The Van Buren press., 1875-01-12
What the New York Papers Say.

The World compares sheridan to the infi-
nous Marshal liayman, and declares that he
wants TO perpctrate fresh ri gan massacre
Il adds: And yet we can hardly be sorry
that thi. brutal soldier has made this PROPOSE
tion nor that his yet more brutal chief has
thoroughly approved It,
1t was good for the lsraeiites that the heart
of Pharaoh was hardened, and that he would
not let them 90. You remember what hap
pcned to that cruel tyrant. The plaques have
fallen upon the administration of Grant, but
they fail unhcrdcd
"lt is not good that he should pause'untl
he has filled up the whole measure of the
wrongs "A senseless and besotted tyrant in his
place could commit IL is not meet that he
should pause until he has so declared himself
that every American shall know him for
What he is,
The time has already come when all the
shrewder men who still follow his fortunes,
are debating whether they shall not, in their
own political interests, be forced to forsake
him
The time may soon come when the ma
iority in the senate of the United States
some of them moved. we hope, by patriotic
indignation which tranScen party, and those
of them not somovable actuated by percep-
ton of what is the only shred of hope for
their pafty-may deliver him up at the i'm
peachment of the house of representatives, Il
victim to tie Justice he has outraged the laws
he has broken and the country he has be-
traycd.'
The Tribune says: "Nothing so inSanely
ferocious has been written by any American
officer since the beginning of our history II
Gen. Graft, or any considerable number OF
his advisers. had the ordinary common sense
of humanity which commonly belong to our
race. Gen. Sheridan could not have held his
place an hour after that crazy and brutal dis
patch.
=" lie is frebrand in a powder magazine.
1t will be almost a miracle If he can remain a
MseA " .SAisiAa MitAspt rr tis. s'"7'f
course the president cannot see it. But where
are Fish. Bristow, Jewell and Robeson who
are men OF the world and know something
about law,and who is n politician and ought To
know something about human nature. They
all appear TO be struck dumb by the impious
and savage rule of their chief while Gen
Bclkuap tclegraphs full approval to the rough
rider AZ New Orleans.
Sheridan is in New Orleans, anxious for a
riot. aud with all the means in his hands to
excite one. Grant is in full sympathy with
him. and Is surroun lie by cabinet. which,
rs yet gives no note of independence; no ad-
ministration member has yet shown the least
disposition to Dake lis associates listen to
reason
Inv IllCs VI 10 MORROW W III CONTAIN tue
following:
such a diYatch as that which sheridan
sent to the secretary of war, on Tuesday, Is
not warranted by any facts known to the
public, and would scarcely be wrrranted un-
der any conceivable circumstances. We have
never published such document before. and
we must say that nothing like 1t has ever
| cen seen in country under constitutional
government. IL almost induces one to believe
that the world has gone back two or three
hundred years in the theory and practice of
government Cromwell did indeed serve Ire
land pretty much in the way that Gen. Shcri-
dan proposes to treat Louisiana, but the most
of rs were under the impression that that
system of government had leen definitely
abandoned"
The New York Herald says: 4" The people
have been aroused as they have not been tor
many years. for the question is one which
transccnds the boundaries of Louisiana, and
concerns the whole country 1t |, not merely
whether banditti rule in.that state or wheth-
er II Is plundcrcd and miSgoVerncd, the pas
sions of its people their errors and .ulferings.
become secondary to the question whether
the president OF the United states has dared
To lay violent hands upon inalienahle rights,
The country turus from New Orleans to
Washington. There was the deed done which
Stirs the American people. They demand to
know whether, In the United States. rebellion
stili liugers, OF u>urpation has begun, and It
is not to McEnery, or " iltz, or Kellogg that
they address the question, but to Grant