Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-04
WING & sHUMwAY. Proprietors.
1itohaeld. Conn, Thursday. May |, 1868
SHERMAN.

q rather thaa upon calm judgment and consid- | eration. Thus We have made heroes of almost every man who has occupied an important DO sition in this war, and have afterwards buried them, very often unjustly. under the ban of pub lie reproach and distrust McDoweli, McClel Ian. Pope, Fremont, Burnside, Hooker, Rose crans, Butler, Banks, and a score of others have met with the same fate. Our noble and most irreproachable General-in-chief has stood half dozen times within the past year upon the Very brink of overthrow.
 cessiul Generals in our service has come nndel the shadow of public censure. and reproach The people we,e startled, 8 few days ago. to learn that Gen. Sherman had committed an unpardonable iadiscretion, if not reasonable crime. He had made an arrangement with the only Rebel Commandant of any importance which was to re-establish slavery" to insti tute general pardon of the Rebel Leaders, to bring upon the United States the payment of the rebel debt, and to leave the South with l
 all the equipments for starting another formid. able war;
 The Union press, with hardly an exception began to dig up and ventilate defanct prece dents in his history for such insane" or "trea. sonable" conduct. The testimony of cores. pendent of a foreign paper, who has always had reputation for unfairness and unauthenticity, was largely quoted to prove that Gen. Sherman has always been untrue. The assertion of 8 leading rebel, known to be aa unmitigated liar made assurance donbly sure'' that this man, who has done more tli elmost aaf.o.bsssa crush and ruin them, had avowed an early sypa, pathy for their cause. And one of our State papers settles the question by stating, in its editorial columns, that it knows man whe was no, surprised at his conduct"
 A more liberal class of people decided tha, tke General has become demented. Insanity has been the fate of great many strong intel ] leeia. Any one eould see by the looks of hi. head that he was "precocious child' and Iiikely to lose his reason or die young' And how sad it made us to learn, from & an authen tic source,' that he had, some time since, de veloped tokens ofapproaching mental derange ment.
 Keen sighted politicians. who are accustom ed to " scent the battle from afar," discovered in his extraordinary conduct, something more hideous than treason, more lamentable that lu nacy-an ambition for the Chief MagisEaeS, l So the public mind has been excited, 6t1 than week. with all kinds of coniectutass = calumny. sssss,
 Now any one of the above opinious mag 9bs true, but they look unreasonable to us Let as see. MT. Davis, a most subtle political strate.. gist, had been obliged to flee from Richmond to Danville. Here, contrary to his i'll founded hopes, he received the news of Lees surrender. The fate of the Confederacy" was fixed. He now sought to escape from threatened punish ment for his crimes. Our cavalry having pen etrated to the center of North Carolina and Georgia, would interrupt his flight to Texas. So he projected truce with Gen. Sherman. He might negotiate terms for his own deliver ance, or possibly engineer the withdrawal of our cavalry from Salisbury and Macon. and thus obtain safe exit. So Gen. Sherman was approached with crafty and sophistical propo. sition of peace. This proposition was present with an,apparently, honest design. Ands' .e stipulations. adopted at their c~ u,,e .o,o cred (acco.ding to Gen. g. .,nference, CD, nearly everything ...erman's testimony Even great .ecessary and honorable apt at th general is not expected to he a as ..e tricks of chicahery and dissimulatio
 such knayes as Davis and Breckenridge, an it is not strange that he was outwitted by thes crafty hypocrites.
 I Well, what does he do? Very unlike trai tor, he submits this memorandum to the prope authorities at Washington. When Gen. Gran arrived at Raleigh, he finds Sherman the sau prompt and submissive subordinate that he ha ever been. Nay more, he exhibits manlines that has but few parallels, in his frank an. spontaneous confession }" that he had beer thinking the matter all over and he believed b, had made one mistake, that was. that he dit not require Johnston to put in writing tha Slavery should be considered dead.n Nothin, reasonable" or ]" insane" about that. The final result of this interruption in oul military progress is yet undeveloped. Davi, has sta,sed on his little journey. He may mol get far.
 One thing moro; it does not become the friends of the Union to cast aside 50 good a man as Gen. Sherman, for single offence to tread him out of the party" and offer him, as free gift, to our enemies, for them to deyel op into giant for our embarrassment Q, overthrow.
 40 In the list of Physicians in the present Legislature, copied from the Hastsord Cour ant" into our last weeks issue, the Dame oi Dr. ID. E Rosfv;ck 0f onr t0vn ,Pae omiftod