New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24
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distinction of representing country dis
trict in Congress from the State OF Mis-
souri,, He was born in Kentucky; went
to college a while, but did not graduate.
He .'quituated," as the New Orleans
school children call it when one OF their
number fails in an examination for pro-
motion and leaves school. Not that ).
Montgomery G. ever failed. The record
does say that. He certainly quit college
without graduating, whatever his reasons
NAV have been. He turned himself into
a lawyer, but practiced for short
time, and finally accepted colonel's COM
mission from President Lincoln, when
both the State of his nativity and that OF
his adoption shrunk from the awful quar-
rel of sections they had helped to pro-
woke and left the eleven "erriug Southern
sisters" to fight it out single-handed with
the overmastering North. Mr.. Glover
was elected to Congress as Democrat IN
1874. and reelected to the Forty-fourth
CONGRESS-. This is all we know OF the
gentleman, except what occurred the
other day. On or about the seventeenth
instant be prepared two legislative torpe-
does, one of which was designed to blow
up the President, and the other to raise
Senator Sherman from his seat, divest
him of his senatorial robes, and land him
on the other side of the Ohio river mere
private citizen, and nothing more.
The torpedo prepared for the Presi-
dent was composed of ingredients manu-
featured out of the circumstance of send
ing troops to Petersburg, Virginia, pend
ing the election of 1876 (not during the
late unpleasantness). It is, however, of
the usual character of captious, parti-
san, congressional resolution of inquiry,
and. so far as we can see, one proper
enough, provided the President deems it
his duty to answer it. Further than that
it was expected to blow up the White
House, the public feel little interest in it.
But the series Of resolutions he pre-
pared in reference to Senator Sherman is
model of cheek and impotence. His
whereas recites that the statement con-
corning the result of the election in
Louisiana sent by the President to the
Senate is signed by John Sherman; that
Mr.. Sherman claims and exercises the
functions of Senator from Ohio; that il
is alleged the fact that he is Senator a!
all is disputed; that his title to a seat in
the Senate has never been inquired into
by that body; therefore, Mr.. Glover wants
the House to resolve:
Reso!rea, That the Senate is hereby re-
quested to inquire whether John Sherman
now holding q seat in that body for tn:
State of Ohio, was, in fact, elected Sen
ator for ak yeare, from the foarth day o!
March, 1873, to the end that Congress and
the people may be able to judge of the va! ue
of said John Sherman's views and state
ments concerning the results of elections.
He announced it to be his intention to
introduce both these resolutions into the
House, though the time of the attack waf
not mentioned. We have waited in vain
for them week. AS the telegraph il
silent, we can only suppose the hour o.
vengeance is not yet come. We are curious
to see how the House will receive this sin
gular proposition to request the Senate *
inquire into the title Of Senator who ha.
held his seat unquestioned for nearly fou,
years. And it will be still more matter
of interest to see what the Senate will say
in response to this most extraordinary re.
quest. That body may take fright, anG
GUST Hon. John Sherman instanter, bu'
We will not believe it until we see it done
So long as the Southern country dis
tricts send such stupid men as John
Montgomery Glover to represent them in
Congress, just SO long will they be con-
sidered objects of pity or ridicule by
better informed communities everywhere
and what makes the matter still worse, il
| is rare that the Southern men who ought
to have better sense, ever take pains te
repress the follies of their indiscreet col.
leagues, though the apparent suppression
of Mr.. Glover's silly propositions leads
US to hope that he has been talked out Of
his announced purpose to make an eyre.
gious ass of himself.
Lieutenant Holmes, Of the United States
army, appears to us to be about the least
observant man Of this age. He was sta
toned with his company in Baton Rouge
during the past campaign and never
heard of any trouble anywhere. We pre-
sumo this officer was SO much occupied
with his garrison duties that an ''earth