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wadk hampto.vs elwiumt huply to honor, or justice will surely a.ree GBNEHAL SHK^MAM'S BARBAROUS ^ ^ . q ^ ym g||i , ly i ot mimier if your order is carried j The following correspondence he- o;.t. Before dismissing this portion Different.—••What a hideous hat tween General Sherman, the modern of your letter, I beg to assure you The Search-Light. BAINBRIDGE, MAKOII 2, 1901 Hilda has on!” Why, that’s the lat esl style.” “Oil! Isn’t it sweet?” — Piiiladelphie Bulletin. Duke of Alva, and General that for every soldier of mine “mur- Wade Hampton should he of in- dered” by yon. I shall have exec, t- torest to the young men, not only of ed at onee two of yours, giving in the south, but ot the north as well, all oases preference to any officers It shows something of the grim and who may be in my hands, worthless. The* oiigiial quiokiy desperate determination of the con - J In referauce to the statement you cures tides# sores and ajl skill disoas- federate soldiers to protect the bon-' made regarding the death of your i fa. R. L. Hicks. or of southern ladies even at the risk foragers, I have only to say that I To the Public. 1 nave a very huge spring and sun - mtf pasture near town where I will take cow,, at morning .and graze them during the day. returning same at night, for the sum of $1.36 per iu.»rth. GKO. D, GRIFFIN. Like had dollars, all counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve arc of war to the death. know nothing about it; tluit no or A stained-glass window is to be The incident to which allusion is j dors given by me authorize the kill- placed in Burton Church, Williams- nia ,j e foy General Hampton in this ing of prisoners after capture, and burg, Va., in memory of Chief-Jus- 00 rrespondenoe was au o trage eom- tiee Marshall, who attended that ■ mitted at Feasterville by a lieutenant mmol while u student at William in Sherman's arniv, who was soon and Mary College. afterwards shot for it. He killed the father of the house and the out rage which followed left the beauti- There is always danger in ueeiiig counterfeits if DeWitt’s Witch Hue- , , el Salve. The orignul is a safe and , ful daughter a white-haired imbecile, certain cure lor piles. It is a sooth- It is because of outrages like this ing aud healing salve for sores and that southern men cannot uuderstand all skin diseases. It. L. Hicks. why some northern people greet _ •*- 1 • southern guests with the air Way cross Herald: An old Con- ,. MaroWllj? Through Georgia.” federate veteran wan recently held Th „ eem ^ thluk it a pp ropr i ale . up by robbers in Muscogee county. They would not if they knew what The person who attempts to rob a lnhliman deeds it recalls. yetcran or an editor must be bard up and a tool besides. Millions of people are familiar with DeWitt’s Little Eurlv Risers and those who use them finil them to be famous little liver pills. Never gripe. K. I.. Hicks. , Down at the Battery, New York ci y, there is a skyscraper office build ing on. tbc lop Hoor of which are the headquarters of a big trust. During a violent wind storm last week the building swayed so that half a dozen clerks became “seasick.” One of them said he would sooner keep books on an ocean liner. Persons who cannot take ordinary pills find it a pleasure to take Do- Witt’s Little Early Risers. They are the best little liver pills ever made. R. L. Hicks. Savannah Nows: The Nasliville American remarks: “The Teiftiessee dog seems to have the legislature treed.” Yes; and the legislatures of Georgia and South Carolina aud most of the other So .them states, are up the same tree. There isn’t anything that a Southern legislature is not more afraid of than a man gv, worthless, sheep-killing yellow Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, In the field, Feb. 24, 1865. Lieutenant General Wade Hampton, Commanding Calvary Forces Confederate States Army: General—It is officially reported to me tliat our foraging parties are murdered after capture and labled ‘•Death to all foragors.” One in stance of a lieutenant and seven men near Cliesterville, and another of twenty “near a ravine eighty rods from the main road” about three miles from Feasterville. I have or dered a similar number of prisoners in our bands to be disposed of in like manner. I bold ^ about 1,000 prisoners, captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you, and would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life tukcu by them simply results in the death of ono of your Confederates. Of course, you cannot question my right to “ forage on the country.” It is a war right as old as history. The manner of exercising it varies with circumstances, and if the civil authorities will supply my acquisi tions I will forbid all foraging. But I can find no civil authorities who can respond to my calls for forage or provisions; therefore, I must col lect directly of tho people. I have no dout this is the occasion of much Reports show a greatly increased death rate from throat and lung troubles, due to the prevalence misbehavior on tho part of our men, but I cannot permit an enemy to Judge or puuisli with wholesale mur der. Personally, I regret tho bitter