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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
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TIIE SATIRSiALI* OF FREEDOM
WHAT THE FUTURE WILT. THINK
OF THE CONFEDERATE COMMAND
ERS.
“When,'’ asked the courtiers of the Great
Alexander, as they gathered around his
death-bed, “shallwe wOrahip your memory?”
“When you are happy,” replied the world’s
conqueror. When, asks the present genera
tion, shall we remember those men who
have inflamed the civil conflict ? We an
swer with the dying monarch, “When we
are happy.” When we' are again a great na
tion ; when plenty and peace are. our house-,
hold gods; when we are all free; when all
ate happy. It is impossible for contempor
aries to form a coirect estimate of a man’s
character. It is only when the strong winds
of time shall have dissipated the clouds of
malice and prejudice that a coirect judgmeut
can be procured. We have already seen the
impossibility of ascertaining a man's merit
until after some time be past. Sherman was
superseded as a lunatic, and Sheridan for
years remained a captain of cavalry ; Grant
for several years wa3 a colonel, and Thomas,
in 1861, held a command of but forty men.
While genius was thus slighted, McClellan
was ranked as a demi-god, and Halleek was
considered a military oracle; -Pope was the
modem Murat, and Hooker our Hannibal.
But to-day each man has found his level;
the able are rewarded, and the incompetent—
are allowedgto go to Europe.
Let us attempt to divest ourselves of the
surroundings of passiou and prejudice, and
transferring ourselves into the future, calmly
view the opinions which will then be formed
of the Confederate commanders. Any one
who imagines that they will be viewed ns
ignorant villains, as rash, yet unsuccessful
traitors, knows but little of the decision of
posterity. If Davis and his coadjutors had
succeeded in their attempts to dissolve the
American Union, they would have been
viewed by European eyes as founders of a
new dynast y, and Jeff, would have been a
Washington, and and Hunter a
Franklin and Hancock. But with their fail
ure comes the opprobious epithet of Rebel
traitor. r Wh,en a revolution is achieved, its
leaders become patriots; when a revolution
is only a rebellion, its instigators are denomi
nated traitors, and hung. Such are the re
sults of success, and such of failure. When
posterity comes to view' the Confederate
leaders, they will he seen not only as defeat
ed men—they will be termed rebels, and cease
to be viewed as “chivalry.”
Or Davis the world already kuows suffi
cient to form an opinion. He is a brilliant
writer, few Americans being able to round
more finished periods. Asa lawyer, he is
didactic, and advances sophistry with a dis
guise which passes the forged coin for the
true gold. Asa debater, he is rather abrupt,
but exceedingly acute, his remarks being
ready and to the point. Asa politician, lie
is the most unscrupulous of the unscrupu
lous, and his defense of the repudiation policy
in Mississippi might have forewarned the na
tion of his total want of principle. Th sum
up, he is a man of genius, a man of brains,
but one totally devoid of moral rectitude.-
He will not be considered rash—his plans
were deeply and seemingly securely, laid.—
For thirty years had they been maturing,
and such a length of preparation, where every
seeming contingency was provided for, and
every want anticipated, appeared infallible.
But the syllogism was based in a soph
ism. He underrated the courage of the
North, he deemed them cowards, and found
that insttacl-of a lamb he had aroused a lion.
His schemes have failed, and the Cicero who
would be Cato has proved a Cataliue.
If there is a man in the Rebellion we ad
mire for his genius, both as a citizen and a
soldier, that man is Robert E. Lee. Drawn
against his will into the revolt, impelled by
domestic persuasions to take a step in oppo
sition to the dictates of both his head and
heart, he has thrown himself with'his whole
soul into the cause he has espoused, and be
come its mainstay, its chief and only sup
port. His appointment as General-in-Chief
testifies the terrible need the Southern peo
ple felt of a mau like Lee. Posterity will
view him rather as a misguided yet brilliant
mau, a sort of American “Roderick Dhu,”
tlie soul of his cause, aud himself the most
during and wise of his associates. How he
will he viewed ill future, depends rather
upon his future actions than on the past.
The attitude he holds can be changed, if,
when be sees tbe falsity of his cause, he cor
rects the error of his ways. We can, there
fore, only view him as the best of the Rebels,
as the misguided rather than the intentionally
false.
There tv ill be a time in which most of the
loathing with which the Southern leaders are
viewed to day will have passed away. It
will be to them that posterity will ascribe
the abolition of slavery. Hud. it not been
for the mad course adopted by them, the
curse of human bondage would not for many
decades have been tenioved from amongst us.
