Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-22
BULLOCEE,S USURPATION TO BE
STOPPED.

The Washington correspondent Of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel fur
nishes the gratifying intelligence that Gen.
Grant has issued an order to Gen. Terry
to put q stop to Bulock's rascality in
Georgia. The leading Republicans in
Congress have been slow to believe the
representations as to BullOck's purposes,
and SO has Grant, but they have been
compelled to yield to the 'fnexorable logic
Of events, - and now we have the assurance
that Bullock will no longer be allowed to
play the role of the petty tyrant and
usurper. The correspondent of the
Chronicle and Sentinel writes as fol-
lows:
''WAsHINGToN, Jan. I9.-The lead
ing members of the Republican party in
| Congress have at last become disguised
with the manner in which Bullock is man.
aging matters in Georgia and his open in
trigucs for a seat in the United States
Senate.
ever since his refusal to allow the or
ganization of the State Legislature to take
place on the day that body assembled, the
leading Republican Congressman have
been kept fully posted as TO the violent
and fraudulent course which Bullock has
been pursuing in Atlanta.
s'The Republicans in Georgia, Joshua
Hill, J. T. Bryant, member of the Gen
eral Assembly, Amos T. Alderman, Joseph
Brown, J. II. Caldwell and Others, have
been constantly telegraphing Senator Ed
munds, Senator Morton, Mr. Bingham and
many other Congressman, and also Presi-
dent Grant, explaining the true condition
of affairs, and asking for assistance against
Bullock. They promised that everything
would be done by Georgia which was re-
Quired by Congress If a check was put up
on his usurpatioD.
Influenced by this pressure, President
Grant telegraphed an order to-day to Gen.
A. H. Terry, commanding the district of
Georgia. in which the latter is instructed
not to allow A. L. Harris, the man ap-
pointed by Bullock to superintend the
House, or any other appointee of Gov.
Bullock to proceed with the organization
of the State Legislature.
sTn this order President Grant says that
the provisions of the recent act passed by
Congress TO promote reconstruction in
Georgia, as interpreted by himself, do not
give Bullock any power to organize the
Legislature, but only authorized him TO
convene that body.
"Rcferring to this Military Commission
of Inquiry, the President tells Gen. Ter
! " that the District Court Of the United
| States, as provided for in the act, is
the only tribunal that can legally try and
convict members of the Legislature who
Obtain seats in that body by swearing
! falsely
To-day Senator Morton, of Indiana,
made a speech in the Senate, in the
course of which he denied that President
! Grant had ever authorized or even ap-
proved the action of Gen. Terry in ap-
pointing a military court of inquiry to
sit in Judgment upon tie eligibility of
! the members of the Georgia Legislature.
The Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch says Gen. Sherman
stated a few days ago THAT in no case
would he allow Gen. Terry to view any
question in partisan light, or render any
decision or give any order in which par
tisan view could be taken. He had not
ordered Gen. Terry to arrest any Of the
members of the Legislature of Georgia
for alleged perjury. The courts are in
existence, and if any of them have been
guilty of such sin, they should be pro-
perlv indicted and tried; but until so tried
and found guilty, they should not be de-
rriyed of their seats in the Legislature. "