The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-27
General sherman's Views.

General 6horman's views.
Some time last summer while his army
was en- route for Atlanta, General SHEER.
MAN wrote a friendly private letter to
Mrs. Bowen, of Baltimore. Somehow
the letter has found its way into print
and has been pretty extensively copied
as affording some evidence concerning
the writer's personal sentiments toward
the South and his views on the peace
question. The following paragraph EN-.
bodies what he said upon that subject:
Even yet my heart bleeds when see
the carnage of battle, the desolatiOn OF
homes. the bitter anguish of families,
but the very moment the men OF the
South say that instead Of appealing to
war they should have appealed to reason,
to our Congress, to our courts, 10 ren-
pion and to the experience OF history,
then will say peace-peace; 60 BACK 10
your point of error, and resume your
places rs American citizens, with al!
their proud heritages. Whether snail
live to see this period is prOblematlcal
hut YOU may, and may tell your mother
and sisters that / never forgot one kind
look of greeting, or ever wished to etface
il, remembrance; but in putting on tho
amor of war did it that our common
country should not perish i'll infamy and
dishonOr.
Elsewhere, in thismorning's paper, we
piye another letter of General SHEER
MANS to friend, i'll which he says explic-
itlv II do not think human being could
feel more kindly toward an enemy than
do toward the people of the South"
1t is extremely fortunate for General
SHERMAN's fair fame and reputation for
loyalty, that he possesses military genius
and has met with military success. The
glory of his achievements has dazzled the
ewes of the radicals and blinded them
from observing that while he is soldier
he is also man, and that while he is the
captor of cities his heart bleeds at the
carnage of battle, feels kindly toward the
people of the South, and longs earnestly
for peace 1t is not to be presumed that
an officer holding the sentiments eX-
pressed by General SHERMAN would be
permitted TO retain his command or bear
any part in the programme which the
destructives seek to carry out, did not his
talents and success place him above the
reach of radical malignity. The mon
who admire BUTLER and HUNTER, must
be the foes of SHERMAN. The men who
are clanorous for the determination and
humiliation of the Southern people, and
who sitting safe from wars alarms III
legislative OF congressional halls breathe
out threatenings and slaughter" against
their countryInen and devise schemes
of mischief to be wrought out by other
blood than their own, are not co-workers
in the cause in which General SHERMAN
is engaged.
the day has not yet wholly passed, when
the private citizen who uttered such SCH
tlmentS as tnoSe Ncneldl chhh"AN """
expressed, would be denounced as a
"peace sneak" and u "sympathizer." He
would have been held up to obloquy as
comprehend" and his life, liberty and
property would have been endangered
by the malignity and tanaticism OF his
neighbors. or the little brief authority
of some officer either military or civil
Even vet this radical and Jaco
spirit pervades many of the people and
controls much of the legislation, both
State and national. 1t is the foe topeace,
the enemy of concord and union, and the
most effective ally the rebel leaders
have.