It was their own mud folly, their desire to
extend or defend the institution against
which was directed all the’engines of civili
zationnnd intelligence, and in their efforts
to defend they have destroyed their idol. It
is they to whom we owe the regeneration.—
And when in the future the people of America
celebrating the carnival of liberty, the
saturnalia of freedom, when, over the whole
of our land is heard the song of rejoicing, the
Confederate commanders will be thought of
rather as the instrument in the hands of the
All Powerful to work out. theirdestiny and His
will, than as advocates of a doctrine so op
f>osod to Christian feeling and popular en
ightemr.ent as the bygone institution of hu
man slavery.— Phil, Eve. Tel.
New Army Roster.— The Act of Congress
which we print below cannot fail to be of in
terest to all soldiers who are or have been in
the army during this war, and to all their
friends:
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty
eighth Congress.
['Pcbhc Resolution, No. 21.]
Joint Resolution to provide for the publica
tion of a full army register.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica m Congress assembled. That the Secretary
ot War cause to be printed and published a
lull roster or roll of all geneial, field, line
and staff officers of volunteers who have been
in the army ot the United States at any time
since the beginning of the present rebellion,
including all informal organizations which
have been recognized or accepted and paid
by the United States, showing whether they
are ytet in the service; or have been discharg
ed therefrom, and giving casualties aud other
explanations proper for such register. And,
to defray in whole or in part the expenses of
this publication, an edition of twenty-five
thousand copies of such enlarged register
shall be published and may be"sold to of
ficers, soldiers or citizens, at a price which
shall not more thau cover the actual cost of
paper, printing and binding, and shall not in
any case exceed one dollar per volume.
Approved March 2, 1865.
Guano — lts History.— Guano, as most
people understand, is imported from the isl
ands of the Pacific, mostly of the Chinclia
group, off the coast of Peru, and under the
dominion of that government.
Its sale is- made a monopoly, and the
avails, to a great extent, go to pay the Brit
ish holders of Peruvian government bonds,
giving them, to all intents and purposes, lien
upon the profits of a treasure intrinsically
more valuable than the gold mines of -Cali
fornia. There are deposits of this unsurpass
ed fertilizer in some places to the depth of
sixty or seventy feet, and over large extents
of surface. The guano fields are generally
conceded to be the excrement of aquatic
fowls, which live aud nestle in great numbers
around the islands. They seem designated
by nature to rescue, at least in part, that un
told amount of fertilizing material which
every river and brooklet is rolling into the
sea. The wash of alluvial soils, the .floating
refuse of the field and forest, and, above alt,
the wasted materials of greafeities are con
stantly being carried by the" tidal currents
out to the sea. These, to a certain extent,
at least, go to nourish, directly or indirectly,
sub-marine vegetable and animal life, which
in turn goes to feed the birds, whose excre
ments at our day are brought away by the
shipload from the Chincha Islands.
The bird is a beautifully arrauged chemi
cal laboratory, fitted up to perform a single
operation, viz : to take the fish as food, burn
out the carbon by means of its respiratory
functions, and deposit tbe remainder in the
shape of au incomparable fertilizer. But
how many ages have these depositions of
seventy feet in thickness been accumulating!
There are at the present day countless
numbers of the birds resting upon tbe islands
at night; but, according to Baron Humboldt,
the excrements of the birds for the space of
three centuries would not form a stratum
over one-third of an inch in thickness. By
an easy mathematical calculation, it will be
seen that at this rate of deposition, it would
take seven thousand five hundred and sixty
centuries, or seven hundred and fifty-six
thousand years to form the deepest guano
bed! Such a calculation carries us back
well on towards a former geological period,
and proves one, and perhaps both, of two
things—first, that in past ages an infinitely
greater number of these birds hovered over
the islands; and, secondly, that the material
world existed at a period long anterior to its
fitness as the abode of man. The length of
mans existence is infinitesimal, compared
with such a cycle of years ; and the facts re
corded on every leaf of the material universe
ought, if it does not, to teach us humility.—
That a little bird whose individual existence
is as nothing, should, in its united action,
produce the means of bringing back • an
active fertility whole provinces of waste and
barren lands, is one of a thousand facts to
show how apparently insignificaut agencies
in the economy of nature produce moment
ous results.— London Farmers' Magazine.
