The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-14
General Sheridan.
From the National Intelligencer.

From the National management |
The agent of the Associate Press" at |
this point learns g from All authentic |
source" that "the design still exists with
the President to supercede General Sheri-
dan as commander of the Fifth Military
District" The Chronicle Of this city also
learns that the President, in conversation
yesterday, anequivocally expressed his IN
tention of removing Sheridan. 1t adds, |
that 'the report that Genaral Thomas is to
be his successor is believed by many;"
accompanying the latter statement, how
ever, by rather "oracular'' announcement
that at is not probable that the President
has committed himself to this appoint
ment." It is little remarkable that these
| announcements are made merely in the
way of ordinary news, and unaecempanied
by the least outcry. h We suspect that IT
| the General should be stripped Of his u.s.
sumed power he will find none so poor
as to do him reverence" There is a great
deal of difference in the consequence OF a
man whether he be in power or out OF
power. -, 49, .
Reviewing General sheridans course
the Intelligencer adds:
y We takeit for granted that under such
. circumstances further forbearance ceases
to be anything but curse, and that some
man having at least a 1.-THE Of civic knoWl,
edge and experience in the grave things Of
ruling an intelligent and brave people, who
} are accustomed to freedom, and the rigid
rule of the law as formed by statesmen and
expounded BY jurists, will he put in the
Mace that General Sheridan has turneo
3 into sort of throne, backed by no Law
r but that of the caprice of the sword. .5
. All this is not new with us. While w
advised compliance by the Southern people
. with the military reconstruction acts, oplln
ion as to their tyrannical character, b.
menacing the liberties of the people OF al
!. States Of the Union, could not be prefer
! mitted. Not until the military comnian
= ders began to transcend the law unde
. which they were appointed did we com
i mence to condemn them. At last the
= went to such extreme lengths that W
; censured, in an article ofsome length, tn
IL policy of appointing men supposed to b
/ satisfactory to usurping Congress, rathe
e than the truly great and experienced &C so
81 diers that abound in the army, who Tx
Y Generals Grant and Sherman, exerci'
t ed a lofty maguanimity towards eve
le rebels in arms, by allowing them, t
e. 20 to their homes, where the
is Should anot BIO molested." When we r
a. mempered that Gen. Grant had said that
or could take Lee and Forrest by the mar
= since that he believed them sincerely d
ID sirous of a restoration ofamicable relation
between the North and the South; VIII,
we remembered his report twenty mont
he ago to Congress, setting forth that tRe co
Ter diioil Of the Southern mind lifted them
zee return to the fold of Union, report IN
ep- Mr.. Sumner denounced as q whitewashi
be one, we could not but. give expression!
lily solemn, sadness and sorrow for the design
or ton, of other than the same kind OF militia
,he chieftains to rule over the people Of
yro South There has been q vide dliffer fe
Sc in the sway of the generals now in pow
to in the several military districts; but IN !
In case now particularly in question, hlst'
at has repeated itself in the fact that the M
ed, restless, the most usurping, and the m
no defiant of the control Of laws or central
be thority, has been the one most remote IT