Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-01-05

river for an answer. Do we hold Arkansas
Ask the rebel General Price, at the head of
his new corps de drmec of 10000 men, every
man Missourian? Dove hold the Missis-
sippi river, and can we navigate the stream
IN satetyH Every person conversant with
the facts, knows that steamboats, run on the
Mississippi river at the peril of the life of
every person on board Do we hold our
former possessions in North Carolina p
Alas, we had to abandon them all last sum
mer, in order to supply the dreadful ravageS
made in General Grants army in the over
land campaign against Richmond
GRAVE ERROR IN THE CONDUCT OF THE
WAR.
It's one thing to overrun territory as our
armies have done in time past, and as Gen
cral Sherman will now do in Georgia. It's
quite another thing to conquer the country
thus overrun, to subdue its inhabitants and
to make them willing subjects of our gov
ernment. This our armies have always
failed to do; and this even General Sherman
will fail to do, greatest ofour active generals
as he is. Had the war been conducted DIFF
ferently the result might have been diff.
ferent Had the war been waged upon the
rebel armies alone, if the private rights of
the people had been everywhere respected,
five had abstained from the policy of eman-
cipation and confiscaton, we would have
made friends, instead of enemies, of the
southern people. .. .-.
DESIGN OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO PRE-
VENT REUNION.
But it was the design of the administra-
ton from the outset Of the war to ALLEVIATE
the Southern people, and to prevent them
from ever again returning to the Union. -
Hence the adoption of the policy of eman-
cipation and con6scation; hence, at a later
period, the adoption of the policy of subiu-
CATION hence, now, the adoption of the
policy of determination. The southern peo-
pie understand this perfectly. They know
that, if they were ever expected back into
the Union again, the policy of emancipation
and confiscation never would have been
adopted that Sheridan would not have
been ordered to make the whole Shenandoah
valley barren waste, even to the extent of
breaking up and burning the farming uten-
sils, and burning the roofs over the heads
of helpless women and children; that the
atrocities of Turchin and McNiel would not
have been overlooked that Atlanta would
not have been dcpopulated and burned; that
Petersburg and Charleston would not be
shelled; and that Sherman's march through
Georgia would not have been marked by a
broad belt of desolation.
RESULTS OF TIE WAR POLICY OF TIE AD-
MINISTRATION.
The course which has been pursued to-
wards the South has had precisely the effect
which the administration designed that it
should have. 1t has made, ont of every
man, woman, and child in the South Il dead
ly enemy. Ifthe alternative were presented
to-day, of Uniop with the North orexterm-
nation, they would choose the latter gladly.
But they do not expect to be exterminated,
or to be conquered. If they sufferreverses,
they will only serve to make their armies
stronger, and to nerve their arms with
greater vigor. Do the readers of THE World
forget what manner of men the southern
people are? They are Americans, the same
as we are. Their fathers fought for liberty
and Independence side by side with ours. =
They believe now that they are fighting for
1t is religious belief with them, interviewer
with their existence. The conquest of
Georgia, such as it is, will add twenty-five
thousand men to the confederate armies.
ULTIMATE RESOURCES OF TIE SOUTH.
Neither Charleston nor Wilmington will
fall without terrible and bloody battles II
we take those cities we will pay the full
price for them. And even if they should
be taken, the work of the subjugation Of
the South would only be begun. They still
have reserve force of 700, 600 able-b bodied
white men, and after them a reserve force
of 600, 900 able bodied and faithful black
men. All these they will bring into the field
before they will yield, and before their coun-
try can be conquered. DRUID.