Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-06
1sHERMAN A apEMooRAT."

A few days ago the Fp-Tod insisted
that Sherman was as much "Dcmocrat"
as Union man,-6nding that it could not
claim him altogether, in the face OF agen-
eral statement Of that fact of his endorsing
Fitzpatrick. The truth, wholly told in
this connection is this: the Copperheads
would like to get Sherman as Presidential
candidate for 1868. That is, that ,Oas
their hope, heretofore. But the Examiner
confesses right out, in its peculiarly nice
aud genteei manner, that he has placed
himself beyond the pale Of eligibility in
the Copperhead ranks. The Marysville
appeal says that we have another docu-
ment from General Sherman, the bare
sight of which makes the C~opperheads
howl. 1t is an extract from one Of his Ohio
speeches copied from the Dubuque Times,
Of October 18th, by the San Francisco
Examiner. The General says: wv
when the rebels ventured their all in
their efforts to destroy q Government,
they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor to their cause.
The Government accepted their wager of
battle. Hence, when We conquered, tee,
by conquest, gained all they had-their pro-
perty became ours BY conquest. Thus they
lost their slaves, their mules, their horses,
their cotton, their all and even their lives
and personal liberty, thrown by them into
the issue, were theirs only by our forbear-
ance and clemency. BY this right of con-
quest we own this ground we stand on
to-day, conquered from the lndians-the
Shawnees, / believe. The State of Ohio
is ours by conquest from the French and
English. So, soldiers, when we marched
through and conquered this country of
the rebels, we became owners of all they
had, and I don't want you to be troubled
in your consciences for taking, while on
our great march, the property Of conquer
ed rebels. They forfeited their right to it,
and I, being agent for the Government to
which I belonged, gave you authority to
keep all the quartermasters couldn't take
possession Of"
The Examiner publishes this extract
under the head of " Sherman, the Robber,"
and in its paroxysm Of grief and chagrin
styles him 1.-THE s~elf.confessed robber,
ravisher and thief We would expect to
hear as much from the Examiner. The
editor was mad. disappointed and almost
heart-broken at the loss of a supposed
available candidate for the Presidency in
1868. But the editor attempts to cover
and hide his political grief in a morceau Of
indignant reproof. He attempts to show
up the " confessed order" as a national
dishonor" and a "private STAIN" He
classes its sentiments beyond the deadly
~malignity Of the New England fanatics"
He says:
"Coolly and deliberately, not heated by
conflict or excited by opposition, for he
had met with none, he told his soldiers
that the people Of the South had forfeited
their lives, their property, and their honor,
and that Of these what he and his quarter
master left, they might take and this he
said he did in the name of his Govern
ment, and to this day that Government
has found in this declaration only addi-
tional reasons for heRping honors on the
head of Sherman, the selt-confessed robber,
rayisher and thief" I...