The daily gazette., 1876-07-19
From the New York Sun of to-day.
The B0yOnet in the SO,sfy,


The proofs multiply that the Repub-
ilcan managers will try to carry four
or five Southern States this fall with
the bay yonet. The States to which we
more particularly refer are Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama
They may also find it necessary to use
the same means to avert defeat in Flo
rida, and even in South Carolina. in
both of which the party is weakened
by bitter feuds.
Ten days ago Gen. Anger issued an
order at New Orleans creating the Mil
itary District of Baton Rouge, to be
composed of six counties or parishes
of Louisiana, and five counties of Mis-
sissippi. Troops were assigned to the
new district, and Col. Brooke placed
in command. The soldiers are posted
at strategic points, and the sub.com-
manders are required to report to Col.
Brooke without delay. "giving him
such information concerning their
commands as may be useful to him."
Col. Brooke, by special order, is au,
thorized to move his troops to any part
of his district whenever he shall think
it best, and to preserve peace and Or
der "by the use of every means within
his CONTROL"
Louisiana will be looked after with
special solicitude. We learned several
weeks ago from Trustworthy source
that Gen: Sheridan had agreed to go
into the Gulf States and and take COM
mand once more. and give the people a
touch of his previous tactics. The up
rising of Sitting Bull may perhaps de-
lay his departure. But as Sheridan's
chief weapon in putting down this
savage seems to be the telegraph, he
might possibly strike him from Vicks.
burg and New Orleans as effectively
as from Philadelphia or Chicago. 1t
would be an interesting sight to see
Sheridan by an by leave the extermina-
tion of the Indians Of the Northwest to
inferior officers and troops, while he,
with the flower of the army, was engag.
ed in putting down the white
"banditti' of the Southwest. because
they would not keep quiet when
Casey, Packard, Spencer, and the rest
were carrying the election by fraud,
forgery, and perjury.
Unless deferred by exposure and
indignant protests, we may soon see
the supporters of Hayes dotting the
Gulf States all over with military dis
tricts, modelled upon the pattern of
the one just established at Baton
Rouge.
Nothing whatever. .has occurred to
call for a special military raid against
the eleven counties in question. 1t
may be regarded, therefore, as the ini.
tial step in line of coercive policy
which, according to we'll founded re.
ports, is to be carried out this summer
and fall in the half dozen States we
have mentioned.
Mississippi will receive the particular
attention of the military satraps. Sena.
tor Morton takes peculiar interest 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 to hold the whites
of Mississippi IN awe while the carpet
baggers stuff the ballot boxes to suit
themselves. The Vicksburg Herald tells
us that in pursuance of this policy, be
sides the troops in the Baton Rouge dis
trict, there are soldiers at Fort Gibson
and at Vicksburg, and that the comman-
der 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 or
der for them to vote for Hayes and
Wheeler, and that they will be put back
into slavery if they do not obey.