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VOL XXIX.
SHERMAN’SMENDACITY.
1 ZEB VANCE UNMASKS THE
great plunderer.
His Falsehood and Hypocrisy Brought
to Light Eloquent Words of
the North Carolina
Senator.
Mr. President, as the senate will
probably pass this resolution and
place upon it* record* an unofficial
puj*er, tiled in the War Department
by General W I'. Shcriaaii, which
Contains staG-ment* affecting certain
persons, it is but right and proper
that all persohs so affected should
be heard in the same forum. As
one thus interested. I desire to notice
some statements made in that com
miinieatiOii to the War Department.
In order that 1 may not he misinter
preted I have placed in writing the
material portion of what I desire to
say, which shall he very brief.
It is understood and, 1 believe, not
I denied that in a speech made not long
since in .'saint Louis, Mo., General
I Sherman said he had seen a letter
• written by Mr. Jefferson Davis to a
govcrnorol a Southern State during
the war. now a senator, in wiiich
Mr. Duvi> threatened the coercion of
j any Southern State that should at
i tempt to secede from the confederacy.
!As there are, 1 believe three sena
i tors at least on this floor who were
governors of Southern States during
the war, myself being one, 1 immedi
ately on the appearance of that state
ment denied through the Post of
this city that any such letter had ev
er been received by me. The news
paper.- soon afterward stated that
General Sherman had been inter
viewed as to my denial, and bad
stated that he bad not alluded to me
as the person to whom the alleged
letter had been addressed. 1 very
naturally thought that this denial at
both ends of the line had concluded
the matter so far as I was concern -
Sed ; but it seems not. In the state
ment filed in the War Department,
as published in the papers of the
country, 1 find the following asscr
i lion :
At ltaleigb, though tlx* ma>s ofthepnl)-
j lie record* had been carried otf, yet a limn
; her were left behind at the state-house and
j at the governor’s mansion, called the
ace, ' which we occupied is h a lqnarters
during our stay there, namely, from Aptil
13 to April 2U.
1 he.-e records and papers were overhaul
ed hy provosts-maxshal and c erks, who de
livered to Adjutant-General Sawyer such
as contained material information, and im
personal attention was only drawn to
such as were deemed of sufficient impor
tance. Among file books collected at the
palace in Huleigh was a clerk's or secreta
ry's “copy-book,” containing loose sheets
and letters, among which was the particu
i Fir letter of Mr. Davis to wiiich 1 referred
l inmy San Louis'sp eh. iga.ci, little
attention at tne time, because -Mr. D.,vis
was then himself a fugitive, and his opin
ions hud little or no importance, hut it ex
plained to my mind why Governor Yano *
j answer. It was the subject of common
i talk about m v headquarters at the time, or.
j as stated by Colonel Dayton in a recent
letter to me from Cincinnati, “1 am quite
; sure that we generally talked [that] ii was
( ‘he desire of Governor X’nnce and tne state
' officials to take North Carolina out of the
Conl'cderatty, as 1 have stated, but they
were afraid of Jefferson Davis and wanted
protection.’
Concerning tins 1 have the follow
ing observations to make:
1. That no letters or documents
of a public charm- or were ever left
at my residence in the governor's
mansion, while 1 was governor, at
any time.
No clerk or secretary of mine
ever used as a repository for my
correspondence a “eopv-book ; till
oflicial or public letters being first
copied in the letter-book required
by law to be kept in the exexutive
office, ami then bound into bundles
and plaeed in the tiles, where they
remain to Ibis day.
3. General Sherman did not find
in that copy-book “the particular let
ter of Mr. Davis to wiiich he referred
in bis Saint Louis speech," for the
simple reason that there was no such
letter there.
4. 1 aver most positively, on the
honor of a gentleman and an Amer
ican Senator, that no letter contain
ing such a threat was ever received
by me from Mr. Jefferson Davis.
All letters from him to me of anv
nature are to be found copied in the
letter-books of the executive depart
ment of North Carolina, now in the
War Department in this city.
