The daily gazette., 1875-01-23
From the Baltimore Gazette.
Msyer MerriII, United stAtes Array.


The New York Tribune is angry and
merry (mostly angry) oyer the last
dispatch from Major Merrill. He is
the officer, our readers win remember,
who enforced" in South CAROLINA,
under the Enforcement acts, the "civil
rights" of the negroes, for and by the
carpet-baggers: 10 commit all sorts OF
civil crime, especially in The way OF
robbiug the eycheuQuerof thai. nnhap--
py State, FOR which good service the
said Major took s22 600 from said ex.
chequer; by vote of the negro and
carpet-b bag Legislature. This feat OF
his, our readers will further remember,
was denounced to- the Senate OF the
United States by the able and upright
Senator Bayard, and resolution OF
inquiry moved by him was sent TO
| President Grant, which he has not
seen fit to answer. Meantime Major
Merrill has been transferred to
wider field of usefulness, in the DE
partment of the Gulf" 1t was said
General Emory had put him in arrest
for some of his exploits If-so, Lit
tie Phil'l has released him, having oc-
casion for energetic officersi in his line,
Ito regulate the Write citizens, alias
'<banditti,'''- at, Shreveport. he has
/ net been where long; and has had hgt
little opportunity even In the little
1time he has Beeh There, to know much
about the whitepeople, having had no
q "social recognition" from them, natur-
ally enough. He has conceived, III
/ consequence, q very bad opinion OF
the white people there, and has GER
tilted it with soldierly prompitude and
, emphasis to fhe Lieutenant General.
His specific charges are that the
''negrocs are refused work. and the
: Kellogg whites "ostracized." The
J last can't be of great or extensive
! mischief, demanding military remedy,
in the absence of any legal, because
of the fact ascertained certainly, and
as positively reported, by the investi
gazing committee of Congress, thai
there are no Kellogg whites in the
rural districts except enough to hold
! Kellogg's offices. Yet both the MajoI
and the Lieutenant General think it
in both respects, a state. of things tina
|, calls loudly for more troops. Law
= yers, we know, sometimes talk of th'
a Learned reason" as distinct from tn
common reason. The soldier reasoi
{ in civil affairs is certainly distinc
/. from any other sort of reason. Tn
S Tribune responds to the military argu
+ mcnt in grim fun and serious DISCUS
!. the latter rather predominating
y Whoever in Shreveport refuses I
+ work to negro who voted the kellogg
- ticket should be arrested at once, an
Il the negro should be at once set to wor
n for him. Wherever any bandit "os
tracizes" white Kellogg man ther
. should be squadron Of cavalry sent
l. compel him 10 take the victim OF oi
I'd tracism into his family.
le If these measures fail, the I1ibuI
to PROPOSES to collect the negroes undo
IN the protection of the troops and issr
ia rations to them, and this, it think
); might be better for political, as we
u, as benevolent reasons
The negroes themselves would mu,
prefer that mode Of subsistence to wor
ing for living, and then they would
,e- ali together, well organized and ready
I'd, vote the regular ticket whenever occa
nv ion demanded.
We haven't doubt the Radios
would do it, if they thought it nect
sary to carry the Southern election
rhe Civil Rights bill, with power u
der it to post troops at every "stra
'nl gic" point in the South, and ratio
" for all the voters, ought to carry t
IS, Southern States. in the PRESIDENT
OF election.