Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-29

ton, had called upon the insurgents to
lay down their arms and repair peace
ably to their homes, and yet, after more
than three months had lapsed, they still
stood defying the Federal government.
The arms not returned consisted OF two
mountain hOwitzeTs. six hundred and
twenty-fOur Springfield reech-loading
rifles, three hundred and one Winchester
rifles, six hundred and sixty-four En-.
field rifles, ninety-three carbines
/ and fifteen hundred and ninety
four bayOnets. These arms were
/ carried by these men to-day, and
they were in rebellion against the
/ proclamation commanding them to lay
them down. The chief magistrate re-
[ quired no defense for allowing soldiers
I Of the Union to remain in the State Of
Louisiana after the fourteenth of Sep
/ temher, when they had been summont d
! there to arrest business so bloody.
| FOTty-eight hours before the message of
I the President was sent to the senate,
the honorable senator from Missouri
/ [SChurzl, declaring that he intended to
I speak with calmness and impartiality,
! told the country that he was then in pos
| session of all the information necessary
! to form his Judgment, and proceeded to
( arraign the President as the dOer Of
| deeds in Louisiana on the fourth of jan
ueTy. Senator COnkliDg here read from
| the remarks Of Senator SchuTZ 10 refer
! ence to the President, and said that
was the language of the senator from
! Missouri, who, standing as it were, upon
! the ashes of human ambition, assumed to
| weigh in hand the motives and acts of
! one charged with the administration of
| the laws. The meanest culprit was enti-
| cd 70 ha I'd in 10 Of
! there was an assumption of his innO-
cence until he was proven guilty. But
| in an American senate there was neither
| hearing nor assumption, such is the pas
| sion, such is the hot breath of party
| feeling. General Sheridan was equally
undeserving Of praise or blame for his
! dOings in New Orleans on the fourth Of
! January, as he was not in command
when the legislature met.
Senator Conkling here sent to the
clerks desk, and had read, Sheridan's
dispatch to the secretary of W9r, saying:
81 see my way clear, if you will only
have confidence Commenting on this
dispatch he said:
Sheridan was in a seething cauldron
Of corruption, and fearing that the ru-
mOrs might cause his superinrs here
to feel distrust in him, sent this dis
patch to the secretary. 1t was then the
secretary replied in haste: "All Of the
United States approve your course"
Later in the day he sent him another
dispatch, to the effect that the President
and cabinet were firm in the belief that
all acts of his in New Orleans had been
and would be judicious. Referring to
the bsnditti dispatch, Senator Conkling
said Sheridan did suggest impossible and
violent modes. The procedure OF Sheri-
dan called murderers banditti. What
code had be offended? He applied the
term to notorious malefactOrs-thOse
VINO robbed and plundered; and such as
he has offended object to it. The right
of Sheridan had been challenged in this
chamber to breathe the free air Of the
republic, but should the day come
when adegenerate apOstate would judge
him unfit TO breathe the free air of this
republic, then we had better burn the
memorials of our fOrefatheIs, dance on
the tomb at Mount Vernon, and fling
down the obelisk on Bunker Hill. Sheri-
dams sword was not the stained sword
of an assassin. The blood upon it was
of those who tried to betray the fairest
fabric of free government that the world
had ever seen. 1t was the sword OF
soldier who had been fighting that that
free government might not perish
from earth. He [COnklingl would
bygones be bygones, but when
a most iIIustrious soldier was denounced
the retrospect was forced on him; sweep
ing denuuciations and disparagement
of the national authorities will not
justify the south. They will not carry
the next presidential election When
Governor Kellogg is impeached or in
dicted; when General Emery or
General DeTrobriand are prosecuted
by cOUrt-martial or otherwise,
then questions may arise. When
the senator from Ohio Thurman
cried out yesterday, "What excuse has
Emory" He [COnklingl did not know;
he did not appear for Emory; he did not
appear to vindicate the President of the
United States; he needed no Vindica-
ton; he was a stranger to the whole
proceedings; he did not appear to
champion the Republican party; the
Republican party was in no sense privy
To the record of the transactions in
New Orleans. The senator said much
had been done in Louisiana on both
sides which he could not approve;
nor Kellogg, but he spoke for
z
there was defect in KellOgg's title to
the office of governor, that had nothing
to do with this case. He argued that
the laws OF Louisiana required the clerk
of the former house to call the roll of the
succeeding one, and that law was made
for the very purpose of avoiding such a
strategem and conspiracy as was wit
messed in the legislature on the fourth
OF June. Mr.. Conkling then argued
that it was the encouragement which
the Democrats of the south received from
those OF the north that caused them to
commit the Outrages. The senator from
Ohio had spoken Of butcheries in the
south as homicides, not warranted by
law. 1t was no way to deter the strong
headed men from violence by telling
them that they were right in complain
ing OF ell their grievances. If the DEM
Ocrats wanted to deter violence in the
south they could not do it by denOunc-
ing the laws of congress. 1t had been
stated that the governor Of Louis
lana had no right to interfere
in the organization of the legislature.
No one said governor could organize
legislature. The governor of State
had nothing to do with consecrating a
bishop or dedicating a church, but if
tumUlt should arise at such conservation
or dedication the civil magistrate had
as much right to suppress it as if it had
broken out at a race-cOurse, in
a play house or skating-rink.
The civil authorities Of Switzerland
had nothing to do with baptizing
children, but the other day, when such
a baptiziDg in Geneva was attended by
disturbance, not only the civil authOri-
ties, but the military laid strong hands
on the offenders. He next referred to
the recent disturbance in the peniten-
tiary at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the call
of the governor for Federal troops from
Omaha, which were Immediately sent.
Senator Thurman asked where was
the law for furnishing troops to quell a
disturbance in the penItentiary.
Senator COnkling said he was
glad that humanity went so far
that even the cOnvicts in the peni-
tentiary of Nebraska were not without
somebody to speak for them. Why
was it that of all of those who supported
the temple of liberty, none had brought
! forward a resolution in regard to the use
! of troops at Lincoln? There had not
even been spasm of virtue here in re-
gard to it.
Without concluding the argument the
senate adjourned.
HOUSE.