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A Remarkable Letter.
What Gen. Sherman sa : d to &
Southern Friend in 1564.
- WHY HE WEST WTO THE
WAR.
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■ fYom tho Huntsville Advocate, II. •
Mr. D, M. Martin has handed” ns
the following letter from General Sher
man to himself, which we beg our
readers, to read carefully: It shows
the animus of the country in fighting
for the Union, and the stupemh us,
insane folly of secession, hy which
fatal act the South has lost so much :
Headquarters - Military . Division of
the Mississippi, in the Field, near At
lanta,. Ga., Aug. 10, 1864.—D.. M.
Martin, Sand Mountain, opposite Belle
fonte.—<-My Dear old Friend When
jn Larkinsville last winter I inquired
after you. and could get ho positive
answer. 1 wish you. had sent me your
letter of January 22- —which ! have
just received^-for I could have made
you iebl at ease at once. Indeed, do
I well remember our old times about
Bellefcmte, and the ride we .took to
the corn mill, and the little farm where.
1 admired the handsome colt, aad
tried to buy it,.. .. . > •
Time has worn om and you Are now
an old man, .in want and suffering and
I also no . longer young, but. leading a
hostile army oh the very road I came
when I left Bellefonte,’ and at this
moment pouring into Atlanta the!
dread missiles of war—seeking the
lives of its people: And yet William
Teciimseh Sherman, vou knew in 1844
with as.‘warm a heart as eyjetv and anx
jous that peace and plenty- shall pr<'*-
vail in this land, and’ to prove it I .de
fy. Jefferson Davis, Gen. Dee or Gen.
Hood to make the sacrifice- for pea-ce
that.l will personally and officially. — ;
J will to-day lay down'my power and
tny- • honors—already won—will ‘ strip
myself naked, and my. child and wife
stark naked as the world we came,
and begin life anew, if -the. people of
the South will but cease the war, elect
their members to Congress, and let.
them settle by argument: and reason ]
the questions'growing-out of slavery,
instead of trying to divide, our coum
ti'o into two angry halves, to. quarre
•and fight to the Fitter .end of time.—-
.Our-country never can be divided by
an East and West line, and must be
t>n?; and if we must fight let.us sigh;
it out now., and not bequeath it t-o our
©hildngp. . • • • ,
‘/I was never a politician/bnt resign- ’
frd from the army and lived in Cali*
fornia;’ till 1857,. when Icamo back
with my wife and’ three children,, who.
Wanted to- be i>ear home—Mr. Ewings,
tint Mr. Corwin’s—* but I had the old
army so. ground..fn my .composition
that civil pursuits .were too tame, and
1 accepted an offer as President of the
Louisiana Military Academy.'. There*
foje at .the tune of Lincoln.’? election
| was at Alexandria, o.n Red river.. . 1
1 aw, and you’ must have se.en t thut
*he Southern politicians wanted to
bring, about secession, separation-.
They could have elected Mr. Douglas,
“put they so managed • that Lincoln’s
■flection was “made certain, and. after
they accomplished this, was-it hones!
and fair for them to.allege it as a
ause for war ? Did not Mr. Breck*
iuridge, as Vice President, in his seat,
declare Mr. Lincoln the lawfully olec*
led President of the United- States ?
Mas it ever pretended the. President
was oiir Government.. - .Don’t you
know that Congress makes the laws,
the Supremo Court judges them, and
the President only executes them.?—
Don’t you. know that Mr.- Lincoln of
himself Cjuld. not - take, away your,
.tights 7 . . v • . ••
N T oW, while I was in Louisiana, and
while tho the planters’ and mechanics
and industrial people were happy and
prosperous, the politicians and busy* ,
bodies were scheming and plotting,
4nd got the Legislature to pass an or
dinance cf secession, which was subr
. quitted to the who voted against
it—yet the politicians voted the State
out, and proceeded to take possession
tt the United Stateg mint, the fort,
tho arsenal —afid tore down the old
flag arid insulted it That, too, be*
ibre Mr.. Lincoln had got to Washing
ton.’ I £flw things, and begged j
Rra t -g and Beauregard and Governor !
