The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
SENSIBLE ORDERS OF GENERAL
d 1912 9..i SHERMAN, ~ -'.-
The Country Going to " Anarchy
and the Devil" and How it
Must be Prevented.
HEADQ'Rs MILITARY Div. OF THE MISS. \
In THE FIELD BIG SHANTY, June 81. {

| . HEADQ RS MILITARY DIV. OF THE MISS,
In THE FIELD, BIG SHANTY, June 81. {
Gen. Burbridge, Commanding Dirssion Of Ken
| tucky:
GENERAI-The recent raid of Morgan. and
| the concurrent acts of men styling themselves
Confederate partiz ms or guerillas, call for de-
| termined action on your part.
Even on the Southern State Rights" theory,
Kentucky has not seeded. Her people, BY
| their vote and their actions, have adhered to
| their allegiance to the national government
and the South would now coerce her out of
our Union and into theirs by the very dogma
of . coercion" upon which so much stress was
laid at the outset of the war, and which carried
into rebellion the people Of the Middle or Bor-
der slave States
But politics aside, these acts of the so-called
partizans or guerillas, are nothing but simple
murder horse-stealng, arson, AMI other we'll
defined crimes, which do not sound as we'll un
der their true name. as under more agreeable
| ones of warlike meaning.
Now before starting on this campaign,
| fOresaw, as you remember, that this very case
would arise, and l asked Gov. Bramlette to or
| ganize in each county, q small, trustworthy
| band, under the SheriffS and at one dash ar
rest every man in the community who was
| dangerous to it; and also every fellow hanging
about the towns, villages and cross roads who
had no honest calling, the material out of
| which guerillas are made up; but this sweep
ing exhibition of power doubtless seemed to
| the Governor to be rather arbitrary
The fact is, in our country personal liberty
has been so well secured that public safety has
been lost sight of in our laws and institutions,
| and the fact is we are thrown hack one hun
dred years in civilization, laws and everything
| else, and will 60 right straight to anarchy and
the devil if somebody don'G arrest our down
ward progress. s.. ..-
We the military, must do it, and,we have
| right and law on our eide. All governments
and communities have right to guard against
| real and even supposed danger The whole
| people of Kentucky must not be kept in
state of suspense and real danger, lest few
| innocent men should be wrongfully accused.
| 1st You may order all your post and dis
| trict commanders that Guerillas are not SOL
diers, but wild beasts, unknown to the usages
of war. To be recognized as soldiers they
must be enlisted, enrolled, differed, uniform
| ed and equipped by a recognized beligerent
power, and must, if detailed from a main ar.
my, be of sufficient strength, with written or.
ders from some army commander to do some
| military thing. Ut course we have rccOgnzed
the confederate government as belligerent
power, but deny their right to our lands, ter
| Iitories, rivers, coasts and notwithstanding
| ting the right to rebel and move to some other
country, where laws and customs are more in
accordance with their own ideas and pre-
JUDGES.
| 2. The civil power being insufficient to pro-
tect life and property, &c necessitate rel to pre-
| vent anarchy, (which nature abhOrs," the
military steps in and is rightful constitutional
and lawful. Under this law everybody can be
made to - stay at home and mind his or her
business" and if they won't do that. can be
sent away where they must not keep the hon.
est neighbors in fear of danger, robbery and
insult.
8. Your Military Commanders, Provost Mar
shals, and other agents, may arrest all males
aud females who have encouraged or harbOred
guerillas and robbers, and you may cause them
to be collected in Louisville; and when you
have enOugh-say three or four hundred-I
will cause them to be sent down the Mississippi,
through their guerilla gauntlet, and by sail.
ing ship send them to a land where they may
take their negroes. and make o colony, with
laws aud future of their own. If they wont
live in peace in such garden as Kentucky,
why, we will send them to another if not a
better land; and surely this would be q kind
ness to them, and Gods blessing to Ken
lucky.
wish you to be careful that no PERSONAL les
are m xed up in this, nor does full and gen
erous love of country" ''of the, South" of
their state or country. form a cause of Danish.
ment, but that devilish spirit which will not
| be satisfied, and that makes war the pretext
of murder. arson. theft in all it's grades. penu-
ry. and all the crimes of human nature.
MY own preference was and is that the ci
authorities in Kentucky would and could d
this IN that State; but if they will not or onn
not. then we must, for it must be done. There
must lie an end to strife. and the honest IN
du trious people of Kentucky and the whole
world, will be benefited and rejOiced at the
conclusion, however arrived at.
! Use no concealment in saying that 40 not
object to men or women having what they
call Southern feelings, if confined to love OF
country and of peace, honor and security, and
even q little family pride. but these become
crime when enlarged to mean love OF mur-s
der, Of war; of dssolarion, famine and all the
hcrrid attendants of anarchy. am, with no
spect Your friend, = ,
| Major General