Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-08-24
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REORGANIZATION OF TIE ARMY. .

REoRGANIzATIoN OF TIE ARMY.
The commission for the reform and
reorganization Of the army" under the
act of July "a, 1876 army appropriation
bill,) met on the 10th instant. The
commission consists of Senators West
and CockeFell and Representatives Ban
ming and Hurlburt, the Secretary of
War and Generals Sherman and Meigs.
The commission elected the Secretary
Of War its president, and Capt. Luke
O'Reilly, 10th infantry, Its recorded,
and then, after discussion as to the
objects of the law, adjourned to meet
November Is. Meanwhile each member
is to send in his views and suggestions,
documents, &c, which will be printed
and arranged by the recorder for discuss
sion when the commission meet. The
office of the commission will be IN the
War Department.
TIE PRESS ON SECRETARY CAMERON S
LETTER.
The Republican papers have very
little to say in regard to the letter of
Secretary of War Cameron to Gen.
Sherman, directing him to hold all his
available troops for use in the South
Even the New York IaDaes has not a
word Of commendation OF censure for
the letter. Democratic and Indepen
dent papers, however, are out-spoken
in condemnation of the order. The
New York Herald Qndependent) says:
at is expected that the FIVE regi-
ments to be used in the South will
carry four of the Southern States by
whipping the negroes into line who
have either become llstless in politics or
wandered off TO The Democracy, and by
terrifying the 'iendish' white liners
into subjectlon. By keeping the out.
rage mill slowly grinding, and sending
platoons of cavalry hither and thither,
it is evidently hoped to revive the
bitterness which has been rapidly dis
appearing between the races i'll most
parts of the South. We wish to see
all citizens protected in their rights, but
this turning of the army of the United
States into bands of drummers for the
negro vote is pushing partnership so
far that it would be grotesque if it were
not infamous. This is doubtless the
work to which Gen. Sherman referred
when he said the highest authority
must answer why the troops could not
be spared to fight the Sioux The
desperation of a move which dares to
saddle the country with the expense of
extra soldiers while keeping nearly four
thousand for political purposes, is APP
parent, and adds another stigma to the
rule of the party in whose name and for
whose aid it is unblushingly done
The New York World (Democrat),
says: -.t
"There is no legitimate use for troops
anywhere in the country. What this
order means, and all it can mean, is
that the Administration means to use
troops to prevent free elections in the
Southern States. 1t was a cowardly
trick to hold back such an order until
the Adjournment OF Congress, and then
issue it. 1t will do the Administration
no good and the Republican party no
good. The execution of it would do
both great mischief. The mere threat
ought to arouse the indignation of all
decent citizens, whatever their poll
ties
The New York SUI (Tndependent,)
says:
'EGrant has seized the first moment
after the adjournment of Congress to
show his hand, and the people of the
country can see that it grasps bayonet
the point Of which is turned toward
the Southern States. Il is feeling not
of alarm but of indignation that will be
raised throughout the land by the mil-
itary order that was on Wednesday is
sued from the War Department to Gen
Sherman. The order means that ten
or twelve thousand troops OF the regu>
lar army are to be concentrated in the
Southern States-in those of them
which have been, OF, without this order
would surely be, wrested from Grantism
in November next. There is but one
thing now to be desired, and that is
that this military interference of Grant
may recoil upon the party for whose
advantage it is intended"
The New York Post independent
Repu blican) says: .-
"The circumstances in which it is
issued throw suspicion upon it. Worse
still, the facts of our political history
during the last eight years make it im1
possible for thinking men to imagine
that this order has been issued for no
other purpose than that of enforcing
the law, and securing to every man the
free exercise of his rights as a citizen.
1t is impossible, in the light of our re-
cent political history, not to see in this
order threat which is meant to serve
a partisan purpose
The New York Tribune (Republi
CAM, says:
Secretary Cameron's letter to Gen
eral Sherman is undeniably smart, and
the country will chuckle over the neat
way in which the resolutions of the
Democratic House about the right OF
free suffrage at the South are turned
into boomerang. And yet, Mr.. Sec
rotary, the judicious will grleve! The
effect of the letter will be to revive at
the South the dread of federal interfer-
ence with their elections, to encourage
among the negroes the hope of having
the troops of6cihusly on their side, and
III general, to foment mischief rather
than to avert it. 1t is clever piece of
work-too clever by half