Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-01-14
WOODSTOCK VIRifNI Il.
thursday Morning, January Il, 1875.

Louisiana outrage, which we regard as
a manly and dignitied reply to the
mean and slanderous assaults upon the
citizens Of the Southern States, BY
Isepeblican members It is to be
hoped that the resolutions of inquiry
now proposed may lead to FORMAL
impeachment otoar war loving Presi-
dent. In the annals of all history there
is not parallel to the atrocious acts
Of villianous despotisin perpetrated BY
Grant and his minious:
Nh Chairman, ! would not have
uttered word on this occasion hit for
the wholesale and unjust accusation of
the gentleman from New York TMr
TREMAIN- that crime and murder were
committed in the South and that the,
courts and governments there were
found inadequate or unwilling to punish
the offenders. Sill, | cannot permit
such charges to be made, so unjust, so
untrue, without fat denial of them
Pardon the depression. when / state
that think party politics ought not to
be introduced when the important ques
%, tlons involved in the orders Of General
Sheridan are being discussed. These
questions rise above party and strike al
the very foundation. Of constitutional
government and civil liberty They
raise the question whether this is
r. government Of prescribed limits, whose
powers are clearly defined by organic
law, n goyernment republican in fact as
well as in form, or whether it is but
q military despolisul in which the
Legislatures OF the States are to be made
and anmade by a military commander
at bis viii and pleasure, and the lives
of the people to be intrustei to. his
keeping and by him to be tried and
executed without the forms of law or
trial by jury. Yet, as the gentleman
trom New York, Mr.. TEEMAaN,1 in
stead Of dealing with the great legal
principals involved, goes out of his way
to iiJect stump speech into the dis.
cusslon, will be pardened for saying a
word in reply. 9s @ i->
ia / want the country and this House,
especially the gentlemen. on the other
side, to know that law, order, and good
government prevail i'll every State
South where the conservative or demos
cratic party has control, aid that there
has been no material disturbance or an,
crime committed there which WAS no,
promptly punished by the coarts CT the
country There freedom of speech, Of
franchise, OF every right guaranteed BY
she Constitution, is enjoyed TO the
fullest extent by all classes and colors
without exception, with none 10 com
plain, because there is no cause for
complaint. Look at old Virginia
.-suatched from the hands of carpet
aaggers just 80 they had begun to suck
the last drop OF blood, aud see how
good order and good government
prevail there. See, too, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Georgia ard Texas,
where the Conservative party have cons
troll, how in peace they progress.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, | ask the gentle-
men on the. other side to look to
mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana,
where these disturbances do exist and
see who has control ofthe governments
ct those States, and it will be seen, Sir.
they are all under the control of re
pubilcans or carpet-baggers Look to
Louisiana. Where began your troubles
thcre2 Between two Illinois carpet
baggers, Warmoth and Kellogg, who
went TO promote their own interest and
not to protect tie. people, who went t.
enrich their poke is at tie expense of
the State. Like thieves falling out
aboat their power in the State, raise
disturbance which is kept up for two or
more years, and then, when the people
III the majesty Of their strength rise
above them all, and by. popular W i'll in
legal form take control Of the legislative
branch OF the government, the military
with the usurper's sword, deprives the
people OF their just representation and
again hands the government over to
those who have despoiled it Of this
the people complain, and for this they
are 10 be declared bandits and to be
shot down as outlaws and hiehway,uen
Now with Mississippi That State Is
in the hands Of the republicans, from
the sheriff who collects the peopls
money without security mp to the
governor. Yes, in every branch and
department the native republican aud
carpet Dagger have unlimited control.
If they do not keep the peace, It's the
result of their own bad conduct, and
proves what good men have said that
they are not fit for the positions they
occupy. Look TO Arkansas What
is the result therc7 Again We find re-
publican office holders qnarreling with
each other like dogs over the bone;
they fight for the loaves and fishes; and
when they become alarmed at the storm
which they themselves have raised,
Que side or the other cries help; tele-
graphs for the military. The Attorney
General converts himself into the Com.
msndei''n Chief of the Army of the
United States, gives military orders,
disposes Of the Army, the effect of
which is to raise row generally, and
then the republicans on this floor ex-
claim, The spirit of the rebellion still
extant! Men are butchered and no one
punished. Thus seeking again to in
fame the public mind OF the North and
to hold the democratic party response
BILE for the result of their own bad acts.
/ call upon the country to bear Wit
ness that good order and good COVER
nn,ent prevail in all the States under
the central of the democratic party,
because tits rrst to alt and that dis
orlcr and bloodshed, if they exist at all,
ore. in r4..ul,licax, 81 bupat,so their