The Climate of Arkansas.—' The Valley
of the Nile cannot boast a greater fertility
than that of the Mississippi, and grander and
more diversified scenes seldom meet the eye
of the traveller in any land than those which
are seen in the mountain regions of Arkan
sas. Further South the fig and orange are
found, but there the fruits of the North are
found in higher perfection than in any of the
older States. The rigor of winter is unknown;
in February the peach-trees are in full bloom
and March there has often the beauty of
May. A more salubrious climate would
be difficult to find, aud hundreds of the sol
diers of the Army of the Potomac w 4 ere sur
prised and delighted at the difference be
twen the climate in Arkansas and that of the
various Stales from which they came ; and
it was not uncommon to hear them say that
when the war was over, they would, make it
their hornedlpdecd, the advantages of the
South were never tully appreciated before,
undone of the results of the war will be that
thousands who have gone there in arms, will
at no distant day, throng thither to cultivate
the arts of peace— Pea Ridtje and Prairie
Grove.
A Touching Epitaph. The following
obituary notice appears in the Winsted Her
ald. The subject was once a mechanic in
the village, and well to do in the world. But*
sickness and misfortune used up his little
property, and he at last came to the poor
house. But through all his misfortunes he
maintained a spotless character and a cheer
ful spirit; and what cannot be said of many
a more distinguished man, his obituary is
just: “Exchanged his poverty for eternal
riches, and his rags for a crown that fadeth
not awav, at Winchester poorhouse, Nov.
6, 1864, James C. Smith, aged 67. The pall
bearers were few on this side—not so many,
perhaps, as they that waited on the ‘shining
shore,’ and went up with the old mjin to his
‘Father’s house.’”
SAVANNAH, Gi., MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1865.
THE “MORALE” OF THE REBELS.
THEIR ANCIENT STIRIT AND DETERMINATION
GONE.'
- \ W ashington, March 28.
Officer* Vounded in the fight on Saturday,
! in front of Petersburg, say that the affair,
though partaking of the nature of a general
battle, was h feality nothing more than an
extended skirmish, owiug to the dispirited
condition aril unwillingness of the Rebels to
fight.
A year or more ago the same amount of
musketry would kave cost us thousands of
lives, but in this affair the Rebels’ first lice
of battle fired at random. Most of their vol
leys went high oTer the heads of our men.
Tiie only damage our troops sustained was
from the second Rebel battle line,which was
posted behind brtast works.
In front of tbe Second Corps, during the
heat of the engagement, two brigades were
only prevented fjoni coining iuto our lines
by the fire or on* of our batteries, which was
placed to rake aiy advance on the part of
the Rebels. ’
They made unmistakable signs of surren
der, and, in the opinion of an officer who
commanded a brigade in their front, could
have been tanked and- captured by half a
regiment, bat our flanking fire prevented
them from coming in. They were urged on
frantically by their officers; but to no pur
pose. They laid down on their bellies, and
refused to advance.
In two volleys fired by them at our troops,
only three men were slightly wounded. Ac
cording to the statements of prisoners cap
tured on that part of the line, many of them
fired blank cartridges. Our boys gave them
minies in return. Their officers insist that
the morale oi tjje Rebels to a great extent is
gone, and adtrfhat our troops begin to see it
and to be inspirited accordingly,
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WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
The papers by the Asia show that the sub
ject of a possible war between England and
America is still a paramount question, aud
the flatness* in the funds is attributable al
most entirely, to the agitation upon the sub
ject.
The Standard calls for an immediate over
hauling of the navy, declarrng that, in the
event of war, it scarcely' knows of a single
vessel on which England could rely lor the
defence of shores, or the protection of its
commerce. In view' of the pretensions of
England to be “mistress of the seas,” the
above is certainly a most remarkable con
fession.
The Telegraph say's England has been sub
jected to a shower of abuse, from the United
States, but “her Cabinet has religiously re
solved not to provoke war. It has equally
resolved, should it be forced into war, to
make that war a long and terrible one, a
fierce fight land and sea, carried on
wherever oijr enemy can bo reached. The
foe who strikes at Canada provokes England
as fully as it he landed in Kent.”
The Times is not behind the other jour
nals in inculcating the idea that war with
America " is among the pregnant possibili
ties of tbe immediate future.
The Index in an article upon the same
subject, says, the sentiment of the North is,
“subdue tbe South and then fight England.”
The determination to fight England, says the
same paper, ‘*s unalterably fixed, and that
the first statesman of the country (Palmers
ton) appreciates this truth, there can be no
question.”— Phil. Ledger, Apr. lsf.
Yulee and Gwin, as Described by Gen.
