The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-20
INCREASE OF the Asnf.
mere Troeps Required - Right the In.
aiaas, In order - retain Thsusanas
~ Idle Soldiers 70 Menace Elections
IN the GOuth.

| Mere Troeps Reeuirea - Right the In.
aiaas, In order - Retain Thousands
~ lale Soldiers 70 Menace Elections
IN the south.
Editor DemOcrdt-The recent call by
the President for more troops to carry
on an Indian war, which his policy. or
that OF the satraps about him, has in
voked, constitutes another disgraceful
episode in the military fiunkeyism Of
our calamitous era. It Is part and parcel
OF a deeply laid conspiracy on the part
OF the Radical destructives. to augment
the army, on the fraudulent pretext
that adequate forces cannot be spared
from the political exigencies OF the
party in power to regulate a few thou
sand savages In the far West, who, as
the wards OF the Government, have been
not only subsisted on rations, but armed
and munitioned with the most approved
weapons, reported as superior to those
now iD the hands OF our own troops.
| The report OF Senator Boutwell's Mis-
sissippi Committee Is link in the same
chain, and most wicked and abOmina-
BILE so reeking in audacity as to render
it ridiculous, il the people could once
again repeat some of the lessons the
Bostonians taught the British Govern
ment in the colonial times preceding
the revolution OF l77e. But IL Is entirely
consistent with the utter decentralization
which pervades the whole routine Of
! Federal usurpation and despotism. In
reading the fictions and follies OF Bout
wells report, this writer felt at a loss
| for suitable language with which to
censure and denounce 1t. But, acct
dentally putting his hand on one OF the
lamented Artemus Wards numerous
speeches, the very words and senti-
ments were found well adapted to Bout
wells malignant counsels. Artemus
having been raised and educated in
Boutwell's vicinity, his views must car
ry truthful conviction to the minds of
multitudes In the same region. In his
4th OF July Grafton at Weathersfleld,
Conn.,, In 1859, after some very humor
GUS and patriotic laudations of our
glorious Union, as it was at that time
and modestly cepsuring the intolerance
OF the early pilgrims, Artemus launches
into an eloquent eulogy upon the rebels
of 1776, as follows:
There was no discount, however on the
brave men who fl, bled and !. died in the Ameri,
'em up too steep. III ke my show, they will
stand any amount OF praise. g; Washington
on. He was a clear hedded. rm-harted and
siddy going man. He never siopt overl The
prevaln weakness Of most public men Is to
stop ouel They get filed up and sIop. They
rush things. They travel too much on the high
presher principle. They git on the fust poplar
hobby poss which trots along. not caring a sent
whether the beest is even going. clear-sited and
sound. or spawned bned and bawky. or
course they git throwed eyentt2,oalIy. # not
blind. they go pei mel with it. instd of exertin
themselves to set 1t right. They can't see that
the crowd that IL now bearing them triumfantly
on its shoulders, will soon diskiver its error
and cast them into the boss pond of OBLIVION.
without the sitest hesitation.
washington never slopt over.
Mv frinnHQ ypr anf IN m hut Hn
kin all be- patrits. and behave. ourselves in
human and Christian manner"
Boutwell,, In order to head off Morton,
In the traces OF inebriate Grantism,
stopped over" in his Mississippi re-
port, and feeling himself mounted on
into seething crater OF diabolic auda-
city, and like a mailman stung
with remorse. and the sublimest
Of effrontery, he coolly talks OF fur
Their usurpation in the Federal Gov
eminent In order to crush out the
autonomy Of any Southern State which
invites his brood Of interloping vipers
to abdicate. No surprise need be felt at
Boutwell's course. when we review his
examination OF witnesses like the late
Gen. George Thomas, preparatory to the
Congressional reconstruction measures,
violating all limitations OF authority
under the fundamental law. The man
Thomas, though a Virginian, prompted
by some vain or sinister ambition to
gain popularity with the insane rabble
then in power, hobnobbed with Bout
we'll most amiably on the negro ques-
ton, and pretended to believe the
Southern people could not be trusted to
restore their several States to the Union,
If the troops were withdrawn! Alas
how insignificant and contemplate men
render themselves who dwarf their un-
Outstanding and morality in drift after
popularity? What il England, at the
close Of the old rebellion, had proposed
to leave their armies in the colonies to
assist them in arranging their new sys-
TEN of government And yet there
would have been equal sense in such
proposition, as in Boutwell's silly expe-
rimeMt Of reconstruction by the aid and
cooperation OF mercenary troops-most
of them probably aliens and strangers
to all the customs and habits Of our
people. The British authorities, in their
plethora OF kindness, may possibly have
INDUCED some notion OF similar benefi- |
cence by retaining, for several years
after peace had been assured by treaty,
military possession of many outpOsts |
on the Northern and Western frontier |
The usurpiDg Governors foisted upon
the South by the popiniays in charge OF
Inc military nave lcl1 anu SHOWu uO |
interest in the welfare OF the governed,
but simply that they were mere agents
and tools Of executive Federal power,
selected for no other purpose than that
Of subscribing partisan hostility to all
the elements Of rightful self-govern-
ment Hence the practice among them
of passing much Of their time in distant
regions where they really belong, and
frequent visits to the President for In
structions and how they must disport
their official functions, and under what
exigencies troops would be furnished to
protect them in their filibustering |
forays against dissatisfied and ruined |
people. Not one Of those adventures |
could have retained his usurped status |
for twenty-four hours without the sup |
port of Federal troops. Review Grants |
letter to Chamberlain, and Sherman's
answer TO the Congressional committee, !
when asked if the troops in the South