The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-29

Government darss to do any thing that 10
right, even though il be to break slave letters
or hang JEFF. Davis. Mcclellan and bis
friends st one time got up the same cry, that
the Government did not dare 70 publish mis-
report but it aoqs published, and nothing ev-
er did more to hi, and bury ia the grave Of
--forgetfulness, the author OF that report than
the very facts which were developed by it,
Mcclellan was killed by his.oWn report; Sher
man should take warning.
~ The power of the press, says he, was malig-
! nap,Iy turned against him. Never was man
treated more tenderly by the American Press,
With few exceptions, than was Gen. Sherman.
1t Is true, his arrangement With Johnston was
condemned, but scarcely word of nnkindness
was INDUCED ia against him, while apologies
excuses and extenuations filed almost everv
column of every loyal sheetin the land.
Gen. Sherman, EVEN yet, evidently thinks
that his great diplomatic work was zons Of
merit, for with an air of unfeigned satisfac-
ton he says, eIt may be counted strange that
lone who has no fame but as soldier, should
"haye been SO careful to try and restore the
civil powerofthe government and the peace
"ful jurisdiction of the Federal Courts; but it
sis very difficult to discover in that fact any
bust cause OF offence to an enlightened peo-
"pIe." Gen. Sherman doesn't yet appreciate
the fact that his singular way Of trying to re-
store the civil power ofthe government, start
led the common people from the highest to the
lowest tier; that one general nlurmursof dis
satisfaction was heard throughout the loyal
States, and that nothing was so grateful to
their minds as the prompt and emphatic re-
buke sent back from Washington, nor will
they ever think less Of Mr.. Stanton for his
agency in securing that rebuke. Gen. Sher-
man may thump his head against Mr.. Stanton
In this thing, but the damage win only be to
bis own head, for the Secretary Of Warstands
backed up against the hearts and heads of the
American people. On this matter the Boston
Daily Advertiser Justly says: -
Whatever course this affair may take, how
ever, General Sherman will ind very few who
will join in his apparent surprise at the disap
| proval OF his proceedings. He wants peace
1uu uuAIHOuy duQ tuo IobuItl bU law dUQ JUS
tice from the Potomac to the Rio GTande, and
20 does everybody else; but when he adds
that IF 1t does not exist now, i. is for state
reasons beyond my comprehension" he fails
to perceive, what most other people see that
the state reasons" which forbade the accept.
ance OF peace and harmony on the basis of
his North Carolina arrangement are sound
aud Of properly controlling influence. Peace
with the recognition or the rebel State gov
mi ha nFt l&o& 81
cal machinery which has been SO potent in
overturning the rightful authority,-peace, in
word, with political power In the South still
coni1ded to the hands which have misused it,
would be no peace, but only a deiusive truce,
destined to imperil everything which has been
gained by the war, even to the perpetuity of
the Union. That General Sherman does not
now see this, is only proof that Military &C.
MUS is not necessarily accompanied by states
manship. q
We cannot better close this article than by
copying from the London Daily .Nstes an ex-
tract which shows that friendly Englishmen
took the same view or Sherman's blnnder that
was takensofit at Washington, and of which
he SO much complains, The News says:
That Gen. Shernan's blunder was tremen-
dOus, Is indisputable. Although he reserved
the power OF Congress to legislate. be bound
the Executive to recognizes Moreover by &C.
knowledging all States, laws of person and
property he sanctioned slavery and withdrew
the Emancipation Proclamation. II IL true
that all good Americana desire TO see state
governments. restored. \ Rnt mona ~ tham
would, after all their experienee1 have Maid
for it the price of again eralizing slaverv-
In the revolted states that institution ha.
perished by the act Of revolt. Rsnouaeino
their place under the laws. tbev renonnca5
their fights under the laws. The rennncia.