The reasons given by General
Sherman by way of corroborating bis
statement are stu b as would seareely
be relied upon by a respectable law
yer. lie says be paid “little atten
tion to it at the time.” and does not
say that he ever saw it afterward ;
and further, that Mr. Davis was then
himself a fugitive, and bis opinion
bad little or no importance ! It was
perhaps, the little attention given to
the opinions ot an unimportant man
that enabled him to remember so
well the contents of the letter in
which they were expressed after the
lapse of nearly twenty years! The
suggestion as to the probable fate ot
, that mysterious letter, that it was
1 burned in the great fire in Chicago,
is a mere apology for its non produc
tion. which at the same time con
tradicts the idea of its importance;
for had it been such as he savs it
was. it would certainly have found
it> way to the public tiles.
But there is another matter aver
red by General Sherman that more
nearly concerns me, and to which l
shall very briefly a-k the attention
of the Senate.
It may t>e tnat northern gentle
men who were on the victorious side
during the civil war can not proper
ly appreciate the feelings and senti
ments of those who were on the side
of misfortune and defeat. They
seem to regard it as quite a sin that
we do not readily join in the de
nunciations ol him who was our lead
er in the war. and hasten to con
, demn him on all occasions as the
surest way c* excusing our conduct
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 23. 188').
and commending ourselves to the
good opinion of our late opponents.
i Surely no man of even the slightest
( sense of honor could respect u south
; ern man who would thus debase
himself. Surely the most flagrant
and rampant trafficker in the issues
<t sectional hatreds would prefer
an adversary who walked upright
on his feet to the one who crawled
upon his belly. If not, what must
be thought of his own uanhood?
Now, sirs, be it ki jrn to 3*ou,
that those of us who pledged our faith
to each other tor the establishment
i of the confederacy gave up all for
which wo contended when it failed,
retaining to ourselves onlv one soli
tary satisfying reflection, and that
was that we bad at least served our
country faithfully, honestly, and de
| votcdlv. as we understood it.
This satisfaction General Sher
man's statement would to some ex
: tent take fiiotn me. and this it is. sir,
i which f resent. D is well known that
I was drawn into secession unwil
lingly; it is also well known that in
regard to many of the details of ad
minstration I wasat variance with the
authorities of the confederate gov
ernment; but itisequally well known
1 hope, that titter my own honor was
engaged and the honor of my
native state, there never was an
hour during all that unhappy time
in which I did not give every energy
of my body, mind, and soul to
the success of the cause to which J
had pledged my allegiance. Gen
eral Sherman, professing high re
spect for me, for which 1 thank him,
thinks, perhaps, that he does me a
kindness and commends me to the
people of the country by holding out
the idea that I was disaffected
while governor toward the cause for
which 1 was ostensibly fighting, and
that I was anxious to separate my
self and state from the confederacy,
but was restrained hy fear. Sir, 1
want no man's respect or good-will
based on the supposed virtues of
treason to my country and the deser
tion ot my associates. The good
will of a man who would respect
these traits in another is not worth
picking up from the dust ofthe com
mon highways. General Sherman
says that the commissioners whom I
sent to meet him as he approached
Raleigh, to-wit, ex-Governor Swaim
and ex-Governor Graham and Sur
geon-Goneral Warren, told him that
I wanted to make separate terms for
the state, but was afraid of “Jeff
Davis." Ido not believe it. It can
not be true. The two gentlemen
first mimed are dead ; they were emi
nent North Carolinians of most ex
alted character in all respects, and
most especially for truth. They
knew I was faithful to the confeder
acy. They knew that I was not
afraid ot opposing Mr. Davis when 1
differed from him, because they
had seen me constantly doing it.
''i . ‘
man or any otner In nig *{hc
contrary of what they knew to he
true as perfectly as any men in
North Carolina,
The other commissioner, Dr. Ed
ward Warren, was surgeon-general
of the state of North Carolina, is
now living, and is an eminent phy
sician in Paris. Ilis statement
would surely cany as much proof of
what was said there as that ot the
witness cited to prove that there
was talk about cam]) of -the desire of
Governor Vance and other state
ollk-ials to take North Carolina out of
the confederacy, but they were,
afraid of Jeff. Davis and wanted pro
tection.- ’ True it is that I sent a
commission to him under a flag of
truce to ask protection, not separate
terms for the people ol my state, but
at that moment the war was vir
tually ended. Lee had surrendered.