Sam Houston. —The following dialogue shows
the estimate put some years ago by General
Sam Houston, of Texas, upon Yulee (then a
Senator from California,) both of whom are
now rebels, aud the latter of whom has been
fngaged quite recently in an unsuccessful
ofitical intrigue in Mexico.
It is given as obtained directly from one of
the parlies. It seems that when Senator
Hunter, of Virginia, got weary of the ordi
nary debates aud routine business of the Sen
ate, he would sometimes stroll around to
General Sam Houston’s desk and sit by him,
in order to have the benefit of his racy com
ments upon the men .and matters at hand in
the way of a quiet chat. On such an occa
sion the following conversation occurred:
Senator Hunter. —Good morning, General,
You seem to be whittling and thinking away,
as usual. May I trouble you to tell me what
you are thinking about ?
Gen. Houston —Well, to be frank, I was just
thinking that this little gipsy Jew, Yulee, is
the greatest thief in the Senate.*
Senator Hunter (laughing)—What makes
you think so, General ?
Gen. Houston — Why, don’t you see he has
just got himself elected Chairman of the
Post Office Committee, aud everybody knows
that there is better stealage afforded by that
position than by any other in the gift of the
Senate. (Here Senator Hunter laughed again,
and Gen. Houston, after a pause and a pro
found sigh, continued.) But there is ope
great safeguard to the Treasury.
Senator Hunter —What is that, General ?
Gen. Houston —Why, he has got Gwin on
the committee with him, and he wou’t suffes.
him to steal anything, unless it is big enough
to divide. (Here Senator Hunter was so con
vulsed with laughter that he wa3 compelled
to get up aud return to his own desk, where
it took him sometime to recover his wonted
composure.)
Reader! do you not feel impressed with
the sagacity of the old hero of San Jacinto ?
Did he. not find out Yslee and Dr. Gwin
early ?
French Railroad Clocks. —Time is tele
graphed along the railway lines of France,
to each station, from the Paris Observatory.
A plan has lately been adopted of having
two minute hands on each station ciock—
one red and one black. The black one shows
the railroad time, the red the local time, dif
fering from a minute to half an hour. Thus,
at Paris, the two hands are identical. A
hundred and fifty miles cast, the red hand is
ten minutes in advance of the black one. A
hundred and fifty miles west, the red hand is
ten minutes behind the black one. By this
simple plan common mistakes and confusion
are pi evented. •
So great has been the desire of the citizens
of Charleston to take the oath of allegiance,
that the authorities have been compelled to ,
open six offices for the purpose of adminis-'
terhag it.
The Last Surviving Aborigines of Tas
mania.—Tlie last Australian mail brought us
from Hobait Town, the capital of Tasmania,
or, as it used to be called, Van Diemen's
Land, an interesting communication, the
subject of which is shown in our engraving,
from a photograph by Mi. H. A. Frith, of
that town. We refer to the portraits of tour
unhappy people, the last survivors of their
race, who now alone represent the Abo
rigines of that large and fertile island (about
equal to Ireland) which h%s been a British
colony for the last sixty years. The follow
ing observations, quoted from the Hobart
Town Mercury of the 22nd of October, will
throw some light upon the subject:
“At the last ball at Government House,
Hobart Town, there appeared the last male
aboriginal inhabitant of Tasmania. He was
accompanied by three aboriginal women, the
sole living representatives ot the race beside
himself, but nßt of such an age as to justify
the expectation of any future addition to
their number. We may, therefore, look
upon this individual not only as the last mau
of his race in esse, but also in posse. The
number of tbe aborigines in the first decade
of the present century has been variously
estimated—by some at 7000, by others at
4000 to 5000 only. At first the aboriginal
inhabitants of Tasmania are said to have
been harmless, but this did not protect them
lrom maltreatment by tbe whites. So early
as 1810, Governor Collins had to complain of
this, and issued an order to the effect that
any person detected in firing wantonly on
the natives, or murdering them in cold blood,
should suffer the extreme penalties of the law.
And yet lesser offences against them were very
leniently dealt with during Governor Col
lins’s time. One man, lor instance, was
merely flogged for exposing the ears of a boy
• lie had mutilated, and another lor cutting off
the little finger of a native and using it as a
tobacco-stopper. Colonel Davey and Colo
nel Sorell, Governor Collins’s successors, af
ter a brief interval—tbe former from 1813 to
1817, tbe later from 1817 to 1824—seem‘to
have had the same grouud of complaint
against the whites for the maltreatment of
the natives ; and during their governorships
we meet with many a sad and mournful tale.