Moore, and a host of personal friends,’
to beware ,* in that was high treason, j
JBot they answered the North was,
®>do up of moan manufacturer*, of!
| trader?, of farmers, who would not j
fight. The people of the North nev
er dreamed of interfering with the
slaves or property of the South. They
simply voted as they .had a right to
do, rind they could npt understand
why the people of the South should
begin to take possession of the Uni*
ted States forts and arsenals till our
Government had done • somethii g.
wrong-*-pomething- oppress ve.
.The South began the war. You
know it.’ I and millions of cthere liv>
ing at the South know, it, but.the fee*
pie of .the North were as innocent of
it as your little grandchildreh. Even
after forts had been taken, public arms
stolen from our arsenals and distribu
ted among the ang y militia, the brave
and honest.freemen of the-great North
could not realize the fact, and did not
until Beauregard began to fire upon a
garrison -of the United States in a
fort built by the common tr.asure of.
the Whole country. Then as by a
mighty upheaval, lhe people rose and
began to think of war, and not until
then!, I resigned my post in Louisiana
in March, 1864, because of the . pub
lic act on - the part of the State in
seizing the. United States arsenal at
.Baton Rouge, and went to JH. Louis
where I readily got lucrative employ
ment, hoping that some change would
yet avert the war. .
But it Came, and I and all of mil;*
tary. education had to choose.- I* re
peat that then as now, I had as -much.
love for the honest people of- the;
South as any man living. . Had the*
rethaihed .true to tho Country. I would
have resisted, even with arms,, any at
tack upon their rights—eyep their
slave rights.. But when, as a people,;
they, tote down our old flagjpod spit
upon it -and called us eowsa-ds,.. and
dared us to the contest, then I took
up arms- to: maintain the inte. rity of
our country, and punish .the men, wbd
challenged us to the conflict. Is n't
.this a true picture ?. Supposing the
North lad patiently submitted, what
would have been the verdict of
ry and the world ? Nothing else but
the North was craven and coward.—
Will you say the North is craven and
coward now ?. Uru&l and inhuman as
this war has been,, and must still con
tinue- to be, it was forced upon us. M e
had no- choice. And we. htva t>Q
choice yot.
We must go on even to the end c"‘
time ;.even if’.i.t re lilts “in taking a mil
lion of lives, and desolating, the .whoL
.land, leaving a desert behind. We
must mantain the integrity of our eoJ-n
tfy. And the. day will come when,
the little grandchild you love so well,
w il b.less us'who fought that the Uni- ;
ted.States of America should.not sink
into rnfatuy and worse than Mexican
anarchy .by -the. acts of. Southern poli
ticians. wh.o care no more- for you-,’ or.
such’as ‘ you, than they care for the
.Hottentots. ! have never underrated
the magnitude o-f this war, for ! knob
the-size of the South and the diffi.cuj
ty of operating it! But I also know
that the Northern races have, ever
since- .the war began,- had -more pa
tience and perseverance than the
Southern, races. And- so it will be
n-ow—:we will persevere to the end.-—-
- All mankind shall recognize in. us a.
brave and stubborn'race,, not to be de
ferred by lhe magnitude'of the dan*
gfc*. -
.Only three years have passed, and
that is but a minute in a nation’s life,
and see where we aro. M r here are
the haughty planters of Louisiana whp
compared Our hard working, intelli
gent'white? of the North with th#ir.
negroes ? The defeats we . have sus
tained have hardly mi'de. a phase in
our course, and the vaunted braves of
Tennessee, Mississippi, . Louisiana,
Missouri, etc., instead of walking
rough shod over the fre men of tho
North, are engaged.in. stealing horses
and robbing poor old people for a liv
ing, while oui armies now tread in eve
ry Southern State.-and the biggest ar
mies in Virginia and Georgia lay be
hind forts and dare not come out and
fight us cowards of lhe North, who
have come five hundred miles into
their country to accept the challenge.
But my dear old friend, I have
bored you too much.
My handwriting i not plain, but
you have time to study it ont, and ns
you can understand, I have a great
deal of writing to do, and it must be
in a hurry. Think of what I have
written. Talk it over with your neigh
borg, and ask yourselves if, in your
! trials and tribulations, you have suf,
fared or# from tbc Union toWier s
f than you would had you built your
barn where lightdiLg was sure to burn
and tear it down. Did yo; not fell in
voke the punishment of an indignant
God and Government T. I. care not a
straw for the niggers. ‘ The moment
the master rebels, the negro- is free • 6l j
course, for he is a slave only by law, :
and the law broken, he is free.’