Richmond had fallen, President
Davis and his official household were
fugitives, and General Johnston,
commanding the last remnant of an
army devoted to the smth, was
about to march westward, no one
knew whither, and uncover the cap
ital of the State. With his consent
and approbation that embassy was
sent, and through his lines under his
permit it went. Before its return
Raleigh was uncovered and I had
left to join Mr. Davis, at Charlotte,
where the surrender of General
Johnston was authorized and the
finality of things brought about.
Then and there I took my leave of
Mr. Davis and of the confederacy,
and went back with his full appro
bation to share the fate of my peo
plo.
General Sherman finds an explana
tion of mv failure to await the re
turn ot the embassy in the contents of
the mysterious letter—that I was
afraid of Davis, then a fugitive with
out an army. Bold enough he savs
I waste send an embassy to the en
emy. but I was afraid to await its
return! Was ever conclusion more
absurd ? The reason why I did not
wait was that I had been told my
embassy after passing through the
confederate, lines had been captured
by Kilpatrick's cavalry, promptly
robbed of their personal effects, and
taken before General Sherman as
prisoners. Not returning up to
midnight ofthe day on which they
were sent. I concluded this to be
true, and left with the retreating
troops.
How well and how faithfully 1
served the lost cause, the country
knows. My own people, sir. about
whoso opinion I am most concerned,
will wonder that anybody can be
found to question it
“Huckleberries.”
The soldiers, in the late war estab
lised the fact that the huckleberry
was much more efficacious in chron
ic bowel troubles than the blackber
ry. Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cor
dial. the Great Southern Remedy,
will restore the little child suffering
from tho effects of teething, and
cures Diarrhoea. Dysentery and all
bowel affections. For sale by all
druggists at ho cents.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Gathered Here and There From the
Papers.
No whisky is now sold at any of
the towns between Atlanta and
Chattanooga. •* i
Two men were arraigned in Chat
tanooga tlie other day under the
charge of stealing two quarter dol
lars off a dead man's eyes.
Capt. Edward Aleott, of Coving”
ton, paid to Hon. Jefferson Davis
the first money he ever drew as sal
ary for President of the Confeder
ate States.
A Lady was elected Engrossing
Clerk of the Tennessee House of
representatives Thursday. Ala ly
has been Librarian of that state for
■several years.
Enough liquor was consumed it*
Great Britain last year to make u
lake a mile long, a mile wide hCo>
thirty-five leet deep. What a lake of
tire that would make if lighted. j
An unfortunate infant in an infe
rior county ot Pennsylvania i
weighed down with the name, sjjjf
George V infield Scott Hancock ffa,?-
tiold Patti son Hendricks! Cleveland
Yerks.
A Pennsylvania genius is not one
ofthe men to rail about mothers-in
law, He married two sisters in sic
cession, and becoming a widower t!yo
second time, he married their st
mother.
No more preferred creditors in
South Carolina; the Supreme Cffiir
has rendered ,u decision against- ii
and now all creditors must stun ; n
the same footing when an ass n
ment it made.
The managers of the Confcdc at<
Soldiers' Home in Richmond renori
that they have received altogr h
§31,000, have purchased a In
and that few inmates are air s
being cared for.
A great deal of cotton was ia
in Georgia last year. The vain
the crop was at least thirty rn
dollars. But the proceeds —xvL A
are they? Gone west, to grow up.
with the country. Gone wes;
pay for supplies that ought to ha
been raised at home.
Wt J
Albert Sidney Johnston, son*.t C m.
Johnston, of New an 1
grandson of Gen. Albert Knimy
Johnston, the confederate commay f
or, died on Sunday at the hospital *n
Harrisburg, Pa., of typhoid tevi ’
He was an only son, and had been
employed-in Harrisburg as a clerk.
The Baltimore Sun says that mi
the fact that cotton lias scored ai
advance of cents per pound fron
the lowest rates of tho season, ami
also in the fact that within an onT
wheat has advanced 1-3-' cm '**■ ” °
bushel and flour 50 cents a
many observers mmy Uiev
growth, - !c':'' t: -”“ f e dm ' tl:
’ “ , - V’t awvg of a period ot
'SIUiTtV/.