In Governor Davey’s time the practice of
firing on the natives was common, and in
Governor Sorell’s, the children of the natives
were stolen with impunity and their wo
men treated most shamefully. One ruffian
boasted of having captured a native woman,
whose husband be had killed ; of having
strung the bleeding heart to her neck, and
driven her before him as his prize. On Col.
Arthur’s assumption of the office ot Gov
ernor, in 18*24, things Were not much better.
He, therefore, conceived the design, of
making war upon the natives. All the set
tlers were required to to turn out on Oct. 1,
1830, and every part of tha island was in
vested. The force on our side consisted of
nearly 5000 men, well armed, and that of the
natives of not more than 1500 to 2000, in
cluding their women and childreu, with no
other arms than their spears and waddies.—
Tlie natives were, if possible; to base been
driven into Tasman’s Peninsula en masse.
But the thing tflrned out a complete failure.
Hundreds of recruits crawled away home
before the campaign was half over. It had
to he given up, with two natives captured
and one sojdier wounded as its only results.
Nothing dismayed, however, it was now de
termined to effect by strategy what could not
be done in the open field, and a very fitting
agent was found in the person of Mr. Robin
son, who was afterwards appointed to the
office of Protector of the Aborigines. Ho
was appointed in 1829 to take charge of
some natives in Bruni Island, then captured
and from them he acquired a partial knowl-.
edge of tbe native language. His business,
after the “black war,” was over, was to take
them by guile—to capture them, as he ex
pressed it, by the withdrawal of intimidation
and the employment of persuasion only; and
he succeeded to admiration. At this work
he continued for a number of years, and the
last batch of natives were captured, after he
had left the colony, at Circular Head, and
were conveyed to Flinders’ Island, the place
that had been determined upon in the interim
for the reception of the rest, and where they
were already provided for by the Govern
ment. As to the policy of their being cooped
up in a small island, serious doubts were en
tertained from the first, and it was confident
ly asserted by many, as the event has proved
that that island would shortly be their grave.
The Tasmanian natives, as a race, are now
virtually extinct. There is only one man
left. As savages they were found, as sava
ges they lived, aud as savages they perished.”
—lllustrated London Neu's.
Death of John Grat James,— This some
what eccentric individual died in Doylestown
on Friday night last, aged over eighty years.
He had amassed quite a fortune by saving
his earnings and some speculation, but was
as penurious and close as a man could well
be. He denied himself every comfort, con
venience, and even- necessary of life, and liv
ed almost at the starvation point. For several
years lie inhabited cellars,or other equally un
comfortable quarters. At one time he went
to the Alms House as a matter of economy,
but we have been told he left it as soon as
lie discovered that he would haye to pay his
board. He has been known to take the
garbage from the swill barrels. He familiar
ly called himself the “House Pig,” and he
certainly was not above this animal in un
cleanness. His wealth was principally in*
real estate and ground rents. He refused to
give up his property for taxation, and at one
time was assessed for $70,000. Some years
ago lie made a large bequest to the blind
asvluin of Philadelphia. We do not know
what disposition he made of the property he
died possessed of His'will was drawn by
George Hart, Esq., who will have the set
tlement of his estate. Two or three days
before his death he made a codicil to his
will, leaving the house in which he died to
Mrs! Walker, who lived In it, and has nurs
ed him in bis last illness. He is said to
have repented before his death, and deplored
the miserable life he led.— Doylestown Dern.
Laura Keene has bought a farm and
orchard on the Acushnet river, Mass.
For fashions' in earings, souvenirs of the
chase, hunting horns, stirrups, spurs and
small horse heads are popular.
PRICE. 5 CENTS
ODDS AND ENDS, OF NEWS AND IN
CIDENTS.
The Empress Eugenie wore seventy-eight
lace skirts all at once, recently.
Vaccination is to be made compulsory by
the New York Legislature.
Put no faith in anew promise based on the
breach of an old one.
If you tax will you diminish the
consumption ?
Handkerchiefs with lilac, green, and Sol
ferino Centres are “coming in.”
A negro in Richmond, who recently mar
ried a white woman, has been ordered to
receive > 117 lashes, well laid on. The wtrt
man’s punishment is not stated.
Admiral Paulding will resign the com
mand of the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the
Ist of May, and will he succeeded by Com
modore Charles H. Bell.
