The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-07-17
Sheridan and His Letter.

The country has had enough, and more
than enough, of Phillip Sheridans impu-
audience He has done moth. |.
| ing but make mischief and trouble since
he was appointed to command in Louisi-
ana and Texas. He has assumed, as At.
torney General Stanbery said in his Opin.
ion, that he was the State. and has made
and unmade Governors, Judges, Attorney
Generals, Mayors, Levee Commissioners,
aud annulled statutes, at pleasure.
~ His last letter to General Grant |
should procure his dismissal in disgrace
from the army. A more impudent concoc-
ton was never conceived by military
commander, and Sheridan would not have
: dared to write it had he not supposed that
Congress would meet in few days and so
tie the hands of the President as to make
, District Commanders independent OF him.
1t is this idea and the incense with which
he has been fed by the Radical press, which
!. has stuffed him with vanity and insolence.
He imagines it to be his province to re-
D buke the President, and, in writing to the
9 officer second in command in the nation, to
: question the motives Of him who is high
? est in command, and to berate and Witty
e the Attorney General of the United States,
n because, forsooth, that eminent jurist has
O seen proper to declare what are the provis-
q ions of a law submitted to him for examl-
o nation. ;: 80
. . It is charitable to SUPPOSE that Sheridan
e was drunk or crazy when he wrote this
u letter to General Grant. 1t is in fact an
Re insult to Grant. 1t assumes that he Will
e. indorse it's insOlence and it's censures OF the
y President and the Attorney General. 1t
N assumes that Grant will approve OF con-
Y, duct unbecoming an officer and gentle
of man, and will sympathize with the ieehngs
ia which actuated the writer. Sheridan has
~ forgotten the rebuke which Grant gave the
10 Radicals in Cincinnati for disrespect shown
y the President.
OIL The letter intimates that the writer hat
n the affairs not only of Louisiana and leXas
en- on his hands, but those Of the nation III
in refuses to comply with the Presidents IN
m structions, because ''he does not feel llk
nd keeping up expensive Boards Of Reglstra
no tion to suit new issues" What have hi
m feelings to do with the matterg VIVA
r. new issues were raised by the opinion Q
NJ the ATTORNEY Generals Sheridan had HI
De- orders. He refused to obey them, and al
cir stoned lie as q reason for doing so. IN
to oninion raised no new issue. 1t settle
ice old ones. It settled issues which the val
'di- itv and malevolence and contempt of la
the in Sheridan had raised. 1t defined h
ese nowers and those of Boards of Registr
he ton, and if the registry has been comp
mo. ted in Louisiana, it has been done IN del
tho ance of law, and thousands OF voters NAY
VIZ 20 been excluded from the lists who were Q
VI TITLED to vote under the law.
the He "tloes not feel like afording to WIN
ned men an opportunity to vote, but ne 40
ms ''feel like" registering the Ignorant ana
ems graded negroes in louisiana anu pls NJ
'oye them in control Of the government OF NE
der Orleans and of the State. rms GRIMM
erty and infamous work suits him. ne 1ee
ery, like performing it at the bidding OF yei
far far nous pfohigates, who play the toady
,;nf him in his apostasy, and VINO, were
NE: true to the political principles whlcn
'llt,' advocated before he became debaached
'uid' the advancement he has received, Wo,
in- curse him as rebel, drunkard ana
how red-mouthed Irishman." His head Is tu
line, ed by adulation. ne pra
resi- of the opinion of the Attorney General
ould Opening road for perjury ana Ira9 LUZ
, his travel on" The registration when
{ h;s saws is completed in the State, was carr
pre- Oh py on ohusr 'i to tbe law which he
er as ~ =, snn,ort II was carried on
ng Of S 1sr his direetion in all it's stages, and
as to unanswerable argument of the Attor1
over General writes perjured broadly across
h the forehead of Phillip Sheridan. We d
b the seen for what the perjury was commit
to be 1t was to assist In the perpetrall.G,n !.
Dan. crime SO enormous anu iesta'rns vr~v
at he comparison WIZ sn ~, os, T;,,oO
Marty lrlflHl tIIcI.- lShioSS" A