croup, peneumoma and grippe. We advise the use of One Minute Cough Cure id all of these difficulties. It is the only harmless remedy tlmt gives immediate results. Children like it. U. L. Hicks. il'SMAIIK's IHO.Y ,\KHVK. Was ihe result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and trera- feehng8 engendered by this war, but they were to be expected, and I sim ply allege that those that struck the first blow and made war inevitable ought not in fairness to reproach us for the natural consequences. I omlous energy arc not found whore j mer<J L v insert our war right to for- suuuaeh, liver, kidneys and bowels "K* 1 ,lmi m y r^olve to protect my are out of order. If you want these fora 2 <>r8 t0 the cxlunt of life for Ufa. aiul the success tney bring,' ^ am > respect, your obedient use Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They , 8C, ' vent * W. T. SHERMAN., develop every power of brain and General United States Army. To this bombastic flumiuation General Hampton returned the fol low ing answer; Headquarters. In tbc field, Feb. 27, 1865. Major General W. T. Sherman, United States Army: General—Your communication of A frightful oough ha<l the 24th mstant reached me today, lu r awake every night. iu it yo „ 8late ha8 keen officially- reported that your foraging parties are “murdered” after capture. You go on to say that you hr.ye "ordered body. Only 25o at R. L. Hicks’s ding store. I'll EVENTED A 1 IIAGE1IV. Timely information yivon by Mrs. ■George Long, of New Strnitsville, Ohio, prevented a dreidful tragedy and Itv long k< She had tried many remedies and doctors but steadly grew worse until urged to try doctor King’s New Dis- °;’"' r - v ' a similar number of prisoners in our bands to bo disposed of in like man ner,” that is to say you have- ordcr- sbe writes this marvelous also cured Me. Long ol a severe attack of pneu mo na. Such cures arc I do not believe my men killed any of yours, except under circumstances where it was perfectly legitimate and proper that they should kill them. It is a part of the system of the theives, whom you designate as your foragers, to fire the dwelling of those citizens whom they have robbed. To check this inhuman system, which is justly execrated by every civilized nation, I have directed my men to shoot dowm all of your men who are caught burning houses. This order shall remain iu force so long as you disgrace the profession of arms by allowing vour men to destroy private dwellings. You say that I cannot of course question your right to forage on the oouutry—“it is a right as old as his tory.” I do not, sir, question this right. But there is a right older ev en, than this, and one more inalien able—the right-that every man has to defend his home and to protect those who are dependent upon him; and from my heart I wish that every old man or boy in my country who can fire a gun would shoot down, as he would a willd beaRt, men who are desolating their land, burning their homes and insulting their women* You are particular in defining “war rights.” May I ask if you en umerate among the right to fire up on adelenseless city without notice; to burn that city to the ground after it was surrended by the inhabitants who claimed, though in vain, that protection which is always accorded waretare to non combatants; to fire the dwelling houses of citizens affer robbing them; and to perpe trate eveu blacker crimes than- these crimes too black to be meutioned? You have permitted, if you have not ordered the commission of these offences against humanity and the rules of war; you fired on the city of Columbia without a word of warn- idg; after its sm-lender by the may- o •, who demanded protectiou to pri vate property, you laid the whole city in ashes, leaving amidst its ruins thousauds of old men and helpless “wi men and children, who are likely to perish of starvation and exposure. Your line of inarch can be traced by <h lurid light of burniug houses, aud in more than one household there is now an agony far more bitter than that of death. The - Indian scalped his victim regardless of age or sex, but with all Ins babarity he always respected the persons of his female captives. Your soldiers, more savage than the Indian, insult those whose natural protectors are absent. * 1 In conclusion, I have only to re quest that whenever von have any of my mm “murdered or “disposed of” for the terms appeal to be synony mous with you, yo i will let me hoar of it, that I may know what action to take in the matter. In the mean time I shall hold fifty six ot your men as hostages for those you have ordered to be executed. I am yours etc., WADE HAMPTON., Lieutenant General. In the face of this threat of retal iation it is safe to say that Sherman A powerful! engine cannot be run with a weak boiler, and we cannot keep up the strain of an active mind with a weak stomach; neither can we stop the human machine to make ropan’s. If the stomach cannot di gest enough fojd to keep the body strong, such a preperation as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure should be used. It digests what you eat and it sitnly can’t help but do it. R. L. Hicks TjB,. S. J CHESUET. 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