Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-26
avtehly gntelli9enter.
WHAT THE TROOPS WILL DO M'THE
SOUTH,

From the New York Herald.l
Many members of congress made a
~lstrenuous opposition to the bill au-
authorizing the enlistment OF twenty
five hundred additional cavalrylnen
= No serve against the Indians. The
eround of opposition was that there
$shre abundant troops in the ~southNthat
l$anight be employed against the
AIniians. Even without any minute
S5hIvestigation this allegation would
~ 1seem to he we'll founded. 1t is pre-
aposterous and Incredible that with
q ii army of twenty-five Thousand men
S3he government cannot muster a
eDSfarce Of more than three or four
.~jKhousand for active service i'll an
s6nergency. Acting on this presump7'
-sSfion we have caused careful inquiries
sfzfp be made, and, the result Is
sssated in detail in our correspondence
~ Elsewhere. The reader will fine a
= sfall and authentic statement OF the
Number of federal troops i'll the south
aern states, with the name of each
Fcompany and the place where it is
l47s6tationed. The conclusion from these
- tzdetailed statements is that five regi-
ments might be spared from the mill
tary posts in the south to reinforce
Crook and Terry in their campaign
81 against the Sioux. There is, of
AZ course, no reason why these troops
should rot be kept i'll the south for
precautionary purposes SO long as
there is no employment for them
elsewhere; but it is a wasteful alb
surdity TO maintain idle soldiers i'll
a title south while we are prosecuting.
an active campaign against the Int
dians with all Insufficient force The
stare militia should be adequate for
every emergency ill the south, or If
the militia of any particular state
IL be relied OF TO put down Il
riot, and federal assistance should be
needed, it is law full for the president
to call out the militia of the states
whose loyalty and fidelity could be
the striking exhibit presented by our
Washington correspondent.
The order from Secretary Cameron
TO Gen. Sherman,5 which we also
print, shows thatthe administration
has had II very definite use to make
.of9these troops all the time, and we
It once see why Crook and Terry
have been deliberately@left without
adequate support. 1t is expected that
the$tiye regiments will carry four OF
The Southern states, by whipping the
negroes into. line who have either be-
Come ~listiess in, politics or wandered
y ~ "hN
the "iendish"t white liners into
subsection. Byskeeping the outrage
mill slowly grinding, N sendins
platoons of cavalry hither and thitll-
& er. it is evidently hoped to evlve the
bitterness which has been rapidly
disappearing been the races III most
of the south. W. wish to see
sIali citizens protected in their rights,
T1butthis turning of the army of the
Il United ate into bands of drumIncrs
4 for the negro vote is pushing PARTISAN
ship SO far that it would be grOtesque
If it were not Infamous. This is
doubtless the work 10 which General
Sherman referred when he said the
"highest authority" must answer
why the troops could not be spared
to fight the Sioux. The desperation
of a move which dares to saddle The
country with the expense of extra
soldiers while keeping nearly four
thousand idle for political purposes
is apparent, and adds another stigma
to the rule of the party in whose
name and for whose aid it is unblush-
angiy done. AEIF 81