Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-14
army as well as to the navy.
iSigned1 l T. w. SHERMAN,


(SignedJ l T.'W. SHERMAN,
Brig. Genl commanding.
After landing and taking possession o
the forts, Gen. Sherman issued the follows
ing proclamation: 40 a
TO the People of South Carolina:
In obedience to tue orders of the Presi-
dent of these United States of America, I
nave landed on your shores with smul{
force of national troops. The dictates OF
duty which, under these circumstances
i owe to great sovereign State aud to u
fond aud hospitable people, among whom
have passed some of the pleasantest
days of my life, prompt me to proclaim
that we have come amongst you with no
feelings of personal antmosity-no desire
70 harm your citizens, destroy your prop.
erty or interfere with any OF your lawful
rights or your social and local institutions
beyond what the causes herein briefly all
lnded 20 may render unavoidable.
Citizens of South Carolina, the ciyiitz-
ed world stand appalled, At the course
you are puFsuing-appalled at the crime
you are committing against your own mo-
ther, the best, the most enlightened, and
heretofore ths most prosperous Of nations.
You are In . state % active rebellion
against the laws % yOu country; you
senals and a. properly belonging 70
our commoa - Try, aud within yOnr
borders, ani " this property you are
Wagiug = rutL,r war against your consti-
tutionhl g0VerIfirnt. aRd thus threatening
the existence " government which you
are bound by the terms Of . solemn COM.
pact to live under aud faithfully support.
In doing this, you are not only UNDER
mining aud preparing tlR way for totally
ignoring your own political and social ex-
istence, but you are threatening the civil
lied world with the odions sentiment that
self-gOvernment is impossible with civil
lied man.
FellOw=citizens, emplore you to pause
and reflect upon tho tenor and Conse-
quence of your acts. If the awful sacri-
tees made by the devastation of our pro-
perry, the shedding OF fraternnl blood in
battle, the mourning ind wailing OF Wid7=
ows and oil Jhans throughout the land, are
insufficient TO deter you from further pur-
suing this unholy war, then ponder, be-
seech you, upon the ultimate, but not less
certain result which its further progress
must necessarily and naturally entail upon
your once happy and prosperous State.
Indeed can you pursue this f.atricidal-
war, and can You Undue your hands in the
loyal blood of your conntrymen, your
friends, your kinsmen, for no other object
than to unlawfully disrupt the confederacy
of great people-a confederacy estab-
llished by your own hauds-in order to set
up, were it possible, an independent gov
ernment under which you can never live in
peace, prosperity or quietnessH
Carolinians, we have come among you
rs loyal men, fully impressed with our
constitutional obligations to the citizens
of your State.
These obligations shall be performed as
far as is incur power. But be not deceive
cd The obligation of suppressing armed
combinations against the Constitutional
authorities is paramount to all others. II
IN the performance of this dutYnother mi
nor but important obligations should be At
all neglected, it must be attributed to the
necessities of the case, because right de-
pendent on the law of the State must be
necessarily subordinate to military exigen-
cies, created by Instruction and rebellion.
Signed, T.W. SHERMAN, ia
Brigadier- General Commanding,