execute It. He was expected to place
the State of Virginia in the hands of
the men who rebelled against the
Government, aud did their best TO
capture the National Capital. He was
expected to plaoethe only truly loyal
men in that State at the mercy Of
their former masters, lie was OK
pccted, above ali, to secto il that Fir.
ginia was brought back into 1.-THE
Union as reliable for the Demo
cratic ticket as when she went
out. Had he been successful
in coming up to-sthese expectations,
he would loom up to-day a prominent
candidate on the Democratic ticket
for President. The Democratic par
ty has no objections to soldiers when
they prove false to the principles for
which they fought, 1T is demanded
of all the Department Commanders,
that they prove falseito the law under
which they operate in order to re-
main faithful and acceptable to the
Democratic party. Hardly had some
of them established their headquar-
tiers, before they were assailed most
vioiously by the rebel papers in the
South and the Democratic papers in
the North. AS before and during
the war, these papers in both sections
harmonic most beautifully. The re-
moval of first one, then another, of
these faithful officers, was pertiua-
ciously demanded, until the President |
yielded to the clamor and |
relieved the one he re-
garded as the most obnox-
ious of the FIVE. But this was
not sufficient to appease the wrath or
silence the clamor OF his newly made |
admirers. Then another commander
was forced to resign. Still the cry is
for decapitation, and now we find that |
SCHoFIELD himself, a Con-
sentative Of the Conservatives, IS as
sailed in the most savage manner
because he does not execute the Re-
Act in Virginia in such
q way as to; insure that State for the
Democratic party. Under the recent
registration there is a strong prob
ability that Constitutional Conven-
ton will be called. a Constitution
and the State brought back
into the Union. This is precisely
what the Democratic party objects to,
unless the State is so reconstructed
as to insure its electoral vote for that
political organization, Gen. lSCHo-
FIELD has failed to do their dirty
work. HenceHorth he may expect
their anathemas. The party dogs, /
like the National Intelligencer, are
upon his track, and they will hound
him until, yielding to their clamor,
the President disposes of him as has
been done with SHERIDAN and
SICKLEs before him, IA .ad 1r. /
1t must furnish food for thought"
to the intelligent-this fact that no
officer, whatever may have been his
party predilections in the past, can
what he regards as his duty
arousing the luminosity of the 4
Democratic neMsnaners The con- |