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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 4: General Sheridan. (search)
he pleasures of courtship, and the festivities of Christmas, when a letter reached him from General Belknap, Secretary of War, marked confidential, which upset all his arrangements for balls and dinnh of pleasure as of business. ... You can return by Washington, and make a verbal report. W. W. Belknap. Ever ready to obey orders, Sheridan telegraphed to Washington Your letter arrived — all man is that higher officer. It is no great secret that General Sherman notes these doings of Belknap and the War Office with alarm. Sherman has no taint of Caesarism. A patriot first, a soldier s, disgusted by the passing phase of public affairs. Sherman is too great a man to slight; and Belknap, on receiving Sheridan's answer, sent a confidential letter to St. Louis, explaining Sheridan'icate. No officer likes to be set aside, especially by a secret order, and without a hearing. Belknap threw his burthen on to Sheridan's back, by that clause in his letter which instructed Sheridan
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 7: banditti (search)
'clock in the evening Sheridan wires these words to Belknap, Secretary of War: New Orleans: Jan. 4, 1875. terns for punishment! This startling telegram to Belknap runs: New Orleans: Jan. 5, 1875. I think thh, but in the North and West-is not so confident as Belknap and his adjutants that things are all going well inreet and quay. At midnight, Sheridan telegraphs to Belknap, using a secret cipher for his message: New Orou will only have confidence. P. H. Sheridan. Belknap has confidence; so have the adjutants. Caesar is ners under which his province has been seized. Yet Belknap, more Caesarian than Caesar, wires to New Orleans: ence, and thoroughly appreciate your course. W. W. Belknap. All of us? Who are these all of us The telemay only mean the adjutants and secretaries; but as Belknap is a Cabinet minister, all of us may mean the wholes much committed to Caesarism as either Williams or Belknap ; yet Sheridan, after reading and re-reading the do
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
rom Washington! Read, read! scream a hundred voices. One of the clerks jumps on a bench, the printed telegraph slip in his hand, and waving it before his audience, cries out lustily: Gentlemen, the President backs down! Backs down? each wild and pallid auditor asks his neighbour; Yes, backs down! At once the strained and tragic situation softens; lips relax, eyes lighten into humour, and everyone begins to chatter and shake hands. Some slip away to spread the news elsewhere. The knots and groups break up, and many seek for details in the messages which still keep pouring in. Play over, says the well-known voice; Durell repudiated, Belknap discredited, Sheridan excused. The President abandons all responsibility. Sheridan is not sustained, and his recommendations are described as unlawful. Yes, the play is over. Sheridan will now have time for his pleasure trip, and he may then go home to his wedding-cake. Third term? The third term is dead. Exit Caesar!
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
, venality-and the comic papers bristle with insults and assaults. In one of these prints a naughty boy, climbing into Uncle Sam's pantry to reach some third term preserve, upsets habeas corpus jam, for which, being caught in the fact, he is soundly whipped on the back. One large cartoon, by Matt Morgan, has the title: Grant's Last Blow at Louisiana. A handsome female figure mounts the steps of the Capitol with a petition. Grant .comes out to meet her, with his two mastiffs, Phil and Belknap, and upbraids her: You have dared to despise the masters I put over you; you have the temerity to wish to govern yourself. I whipped you once. You have no rights that a soldier is bound to respect. To which abuse Louisiana objects: I am a Free State. I obey the Federal law. I am suffering for law and peace. I merely wish to rule myself under the constitution. Constitution! cries the armed ruler, plunging his dagger into her heart, I am your constitution. In the passion of the mo