The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-09
white Leagues-Gr Grant and Sheridan ''ls

Write Leagues Grant ana oheI 7'slsl u
THE poin. Of attack determined upon by
GaAsr. WILLIAMS, and SHERIDAN, is the
white. League organization of Louisiana.
TIL zee men are sindebted for the positions ''
they hold chiefly 10 ieagGes-ameng snem' .
bla, / league. The "Wide-Awakes /" oegap
che war. and the Union Leagueswere in OF
the, death. And yet, Messrs. GRANT, VIZ
1,Axs. and SHERIDAN affect to be HORNED az
Leagues, and speak of the White League as
one that is to be denounced as banditti aud
it's members chased, and captured, and hung
.forthwith II not sooner"
The White League Is an organization
formed for the purpose Of promoting the
public good and protecting society from bad
government. The Federal Government is
engaged in sustaining thieves and robbersin,
their thiesing and robbing and IN carrying
tyranny and terror into society. Now, which
should be stigmatized with odious epithets
and which should be brought to trial before
a druu-head court-martial-thc Leagues or
the trio OF officiaist 20
The White League is no more deserving
denuneiation and no more merits summary
punIshments under military laws than does
the Republican party itself, and is altogether
respectable 10 its objects and its proceedings.
The black leagues are VIGOROUSLY aggres'
siye. and it il their intimidation which has
kept the negroes banded together. Fear
governs the poor African, and has kept him
obedient to tie directions Of the party and
subdued him perfectly to slavish submission
to the will of the white .scalawags and birds
Of passage and of prey, who have done SC
much to plumber the South and destroy Ill
peace.
General GRANT dare not follow the sug'
eestion Of SHERIDAN. That would be re-
sponsibility W bich with all his courage and
selr.will he could not assume. But yet he
approves SBERIDAN's suggestion most clearly
or be would remove him from his present
command. .... .s
Is this not an incontrovertible statement
OF the case? All say that SHERIDAN has
been guilty Of falsehood, and that he sug
eests a proceeding that would outrage thu
laws and destroy the liberties of the people
of the land. For SO great an outrage upor
truth and right General SHERIDAN should
have been Immediately cashiercd, and hi.
superior officer by continuing him in posi-
ton endorses his outrageous and bloody
suggestions. And so we think that Genera
GRANT is IS bad as SHERIDAN, and should bt
held accountable for every folly, every act
Ec,ty tyranny, every outrage upon popular
rights and the Constitution, perpetrated bJ
SHERIDAN: that man who respects not law
nor Constitution, nor popular rights, mol
truth, nor even decency. "
Amongst people who were born and breC
under Republican principeS--however those
principles may be impaired by government
ou1raees ut this time there can be go such
practice tolerated as that Of blaming minister:
for the errors of the head of the Government
We have enough OF republicanism left to ex
cude that error and irjustice-CokKLlNo anG
MORTON 10 the contrary Notwithstanding
Therefore, we hold General GRANT to be The
most guilty of all the men now engaged in
subverting the United States Government
Phil. SHERIDAN is almost eXcusabe on the
plea OF non compos. His dispatches prove
that be is liar and a braggart-and we may
well add, in charity,-a fool. The judgment
cannot hold such man wholly amenable
but it mus. visit upon GRAFT the full re
sponsibillty of his folles and crimes, besides
holding the aforesaid GRANT responsible FOL
sending such man as SHERIDAN upon mis-
sion requiring the greatest degree of Judg
ment, prudence, and fairness for its proper
performance.