The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-09

MONDAY NOR, NJ AAt hHf y. lNt5.
We publish at full length to-day TIE
orders Of Sherman on taxing possession
of Savannah. They are remarkable in
one respect They are all mildncss and
cancellation, cyincing, on the part of Lin
c5la, either g change Of policy with re-
gard to what he considers Z conquered
city, or Z determination to profess de-
sire 70 conciliatc, in order to justify
himself III the eyes Of the world for the
employment of harsh measures here
after. Ills policy NAY be even more
profound than that. Having tried Sc
verify, having tried cruelty, having tried
oppression everywhere else, and having
f5lnl that it has nowhere succeeded,
he may wish to blind the eyes of the
rest Of the Confederation by the ap-
pearancc Of lenity, in order that they may
be the more easily induced to submit to
his mere? BE the design what it may
and that some design, and a very deep
one is concealed under these orders, does
not admit Of a doubt-Sherman seems
to have changed his character as com
pIctcly as the serpent changes his skin
with the approach of spring. Formerly
l.. H. 10, L.,
disputed that rebel had no right
that the very air he breathed was his,
not by right, but b. pcrnission-that
his life was forfeited, and that its pro
lonsation depended entirely upon the will
Of the conqueror. The cruel answer
which he gave at Niclsburg when
. tie starving inhabitants applied to
him for some relief will long be re-
mc1abercd by them, and will form q
damning record OF atrocity against him
and the Government that employed him
in the pages of the future historian. The
cruelty which he exercised at Atlanta,
and the ferocity with which he desolated
Georgia along path measuring sixty
miles in width, have no parallel in Euro
pean history, and more closely resembles
the career Of Hyder Ali when he invaded
the Carnatic than any other occurrence
o. modern times. But all this is changed.
Sherman. without opposition, has come
into possession Of large and rich city
There is no circumstance to irritatc him.
His march was unopposed, his entry tri-
ulnphal, his receptioc tIattering, and
everything conspicing to put him in a
high, good humcr with himself and With
those over whom h. now extends his
sceptcc His reposc, however, is the
reposc oi the tiger. Let him once taste
bIood-let him once meet with opposi-
ton-let the planters Of Georgia once
fail to send in their cotton -or the people
q large decline to trade with the enemy
IN possession Of their capital-and they
will soon find that 'lis heart is rot soft
ene1 OF his savage instincts changed.
Apparently, Mayor Arnold is of this
las opinion. The name Of Arnold, highly
respectable as it is in Europe, where it
hes been borne .by more than orc person
Of distinction in arms, in literature, and
IN science, seems, on this continent, dcs-
tined to bclinkej 18th perpetual infamy.
An Arnold was the solitary traitor OF
the old revolution. An Arnold is the
first person in office Of this who has
base!y gone over to the enemy. We
publish this mans address to-day.
We believe that the people of Georgia
are as brave AID as high spirited as any
people whatever. No troops have fought
better in this war than hers, and none
have shown higher and greater qualities.
lac names Of her officers are household
words in Virginia. Hardce and Gordon,
ard hundred others-where are there
prouder names? The heart Of the
people is right, and they will spurn, we