The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-14
Sheridan at New Orleans.

Gen. SHERIDAN has gone to New Orleans
10 assist the Returning Board IN the per-
Torrance of their work. He left Chicago
on Sunday for the Crescent City, and soon
we shall hear of him there through his
nets and orders.
The selection Of SHERIDAN to 20 to New
Orleans at this time is very significant.
He is man after GRANTS own heart, the
one officer of the army whom he trusts en-
tirely and who understands best and SYM
pathizes most deeply with his purposes.
SHERIDAN is n daring man, n soldier pure
and simple, who has little awe Of civil
power, and who is ready to carry out
whatever orders or suggestions may lie
given him with prompiness and vigor, re-
gardless of consequences. What sort of
man he is in Il political emergency was
shown when he was last at New Orleans.
lie then made no more bones Of breaking
up the state Legislature ut the point of the
sword than he would have done of attack
ing Sioux village. 1t was all one to him.
To SHERIDAN, the white people of Louisi-
ana were banditti; and he would have
treated them ms such, because they resisted
such an outrage on their legally oonstitut-
ed Legislature, and stood in the way OF the
execution Of his purposes. SO long rs they
were not submissive they were enemies to
be put down, men outside the protection
of law, food for powder only. BELKNAP,
on SHERrDAN's report of his violent con-
Duct in New Orleans and his sangunary
purposes. at once telegraphed hun that
GRANTS Cabinet-"all OF us"-were APP
xpif Of Int . Ia,
Indignation OF the country then prevented
his executing his threats of treating the
white citizens of Louisiana as banditti;
and his main work of driving out the Dom
ocrats from the Legislature having been
completed, GRANT sent SHERIDAN back to
Chicago.
SHERIDAN now goes again to New Or
leans, and we are sorry to believe 10 IS
because GRANT meditates a new interfer-
ence with the will OF the citizens of LOU
isaua, and feels the need of the services of
20 daring and audacious a lieutenant to
make il effective. The sending of troops
into that State was without color OF law.
1t was au exercise of authority which
threatened the foundations OF our State
system. But the selection of a man like
SHERIDAN, with his antecedents at New
Orleans and his known character, TO take
direct command of them, is a substantial
announcement that they are to be used, IL
the emergency arises, less to secure order
than TO force a desired result. GRANTS
selection of Republican partisans ostcn-
sibly to visit New Orleans TO oversee the
Returning Board, and his declaration OF
his purpose TO aid in obtaining an honest
count, are of small significance compared
with his designation of SHERIDAN TO tho
command of the soldiers who are already
congregated in Louisiana. He has not
picked out for that delicate and response
bic duty an officer OF moderation, ald one
who has the confidence of the citizens, "a
he might easily have done; but he has sent
one against whom they justly feel lndig-
nant, whose previous career in the State
was one of outrage on their liberties and
Insult to their rights, and who provoked
by his conduct the protests OF North and
South alike and OF men of both political
parties.
We look with many misgivings on this
transfer of SHERIDAN to New Orleans,
confident that instead of contributing 10
order and the peaceful operation Of legal
methods, amply sufficient for the emer-
gency the audacious sabreur will not hest
tate to cut with his sword the knot which
wiser ana more legitimate means might I'M
tie to the satisfaction Of all rght-mluIcd