Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-04-29
The Raid on sherman.

The brilliant soldiership Of Gen. Sher.
man bas been mainly instrumental in
achieving those military results that have
given supremacy to the Federal arms
His bold and original strategy his breadth
Of conception and rapidity of movement
aud the never falling success that attend
bis intricate maneuvers, forced him upon
the public attention as the bright particu.
lar star 10 the military frmanent. Out
Of what seemed an incomprehensible tan
gle of plans aud expedents, of advances
aud retreats, of marches and counter
marches, he drew the golden thread of
mplete and shining triumph. While the
North was wondering, fearing, doubling,
hoping as i: pondered over the enigma of
his campaign, suddenly the problem was
solved and the vast complications assumed
symmetry and order. He did not sur
mount obstacles, he compelled them to
vanish from his path Savannah, Charles.
iOn, Wilmington, quietly yielded, not to
tedious siege or inpetuous assault, but to
she uucompromising necessities of the ait.
uations that be created.
When the results Of this rare general.
ship became apparent, the applause of the
North became loud and general. No terms
of praise were considered exaggerated
when applied to the comet like career Of
the great strategi.t, who swept over the
bills and valleys and morasses of Georgia
and the Carolinas, reducing strongholds
withou. approaching them, discum6tbg
armies without fighting them, dispensing
with bases OF supplies and ordinary rules
Of Generalship, aud in one comparatively
oloodless campaign, diaorganizing the mil
ilsry power Of The enemy more than a
hundred desperate battles had done be-
fore him.
Such was Gen. Sherman week ago ,
the synocure toward whose blazing glo-
ries the people turned with proud delight;
the soldier who compelled the admiration
and applause Of the world. What is he
so.dayi
Fallen, fallen fallen, fallen
Faen from bis high estate"
The journals that lavishei upon him
their adulGtion have turned against him
The Administration that hailed him As its
tower Of strength censures and disgraces
him. The people who shouted his euia-
gies condemn hitn. The Black Republi.
cans call him "CoPperhead," "madman,
".faitor.' What has he done!
He has done 10 worse than to open a
door to peace, over whose threshold all
might pass with honor, apd beyond which
lay stretched boundless future of pros.
perity, concord and fraternity, The man
is as honest and as patriotic as he is bold
aud skllfu and coneeiving it to be his
duty 10 remove, not TO create, difficulties
in The way Of peace, be offered to the foe
the only terms that were certain 10 disarm
recruitment, to cultivate good feeling, and
1 a sestors the Union to the foundation
upon which it was built. ln doing that,
he has obstructed the course OF ianati-
cisr, be has impeded the progress Of CEN
tralizat!on, and has revealed a means of
peace too simple, certain and expeditions
to suit the purposes Of those whose power
depends on the control Of vast armies,and
the machinery of war. From this hour
be ia 10 be a persecuted man, until the
o. people realize how much, in the act that
has brought him into dsfavor he has been
their friend.