Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-05-12
The Radicals have been compelled to take


most nauseating pill and from a source
they least expected. Nothing would do but
Gen. Sherman must make speech as he
passed through New Orleans, short time
since. Capital they must have and from
the Commanding General of the armies,
and it was accordingly arranged to have
him feted at the Republican club, to extort
speech from him. He very reluctantly
addressed them, and only after the house
had resounded number of times with the
call of Sherman !! Sherman Sherman +! E!
The General then arose and spoke as toll
lows
Il believe this Government will keep on
growing until it spreads itself over the en-
tire American continent; but in order to
gain this much desired end, and to MAIN
tain ourselves as free and independent
Republic, we have got to show more char.
ity towards each other. 1t has been re.
marked by some gentleman who has pre-
ceded me, that it was generally conceded by
the soldiers Of both armies at the close
of the late civil war that, if the questions
and all matters of the settlement of the diff
ference between the North and the South
were left to the armies, it would be settled
at once, and everything would become quiet
and orderly. I 80 believed, and before
signing the agreement with Gen. Joe John
ston [ called together all the Generals under
my command, and without dissenting voice
the agreed with me. believed they sur
rendered in good faith, and would have lived
up to the very letter of the agreement, and,
in my opinion, if there had been no recon-
struction acts Of Congress, and the armies
been left at the time to settle all questions
of difference between the different sections
of the country, the people would have at
once become quiet and peaceable. l pro-
badly have as good means Of information as
most persons in regard to what is called the
Ku-Klux, and am perfectly satisfied that
the thing is greatly over-estimated /; and if
the Ku.Klux bills were kept out Of Con-
gross, and the army kept at their legitimate
duties, there are enough good and true men
in all Southern States to put down all Ku-
Klux or other bands of marauders .
His belief about the Southern people and
the Ku-Klux bill was not relished at all.
They expected and wanted him to say the
reverse, but he didn't He only, however,
reiterated what Grant said, before the peo-
pie turned fools and made him President,
which turned his head and caused him, for
the sake of the retention Of power, to follow
the behests of party and deny by his acts
all his former protestations. He is now
engaged, like Don Quixotte, in fight with
mythical windmill, and seems determined to
whip the wind mill "ifit takes all summer.
sherman's exhibit that it Is a Wind Machine
alone that Grants is fighting, is the height
of his offending, and he is catching it from
Radical sources. We have no doubt that he
will be proud Of his truthful expressions,
when Grant will be sorely repenting his eff
forts to Cypress the people of the unfortunate
South and solely for political effect.
A conference has been held between the
Versailles Ministers and Bismarck, at Frank
fort, in watch the latter demanded compll-
ance with the terms of the treaty at the time
of the surrender of Paris. but finally agreed
to allow the Versailles Government further
time, and agreed to turn over the forts on
the eastern side of Paris to enable the Yer
sailists more speedily to suppress the revo'
luton.
On the 9th Fort D'Issy was captured by
the Versaillists, with a large quantity of
ammunition, arms &c This completes the
investment Of Paris on the west and south
westside Of the City. A general assault on
the City is now looked for
Theirs has Issued circular exulting over
the capture of D'Issy. He says:
''We found much ammunition and artillery
in the fort Fort Vanvres is defenseless,
and the capture of D'Issy suAices for the
success of our plans Monday night Gen.
Douai crossed the Seine, and is now en-
trenched 800 yards from the enceinte, where
he will be able to batter down tie bridge at
Neuilly. The reign of the Infamous faction
is drawing to close.''
There was heavy freshet in the Poto-
mac on the 9th All the bridges on the
Winchester and Potomac R. r. had to be
weighted down to prevent washing away
The Railroad Bridge at Washington was
not used, as matter Of safety, until the wa
tiers subsidized.
On the 9th inst, the second floor porch
of the Va. Military Institute, on which
number of cadets had copgregated, fell, pre-
eipitating them about Is feet to the floor
below. Cadet A. D. Wilcox, of Tennessee
had his leg broken, and nineteen others
were considerably bruised. Cadet Gay. of
Staunton, was among the bruised.