The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-01
Yesterday Evenings Edition.
IHERmAA,s REPORT.

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An abstract of General ShermAn's re-
port, covering important points, is pub
lished 1t contains the following dispatch
70 General Grant:
4 HELDQ'Rs. Mn DIV. OF THE Miss, I
RALEiGH, n. O., April %, 1865. !
: 9EHIERAL:-Since you l6ft me yesterday
have seen the New York Times Of the
24th, containing budget of military news
authenticated BY the signature of the Sec
retsry Of War, which is grouped in such
way IS to give very erroneous impress
sions. It embraces copy of the basis Of
the agreement between myself and General
Johnston, Of April 10Th, with concentrates
which it will be time enough to discuss
two or three years hence, after the Govern
ment has experimented 8 little more IN The
machinery by which power it reaches the
scattered people Of the vast area OF country
known IS the South But in the mesD-
time 4 dotnink my rank, if not my past
service, entitled ms, ST least, to the respect
of keeping secret what was known 20 none
but the Cabinet until further enquiry could
hSvs been made instead of giving publlci-
| ty to document l never saw, and draw
ing infsrenees wide from the truth. 1 never
saw, or had furnished me, copy Of Presi-
denE Lincoln's dispatch to you of the 9Th
Of March until sfser the agreement nor
did Mr.. Stanton, or any human being, ever
convey to me its substance or anything
like it. But on the contrary I had seen
General WeitzsPs invitstion 70 the Vir-
ginia Legislature, made in Mr. Lincoln's
pFesence, and had failed to discover any
other official notice Of plan Of recon-
struction, or any idea calculated to allay
The fears Of the people Of the South that at
ter the destruction Of the armies and civil
authorities they would be left without any
Government at all. We should not drive
q people in anarchy, and il is simply i'm
possible for our military power TO reach all
the resources of their unhsppy country. 1
confess did not wish to Dreak General
JOhnstons army into bands of armed men,
moving about without purpose, and capa-
| bic of infinite mischief, but you saw on
your arrival that had my army so dis
posed that his escape was only possible in
disorganized shspe, and as you did not
choose 20 direct military operations IN this
| quarter infer you were satisfied with the
military situstion. At al events the in
slant 1 learned what was properly enough
the disapproVal of the President acted in
such manner IS to compel the surrender
i
same terms you prescribed to General
| Less army when you had it surrendered
and in your absolute power.
Mr.. Stanton, in staTiDg that my orders
to General Stoneman were likely to result
| in the escape of Mr.. Davis 10 Mexico or
| Europe, is IN deep error. Stoneman was
/ not at Salisbury then, but Ssd gone back
to Statewide. Davis was beyond him; by
| turning toward me he was approaching
/ Davis, and, had he joined me IS ordered,
| ] would hsve hsd a mounted force greatly
/ needed for that and other services. But
even now don't know that Mr.. Stanton
was the cause of Davis being caught, and
| as my official papers, deemed sacred, are
] hastily published to the world, 1t will be
I tmprudent for me TO state what has been
done in that respect, as the editor of tho
Times has. II may be logically and fairly
| drawn from this singular document.
| AS to the conclusion thst l am insubor-
/ dinate. I can only deny the intention. I
1 have never in my life questioned or DISC
bsyed an order, though many and msny
time have risked my life and health and
reputation in Obeying orders, or even hints
i to execute plans and purposes not to my
liking. It is not fair to withhold from me
/ plans and policy, if any there be, and .ex-
oeet ma to guess st them IS facts, and which,
j eyen sppear quite different from different
i stand.points For four years have been
! in camp, deslbg with soldiers, and can
assure you that the conclusion at which the
Cabinet arrived, with such singular una
nimisy, differs from mine.
1 L Iconferred freely with the best officers in
this army as 70 the points involved in this
controversy, and, strange to ssy, they were
sinpularly unanimous in the other cOnclu-
sion: and they will learn with pain and
smszement that I am deemed insubOrdi-
nate ard wanting in common sense; that
I. who. in the complications Of last year,
worked day and night, summer and winter
for the cause OF the Administration, and
who have brought an army Of 10000 men
in magn; ;fcent sty lie across country DEEM
ed impossible, and placed it just where it
was wanted almost on the day appointeci
have brought discredit on our Govern
| ment. / do not wish to bosst of this, but l
Az saw thst was entitled 70 the courtesy
= Of being consulted before publishing to the
4 world a proposition righttully submitted to
| higher authorities for adjudication, and
} then accompanied by otner statements
( which invited the press to be let loose upon
ma Il is true, that non eombstents, who
Il sleeS, in comfort and security while w
Il watch on the distant line, are better sbl'
e 70 Judge than we soldiers who rarely see
newspaper, and can barely hear from om
, families, or stop long enough to get ourpsy
; r. AMY not the task of reconstruction
4 and am delighted that the Secretary hs
relieved ms Of it. AS you did not under
take 70 assume the management OF tn
a army 1 infer that, on personal inspection
le vour mind arrived st 8 different conclusion
o from that of the Secretary of War.
= ! win. therefore, 60 on and execute you
: orders TO their CONCLUSION, and When oon
viii with intense satisfaction, leave to th
uf asyH authorities the execution of the tss
"a ~ which they seem to me SO Jealous bu
. honest man and q soldier, invii
n them an 70 follow the path for they may rs ,,
ONE something and hear something thAt ms
disturb their philosophy.
UT With silN eere respect,