New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-07

If it were necessary that the Republican
party should go to pieces we should certainly
have wished it a better end than the one it is
now violently counting. 1t is rushing upon a
worse suicide than that of the Pro-Slavery
Democracy twenty years ago. The Outrages
upon Kansas were committed at the instigatiOn
of a powerful and arrogant party which over
bore the timid scruples of Buchanan and his
immediate followers, and fiattered the ambi-
ton of Douglas as long as it could use him.
But there is no such excuse for the stupid
lawlessness of Grant toward Louisiana. No
body but Kellogg wanted him to interfere
Take the country at large, and you will not
find one-third of the supporters of the Admins
tration who wanted this outrage perpetrated
If Gen. Grant had taken his hands from the
throat of the State, and permitted the elected
Legislature to meet III peace, every one ex
cept half dozen of Kellogg's retainers would
have been satisfied and grateful. 1t is a case
of absolutely gratuitous suicide.
The mania docs not seem confined to tho
President alone. Every one he touches begins
the same tarantula dance. We all knew how
unfit Gen. Sheridan was for place requiring
any skill in civil administration or cOmpre-
hension of legal principles. But no one could
have expected the outburst of fury against the
community witch he was sent to govern with
which he marked his assumption of command.
The first day he denounced the citizens of
Louisiana as defiant and lawless and princi-
palIy occupied with murder. The next day he
writes to ask permission to shoot and hang as
many of them as he thinks proper for some
thing he thinks they did last September. He
begins his letter by asking Congress to call
them "bandtti,n and then, as il mistrustng
the promptness of that body, he says that if
the President will call them bandittir it will
be sufficient for his purpose. Nothing SO
insaney ferocious has been written by
any American officer since the beginning
of our history. If Gen. Grant or any consid-
cradle number Of his advisers had the ordinary
common sense or humanity which belongs to
most men of our race, Gen. Sheridan could
not have held his place for an hour after that
crazy and brutal dispatch. He is a firebrand
in q powder magazine. 1t will be almost a
miracle if he can remain q week in Louisiana
without exciting riot and bloodshed 1t is
amazing that the Government, even Gen.
Grants Cabinet, does not see this. OF course
the President cannot see it. But where are
Fish, Bristow jewel, ..Robeson, who are men
of the world and know something about law
and Delano, who is politician and ought to
know something about human naturef They
all appear to be struck dumb by the imperious
and savage will of their chief, while Gen. Bel
KNAPP telegraphs full approval and encourage
ment to the rough rider at Newt Orleans.
The only hope was in Congress; and how
did they meet the demandi In the Senate, on
Tuesday, Mr.. Thurman introduced resolu-
ton calling upon the President to report what
he had done in New Orleans, and why he had
done it. The State of New-York pre-
vented that resolution from passing, by the
fundamentally of Mr.. Conkling, who thought
the President ought to do as he liked about
giving such information. In view of this dis
graceful exhibition Of subseryiency. it Is hardly