The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-31

done 80, for the Senate adjourned
last night, and unless he is saving
the air alone and explaining the
beauties of my policy" to ghostly
Senators summoned to hard seats
and trying ordeal by the gallop-
ing fancy OF the ex President, the
latter must realize now that he has
no auditors. As we remarked in
the beginning. however, we think
he has stopped. And when we re
feet how little we have suffered,
comparatively, we certainly ought
to be most truly thanbf / He
might have spoken a week, but he
only occupied ten or twelve hours,
and he must be silent, in effect, for
more than six months to come.
! Now that we have time to catch our
breath, however, and think for a
minute or two, What did johnson
say, and why did he say it! Let
us see. He said that when trouble
was anticipated in the Tennessee
Legislature in 1866, he instructed
General Grant to telegraph Gen
eral Thomas that the facts stated
in his telegram do not warrant the
interference of the military We
suppose from this. that had the
facts been a little more strongly
| stated, the interference of the mill
tary would have been authorized.
But johnson now gives this as an
example of what all good Presi-
dents from this time onward to
eterni y should do in such cases,
that is, they should never interfere
unless the facts warrant it, of
which they must be the judges.
Says johnson: Here was a prece
dent, Here was what the govern
ment did in the case of Tennessee,
and Grant was familiar with the
position assumed by the President
| { l. e., A. Johnson). And yet he
did not follow this precedent i'll the
case of Louisiana. Then Mr. John
son got on to the Sheridan Difficult
| ty of 1867, and to show just where
the distinguished tailor of Green
vile is sore, we may here resurrect
a scrap of history. Wher- John
son concluded to sell out the loyal
people who elected him, he found
it necessary to remove every hind
rance to a free sweep of his policy.
He could not remove or transfer
Grant. SO he tried to use him. But
Sheridan was in command of the
Texas and Louisiana district, and
was making i hot down there for
rebels and assassins, as he always
has made it, SO johnson deter
mined to send him away. Tue or
der was sent to the War Depart
ment, and Grant demonstrated
againstit. His words are memoir
able, He said:
L urge, earnestly urge, in the
name of q patriotic people, who
have sacrificed hundreds Of thou
sands of loyal lives, and thousands
of millions of treasure, to preserve
the integrity and union of thus
country, that this order be not in
sisted on. General Sheridan has
performed his civil duties faithfully
and intelligently. Fills removal will
only be regarded as an effort to de-
feat the laws uf Congress. This is
q republic where the will of the PEG
pls is the law of the land. I beg
that their voice may be heard"
The order was insisted on, and
Sheridan was displaced. Stanton
was removed for similar reasons
and against positive law of Con
gress, which Grant at last ded in
indicating, thereupon bringing
upon his head the awful wrath of
his Accidency. But the people
stood by General Grant,and pretty
thoroughly punished johnson, for
all OF which the latter is now tax
ing revenge. But there is another
little scrap that is not uninterest
ing just now
In 1866 General Candy, in com
mand at Baltimore, reported that
there was danger of riot there, in
case Governor Swan should remove
the Police Commissioners then in
Office, and appoint their successors
Tho Governor asked the aid of the
military, and Grant thus stated the
matter to Mr. johnson in conmu
nication dated Oct. "a, 1866. Il
cannot see the possible necessity
for calling in the aid of the military
in advance of even the cause the
removal of said COMMISSIONERS
which is to induce the riot. It is
contingency L hope never to see
arise in this country, while I occu
ply the position of General-in Chief
of the Army, to have to send troops
INTO a State in full relation with
the General Government, on the
eve of an election, to preserve the |
peace"
The President seemed determin |
ed, however, to send troops into |
Maryland at every hazard, but |
finally Yielded to the views of the |
General and General
Grant SO far as to permit them to !
be kept in readiness only at Fort
and other points.
There is ground to apprehend
an instruction in Baltimore on or
about the day of election, he wrote
to the Secretary of War, officially,
land L feel great solicitude that the
government should be prepared to
meet and promptly put it down"
General Grant was, therefore, di-
rected to look to it in the manner
Indicated, why holding troops
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