The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-15

| uuSo youS, VI hiCQ-
@ond, writing to Gov. Ksmper on the
Louisiana outrage, says:
Nothing 80 atrocious hus been
said or suggested, and nothing like it
ever done since the massacre OF the
Huguenots and the subjngation of
''the fair land of Poland" and the
slaughter Of her children. have sus-
tanned the President, as you know, in
his early proceeding in Louisiana
sustaining the Kellogg government,
because l believe the law authorized
them, and honestly believed he wishe I'd
to do right; and will not believe he
has authorized or will sanction these
proceedings, or lend willing eur to
this howl OF his butcher dog for the
blood OF Southern men; but if he
does. he ought to be immediately i'm
peached and expelled from Office, and
the infamous Phil. arrested and sent to
look after 'Oapt Jack
There are great many persons in
the South who charitMbly hoped that
Grant would be y good boy; but the
man pans out badly. of lutte.
Ii General Sheridan states the case
accurately. they have made revolu.
ton on account OF some extrayaoant
language OF the Southern people.
Soue one threatened to kill the r adj
cal members of the Legislature. aud.
therefore. State ia under foot.
New Fork Herald.
Utterly superauous in Butler to pro.
pose law to guarantee Republican
form OF government to Louisiana"
Isn't Sheridan down there-apd what's
Republican form of government
compared to such an advantagep
New York Herald
Ii Grant would drive all the white
men OF Louisiana in Mexico, aud then
let Sheridan wait till he caught all the
women and children in q smallpox
hospital. hanged if be didn't clean out
things down there so quick it would
make your head swim.
Notwithstanding the awful fate that
overlook that great comic paper, the
New York Republic. there are other
Republican papers that persist in say.
ing funny things. One Of these papers
tells us. without once cracking smile.
SHERIDAN is very free from sectional
prejudice. He feels no antaQonism to
the South. He laid that aside when
the war ended. He is not n arbitrary
man. He respects an honest differ
ence OF opinion. and regards any one
more highly. whatever the relations in
which they stand. who stands by his
own opinions and expresses them
frankly and manfully."
The Governor of Tennessee thanks
Providence that the Legislature of
that State is permitted to "organize
poscesbly."
Old Bill Allen. Governor of Ohio.
says il there are any laws on the
statute book authorizing President
Grant to interfere with States as he
hos done, they shoald be repealed;
| and ii there are not such laws. that
Grant himself should be repealed!
The Indianapolis Sentinel. referring
to Sheridon's dispatches, SAYS:
SHOULD the Indiana Legislature be
broken up by United States bayouets
next Thursday. It is very likel = that
our people would display spirit of
defiance" And 80 would tho citizens
of any other free State. But are the
people Of Louisiana free? Let the
citizens of any Northern State answer.
The Southern carpet-baggers and
the desperate Northern Southern out.
rage-seekers proclaim the Louisiana
troubles only the continuation OF the
'slave.holders' rebellion" Honest
people. however, who see the name of
William Cullen Bryant at the head OF
list OF the most respectable men OF
New York. calling q meeting to pro.
test against the violent and unla Wful
interference Of the Federal power in
tue affairs Of the State, will find it
hard to believe that "slavery' or "re.
bellion" has anything to do with the
matter. =
The papers of the North, OF all DO.
litical compilations. are talking very
good States rights doctrine just now.
and many of them are Just beginning
to find ont that the grand conteat Of
tho day is between constitutio onalism
and centralism. Blind leaders OF the
blindI Where have ye Deen with Rip
Van Winkle. these many years?
The HIGHER PowRR. ATTORNEY Gen.
eral Williams says tho only purpose Of
the Administration toward the people
OF Louisiana is q purpose Of peace and
good will. Does the selection Of She.
ridsn look like that7 The Springfield
Mass. iHepu6licds ssys:"A moro anat
man, II thst had been the Adninistra.
tion's purpose. could not we'll have
been found between the two oceans.