The mountain Democrat., 1865-03-18
sAsrnan's March tArougk Georgia.

sAsrnaA's March through Georgia.
Abolition army corr pOndsuts record,
with fieDdish gles, the desOlatiOn which
marked the progress Of shermanS army
through Georgia. It il sickening and re-
voting and reflects anything but credit
upon the American character. "The
flames Of city lighted its beginning"
the tears Of the orphan and the grOaus Of
the widow, robbed Of their all, stained its
progress. The weak, the unprotected,
and the innocent-all entitled from their
helplessnesS and sorrow to charity and
kio6dess&&ets'insGlted and PSsis,ssO; ID
Says 81 * tk'e> e~E%sycNaANtR "wo.
men With praying hands and beseeching
lips were UNDECIDED" Is that q matter
for bOastingH Ought an army to be proud
Of such deedsi Is that the way to create
. Union sentiment in the Southf Is it
likely that people thus insulted and ont.
FEgSd 40 1hxi0os'to return 20 taav Z 4i5t1'f
We are cOolly informed, as il it were a
good joke and commendable act to rob
the unprotected and unoffending, that
STOOD in gardens, food in cellars, stock in
6elds,stock in barns, poultry everywhery
appeared in the distance, disappeared
in the presence, and was borne away
upon the knapsacks and bayonets of
thousands Of soldiers. Money, plucked
from closets, and stockings and burial
places by the wayside, enriched the inva
ders." All shared alike-no one was
spared. The widows mite and the plan
ter's plenty shared the same fate. In our
war with Mexico, the property of the
Mexicans was respected. If = soldier
took anything from them, restitution was
Immediately made, and the offender Sc
verely punished. But this was before we
adopted tho superior intelligence and
civilization" of the Abolitionists of the
North-befOre we repudiated the teach.
ings Of the "Suferer on the cross."-
Things have changed since then; we are
progressing in civilization and humanity !;
we have embraced the mild doctrines of
the sainted John Brown; in our eager.
ness to emancipate the slaves of the South
we are not unwilling to enslave or exter-
inmate the whites Of the South; we think
it . glorious thing to desolate their land
and wreak our vengeance on their women
and children. The superior intelligence"
Of the Abolitionists Of the North teaches
that clemency is crime and robbery q
virtue. The rebels, notwithstanding their
ancestors assisted to purchase our indie.
pendence with their treasure and blood,
are not entitled to any consideration at
our hands. True, they are following in
the footsteps of their fathers in seeking to
"dissolve the political bands" which con.
meet them with a Government the deem
but that makes their offence
the more aggrayating. We will not per.
NIT them to entertain opinions antagonis.
tic to ours, or to establish rival Govern.
ment. They must submit to our dicta.
ton, embrace our negro equality creed,
worship old John Brown as a saint and
martyr, or be ''ground to powder" We
have innugurated the grinding process in
Georgia, and we will continue it. Here
is specimen of our skill, given by cor
with Sherman:
A halt at high noon beside a village-a be.
sieging OF houses by the troops-soldiers
emerging from the door-ways and back yards
bearing cOverlids, plate, poultry and pigs
beehives attacked, honey in the hands and
the faces of the boys-hundreds of
soldiers pOking hundreds of bsyonets in the
corners Of yards and gardens after concealed
treasure-bere and there a shining, tnkling
prize, and shouting and scrambHng, and mer-
ry division Of the spo,is. In the background,
women with PRAYING hands anG beseechng
lips, UNDECIDED. Night near railroad depot
q roar Of hres-a shouting of voices-tbou-
sands Of men ripping up ties and rails, heating
them, twisting Them, casting them down-nxes
at wOrk-the depot and buildings and wood
piles ablaze-a picturesque and tumultuous
scenery Of savage faces, lit by lurid CLEAN.
A lovely picture, isn't p" depot and
buildings ablaze"l-soldiers stealing "cov-
erlids, plate, poultry and pigs"i-perhaps
taking from the poor, destitute and suf.
fering the last morsel, leaving them to
die of starvation Not a word of censure
has the philanthropic Greeley or Beecher
uttered against these cruelties. Their
sympathy is reserved for the imaginary
sufferings Of the negroes. Another cor
respondent gives the following as an anu
sing and praiseworthy incident:
On the appearance OF the army, the proprie-
tor of the chief hotel in Miledgeville decamp-
ed, leaving the building and its contents in
charge OF an old lady. Generals Sherman and
Slocum made their headquarters at the hotel
while in Miledgeville. 1t appeared that the
Of the household, had deposited them in a Ger,
tain closet, the key of which COL Even, of
General Sherman's staff. borrowed in his Off
cal capacity, to ascertain what was within.
Having explored to his satisfaction, he neg
lected to lock the door of the closet on his de.
parture. The rank and file found out the cup.
board, plunged into it in accordance with the
maxim that "all is fair in love and war" and
half an hour thereafter a chaste variety of
spoons. knives and forks, silver ware and
crockery. was Aourishing in the arms and
hands of hundred soldiers.
The plain English of the above is, that
Col. Even" compelled the "old lady" to
give up the keys of the closet, explored"
tan Abolition substitute for robbed
md encouraged the rank and file to fol.
ow his example. 1t was a gallant deed
ror an American officer and entities him