I command in all Tennessee, Ken-- }
tucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Ge.or
.gia. The paper I enclose you will be
of service to you. 4 Love to Mrs. .Alar
tin. **’
■ W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen.
Ck:
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LUCIUS C. BRYAN, JCDITOR.
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*THO M ASVili tfi’
OCT. 4, IMJ.
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. Rngn! Raft!'! Ragi!! !
Full value -will be.patdat tlie. Euterpri.se
Office fo.r all clean cotton • and lrn-en Lfct
tbosfe wjio wish us to curry on the paper’ suc
cessfully save and bring its i all .the
Xhrowu about and warning on their premises.
Wife kno'w there is plenty ol them, if you wiu.
only gather up anJ seud them. •
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. Election To-Day.
tV>-dy the feleefion takes plac in Oeor
; gia for delegates to the State Convention,
to be held at Milledgeville on the 4th Wed
fiesday in -October. ■ From what we have,
l-ead ia the paper* of t.he State, and
suitable men will be elected tbraugho'ut
the Slate, fn Th.omasi .County there D
>!ut ®bc ticket announced, *nd we may
safely s*iy that MeStrs. Seward, *Uex;iß
ii't aui Afclntyre will be elected. .So fyr
there is no political cxcit'emeni is this eec*.
lion, aad if Georgia does not rpfce-dily got
t a'ck iu-to’ the Union, it will - sot be the
fault ©f our people. ‘ > •
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For Ute New York Cinc.inati, Louisville
and Atiant-a papers wc sr* under obliffa*
I'bns t-o l)r. T- S.. Hopciitn, who we r.rc
pleased losee has'returned, safely iron; hi
trip to Washington-, whither he was sura*-
‘ra .ned as a. witness on the trial ©f W urti*
*-h r
• Attention U directed t 4-Jt wd*
vertisement of .Mv. J. li. 8. Pavts* Be
ha? opened a store door t@ John
Stark's, and is netv. receiving a B*w stock
of'.goo-s,. which he promises to sell o
the'a.ost. reasonably ‘terms*’ Vv> cannot
undertake so enumerate the articles or
comment upon the advantages he offer*, ‘
\ but are trill say. to the made- “giVfi ki*u a
(call”. *.nti he will tell you what he told u*.
Van doubtless love to hear “good ew.-’
Atlanta, Ga., is'the most extraordinary
city in the South-. • Before the war it stood
st young-giaftt, suddenly'sprung into •iaa ; *.
, portance—a'paracitc upon the rail rpadsi,
ami doing.in Georgia what Chicago did in
Illinois. -It Was fast becoming the largest
city‘in Georgia, but in 1864 it was almpst
entirely destroyed in the terrible. conflict
between.the'Federal Confederate ar
mies. The war has ceased, • an-d Phoenix’
like, Atlanta is again tt.cit'y; or* rapidly
’ g -owing ifato one upon the ruins of the 01d..j
Bus ness there has increased astonishingly. .
The papers Are overrun with advertisements °
of every, disCriptiCn and still there is no fla .
ging. The people’’of Atlanta know'the
importance of -advertising and they all do
illiberally —not n\g.ardhj. % The InUlliycn- .
cer has tliirty*two columns, and of these
twenty-eight-are crowded with advertise-"-
ments. They support ‘ aad sustain the.ir
papers. They are not afra-id Iq advertise,
nor arc they too poor to dp so. A. city
made up of industrious enterprising and
- liberal citizens is obii.t and tofiodiith. ■
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Horse Thief C aught.
. William Tate was brought’ to jail in this
place yesterday for stealing’ a horse in
• Aprillnst from Mr. E J. Young. . He was
pursued by a Sergeant of the 12th Maine”
whose names we lnve not learned, and af
ter tediously following him from- place “to
place at last came up with him in Alabama,
i Tate is also.charged with other thefts. —
! Sergeant ——r— deserves much credit for
his vigilance and energy.
Hon. H. 11. Dawson, of this State,
delivered it lecture on the i verting of
the 18th inst., at Springfield, Ohio,
on the subject of “Reconstruction.
I and the condition ot the South.’’ Mr.
Dawson recently spoke at Louisville,
! Ry., on the same subject, and receiv
je l a communication signe* by Gener
als Palmer, Logan, Rosseau, Corse and
Leggett, who spoke of the effort in
the most complimentary tortus
Tti South Carolina Conren
lion.
