The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-08-24
A sEGNkFICANT LETTER.
Gen. sherman on Negroes, and
on Recruiting in the C0nfeGer-
afp States

ate states.
The following letter is significant in more
ways than one. The reader viii not fail
to observe that Gen. Sherman proposes to
pass the Yankee Recruiting Agent through
our lines to Georgia, Alabama and Missis-
sippi; and, having had considerable eEper1-
cnce in those States himself, he suggests
that Governor Andrews man tSPoONER)
locate his Recruiting Depots at Macon. Co
lumbus. Selma, Montgomery, Mobile, Co..
umbus, Milledgeville, and Savannah This
suggestion must have been quite rs refresh
ing to the Yankee Agent as cold shower
bath would have been in the Southern eli
mate on the 30th of last MONTH To appre,
ciate the c0D'nGsSof the Joke, the reader need
only glance at a good war map TO see that
all the places the General names are in the
hands Of the rehels 1t would be rich to
find an Aminidab Sleek from Boston down
in the Southern Confcderacy recruiting
Americans of African decent to fill the quo
ia of Massachusetts,
1t will he seen that the General regards
a universal draft necessary ''to overcome
the wideSnread resistance offered us; and
he thinks it will be good thing to demon
strate how many Of the loyal lcaugers who
taN so much in favor of war are willing to
90 and fight. Read the ter:-StdteS-
hHOp
HEADo'RS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE
MISSISSIPPI, in THE FIELD, :
NEAR ATLANTA. GA. July 30. 1864. J
.John 4. Spoonrr Esq, -4gemJor tie (on'-
momweahh OF Massachusetts,, NdshrtUe.
1cnn..
SIR:-Yours from Chattanooga. July %,
is received notifying me of your anpoint-
ment by your State as Lieutenant Colonel
and Provost Marshal of Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, under the act of Congress
approved July A. 1864. to recruit volunteers
to he credited to the States respectively.
On applying to Gen. Webster. at Nash
vile, he will grant you pass through ON
lines TO those States and, as / hare cons'd
c7ublc crpnTence IN those States, ,could Sug,
ccst yvcwfinG depotS to be established al
Macon and CohmbuS, Mss. Sc10nd. Mont
oone1V and IEobize, Ald.. and ColanmJus
| MNdmjM and Sdrannnh, Ald. -
do not see that the law restricts you, tC
black recruits, hut you are to liberty to col
! lect white recruits, also. 1t is waste of time
I and money to open rendezvous in North
west Georgia, for I assure Won | have not
seen an ahle-boded man. black or white
there, fit for soldier who was not in thil
army or the one opposed tQH.
Ym speak of the impression goingIabroac
| that I am opposed to the organization ofcol
orcd regiments.
Ny opinions are usually very positive, anC
there is no reason why you should not know
them y.
Though entertaining profound reverence
for our Congress 7 do doubt their wisdom
in the passage Of this law:
|. Because civilian agents. about an arm.
are nuisance
.. The duty of citizens to fight for thei
country is too sacred one to be pcddled OF
by buvine up the refuse of other States.
3. 1t is unjust toSthe brave soldiers ant
volunteers who are fighting, as those wh'
compose this army do, to place them on {
par with the class of recruits you are at
ter.
4. The negro is in a transition state, ant
is not the equal of the white man.
5. He is liberated from his bondage b,
act of war; and the armies i'll the field are en-
titled to all his assistance in labor and fight
ing in addition to the proper quotas Of tn
States.
6. This bidding and bartering for recruits
white and black, has delayed the re-enforce
nent of our armies at the times when sue
re-cntorccments would have enabled us t
make cur success permanent.
T. The law is an experiment which, pend
ing war, is unwise and unsafe, and has declal
ed the universal draft which | firmly be
lieve will become necessary to overcome TIL
widespread resistance offered us; and ais
believe the universal draft will be wise an
beneficial; for under the Providence Of Go
it will separate the sheep from the goats
and demonstrate what citizens will fight fo
their country, and what will only talk
No one will infer from this that am nc
a friend of the negro as well as the whit
race; ! contend that the treason and rebe
lion of the master freed the slave, and tn
armies have conducted to safe points NOR
negroes than those of any general officer i
the army; but prefer negroes for pioneers
teamsters cooks and servants, others gradu
ally to experiment in the art of the sodie,
beginning with the duties of local garrisons
such as we had at Memphis, Vicksbure
Natchez, Nashville and Chattanooga; but
would not draw on the race for two large
proportion of its active, atheleticyoung mer
for some must remain to seek new home
and provide for the old and young, and fee
bic and helpless.
These are some of my peculiar notions
but | assure you they are shared by larg
proportion Of our fighting men.
Is;nned S,',, "i" w n SHERMAN Mai Cen