The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-03-21

cleared Out, ana, not ALREADY gone, pcior0
they are hretrievably hemmed in, the rebel
President, Cabinet, scrip and archives will be |
moved to Danville or Lynchburg. Lee, In any |
event, viii be LEFT 10 confront and settle with |
the enveloping armies Of Grant What theni |
Finding himself powerless against the over |
whelming forces Of his adversary, Lee will be
compelled to treat for . capitulation. In this |
emergency General Grant has but to demand |
that all the armies under the command Of
General Lee, from Virginia to Texas, shall lay |
down their arms, In order to secure decisive |
and permanent cessation of hostilities. This |
viii end the war; and then, we trust General |
Sherman's simple, constitutional, magnani- |
nous, humane and popular programme Of
reconstruction will come into play.
South Carolina-A Point OF Agreement |
Between the Northern and Southern
Soldiers.
South Carolina Is honestly hated by the whole
North as the prime mover Of secession, the
head and front Of the attempt to destroy our
government-the proudest spirit in the south
ern oligarchy, that in its contemplate pride
had the impudence to look upon longer asso-
citation with the better people Of the North as
beneath her, and that, in the blind, mad pur- /.
pose TO get rid of that association, cared not
what ruin might ensue. Hence the Northern
people can see her cities burn with much less
concern than they would feel if those terrible
blows f5ini Upon any other people. We have
patience with Sherman's men when we reflect
where they arc; for we know that that thought
&bo;r
burn cities it is ordinarily bad sign for the
discipline of the army Of which they form
part; but in the present case we know that the
burning of cities and farms is not an evil
dence that the discipline is looser, but
simply that the men, In the real spirit
of the people feel the uncomfortable national
hate for that pestilent people who have caused
all this trsable. Why should they withhold
their handsf South Carolina never withheld
hers so long as it was perfectly safe to strike.
Will they turn this rich farmer out of his house
and h,,.ne, burn all that he has and make him a
starveling Sctcast' Certainly. Here are ten
thousand men fror, Illinois and Indiana, as
many from New York and Maine, Ss,u mo nn1,a
turned every one Of these out of house and
home. For his fault, for the qualification of his
mad add ignorant political passion, they have
been compelled to abandon all the comforts of
home, as he must now. They have left aged
parents to the chances of life, and young wives
and daughters exposed to its temptations. They
have been hungry for days, and in all ways
miserable for months. They can never hope to
infict upon him 1.-THE Of the wretchedness he
has caused them but what little they can do
they will, and SO they burn. Through Georgia
the army was manageable, and respected the
property and the people. So soon as it touched
the North Carolina line 1t was again disci-
| plined force but in oil the space between,
across the whole Of South Carolina, it was a
scourge, inf1icting the wild and passionate von-
geance Of the people who sent. it.
But the hatred of our soldiers for South
Carolina and her people is not the only feature
of this march through that State. Apparently
the hatred Of the rebel soldiers is quite as bitter.
In the batch of letters from rebel soldiers, pub
lished by us on Sunday last, the hatred for the
people of South Carolina had frequent express
sion. Upon South Carolinians as the origina-
tors Of the war, and as the men Of all the South
very bitterly, and heap the heaviest curses.
"The Yankees" says one Of these writers,
"took everything they could find, and what
they did not take we did !" and he says this with
the gusto Of one who enjoyed the taking Of q
South Carolina dinner more than the eating OF
1t. "The people here" said a Southern editor
| writing from Columbia, "would rather sec the
Yankees, or Satan himself, than Wheeler's
| cavalry" But the bitterness against South
| Carolina has been nowhere seen more clearly
than IN the words of North Carolina farmer,
given by one of our correspondents. This
mans house was near tho line, and he looked
into the other State and saw the columns of
smoke rising to the heavens from the homes ofhi
neighbors, while the soldiers were busy on his
own farm, doubtless, with poultry and pigs, and
he anticipated that they would soon be OF worse
Turning to an officer, with an sxultant look, he
said, There, 1 told them II would come-their
homes in ashes, and their lands laid waste
There Is old Whindship's house on fret He Is
one Of the damnedest old scoundrels unhung
There's Jones' cloud looming up grandly. He's
another damned rebel; and over there TO the
left Is Harris house disappearing In air and
ashes. 1 told 'em 1t would be SO, and they
laughed at me. have triumphed, and now
don't care damn how soon mine goes TO keep
them companyw All have tho same uncom-
promising hate for South Carolina a. the cause
Of all the mischief, aud even that one hate Is
bond Of sympathy already between North and
South.
THE TRUE REMEDY FOR RAILROAD SIAUGH-
rERs.-we have repeatedly urged the neces-
sity Of the State Legislatures passing some
laws to prevent the horrible railroad slaughters
which have become of such frequent occurrence
that man would a. soon be drafted, and sent