The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-01-29

received in regard TO them was simultan
eOus with the information given to al
citizens at large. The newspapers Of the
following day were his first infOrmers
II there were those in Washington whC
knew that revolution was 70 b. attempt
ed on the 4th Of January the President o.
the United States was not one OF them
Mr.. COnkling next rGfcrred to the reason'
which induced the President to send Glen
Sheridan to New Orleans, and said: Be
fore this letter OF the President directing
Gen. Sheridan to go TO the South the
President had been compelled to listen tC
tales Of suffering to which no man could
be deaf. They did not concern the clec-
ton, but they concerned the lives, homes
aud property Of those who had never been
false to their Countrys flag, and under
that flag were hunted a. II they were Wild
beasts. These entreaties summoned the
Chief Magistrate to his feet, Ono OF these
entreaties had reached him but three
days before. II came from one who toE
twenty years had been a resident oi
Shreveport, q judicial officer not ap'
pointed by the President but appointed
BY the court. lie said that troops were
stationed in Louisiana, and their pres
ence there was lawful, becapse the sleD'
der remnant Of our army must be sta.
toned somewhere. II must be stationed
in some State, and no matter where found
its right to be there was unqucstiOnabiCI
and is withdrawal from New Orleans
would have been possible only with q
Chief Magistrate in open cOnnivancc with
murdercrs and traitors. What would
General WaShingtOn.have said about or
dering troops away from New Orleans,
where the air IL murky and heavy with
violence, aud slatiOning them somewhere
where all was peace, This question was
presented to Washington when four cOun'
ties in the western part Of Pennsylvania
resisted the whisky tax, An Inspector
aud Surveyor were resisted, qnd Wash
iugtOn ordered ont and put on foot fifteen
thousand men and went to command them
himself. The revolt was abandoned, but
armed men in great numbers trOd the soil
Of Pennsylvania to preserve peace and
prevent any further outbreak.
Senator Uonkling then referred to the
seizure Of arms in New Orleans IN Sep.
lelnber last by the whites, and said they
never had been given up, although thu
President, by hi. proclamation, called
upon the Insurgents 10 lay down their
arms and repair peacenbly IN their
homes. Yet more than three. months had
elapsed, and they stood deiying the Fed.
eral Government. The arms not re-.
turned consisted OF two mountain hOwit'
zers, 52l Springfield brcech.loading rifles
3Ol Winchester rifles, GBi Enfield rifles
O3 Spencer Carbincs, anl l,5Ol bnyOncts
These arms were carried by these men To-
day, and they were IN rebellion qgaiRll
the proclamation commanding them u
lay them down. The Chief Magistrate
required no tlefensc for allowing the sol
diers Oi the Union 10 remain In INutianp
after tho nth Of September, wlien they
had been summoned there to arrest 4 bust
ness 30 bloody. FOrly-Gight hours before
the message Of the President was sent to
the Senate the Honorable Senator from
Missouri (Schurz) declaring he intended
to speak with calnlness and imparLiality
told the country hG was then IN the pos
session Of all the information necessary
To form his judgment, aud proceeded u
arraign the President az tho dOcr Of nlI
deeds in Louisiana IN 4tll M January.
Mr. Colaling here read from The re-
marks Of Schurz IN reference TO the Prcsi.
dent, and said that was the Language
Of the Senator from Missouri wilt
standing US II were, upon the asleF
othuman ambition asImcd to weigh in hit
hand the motives and acts Of one charged
with the administration Of the laws The
meanest culprit was entitled to he heard
| In his own defense, and there was M as'
sumption OF his innocence until he was
proven guilty; but for an American Presi'
dent III an American Senate there wai
neither Il hearing nor an assumption
Such Is the passion, such is the hot breath
Of party feeling. General Sheridan was
equally nndersung iOrpraise or blame fOl
the doings In New Orleans on the 4tli oil
January, ns he was not IN command wher
the Legislature met -'5 4,
Mr.. Cohkling here sent 10 The Clerk
desk and had read Sherilan's dispatch tc
the Secretary Of War, saying: 81 see my
way clear, Il YOU will only have conf
dence" AZ , !,
Commenting upon his dispatch, ne
said that General Sheridan, IN q seethlhg
cauldron Of corruption, feared that rll'
mors might cause his superiOrs here tt
feel q dfstrust In him manl sent this dis
patch to the Secretary. II was then that
the Secretary replied III hasle "Ail OF W
approve oil your course. Laler III !nI
day lie sent him another dispatch TO tiIt
effect that the President ana CaDlnet were
firm in the belief that oil acts oi llis ~
New Orleans had leen AND would H
| judicions. ,,
Referring to the b4hdllti dispatch, Mr
COhkling said Sheridan DID sllggeSl I'M
| possible and violent modes OF procedure
| II sheridan called murderers bnnditti
what code had he otlendedY lie applied
the term to notorious ma lefactors, those
who robbed aud plundered, md such a'
he has offended object to I. The right q
Sheridan has been challenged IN this
chamber TO breathe the free nir' Of the
Republic; but should the day come wher
a degenerate apoState. woild Judge hin
unfit TO breathe the free air Of this lie
public, then we had better burn tic memo
rials Of our fotefatlIerS, dance on tllt
tomb at Mount Vernon and Hing down the
obelisk gu Bunker Hill. .sa,hf
\ Sheridans sword was not the stained
Rw0rd of an nssassiht tie blood nlIhr II