This Convention met necording to
the Proclamation of .Gov, Perry on
the 13th . inst- it was ■ organized by •
appointing thellon 0;. L> • Wlrfbw,
President; Mr. Aldrich introduced
the. follow itg resolutions, which were
ordered to lie cu the table:..
Resolved, Thai tinder the present
1 1 ifiiiiinntt circ-in.isfftnc.es. it is. both
wise and ] ditic to accvipi the condi
tion in wbch W# are placed ; to e -
dure ‘-patient'y the evils which we can
not av-rt or correct, and to aw. it
calmly the time and opportunity to •
effect” our deliverance from ; unconsti
tutional rule. .• ’ . ;
Resolved, That a committee, to con*
.pist of one member from .each J udicial
District, be raised) to prfepare business
lor the Convention,, aud to wh ; ch
shall be referred all matters- relating
to the public welfare of the . State
Mr. Xnglis offered the following
resolutions ;
Resolved, That the. following aotn
mit:ee be appointed; and a Chairman
of each be. designated by the Presi
dent of’ the . Convention.-. A .com*
mittee consisting of one member from
eUeh judicial in the State, represent-
ed in this Convention, to be gtyled’
4 >The’ Committee on the Constiiutipn
ol the State,to ‘which shall .be
r< ferred .all.prepositions Touching the •
Constitution, or remodelling alteriug
or amending oi the’ same. i
a committee of thirteen mem
bers, to be styled “•‘The Committee,
bn FeUeral Re.iati.nLs, 0 to which, shall
be referred., all propositions touch
ing the relations of this ‘state to
the U overn ruentv. ft he .flnited States.-
S. A committee- of .thirteen-mem.
■ hers, to be styhid ‘‘The Committee on
Colo:ed Population, 4 to ; which’ shall
i be referred all pr position's • touching
; tile subject of slavery, and. the eo.ndi
\-iu of the colored people of the State.
4. A .committee of thirteen-members,
to be sjyl and “The Committee of S\ ays
nd M. ar? to which shall b* referred
all proposition* tOvChingthe fa is mg
and • duburairg oi mosey by this
this Convention or the State,, and
also all pecuniary cMtß* *gain*t. the.
Convention... ’• ‘
to be ‘ ‘*lb • Commit tea on
OrdhiUnc * ■ uni lU*omtions, ‘* . til.’
which shad be referred ail proposition* :
t>! matter* to ne ordained of >
bv thi Coovcrmoii, tftot |>mperly of I
exciasivslj rolerabhv •tg any me or]
other the couamitwes beiviu provided!
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Mr. Pickens offered the foifotiof |
Ordinance which,, .on i&etios. wu-sj
ordered to lie on.the table. •’ •••. • j
We, the delegates of'the People of;,
the fctute of South Caroiina 5 in Gep.* :
oral Convention met, do ordain: That:
the Oadinanee passed in Convention, !
.20 th of'December; iB6O, withdrawing 1
‘this State from the Federal-Uniob be j.
and the same*is'hereby repeated. •• .’ j
The fortuß'es of war together with j
the proclamations of the President of j
the Un ted States and the Generals in'.;
‘the field commanding, having decided |
therefore, .under the. circumstances, j
wo -.acquiese in -rai l -proclamations,'!
•and do hold by ordain implicit oh®*’
dience • ta. the Const jtutioti •of ’the';
i jjked States, and all law* ‘made in
puryuanee thereof. . •'’ i :
The convention tbyii < ‘ • a
nisti! the day, -when the Govern *-j
ors Message, was communicated.. • ‘,. j
President JohiiKoii from uu
English point oHicw.
The New York correspondent cJ ;
the London times, thus ciiaracterixe s . j
President Johnson : •
In fact, he has opinions of his own ; :
he is a man who has fought a hard
tattle with life, and i.t hag. left many
sears upon him. The genial humor
and buoyancy f Mr. Lincoln do not
exist in Mr. Johnson. He is a tacL
turn, self.possessed, cynical man, with j
an impenetrable nature and immova
b.lci purposes. . Every step .he has
made was try dint of sheer hard sighs
ting and dogged determination. He
is ad inflexible and. ton scious man,
who. having waged a staunch, battle,
is.not likely to be defrauded of the
fruits of it. Hitherto he has cxeis
cised his power with few mistakes or
faults, and his willingness to facilitate
a junction between the republicans
and the democrats is an evidence of
his.determination to persevere in his
grand object oi reorganising the
South, which can only be done by
poaee in the North
The Fenian Eiirltenieht In.