Bnrnum appears to have i-, s t a
good deal of his Connecticut skew
ness, or he would not have got loft
so far in the matter of the Grant
relics. He offere l tho General SIOO,-
000 and an interest in the business
to be allowed to exhibit the gifts in
anew war museum ho. proposed to
establish, but be was a little too late,
as arrangements had already been
made with Mr. Vanderbilt to send
them to Washington.
Wilmington Star; The Augusta
Chronicle thinas Vance a dema
gogue and that Joe Brown wooled
him in some railroad discussion.
\\ eil, if \ ancc can beat old Joe in
the arts ot ilic demagogue he must
be peerless. Vance, as a Washing
ton correspondent said of him re
cently. has the “eccentricity of being
honest." The Georgia editor does
not seem to understand that trait in
N auce. Old Joe could not have the
slightest glimmer of what that
meant.
And now the Covington Enter
prise has entered the lists. It savs:
“Never an. election comes off in
Newton countv but wc see and tcel
tho necessity of a registration law.
Every honest and patriotic man
must admit that the promiscuous
wav in which votes are cast is de
moralizing and a disgarce to a free
people. Illegal voters cast their bal
lots without appearing to know or
care whether they violate the law
or not. Our elections are not con
ducted upon fair, legitimate grounds,
and well a majority of law-abiding*
citizens know it.”
It has been currently rumored
that the Hon. A. O. Bacon had been
tendered the position ot chief coun
sel ofthe Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, of Chicago, made recently va
cant by the resignation of Judge O.
A. Lochrane. and that he had ac
cepted the position and would move
to that city. He said at Macon
Tuesday: ‘lt is not true. I resign
ed the position I held with that com
pany in October last. I have been
retained as counsel, with my part
ner, Col. Rutherford, for the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, and will live in Macon in
the future.”
Gen. Sherman, says the New Or
leans States, has shown how he
treats -a controversy between two
gentlemen, as he characterized Mr.
Jefferson Davis’ impailnient of Ids
litlse and slanderous charge of con
spiracy. Like a garulous old wo
man. indulging in biihngsgate, the
ex-General of the army publishes a
letter in the Washington Republican,
in which he makes a teebLe effort to
reply to his arruignement as a slan
derer and falsifier of Mr. Davis.
The letter is one of vulgar denuncia
tion and a repetition of falsehoods.
It avoids the main issue, and makes
himself appear even more ridiculous
than ever, and is tantamount to an
admission that he had rendered
himself open to rebuke by bis St.
Louis harangue, which elicte l Mr.
Davis stinging reply.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Docs Blaine Indorse Thrs ?
! > Rossa and his thugs have outra
ged humanity,justice an 1 civiliza
tion. and it is hard to believe, when
! th • re is so much apparent reason for
| hi- apprehension, that lie still at
largo. When he is “wanted" it may
be that he will be found missing,—
Pi '.ladeiphiu News fßep.)
A Profitless Question.
fhe time has passed when the
people ofthe north or the south will
approve ot these interchanges of re
crimination in the haMs of Congress,
"wiiich result in no good to anvbodv.
<>i any vital interest. The southern
people cannot be made to bate Jef
ferson Davis by such means. What
s the use of goading them to his de
fense ?—Boston Advertiser (Rep.)
Errors of the Heait and Head.
VV bother there is a lack of mental
balance about Gen. Sherman wc
know mV. Wc know that he is a good
.-ohiier; that he made one of the
most brilliant campaigns of the war;
that he battled Hood and brought
Gen. Johnston to surrender. We
know, also, as shown by overwhelm
ing testimony, that he was in error
in charging Wade Hampton with
the burning of Columbia, and it is a
fair inference that he may be equal
ly in error in his charge against Jef
ferson Davis. In any event, it is no
concern of the Senate.-—Baltimore
Sun (Dcm.)
Randall on the South.
