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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
eridan, also in plain clothes, are General Emory and Colonel Sheridan, a younger brother of the chief. Banditti! How the Southern fire darts out, the Southern pride expands, as Senator and General cross the hall, restrained alike by courtesy and policy from rushing on the man who calls them outlaws and is only waiting for a word to string them up! With what a cold and haughty mien these magnates pass the shaft against which Sheridan leans! Have you no fear of accidents? I ask General Penn. Not much, he answers; we are fiercely tried, but we can bear the strain. Many of these gentlemen, I suppose, are armed, and some fanatic, vexed beyond endurance, may create a row. Such things may happen; but the League is under high control. No leaguer carries a weapon, not even a pocket-knife, on his person. We are strong enough to do without knives and pistols. If a fight must come, we shall go into it like soldiers, not like Negroes and Kickapoos. But there will be no f
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ho shall sit in the Legislature of a State? Evarts brings the matter home: Here we have a national gensdarmerie instead of a civil police! The Legislature of Louisiana is as much a part of our Government as the Legislature of New York. Men who have never before this moment mixed in politics, leave their books and join these enll that babble about sovereign States on the battle field, and here, in one of the rich and populous northern cities, the Governor of a great State is talking of Louisiana as a sovereign member of the Union. Governor Tilden, of New York, is still more menacing and emphatic: For similar acts our English ancestors sent the first Charles to the scaffold and expelled the second James from the throne. Louisiana is not more conscious than Ohio and New York that the day is big with fate. The policy of ruling by the sword has reached a turning-point. To-night will see this policy either make a step or fall back many steps. If Caesar rises, the Republic sinks
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
White Revival. Eloquent words are ringing through the air; Republicans joining voices with Democrats in denouncing the policy of President Grant. The venerable Bryant leads the way in New York; the liberal Adams is the spokesman of Massachusetts. Evarts lends his name to what is little less than an impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. These practices, cries Bryant, must be denounced, must be stopped, must be broken up for ever! What right, asks Adams, have soldiers of the United States to determine who shall sit in the Legislature of a State? Evarts brings the matter home: Here we have a national gensdarmerie instead of a civil police! The Legislature of Louisiana is as much a part of our Government as the Legislature of New York. Men who have never before this moment mixed in politics, leave their books and join these enemies of President Grant. Here is an act done in a time of peace, says Curtis, so dangerous to all civil freedom, so bold and reckless a violatio
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
r has President seen a rising like that of the northern and western cities on receipt of news from New Orleans. Boston and New York are up in arms; Chicago and Philadelphia are up in arms; St. Louis and Cincinnati are up in arms. Caesarism is answered by a White Revival. Eloquent words are ringing through the air; Republicans joining voices with Democrats in denouncing the policy of President Grant. The venerable Bryant leads the way in New York; the liberal Adams is the spokesman of Massachusetts. Evarts lends his name to what is little less than an impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. These practices, cries Bryant, must be denounced, must be stopped, must be broken up for ever! What right, asks Adams, have soldiers of the United States to determine who shall sit in the Legislature of a State? Evarts brings the matter home: Here we have a national gensdarmerie instead of a civil police! The Legislature of Louisiana is as much a part of our Government as the Legi
Blue Ridge (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ay is big with fate. The policy of ruling by the sword has reached a turning-point. To-night will see this policy either make a step or fall back many steps. If Caesar rises, the Republic sinks. On what a thread the issue seems to hang! While President Grant is pondering pros and cons, a pistol-shot, fired by a fool, may start a civil war. Sheridan is prepared to act, and the devastator of the Shenandoah would sweep the quays of New Orleans as thoroughly as he swept the granaries of Blue Ridge. If blood begins to flow, the President will support his officers; but who can say how many States will rally to the Government? It is not easy to assert. Since the fall elections many things are changed. The White Revival has set in, the centre of political gravity has been moved. A strong majority of Democrats will sit in the new Chamber. If blood is shed, who knows what shape the White Revival may assume? Is it likely that men who voted with the South seven weeks ago will arm to
America (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
l Sherman takes no pains to hide his views. Vice-President Wilson opposes his official superior, and some of the leading journals are demanding that Grant shall retire from the White House, leaving his powers in Wilson's hands. More than all else, Hamilton Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resign his post as Secretary of State. This menace tells. Fish is not only the ablest man in Grant's Cabinet, but one of the ablest men in America. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, takes the same line as Fish. Without these gentlemen, the President's Cabinet could not stand a week; and if his Cabinet falls, who knows what else may fall? The Governors of powerful States are talking in an ominous way. A State has disappeared, says Governor Alien to the people of Ohio; a sovereign State of this Union has no existence this night. A sovereign State! The President thinks he put an end to all that babble about sovereign States on t
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
e clock, as though the dial were a living face on which a man might read the secrets of President Grant's Cabinet. All ears are strained towards the telegraph clerk, as though his needles were living spirits, from which men could force the secrets of the Capitol. Messages come in as fast as clerks can read them, so that we in the Rotunda learn what is being said and done in our behalf, not only in Charleston and Richmond, but in New York and St. Louis, as soon as these things are known in Broadway. Wires connect us with the Capitol, and we are told of what occurs before it is known in Pennsylvania-avenue. The President, we learn, is much perplexed and changes his decision every hour. Yesterday he was rock; this morning he is spray. A passionate and obstinate man, he wants to rule his country as he ruled his camp, and is amazed to find his countrymen object to military rule. Never has President seen a rising like that of the northern and western cities on receipt of news fro
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ld of what occurs before it is known in Pennsylvania-avenue. The President, we learn, is much perplexed and changes his decision every hour. Yesterday he was rock; this morning he is spray. A passionate and obstinate man, he wants to rule his country as he ruled his camp, and is amazed to find his countrymen object to military rule. Never has President seen a rising like that of the northern and western cities on receipt of news from New Orleans. Boston and New York are up in arms; Chicago and Philadelphia are up in arms; St. Louis and Cincinnati are up in arms. Caesarism is answered by a White Revival. Eloquent words are ringing through the air; Republicans joining voices with Democrats in denouncing the policy of President Grant. The venerable Bryant leads the way in New York; the liberal Adams is the spokesman of Massachusetts. Evarts lends his name to what is little less than an impeachment of the President and his Cabinet. These practices, cries Bryant, must be de
Durell (search for this): chapter 11
fficial superior, and some of the leading journals are demanding that Grant shall retire from the White House, leaving his powers in Wilson's hands. More than all else, Hamilton Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resign his post as Secretary of State. This menace tells. Fish is not only the ablest man in Grant's Cabinet, but one of the ablest men in America. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, takes the same line as Fish. Without umour, 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 tr
Philip Sheridan (search for this): chapter 11
o'clock in the evening. Persons present-General Sheridan, with his staff, Lieutenant-governor Pennght the scene in our Rotunda is a sight. General Sheridan, dressed in plain clothes, is standing neo in plain clothes, are General Emory and Colonel Sheridan, a younger brother of the chief. Bandittn these magnates pass the shaft against which Sheridan leans! Have you no fear of accidents? Io on, assume the burthen of events, and leave Sheridan free to take his course. He framed a Message Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resshot, fired by a fool, may start a civil war. Sheridan is prepared to act, and the devastator of theice; 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 weddin
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