The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-24
The nayonet in the south.
IN. \. SUM

The proofs multiply that the Rspub-
lean managers will try 10 carry four OF
five Southern States this fall with the
bayonet The States to which we moe
particularly refer are Mississippi, Louis
lana. Arkansas and Alabama. They ma,
also find IL necessary To use the o. re
means to avert defeat IN Florida, and
even in South Carolina, IN both OF which
the party il weakened by bit,e feuds.
Ten days ago Gen. Anger issued an
order at New Orleans creating the mill
tary district OF Baton Rouge. be com
pos Of six counties or parishes OF
Louisiana. and live counties or Miss's-
sippi Troops were assigned TO the new
district, ana Col. Brooke placed in com
mand The soldiers are posted at
strategic points, and the sub-com-
manders are required TO report to Col.
Brooke without uelav, giving him such
Information concerning their command
as may be useful to him" Col. Brooke,
bv a special order, is authorized } move
his troops to anv p,rt or his district
whenever he shall think it best, and TO
preserve peace and order by the use OF
every means within his control.
Nothing whatever has occurred to call
for special military raid against the
eleven counties in question. 1t may be
regarded. therefore, as the initial step
In line of coercive policy which, &C
cording to we'll founded reports, Is to be-
carried out this summer and fall in the
half dozen Suites we have mentioned.
Mississippi will receive the particu ar
attention OF the mill, airy satraps. Sen
ator Morton takes peculiar int crest in
that State and as he has been the stur-
diest champion Of Grants Southern
measures, he must have all the troops
that may be necessary - hold the
whites OF Mississippi in awe while the
carpet baggers stuff the ballot boxes
with votes to suit themselves. The
suance OF this policy, besides the troops
in the Baton Rouge district, there are
soldiers at Fort Gibson and at Vicks-
burg, and that the commander at the
latter post thinks he shall soon call for
more. The Herald says that the negroes
OF that section are told by the military
commanders and the carpet baggers
that it is Gen. Grants order for them II
vote for Hayes aud Wheeler, and that
they will be put back into slavery il
they do not obey.
Louisiana will be looked after with
special solicitude. We learned several
weeks ago from trustworthy source
that Gen. Sheridan bad agreed t. go into
VIC 0ull Aoo6bCO anu ItkhC SOLuiAahA OuCC
more, and give the people a touch Of his
previous tactics. The uprising Of Sitting
Bull may perhaps delay his departure.
But as Sheridan's chief weapon in
putting down this savage seems to be
the telegraph, he might possibly strike
him from Vicksburg and New Orleans
as effectively as from Philadelphia or
Chicago 1t would be an interesting
sight to see Sheridan by and by leave
the determination of the Indians Of the
Northwest to inferior officers and
troops, while he, with the flower of the
army, was engaged in putting down the
white banditti" OF the Southwest, be-
cause they would not keep quiet when
Casey, Packard, Spencer ane the rest,
were carrying the elections by fraud,
forgery and perjury.
Unless deferred by exposure and in
dignant protests, we may soon see the
supporters of Hayes dotting the Gulf
States all over with military districts,
modelled upon the pattern OF the one
just established at Baton Rouge.