The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-10
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY TO- 1875.

NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY \
entirely removed and confidence and fair deal
ing established by the arrest and trial of the
ringlendeIs of the armed White Leaguers.
Ii Congress would pass u bin declaring them
bauditti they could be tried by military CON-
mission. The leaders of this banditti, who
murdered men here on the 14th of last Septem-
Der, and also more recently at Vicksbarg, Miss,
should, in justice to law and order and the
peace and prosperity of this Southern part of
the country, be punished.
1t is possible that if the President would
that no further action need be taken except
that which would 6evolve upon me.
[Signed1 P. H. SHERIDAN,
Lieut. General, U. 8. A.
The first telegram drew from our people the
most indignant protests, among others being
the following:
To the American People.
Whereas, General Sheridan. now in command
of the Department. of the Missouri, has, under
date of the 4th instant, addressed q communi-
cation to General Belknap, Secretary of War,
| in which he represents the people of Louisiana
at large breathing defiance to all lawful
authority and approving of murder and crimes,
and wbereas, he has given to that communica-
| tiou full publicity
We, the undersigned, believe it is our duty
to declare and proclaim to the whole Ameri-
can people that these charges are unmerted,
unfounded and erroneous, and can have no
other effect than of serving the interests of the
corrupt politicians, who are, at this moment,
making the most extreme efforts to perpetuate
their power over the State of Louisiana.
New Orleans, January 5. 1875.
Nj: Perche, Archbishop of New Orleans.
J. P. B. Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana.
James K. Gutheim, Pastor of Temple Sinai.
&c. Keener, Bishop of III. E. G: South.
G. Doll, Rector of Sc. Joseph's Church.
Judge j. N, Lea, Judge A. N. Ogden,
Michael Musson.
Meetings were held by the Merchants Ex-
change, Cotton Exchange, Chamber of Com
merce, Board of Underwriters and other non
political bodies in which resolutions fatty con-
tradicting Sheridan's statements were unani-
mously adopted.
Since Monday, affairs in the city have been
remarkably quiet considering the causes which
our people have for excitement Members of
both parties continue to meet daily at their
respective headquarters. but all eyes are
turned to Washington, as it is there that the
issue is to be decided. Already the discus
sion has commenced in both houses of Congress
and a solution cannot long be delayed. Mean
while, the press of the country, North aud
West, irrespective of party, is teeming with
denunciations of The course of the Adminstra-
tion. Meetings are being held in which prom-
nent Republicans like VIM. Cullen Bryant and
w. II. Evarts take part, and Governors of
States and Legislatures are expressing them
selves in no measured terms concerning the
outrage perpetrsted on Louisiana.
As indicating the feeling of the Republicans
at the North, we copy the following from two
of the leading Radical papers of New York
city, the Times and the Erening Post:
NEW YORK Jan. THE Times says: Such a
diapatch that which Gen. Sheridan sent to
the Secretary of War on Tuesday is not war
ranted by any facts known to the public, and
could scarcely be warranted under any con-
ceivable circumstances. We have never pub
lished such document before, and, we mnst
say, nothing like it has ever been seen In Is
country under constitutional government. 1t
almost induces one to believe that the world
has COMO back two three hundred years in
the theory and practice of government. Crom-
well did indeed servo Ireland pretty much as
Gen. Sheridan proposes to treat Louisiana, bnt
most of us were under the impression that that
system of government had been definitely
abandoned. We are at Is loss to make out
what Gen. Sheridan's ideas of the Copsti-
tuition under which he lives, or of the fnnctions
of Congress, or the powers of the Executive,
to say nothing of the powers which may right
fully be exercised by o Lieutenant General in
the army. There is shorter cut which Gen.
Sheridan might have recommended. 1t In for
the President to declare the Constitution and
its Amendments annulled, shut mp Congress,
put down all the newspapers, and then pro-
claim himself Dictator, with Gen. Sheridan as
his sole Minister ana CnIeI GxecutlOnet. H
Gen. Sheridan had advised this course at once,
he would scarcely have shown greater ignor-
anoe or disregard of law than he had done in
his most extraordinary aud, we must add, dis |
graceful dispatch of January 5th.
NEW YoRK.-The EpeHiRg Post says the people |
are inclined to indulgent treatment of Lieut.. |
Gen, Sheridan, who comes to the front as the /
lateet leader of the Republican party, bearing |
the pronunciamento of this freshest develop !
ment of the peace policy on the point of bis
sword. He has never pretended to be any |
thing but a soldier, and q rough one ut that. |
When there are no great campaigns to be made |
his fancy naturally turns 20 Indian warfare, |
and it 10 therefore not surprising that hnding
hiTneelf under orders in Louisiana he believes |
that he is there to fight Piegans or Modocs. 1t
IL true that IL be sdded 20 the military vkE- |
taen something of the broader Guitars when /