The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-09
Military Outrage at Eleksbnrg.

Read and digest. Comment Is unnecessary
We referred very briefly, in the Times of Sunday
morning to the dsgraceful order which was issued to
Mayor Maljby last Saturday, in the case OF Mrs Johh
Trford who declared 10 have yellow fever. we
learned yesterday that this atrocous outrage NAG lss
birth the headquarters OF BreFct Mayor zen: ofu
and all the glory oral the shame, OF the most snoch
ing brutal and cowardly piece of vandalism ever per-
perated in any civilized community since the creation,
must forever upon the head of the commander OF
district No. t
Our readers will remerber. that on Friday evening
Mrs. Trifora the wife Of respectable citizen, was
taken ILL., and Sunday morning two physicians de-
cared her disease yellow fever though two osher
physicians decided the case was not one OF yellow
fever. In this state of the case an order emanateu
from the headquarters Of Major General Ord, com
handing Mayor Matby to have her removed to the
City Hospitall With degree Of sense and humanity
which does honor to Gen M},thy he procured revo-
cation or suspension of this outrageous ordeT anu as
consequence, Mrs Tsiford remains at her home
We ask people to think for one moment, ct tile
arocity to say nothing of the nsocnce of this order
from the headquarters of all the wisdom III Ebistrct
No. t." Here is a woman, wife and mother, SICK
in her own house, and General Ord, humanely, mag
unanimously exercises his supreme power, ana orders
that poor woman to be taken from her home torn
from the arms and the loving care and kindness Of her
husband and sent to hospital We do not suppose
that General Ord knows the fact, it seems so d1cut
to beat little common into the heads OF epau-
lette that he may be pardoned Tor Ills lS"o.
rance but hospitals established Tor the beeht OF
people without homes, for those untortunates who
have mot where lay their heads and not Tor pco-
pie who have home.
Mrs. Triford has home was sick under her own
roof reposing upon her own bed, and was watched
over by her husband and tended by her friends hat
happened to Mrs. Triford may happen to-day or to,
morrow to any other lady in this city Any wife, SIS
ter daughter who may cha'ce TO have yellow fever,
maybe dragged from her home, with all It's comforts
and endearments, and to public hospital, for
fear that some beloved shouder-strap '~earer may
catch the infection. Possibly the good sense of Mayor
Maltby may always prevail, aud it shou!derstraps
should get badly denoraised, the order may be en-
forced though we would advise a little caution in the
matter of its enforcement for much doubt if there
is solitary white in this city who would not
make lis aoor slippery and crimson with Blood and
perish at the bedside of his wife daughter, rather
than this brutal edct Of desposm carried out.
General Ord is {. married man, has wife and
daughters and pnt the question to him, how would
voa act under such circumstances Suppose some
military brgand should order yo, wife your dangl
tcrs to be taken from your comfortable home and sent
to public hospital, what would y0u do, General Ord
Would YOU quietly submit, or would you rather not
strike the rufian dead wherever You could meet him
IF you would not advise you take off your uniform
send your family to one who has sufficient man
illness and courage to protect them, and then2ge hang
yoursef-the earth needs no snch ctmberer. The
idea, besides being insane and brutal, is absolutely
murdcrous for we will, for very small commission
guarantee that ninety-scvcn out OF every hundred
patients, treated in accordance with DR.. Ords theory
will have greater need for the undertaken than any
else in t.is world. Nnety-scvcn out of hundred
will be dead in sixteen hours from the time of their
removal, and this anybody who yellow fever
can demonstrate. But military wisdom is unfathom
able and we know not what day CT an hour may
bring forth.
TIE PRESIDENT on TILE AMSEsTY.-A Washington
dispatch to the St. Louis Republican states that Pres
dent Johnson, in conversation with some Southern
politicians lately, informed them that he could not,
without mourning certain risk of impeachment, order
the rcoponing of the registration lists in the South,
and admitted that the reconstruction laws confer on
the district military commanders sole power those
matters. He stated that his only power Of interfer
ence was the removal of the commanders when they
failed to execute laws in accordance with his views
Of their legal construction. He stated that in issuing
bis proclamation of amnesty he had thrown the onus
of deprivng legally qualified voters from registering
and enjoying the right Of suffrage Congress, and
hoped that the Southern people would understand the
situation in that light They must seek redress
ment will rest equally them and Congress, as he
claimed that lie had done all that he could do to re-
store them to their rights.
MoRE ABOUT Brow .Low.-The Washington Intel
Egenccr of the 9th ut in speaking of Tennessee af
fairs, says the Of Brownlow las become synony-
nous with the viest and most dcspicable treacherv
and the most reckless and INSCRIPTIONS tyranny.
With his standing army at his back, he makes and
makes laws, and legislatures, and constitutions and
courts and enforces his clcts at the point of the
bayonct. His last act of Inscriptions despotisn is
the uterancc of proclamation multiplying the charters
of Nashville ani other cities of Tennessee and renuir
ing the municipal elections to be held 10y Judges and
clerks elected Ivy his commissioners of registTa
ton, instead of by the municipal boards, provided
by the charters. His organ in coarse, bullying STYLE
chuckcs this latest usurpation and menaces the
people with its enforcement by BrownIow's militia
The people Of Tennessee have been truly very cruelty
cursed with the dcspotsn of this political monster.
lie has since enforced his cdict at the point of the
oayonct
GooD News NoRTu-The New Orleans |
Times says that "priyac letters from New York state
hat public opinion at the North is becoming quite de-
,dcd in its opposition to the Radical doctrine of uni
yersa equality as applied to the white and black races