The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-29
NO. IA

shall take under control. He marks out the area. He describes the points and limits of his com
 mand. His power is as obso- lute as that of an Emperor. In all these proceedings does any body see anything of the General of the Army? Where is General Sherman all this time? Perhaps he may not be in accord with all these proceedings, and General Sheridan is placed in direct con nection with the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, and is authorized to go South, mark out his command and take charge of it. Where is this authority derived from9 The President of the United States, it is true, is made Commander-ir- Chief of the Army and the Navy; but has he right to delegate his power of laying off and defining districts to another at his discre- tion2 Was there ever such an assumption of power? He might lay of the whole South in one military district and take charge of it himself. Look at the growth of power. Look at the advances which ursurpation is making, and when we come to consider calmly and deliberately, without party bias or prjudice, we find that these acts are none other than those of usurpation and tyranny. Where does all this power come from? And I might ask "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great" that he can prescribe and lay down Elm pires and place commanders over them? It is time the country was awakened and considered these things. If the excitement has been so high in times gone by that many things have been overlooked I think the time has arrived, and I trust the excite ment has gone down and the American people can return to the organic law of the land. It is time that the people had begun to consider and weigh well these things.
 THE 4th OF JANUARY.
 We find with reference to this Kellogg government that General Grant says it was gigantic fraud, and that neither he nor McEnery was entitled to the of flee of Governor, but having found a usurper in, he takes him by the hand and sustains him. We'll, we come up to the organization of this recent Legislature. There seems to be q division. He says that the Democrats asked for the interference of the military first, and then the republicans after ward asked for it. He looks up on it as mere matter of party, not as matter of principle; but he says the democrats asked him to interfere and then the repub- licans made request signed by fifty-two. I believe then the mil itary want in there, and what did that military dog They went in and as General Sheridan says himself, MT. Kellogg said to the Army, or to the military, put this man in and that man out, and the Legislature is set up by the mill tary at the point of the bayonet. And that is done under the pre- tence of keeping the peace. The Legislature. is qualified and or ganized, surrounded by armed soldiers. That is a new way of qualifying members of the Legis- lature, and contrary to the genius and theory of our government, and contrary to the genius and theory of any free government. If we can go back to the times of Cromwell, when an officer rode in- to Parliament Hall, booted and spurred, and drove out members of the arliament, we can find parallel case. There stands the military with bayonets, the legis- lature is qualified and go into power surrounded by them. May we rot well enquire What meat doth this our Caesar feed upon that he hath grown so great? How has it come that all these things are being enacted in this country? In the progress of in- vestigaticn this case gets worse and worse. It is state of things that ought not to be tolerated. In the case of Tennessee, when the military was forbidden to inter fere, the Legislature got together and went on harmoniously and passed laws. In this case if there was likely to be riot or distur< bance, and they had tri d to sup press it without first making ap- plication to the President of the United States, as they can do in case of insurrection and riot, they might have preserved the peace. There would have been no blood shed. They would have man aged to have settled it without any difficulty. This talk about