The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-07-28
THE BAYONET IN THE SOUTH.

The proofs multiply that the Repub-
lican managers will try to carry four or
Ave Southern States this fall with the
bayonet. 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 in Florida,
ano Sven in South Carolina, in both
a mich the party is weakened by bit
tt$ifeuds.
i ten days ago Gen. Anger issued an
t;-t-fa 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 Missis-
sippi. Troops were assigned to the
new district, and Col. Brooke placed in
command. The soldiers are placed at
strategic points, and the sub-comman
ders are required to report to Col.
Brooke without delay "giving him such
Information concerning their command
as may be useful to him." Col. Brooke,
by spicial order, is authorized to
move his troops to any part of his dis
trict whenever he shall think it best,
and to preserve peace and order "by
| the use of every means within his con-
troll"
Nothing whichever has occurred to call
for a special military raid against the
eleven counties in question. 1t may
be regarded, therefore, as the initial
step in u line of coercive policy which,
according to we'll founded reports, is to
be carried out this summer and fall in
the half dozen States we have men,
toned.
Mississippi will receive the particular
attention of the military satraps. Sen
ator Morton takes Il 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
carpct-baggers stuff the ballot-boXes
with votes to suit themselves. The
| Nicksburs Herald tells us that in pur-
suanco of this policy, besides the troops
i'll the Baton Rouge District, there are
soldiers at Port Gibson and at Vicks-
burg, and that the commander at the
latter post thinks that he will soon call
for more. The Herald says that the
negroes of that section are told by the
military commanders and the carpet
baggers that is Gen. Grants order for
them to vote for Hays and Wheeler,
and that they will be put back into
slavery if they do not obey.
| Louisiana will be looked after with
a special solicitude. We learned
several weeks ago from q Trustworthy
source that Gen. Sheridan had agreed
to go into the Cult States and take com
nand once more, and give the people
a touch of his previous tactics. The
u-'tising of Sitting Bull may perhap.
tff.ay his departure. But as Sheridan Is
l.. weapon in putting down this saw
eems to be the telegraph, he might
- !ibly strike him from Nicksburl
- New Orleans as effectively as from
= Philadelphia or Chicago. 1t would bt
an interesting sight to see Sheridan by
and by leave the determination of thu
Indians of the Northwest to inferior Off
GERS and troops, while he, with the
flower of the army, was engaged ir
putting down the white "banditti" o
the Southwest, because they would no
keep quiet when Casey, Packard, Spen
Ger, and the rest, were carraing thu
elections by fraud, forgery and perjury
Unless deferred by exposure and in
dignant protests, we may soon see thu
supporters of Hays dotting the Gul
States all over with military districts
modelled upon the pattern of the on
lust established at Baton Rouge.-N y
SIM.