Daily national Republican., 1865-04-25

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The rebel correspondence Of tho London
TYae,, under date Of 'Richmohd, March
4th;, Is remarkable document. and at this
Pauieulai time when suERHAS's virtual sur
render 10 the rebsi leaders is creating such
astonishmont, will b read with painful IN
terest. With the light Of recent events a.
an Interpreter, IL Is calculated TO suggest
grave doubts as TO whether or not his recent
action was prompted By patriotic motives.
AS the article is ,op long for our columns to-
day, our readers must be content with afsr
signiheant extracts: 70. ."f 'iH
"Tbs long arrest Of Grant bsfOre Richmohd
will hardly be compensated By his espturs
Of that city, II Lee should eventually Be
forced 70 eyacuate II, for II viii be attributed
more 70 the strategy Of Sherman than 70 the
coercion Of Grant. SheyHaN, scifhiN fsw
teeeLs Of his time, may by yossibiiify 81 auto
Graf of ihis coHiiHsif, but no conceivable
eoncAtenatjon Of circumstances can, In my
Judgment place the crown upon the bead Of
Grant. II will therefore, ~ I have said, Be
profitable to study the character Of Sherman
a. our best guide to the possible shape Of tho
fhture."
Tho writer then proceeds 10 give brief
history Of sREahAN's early life--his suceesses
and his fhllures--and having brought Il down
to tho commencement Of the rebellion, adds y
''in January, 1901, whom the war between
the two sections was manifestly coming, Sher.
man resigned his Office In Louisiann, Pred
dent Of The Louisiana Military State Acad-
I envy, J and approached Gen. Bragg with view
| to taking leave of him. He said TO General
Bragg: I see plainly that war Is at hand.
/ Educated as soldier, I cannot remain In the
i South without taking up arms, and ! do not
men from Ohio; bhf oonis tcAat may, no hn.
plaA eoasideyatiOt-Ho amman oo,sidsra-
ho,i---(General Bragg told me that Shsrnan
repeated these words twice. )-IoiR sVst iadtsos
DIe 70 take up arHJ agiHJt fhs South. The
South has, know, many grievances 70 com
| plain Of, and shall 70 to Ohio with viewto
instrueting my eountrymsn about them. y
Tho letter follows sHERsAS through all bis
campaigns and points especially tOths sin
kular fhct that In his march from the Missis-
sippi to the Atlantic he has encountered no
opposition from the rebel army. The writer
then adds no az7a.. -I .,oiG- b.
but, revsrting once more to sherman, I
| may remark that bis long residence In the
South has taught him to diselaim any inten.
tion Of carrying on war on behalf Of the
4 'poor, lashed, degraded slave, " out Of whom
\ Mrs. Stove has manufactured q msIo-
dramatic fame, Of which the incidents OF this
/ war have already made her countrymen
ashamed. Possibly, In common with every
other intelligent man, Sherman may think
that the abolition Of slavery would be boon
TO the South, but does not seem TO think that
u would be . boon to the slave, Al any rate,
sherman has always shown great disinciinS-
tion to admitting negro soldiers to his ranks.
whatever allegations TO the contrary may Be
made by journAls 10 which he gives little
heed. am informed that hs forbade, r.
ceRtly, anyjHaetiOR betrerR hiS 0VR troops
aud those Whioh Gen. FoRr eommandI 0H
fhe South CatohHa eoaa, aud ichieh eoasisfs
principally Of negroes.
"I[ in the Armageddon which seems now
approaching, General Sherman once gets the
South down, 1T MAY CONFIDENTLY m PRE-
DIcrED THAT HTs Politics Will BE MORE "
HARMONY WITH THOSE oY GESERAL LEE rHAH
THOSE or PRIsIDEST LINCOLN. M. Lincoin
has found hirtA hitherto gerry vaInabh
I(ris,m-it is posa5ks thai, bej6rs fhs e,id
IfoNtfst NC NtN VNo Nun q sttfN Ntcfe odNKNF-
ORs enemy. During this war, / have seen no
man who seemed to me 10 possess so much Of
the temper Of Cromwell as Sherman. Vain,
eager, enthusiastic, Ianatical, at times gloomy
and reticent, at Others impulive and tAlka-
tive, by some regarded As half mad when the
1T Is on him, General Sherman possesses q
character which, unless am mistaken, Is OF
the stuff Of which great and mysterious sectors
in history are often made"
The question becomes NOR psrtinsns than
ever, "Is Gen. sHERxAS enIyf" 00
Another important question follows; Did
the author Of the letter written 10 the L0n-
don Times on the 4th Of March, know the
fact, then, that plot rras on foot 70 a,sassi-
nate PrssidsRt LISooLs, Pies P,salsRf
JoHSsoS, tAs Secretary Of State, SseTSary Of
War, SECRETARY eth Navy, and General
GRASr, that caused him to employ the sx-
trAOrdinary language that sHsAHAS tsitlin
fow weeks Of this time, tths eth Of March, }
may BY possibility DE AurocRAr OV rms Cox
rINENT 1''rr .. 'u aa.s.. -
Isit not fair 70 presume that when JonA-
sroS and BREcKixRIDon made up the inhA.
nous programme which sHERNAH signed,
that they krsV saaetly tshat JEEP. DkvI
GssassiaS TsSs doing ~ WhshiagsOn, anai
suppOsing the entire lnurdsrOus plot would
prove SueOsAsfal, induced sHEhMAS to DO
what he did, 6siisving that 10 sroHi6, qJlav
The 'ohOieSdis mWrdsv 'ea' aaA0nncsd, Aavs
fHH PO 'Otr to srsetiis that PrOgvaMasl >.