The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-06-08
THE SAERMAN QUARREL.

A long and able communication ap
pears in the Washington Daily Chronicle
in defense of Gen Sherman's action in
his armistice with the rebel General
Johnston. 1t IS undoubtedly the work
of one of General Sherman's friends, il
it was not directly inspired by that great
I chief himself As usual i'm er parte pa
pers of the Sort this defense contains
some grave mlsstatements of fact, r9ucl
irrelevant special pleading. and a hum
Der of unsustained charges against
those by whom the General Is just now
opposed We doubt if the paper is
worth republication entire, in this quar-
ter, because the people of the West are
nearly If not quite unanimous in the be-
lief that Gen Sherman, in dabbling with
! state matters with which he had no con
Germ, made n grave mistake l. their
, treatment; and that, if his policy. as de
velopcd in the agreement with Johnston
IL Co, had been adopted by the country,
the object for which the war has been
carried on-the suhjugation of traitors
and treason bv force of arms-wonld
not have been attained, and that the vic
tory, at the end of the contest. would
have remained with the enemy. 1t
would not have been a barren victory
eltHeE. lHlS. We S'tN ; - CIiC hVtllS uhdh-
imous opinion of the people of the
West; and so thinking, they would he
clad to dismiss the whole Of the painful
subject from their minds. and remember
General Sherman, not rs an ineyperi-
enced. feeble. and easily over reached
ncgotator in matters in which his weak
ness was not less conspicuous tn his
presumption, but as the gallant comman-
der. who, himself under wise and able
guidance. has done so much for his coun-
try's safety and honor. We know Of
none who are inclined to Judge General
Sherman with harshness, nor with any
feeling of personal or political aninosi-
tv, and nothing but his persistence in
the error into which he has fallcn-his
continued defense of what his country
men have already marked with their
firm disapprobatIon-ean induce the be-
lief that either an insane ambition for
civic honors. or an undue leniency TO-
ward his eountry's enemies, was the i'm
pellinr motive of his action That he
has been wrong that his warmest friends
were both astonished and griered by the
extraordinary terms to which he consent
ed, nobody, we take it. will deny. That
Mr.. Stanton met an uneNpressed wish OF
all loval men when he set forth the rea-
sons for the Executive dissent from the
position that General Sherman had as
sumed is equally clear To quarrel,
then. with the verdict of the people, or
to make war npon Mr.. Stanton, who, in
this matter. was only the people spokes-
man. Is task in which Gen. Sherman
will assurediy be woroted: and among
the hosts OF friends who yet cling to
him. none could 10 him better or more
needed service than 10 induce him, by
either argument, entreaty or expostfla
tion to hold his peace and leave all fu
ture defenses to the charity and forget
fulness of his countrymen. One thing
perhaps necessary thing, also,-we will
take the liberty of saying, viz: that this
Is stronger than any OF Its !
C. GENERALS and that ii General Sherman
shall prefer to try the strength of his
with the army and the people. !
rather than TO be himself an example of
and obedience, he has the |
example and fate OF Fremont and Nc /
CIellan before him. either of which he Is !
free to choose Chicago Tribune.