The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-08
GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN.

l WAcu ILLS SpUIIeu anu DOOteQ trooper turns
statesman, and advises the President, by his
own fat-or the Congress, by legislation-tc
declare the Conservative white men Of Louisi
ana p" bandiHi." and leave their punishment
to him, it becomes an interesting inquiry to
make, 'what does he mean by it?'' 1t cannot
be that he has SO little brains as to believe
that a citizen is "bandit" because he does
not belong to the Kellogg party-albeit that
party IS Grants pet. A man may be very
bitter partisan-as Gen. Sheridan certainly
5s-but he need not be fool likewise. We
conclude, then, that Gen. Phil Sheridan does
not believe what he has stated as facts for the
foundation Of his wise advice.
| Can it be that the General "sees red" when
| he looks upon Southern Conservatives and
Democrats and that he is eager to get hold of
them to enjoy the pleasure of hanging them
on the sentence of drIm-head court or
| burning them at the stake on the general
charge Of political infdelity? His taste for
| cruelty in war is well known. He cremates
sick Indian women and children with the
same gusto that he destroys the food and the
implements OF agriculture in the large dis
tricts of country where the design and the
result is to starve non-com batants. OF course
his friends will not accept this as the mean
ing of his proposed bloody assizes i'll Louis
iana Then, is he the tool of Grant to stir up
a revolution in Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas for the purpose Of affording Grant
a pretext to seize upon a ''third term" and
offer himself sacrifice as the saviour of the
country in the matter Of peace and order?
And, seeing that the presence of United
States troops and their tyrannical use in the
hall of a State Legislature has not had the ex-
pected effect of driving the people to take
arms against the Federal Government and
thus give Grant his coveted opportunity,
does he think he can overload the patience of
these people when he catches up some of the
favorite citizens and hangs them in the inter-
est of Grants ''let us have peace?" Unless
Sheridan loves mischief and evil for their own
sake, it seems to us that this is what he
means, and that in addition to this, he is
carrying out his masters design to try the
nerve of the American people and see how far
1t can be relied upon to submit to third
term coup detot.
Mobile scalawag, who hung around the
doors of the Congressional Committee during
the whole Of its late session in this city, and
who crammed it with all the ISLANDERS he
could think OF to add to the trouble of the
people, has declared that the Radical party
had not the least idea of yielding possession
of the Government when Grants TEN. expired
without fight" This squints at contir-
nation OF Gen. Blair's prediction. But this
terriies no one any more than Sheridan's |
"banditu" kilograms to Washington. The |
country simply does not belong to Grant and
when he begins his coup dett the country
will begin taking his head Off The sum Of
the whole matter is, that the Government
party is desperate, and as there is no rational
md legitimate way to roll back the popular
tide that pronounced its doom a few weeks
ago. and as it is without prin-
ciple, patriotism, honor or scruple it
is risking all on the desperate and dangerous
policy Of re-feathering its nest at the risk of
ruin to the peace of the country, and peril to
Ill the principles of free and honest govern
nent. Grant, and Sheridan, his hard rider,
will fail. Every step they are making carries
hem further from the goal of their bad am
oition, and deepens the popular condemns-
ion. They, too, may be yet hoist on their
,wn petard. If they go on much further in
heir John Gilpin ride, it would not be hazard
'us to predict that Grant will end by being
mpeached out OF the White House, and
sheridan cashiered from the army. The
american people Outside of the South at
east are hard to arouse, but when their backs
re once up for good cause, it is great deal 3.
arder to get them down. Grant and elite
hill" are rubbing it up just now at a tearfuIly
lsky rate.-lfobue Register, It'll inst. !.