The Gordian knot which the Davenport
Brothers and their attendant spirits could not
untie is simply an ordinary bow tied in the
eentreof the rope, into the loops of which
the hands are inserted, the loops then drawn
tightfy around the wrists. The knot is then
“reefed” by tying two or three ordinary knots
on each side of the central knot of the bow,
and is untyable. m
A near-sighted old gentleman in Philadel-
Ehia has put a pair of spectacles upon an old
orse, because he stumbled, conceiving him
to be laboring under the effect of years. The
result is perfectly satisfactory;* the horse
never stumbles and his venerable appear
ance attracts considerable attention. Some
laugh at him, but he never looses hisequi
nimity.
A Scotch minister, in visiting some mem
bers of his flock, caine to the door of a house
where his gentle tapping could not be heard,
for the noise of contention Within. After
waiting a little he opened the door and
walked in. saying in an authoritative voice,
“I t should like to know who is the bead of
this house?” “Weel, sir,”said the %usband
and father, “if ye sit doon a wee we may be
able to tell ye, for we’re just trying to settle
that point.” *
Gen. Sherman and the Neoroes. — A cor
respondent |of the New York Evening Post
tells the following little story:
I happened to be present this afternoon at
one of those interviews which so often occur
between General Sherman and’ the negroes.
The conversation was piquant and interest
ing, not only as being characteristic of both
parties, but it was the more significant be
cause, on the part of the General, I believe it
a fair expression of his feelings on the .slave
ry question.
A party of ten or fifteen negroes bad just
found their way through the lines from Che
raw. Their owners had carried them from
the vicinity of Columbia to the other side of
the Pedee, with their mules and horses,
which they were running away from our
army. The negroes had escaped, and were
on their way back to find their families. A
more ragged set of human being3 would rat
have been found out of the slave
perhaps Italy. These negroes were of all
ages, and hadjtopped in front of the Gene
ral’s tent, which was pitched a few feet back
from the sidewalk of the main street.
Several officers of tbe army, among them
General Slocum, were gathered round, in
terested in the scene. The General asked
them:
“Well, men, what can I do for you—where
are you from ?”
“Wese jus come from Cheraw. Massa
took us with him to carry mules and horses
awav from youins.”
“You thought we would get them. Did
you wish ys to get the mules ?”
“Oh yes, massa, dat’s what I wanted. We
knowed youins cumin, and I wanted you to
hev dem mules; but no use, dey heard dat
youins cn de road, and nuthin would stop
dem> JVhy, as we cum along, de cavalry
run awayirom de Yanks as if dey flight to
deth, Dey . jumped into de river, ana some '
of detn lost dere hosses. Dey frightened at
de very name ob Sherman."
Someone at "this point said: “That is
General Sherman who is talking to you*”
“God bress me, is you Mr. Sherman ?”
. “Yes, I am Mr. Sherman.”
“Date him, su’ nuff,” said one.
“Is dat de great Mr. Sherman dat w’es
heard ob so long,” said another.
“Why, dey so frightened at your berry
name dat dey run right away,” shouted a
third.
“It is not me that they are afraid of,” said
th» General; “the name of- another man
would have the same effect with them if ho
had this army. It is these soldiers that they
run away from.”
“Oh, no," they all exclaimed, “It's de
name ob Sherman, *su’; and we bab wanted
to see you so long while you trabbel all roun
jis wher you like to go. Dey said dat dey
wanted to git you all a little furder on and
den dey whip all your soldiers; but God
bress me, you keep cumin’ and a cumin’ and
dey alters git out.”
“Dey mighty fraid ob you, sar; dey say
you kill de colored men, too,* said an old'
man, who had not heretofore taken part in
the conversation.
With muchearnestness, General Sherman
replied: ‘
“Okfinap, and all of you, understand me.
I desire that bad men should fear me, and
tiie enemies of the government which we are
all fighting for. Now we are your friends;'
you are now free (‘ Tank you, Massa Sher
man,’ was ejaculated by the group.) You
can go where you please; you can come with
us or go home to your children. Wherever
you go, you are no longer slaves. You
ought to be able to take care of yourselves.
(‘Weis; we will.’) You must earn your
freedom; then you will be entitled to it sure.
You have a right to be all that you can be,
but you must be industrious and earn the
right to be men. If you go back to your,
families, and I tell you again you can go
with tts if you wish, you must do the best
you can. When you get a chance, go to
Beaufort or Charleston, where you will have
a little (arm to work for yourselves.”
The poor negroes were filled with gratitude
and hope by these kind words, uttered in the
kindest manner, and they went away with
thanks and blessings on their lips,