Mr. Randall received enough at
tention as a democrat in the south-to
give him great joy as a protectionist
and as a possible Presidential candi
date. \\ it!i a lively recollection of
the courtesies shown him and the
good things sot before him in that
section, lie raises both hands and
'.uys: “Glorious! Glorious! The
south is simply glorious! Noth
ing could bo more de
lightful! They are a grand
people, a remarkable people. I can
not express my delight.” One of
these days, when Mr. Randall calls
upon this .s“.ni“ south to support his
monopoly tariff campaigns, or his
Presidential aspirations, and finds
that it does not respond, he will
•shrug his shoulders and invite it to
go to . —Chicago Herald (Ind.)
Gen. Sherman's Mare’s Nest.
It is obvious that if the plans of
those who organized secession had
not miscarried, they would not. now
be described as conspirators. It is
small business, therefore, for Sena
tors to wrangle over words wiiich
borrow their whole significance from
the fortuitous results of war, and
which merely affirm in an offensive
way the notorious failure of the at
t‘ --f to break up the Union. We
adcT, in simple justice to {Jef
ferson Davis, that, from all the evi
dence thus far before the world, he
seems to have been reluctant rather
than eager to precipitate the rup
ture, and to have held aloof for some
time from the active measures taken
to give effect to southern discontent
by organizing a separate govern
ment. As to the famous discovery
which Gen. Sherman believes himself
to have made in a private letter,
this may be coarsely designated as a
mare's nest. —Now York Sun.
IEFFERSON DAVIS.
The life and virtues ot Jefferson
Davis are a shining light wherever
in the world brilliant talent is ad
mired, devotion to principle honor
ed and patriotism beloved. There
is no stain on his brow that all the
cleansing power of truth will not
sometime wash away. There are
shadows on his heart and life, but
they would vanish like tears in
Heaven if his people’s love and trust
could make sunshine with the wish
ing. Jefferson Davis is one of histo
ry's few great men, grand in the
solemn hush of the night that has
fallen on his hopes. Heroically
and uncomplainingly he treads his
thorny way to the grave, bearing
on his single head the weight of a
thousand wrongs and wearing in his
single heart a million shafts, and
wards them from his people. He
did no more than a thousand others.
He was no more a traitor than all
the millions whom he led. Jle was
true to us. and we will be true to his
name and fame. lie is the grandest
character on the stage of life to-day.
and amid the sombre shadows of his
setting sun, he stands the image of
all that is dignified In character and
manly in sorrow. Beside the
smirched and loud-pitied hero of the
victors who spit at him, he is like
the statue of a god beside a question
mark.
Jefferson Davis is not an issue in
politics. He is not an issue between
tiie sections. His life belongs to the
past and to history. The Southern
people sorely deplore any dragging
of bis name before the public. They
shrink from listening to the mean
hissing they are powerless to stop.
But u*til the end of time no swarfn
of poison flies will ever buzz around
his name-and the Southern people
be wanting in acclaim that he and
they arc one. That he has been
made to bear so much of their mis
fortune is pitiful, and wc can at
least say to his accusers. “The
strokes at him are strokes at us.
M e shuffle nothing on his overbur
dened shoulders. He is a well be
loved leader in misfortune, wc are
part and parcel of'a reunited people,
and secession L dea I.”
Although Grant is not as rich as he
was. he has still a comfortable in
come. but the family and descen
dants of more than one hero and
President areactualy impoverished.
Custer s widow is by no means well
provided for and the surviving rela
tives of Jefferson and Jackson are
in want. It is well to be just as well
as generous,
THE SP.-xNISH EARTHQUAKES.
Again the nvorld has been visited
by a seismodieconvulsion. The earth
quake that has just visited Spain,
destroying so many buildings and
causing such a loss of life mat' not
have been as destructive or as vio
lent as that last year at Java, but
happening as it did, in the civilized
world, in a country of which wc
know so much, it demands more of
attention and arouses more of our
sympathy.
It is certainly had enough. In
Granada 653 lives have been lost in
Malaga 9bH. m Albania 269. in Abun
etas 100. in Arenas del Rev 135. in
all Spain something over 2.900.
When we add to these the wounded
and mained throughout Southern
Spam, it makes the figures ofthe
loss formidable indeed. And as
with all earthquakes the worst is
not the mere loss of life and proper
ty. Li catastrophes such as these,
the cataclysm is generally followed,
unless the utmost precautions are
taken, by an epidemic similar to the
plague, the result ofthe decomposi
tion of the cattle and bodies buried
under the ruins of fallen buildings.