Ireland.
The latest advices from England
state that great excitement and alarm
had been created I the increasing
holiness of Fenian i • monstrations in
Ireland. Four , counties, Cork, 1 ipv
pearary, Kerry and Limerick, in which
the orler was supposed to be strongest.,,
had been placed under a.species of
martial law, and. many arrests bad
been made. In one of these counties
aloiie It hi estimated that there are.
fifty thousand Fenians: ‘ There Were
the strongest indications, it is alleged,
that the fraternity were preparing for
an eady and powerful
Many of the newspapers charge that
the order.was started in-. the L.nited
States and derives its aid and inspira -
tion, thence .the design being to effect
the independence of Ireland, through
an embroilment of America-and. Eng*
land'in a war, while one journal an*
nounces that its headquarters: are m
Liverpool. The Fenians aro said to
.be.quite defiant in the- city o* Cork,
and are nightly holding- meetjocajand
drilling, - T|lcy hiV6 also had
strations in Belfa t and Limerick.—*
The. Catholic-cl-ergy continue to de*
nounce them. un*i urge the people net
to be carried away, by the excitement.
’ Hogs. ; — Keep. fattening swine in
comfortable close quarters. Feed well
and regularly with ground grim and
cooked feed.. Give a few bandfail* of
powdered .charcoal, dampened, and
sprinkled with £neal.. It is *0 tifcl*
lent tonic. Keep the hogs and their
pens clean, ekange their bedding as it
becomes dirty. When unground and
tweo-oked corn is to be fed, begin as
soon as it glides•; it i the- more di
gestiblc. ; . * •* •
.. George Augustus Sala, in i recent
article on “American A oung Ladies,
i-bsys they are the. most accomplished
I talkers in the world . Their readmes*
of and ction, the . flow of ideas, their
quickness'-of. aprehenil©f. If® teaily
ind t.ufy astonishing.- An American
gtr! has. pq mething smart wd spark*
ling, and-voluble to say on every sub*
1 5 ,ect- Von beaming belle in the balco
fny, with the cataract curls and the i *
{ fusion waist* despises utieh mean and
Igechanietti irtiineery ai needles and
thread- She has ! plenty to for
’ her*elf.” Nay, con v e rsationa 1 ly , iho
: would give you hi ty and beat y<>u easi*
; iy. at * hunured tip. --be never ittasj*
\ mers, she never hesitates.
. X>XESX> ; :
On the *V;th. iusthui C'asi-. Warwick. •
child off. W, &M. K liarcl
v - C
trick, Aged * tn troths and ~i- day*.
M Master, if is not dead. ‘ UI - eleoptU V* ,
Etilp. irigbt, trinwießt,
; Cu*te as tnorniug dew;
• He sparkletfi Ww* exhaled.
.And passed to Heaven. • T. .;
t'letcheiyillfvSept., 30. 1865-
Kew Advertisements.
I "|f A VINO fitted up and opened our
_1 S,<,LOOi\,>t the Store of T. J.
i McLain, wt are prepared to offer to the
Public everything that can be foued in a
First Glass Saloon.
; BRANDIES,
‘ WHISKEY, ■
* • .’ gin. •’ :
■'. ale,
\ CHAMPAIGNE WINE,
L ‘• MUSCAT WINE,
MALAGA WINE,
PORT WINE,
\ ■ CLARET WINE,
kr RHINE WINE
• : AND EVERV VARIETY OF
LIQUORS,
Either .by .the Bottle or Drink-—Plain or
Mixed.
| FINE HAVNNA CIGARS
|of different brands. Anderson’s and oth*
i ci‘B . ‘ . • • • . ..
Fine Cut Tobacco,
• %
And everything to suit the taste of the
most fastidious,'can be had at
tmsHmi* noust, 9
iAs cheap as anywhere in the South. We
| shall always keep on hand a •
! • LARGE AND WELL
Selcoted stocltf
And would invite the Publio to give us a
call, before purchasing elsewhere.
PETERS ft PERRY
f. Oet *. •/. H. . Hi'-”