The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-20
TUESDAY MORNING. 4. SEPTEMBER 20, 1864.

There is no mistsking The object Of sherman in
desiring TO hold conference with Niee-President
Stephens ana Governor Brown II Is TO detach the
State Of Georgia il possible, from the Confeicraey,
through the agency of these two gentlemen, whom,
from their with regard 10 the haeas oa,pas act
and ether measures he takes he at heart we'll dis
posed 10 promote such amcasure We are confident
that be viii find hmseitdissppointedin his estimation
OF these two gentlemen, yet we very much regret
that they should ever have advocated any line Of
policy which Yankee genera, cam by any posi-
bty thus interpret. We trust that the meeting will
not be accorded. Ii can answer no good purpose,
and is designed for no good end II there were no
other objection TO IT, the very fact that il is proposed
by Sherman is sufficient of itself TO indicate its i'm
rropriety No good citizen ought, especially at snch
a time, as this, to do anything which may, in the
slightest particular serve 20 indicate that there Is
difference his opinion between the interests OF his
State and the interests Of the Confedcraoy. The
Governor of Georgia. at least, oughtto rccoect that
his State was one of the first thc first after South
Cardinal 10 sccede from the Union and that If she
now treat OF peace on her own terms sovereign,
she withdIaws from the Confederacy, and leaves her
sisters the BAG TO hold after having got them into
this st1ape.
action has been agita,el of late in more quarters
than one. The late depiorable peace delusion gave
Iisc TO 1T, and the depression consequent upon the
disappointment Of hopes raised by it has kept it up
Ne hope it has not spread to any great extent but
we may be ASSUMED that Sherman has heard Of it
and that it encourages him to seek this conference
The Constitution confers upon the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make
L a.a ata
she withdraws from the ConfedeIacy. Sherman
knows thIs, and thinking he has his heel upon the
state Of Georgia. he hopes in this way to biing her
back into the Union Are the people not the poll
ticiansare the pt9ptc Of Georgia prepared FOR this
step Viii they consent TO abandon Virginia.
which entered into this C0nederacy because she was
determined to share the same fate with her sisters
Will she, We say, abandon Virginia aoc, after having
dragged her into this war We cannot and will not
believe 1t of the gallant State Of Georgia. Her
have fought too calamity to warrant such Il belief
Our public men, We should think, ought TO avoid
all communication with sherman as far as possible
of all the miscreants that this has produced
among the Yankees he Is the basest and the worst
Beast Butler himself might almost be considered an
honest man III comparison with him That this is |
the opinion held of him by his own Government,
from the fact that they have made him the vehicle
of communicating their determination not TO receive
their hundred days men in exchange; an atrocity Il
which has not its parallel in all history, far
can rccollcct The tasks to which Governments put
their officers always show the estimation i'll which /
they hold them. Butler is selected to announce the
dependence of the fifty thousand Yankees We hold
III captivity for restoration to liberty. upon our con-
sent TO exchange the hundred or two lousy negroes
We have captured bearing arms against their mas
tiers OH equal terms. The two men, the basest in
the Yankee army, are put forward to announce the
basest policy adopted By civilized govern
ment. Butler has been declared an OUTLAW We
therefore hold no communication with him Let the
same course be pursued with regard TO SheruIan-l
We hope Governor Brown and Mr.. Stephens will
not meet him. 1t would have a bad look!