It will be remembered that the
great earthquake of Lisbon was fol
lowed by an epidemic almost as de
structive as the earthquake itself;
and at Ischia, a few years ago, noth
ing but the assistance and exertions
of civilized Europe prevented dis
ease from breaking out.
A similar fear is now entertained
as to Spain. In view of the fact
that 10,000 cattle have been killed
in Albania alone, the danger is mi
ni i non 1, especial!}* as nothing is
being done towards removing the
carcases which are poisoning the
air. The people are panic-strick
en. As the earthquake continued
during three days, it is not to be
wondered at the people should have
deserted their houses and should be
camping out in tents in the open
field, and indisposed to do anything
in the way of searching the ruins
and removing the dead. This con
tinuance of the scisinodic movement.
of the trembling and wavering of this
earth for three continuous days, is
something out ot their usual line.
Some of the greatest earthquakes
have lasted only a few minutes but
in that time have been able to de
stroy thousands of lives. That the
loss of life in Spain was not greater
was really providential ; and due
not a little, perhaps, to tho good
sense the people displayed in flying
to’and remaining in the open fields.
'The other features of the earth
quake, the fissures in tho earth the
sulphur springs disappearing and
reappearing, the hot vapor pouring
from the sprinsg, are common to all
these convulsions. The fact that
tremblings ofthe. earth were felt in
far distant portions of the world, at
the same moment that this Spanish
catastrophe was "cmin-mg. at (.’aiin
thia in Austria and among the.
mountains of Western Wales is some
thing that is noticed with all earth
quakes. It is not impossible that
when we receive news from tho ex
treme portions of the world not
within telegraphic distance of us, that
we shall hear of some sister earth
quakes occurring at the same mo
ment and time as that which devas
tated Andalusia and Grenada. —
Times-Democrat.
Prohibition the Great Issue.
This calls to mind the fact that
the American people are getting to
be in dead earnest about the evil
effect of unrestricted liquor dealing.
The most signficant vote given re
cently was that in Maine, where
there was a majority of over 40,000
for a prohibition constitutional
amendment. Maine was the first
state to legally discountenance the
sale of all intoxicating drinks. A
whole generation has grown upunder
a rigid enforcement of the prohibi
tory law. After a trial of over thir
ty years the people of that State are
all but unanimous that liquor shall
not be sold as a beverage. It is a
notable circumstance that on every
direct vote, the popular will is also
against free liquor selling. When
ever the naked issue was presented,
as in lowa and Kansas, prohibition
was adopted by large majorities. So
great is the progress of this feeling
that it is morrally certain if a vote
was taken by the whole nation for
or agin st liqnoi, that the prohibi
tionists would poll two to one. In
Maine, the women stood at the polls
ail da}' long, beseeching the men to
cast their ballots against liquor-sel
ling. Should women ever vote in
this country, they would put a stop
to nine-tenths of the liquor selling
within a decade after they had re
ceived the franchise. Prohibition
has come into tho politics of our
country and has come to stay. —
Demorest’s for November.
“The Novelist.”
“The Novelist” is the character
istic title of anew paper just started
in New York, by John B. Alden. the
“Literary Revolutionist. The price,
also, is characteristic, —only 81.00 a
year. It is not intended to enter
into competition with the high
priced. but low character, story pa
pers which darken the country
like a pestilence, but will be devoted
almost entirely to high-cla>s fiction,
such as finds place arid welcome in
the best magazines of the day and
tiie pure-t homes ofthe land ; mak
ing the paper an unrivaled (as to
cost, certainly,) source of mental
recreation for the weary, and of en
tertainment for all. During the
vear there are promised serial sto
ries by William Black. Mrs. Olip
hant, James Payn. Hugh Conway.
B. L. Farjeon, and others —certainly
a good variety, as well as good quan
tity for the dollar. It is printed in
large type, and is a handsome pa
per. For free specimen copies ad
dress the publisher, John B. Alden,
393 Pearl street, New York,
NUMBER s*?.
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