Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-09-24

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hey must leave the hmay msusi on. u
would sigpsIize their departure BY okens
Of love u would bid them farewell so
tenderly, that they would forever bo touch.
by the recollection Of II, and II, In the vicis
situdes Of their separate exsi teuce. they
should dcsire 10 come together sgain In our
common Government, there should be no
wound inflicted from any hand, TO be heal.
ed. They could come and, be = welcome TO
the pIsco they snow occupy. IL | ,dtlcl
The LAST SrAeKs or the REBxLIlox.--
The Rieanoad Whig says there are Jet
one hundred aud thirty.two thousand men
iu the Rebel Copfederscy, between the ages
lof l6 and so, who are not in the army.
These men are styled exempts by an enact
ment Of the Rebel Congress, and st present
are not liable to conscripsion. However.
most Of them are doing as much for the
rebel service in the capacity OF laborers In
arsenals. fonndries. and overseers of planta-
tiops as IL they had q musket on their
shoulders, and regularly belonged to the
military service. Taking their own calcula-
tions as true, from what source eau they
recruit their srmiesY 10 the language OF
General Grant. they have robbed the cradle
and the grave already, and when their
present armies are exhausted must ssrrea-
der, and bow again to Federal authority
The rebellion may truly be said to be on iis
last pegs. Still we have men who are
mean enough to ask for sn armistice. N i
The following is the reply ofGen. Sherman
to Gen. Hoods charge OF studied and ungene-
rous cruelty and which was received in Wash
ington to-day 'y-g.s1A y sitN'E.d ~ 9
the hiss, In the Field, Sept 10, 1894.
Ger. J. B. Heed Command Ar~y y fAs Tess, cs.fsd..
General---I have the honor to acknow.
ledge the receipt Of your letter OF this date
at the hands Of Messrs Ball and Grew,
consentiug to the arrangements had pro.
posed, TO facilitate the removal south Of the
people Of Atlanta who prefer to 60 in that
direction. ! enclose you copy of my
oIders, which will, I am saii, ned, accom-
plish my purpose perfectly. an IA
You style the measures proposed uuprece.
dented and appeal to the dark history Of
war for o parallel as an act OF studied and
ungenerous cruelty. II Is not unpreceden..
ed for tGen. johnson himself very " isely
and properly removed the families oil the
way from Dalton down and ] see no rea-
son why Atlanta should be excepted, nor
is it necessary to appeal to the dark his
tory Of war when recent and modern exam.
Piles are SO handy You yourself burned
dwelling houses along your parspet and l
have seen to-day fifty houses that you have
rendered uninhabitsble because they stood
in the way Of your forts and men. You de.
Tended Atlanta on line so close to the
town that every cannon shot snd many
musket shots from our line of investme ent
that overshots went into the habitatious OF
women aud children. Gen Hardee did the
same last summer at Jonesboro and Gen.
Johnston did the same last summer at Jack
sou, Miss. ] have not accused you oil
hearsless cruelty but merely given instance,
Of those cases of recent occursnce aud could
60 en- and enumerate hundreds of other
and challenge any fair man to judge which
Of Us has the heart Of pity for the famiIie.
Of brave people. d,
/ / say it is . kindness to these families o
Atlanta TO remove them DOW Mt once from
srnins that women and children should no
4 he exposed, and o brave people should
scorn TO commit their wives and children t
the rude bardariaus, who thus, as you say
violate the laws Of God illustrated in tbs
psg es Of its dark history. In the name o
common sense ask you not TO appeal to q
just God ia such sscriligious manner
/ You, who, 10 the midst of peace and pros
petty, have plunged nation into civil war,
q dark and cruel war; who dared and bad,
gered us to battle, insulted our flag. seized
our arsensls and forts that were left 10 the
honorable custody Of peaceful ordnance
sergeant, seized and made prisoners of war
the very garrisons sent to pro 'ect your
people against negroes and Indians Long
before any overt act was committed by
the hateful Lsucoln government. you tried
to force Kentucky and Missouri into ths
rebellion spite OF themselves, fals6ed th,
vote of Louisans, turned loose your priva
teers to plunder uaarmed ships, expelled
4 Union fam lies by the thousand, burned
their houses, declared by act of your Con
gress the coE6scation Of oil debts du
!, Northern men for goods you had received
Talk thus to the marines, but not to me
who have seen these things, and who vii
this day make as much sacrifice for th
| peace and honor of The South as the bes
born Southerner among you. If we mus
be enemies, let as be men and fght it on
. as We propose 10 do, and not deal 10 sue
hypocritical appeals to God and humanity
!, God will judge rs 10 due time, aud be wi
pronounce whether il be more humane I
Eight with town full OF women aud th
families of brave people at our back, q
). to remove them in time to places of saiai
among their own friends and .,eople.
. ! AN very respectfully your obedieut seryas
o .1s m w. I, SHERMAN,
v t1s.,.s ~ Maj Gen. Commanding.
;" The EIeetsrsl College.
The relative strength Of the sever
T. States In the electoral college has been co
4 sderably changed since the last Preside