Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-16

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The St Louis Republscdn makes
telling point on Grant That paper says:
1.-TWO precisely similar wrongs ought to
have precisely the same remedy by all
rules of justice and science. But we are
about to have an example in which the
name of the patient is to make differ
ence of treatment which the case itself
does not suggest or call for. The Radi-
Gals want to rule Tennessee, and
have adopted plan to gain their end.
Butler shouts murder in the House, and
committee of Tennessee Radicals wait
upon the President with a grievous COM
plant of 'outrages on loyal men, which
nobody ever heard of, and ask for troops
TO be sent to the State. The President,
we are told, has made up his mind to send
the troops if Gov. Senter will make a
request for them; and If Gov.
Senter does not make such request, he
win send them anyhow, on the plea OF
sustaining the Federal officers in enforcing
the revenue laws. As there is no notable
opposition to the collection OF the reye-
nue. in Tennessee, not one-fourth as much
as there has been in Philadelphia and
New York, where no troops were thought
necessary-this plan must be regarded as
only pretext for doing a thing which
il has been decided to do, for another
reason. Such step is not only unwar-
ranted by law, and unworthy the Presl-
dent, but is in direct opposition to his
own conduct in the lawless Radical
war in Lafayette county, Mo-, in
1867. In that case an organized
mob of Radical ruffians called State
militia sent by the Governor OF
the State, drove off the federal revenue
assessor, Richard Vaughan, threatened to
kill him if he should attempt to return,
threatened the life also of the United
States Commissioner, Amos Green, and
he'd the peaceful citizens under a reign OF
terror. Gen. Grant, then General of the
Army, happened to come to ST. Louis at
the time these outrages were being COM
mitted, and was appealed to for protec-
ton against them. At first he thought
he had no right to send troops to Lafay-
cite county, without a request from
the Governor of the State; but, it being
represented that he had right to send
them to protect the threatened lives of
the federal officers, he yielded reluctantly,
so far as to order few troops from
Leayenworth to the scene of lawlessness.
But the Radical press began to denounce
the act as an illegal and unwarrantable
federal interference in the affairs of a
State, and to hint to the future Radical
nominee for the Presidency that he had
better limit himself to the bounds of his
authority. The General of the army took
the hint, withdrew the troops almost as
soon as they had arrived on the spot, and
left the United States Revenue Assessor,
the United States Commissioner, and the
unoffending people of Lafayette coun-
ty to the fury of Gov. Fletcher,
Bacon Montgomery, and the militia who
robbed Mitchell's bank and dragged Mr..
Berry, editor of the Richmond Freeman,
to Lexington, with a rope round his neck,
after having smashed his type. All these
things Gen. Grant did not regard as Civ
ing him any warrant for interfering in
the affairs of Missouri, but much less
grievous condition of things, we are told,
has determined him to interfere in the af-
fairs of Tennessee. As Missouri was
governed by the party which afterwards
voted for him for President, while Ten
nessee is under the more peaceful rule of
a party that did not vote for him-are
we to accept such insufficient and personal
considerations as this, as the motives for
the Presidents important official acts?"