The daily gazette., 1875-01-08

From the N. Y. Tribune OF yesterday
If it were necessary that the Repub.
lican party should go to pieces we
SHOULD certainly have wished il bet
ter end than the one it is now violent
ly counting. 1t is rushing upon worse
suicide than that of the pro-slavery
Democracy twenty years ago. The
outrages upon Kansas were committed
at the instigation Of apowerful and AZ
| rogant party which overbore the timid
scruples OF Buchanan and his immedi-
ate followers, and f1attcred the ambft-
ion OF Douglas as long as it could use
him. But there is no such excuse for
| the stupid lawlessness of Grant towards
Louisiana. Nobody but Kellogg wan
ted him to interfere. Take the coun-
try at large, and you will not find one
third Of the supporters of the admins
tration who wanted this outrage per
petrated If General Grant had taken
his hands from the throat of the State,
and permitted the elected Legislature
to meet in peace, every one, except
half dozen of Kellogg retaincrs, would
have been satisfied and grateful. 1t is
a case of absolutely gratultous sui
eide,
The mania docs not seem confined
to the President alone. Every one he
touches begins thesame tarantula dance
We all knew how unfit General Sheri-
den was for place requiring any skill
in civil administration or comprehen-
sionof legal principles. But no one could
have expected the outburst of fury
against the community which he was
sent to govern with which he marked
his assumption Of command. The first
day he denounced the citizens ofLoui-
siana as defiant and lawless and princi
pally occupied with murder. The next
day he writes to ask permission to shoot
and hang as many of them as he thinks
proper for something he thinks they
did last September. He begins his let
ter by asking Congress TO call them
"bandittih and then, as if mistrusting
the promptncSs of that body, he says
that If the President will call them
'banditti" it will be sufficient for his
purpose. Nothing so insanely feroci-
Gus has been written by any American
officer since the beginning of our his
tory. If General Grant or any consid-
erahlc number of his advisers had the
ordinary common sense or humanity
General Sheridan could not have held
his place for an hour after that crazy
and brutal despatch. He is q firebrand
in a powder magazine, it will be almost
a miracle it he can remain a week in
Louisiana without exciting riot and
bloodshed. II is amazing that theGov-
ernment, even General Grants Cabi-
net, does not see this. OF course
the President cannot see it. But where
are Fish, Bristow, Jewell, Robeson,
who are men of the world and know
something about law? and Delano, who
is a politician, and ought to know some
thing about human nature9 They all
appear to be struck dumb by the inn
perious and savage will of their chief,
while General Belknap telegraphs full
approval and encouragement to the
rough rider at New Orleans.
The only hope was in Congress; and
how did they meet the demandY In
the Senate, on Tuesday, Mr.. Thurman.
introduced resolution calling upon
the President to report why he had
done ii. The State of New York pre-
vented that resolution from passing,
by the instrumentality of Mr.. Conk-
ling, who thought the President ought
| to do as he liked about giving such in
formation. In view of this disgrace
full exhibition of subserviency, Ii is
hardly worth while to notice the fero7
cious vaperings of men like Logan and
Morton. .t. prs ..Y.4 4..