| Show the Vicks vicksburg burg barg affair the military interference at vicksburg has an exceedingly ugly u 9 y look after the apologetic disclaimers put foth forth in the presidents message sa aft after r the president had attempted t e ge t e d to screen the louisiana interference behind the assertion that army officers are not lawyers thereby making an implied admission that they had overstepped over stepped leg legal a 11 limits th they e y would naturally a I 1 I 1 y refrain from taking any similar step on their own judgment and await commands from headquarters before venturing to act it is therefore important to know by whose orders the troops acted at vicksburg assuredly gen genemore nEmory Ge emo ry would not have dared without a specific command to disregard the message and make malte a practical denial of its sincerity it is incredible that the order orders in the vicksburg case did not emanate from washington nobody but the president himself would have dared to thus stamp the message as a false disclaimer and a hollow apology and yet it will not surprise us asto to find senator morton on some bright morning excusing the president on the ground that the whole thing took place without his knowledge ZV Y berald herald lter ITer oud cUd jan 21 |
