Excerpt from Self-Government in Louisiana
The Senate haviug under consideration the resolution submitted by Mr. Sciiurz on the 8 th of January, diiecting the Committee on the Judiciary to imjuire what legislation is necessary to secure to the people of the State of Louisiana their rights of self-government vinder the Constitution Mr. Sherman said: Mr. President: The first matter I vrisli to bring to the attention of the Senate is tlie gross injustice that has been done in this debate to the President of the United States, to General Sheridan, and I may say to tlie republican party. I doubt if the history of this country has furnished a parallel to the character of declamation and arraignment of these high officers upon grounds so false, frivolous, and causeless. My colleague, on the day after the transactions of the 4 th of January, hastily introduced a resolution, addressed to the President, not couched in the usual language of courtesy, calling for official information in regard to matters that had occiu red in Louisiana on that day. No objection was made to its passage, but only that it should be put in the usual form. At once a heated debate occurred in which language of the most violent character was uttered, perhaps by none more than the generally calm and dignified Senator from Delaware, Mr. Bayard. When I come to look over his speech and notice the marked language uttered by him, and compare it with the actual facts now before us, I must express my amazement that he should have uttered such language upon even the alleged facts tlieu before him, and especially in the absence of all official information or statements from the high officers lie arraigns. In speaking of General Sheridan the Senator uttered this language: Now, sir, I ask the Senate and the country to listen to the tone of this officer and see, when you have read his dispatches to the Administration here, who shall say whether he is even fit to breathe tlie air of a republican government. Again he says: Ah, Mr. President, if there was the tone that under other administrations animated the Executive of this country, he would never sign his name again as Licutenant-General of tlio United States Anuy. In other words, General Sheridan is denounced not only as unfit to breathe the air of a republican government, but as liaving committed an act of such moral turpitu(b, such gross outrage, that he ought at once to be dismissed from the service of the United States as Lieutenant-General of the Army. So my ionoral)le friend in tlie lieat ol the excitement of this debate has arraigned the President of the United States in language scarcely less severe. He says: There is not in tliat State one ease of abuse of power, of peculation, robbery, and filthy dishonesty, with whicli the history of its government is tilled in tlie last two years, in wliich his displeasure has ever been signified by the reiuoval of an improper ofticial, not one word of rebuke.
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