Daily national Republican., 1865-04-26
q, 1885.
MORE on sHERMAN's DOINas.

. NIOMLn OE 1hM - MAnA - w AAsMAtaLe
The PhilAdelphia United Stats' Gasats
pf The 25th inst. in a leading editorial upon
The recent doings Of sHERMAN In assuming
10 sst asids the authority Of the President,
Uonsrsss, and the Supreme Court and dis
obsying tho orders Of his superior oficer In
ths aeld, concludes as follows; ~ afR
Grant, being Commandsr.insCh Chief mixht
have gone to North Carolina after Less sur
bender and taken charge of things thsfe, but
be had so much delicacy that he preferred
Aliowing Sherman 10 hniah what , he had In
hard. aH r.'- ~ ,gia'arl s-i'r aah
The same dsIicaey .wasshewn TO Hayslook
h the Indian mutiny by Sir James outrum,
.snd many instances Of this kind hAvs 90
hfrsd 10 the Pressntwar. shsrman appears
10 have no such sense Of dslIcaSy, and a. the
terms Of his treaty covered the Whols theatre
fthe war, he seems determined by his orders
to etonsmAn and Wilson 10 give effect 20
lhem, II IL thus apparent that Tho rebels
viii claim q suspension Of all tho operations
In Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala
bama Florida, 0eorgia, and the Carolinas,
and that Sherman will order such suspension.
The armistlee demanded by the rebol com.
mlsrioners, and refused by President Lin
coln, Is forced upon rs oontTary7to all our
known governmental dispositions, and tho
Fruits Of our well-earned victories nigh Lost
|to, Us. .l. H.T .HrFu rHT .|
tits impossible as yet TO form any ado
quate idea OF the 'dcplorabls mischief done 10
our military efIairs BY this wrstehsd treaty
0en. Thomas astate plans, In which shsr-
hmm had no hand either to prepare or set
afoot, were In the midst Of their brilliant &C.
somplishment He had captured the chief
ciiiss OF Alabama. destroyed the rebel power
lhsre, and was finishing up the work begun
1by Sherman In Georgia. Jast At tAis june
lure his progress 10 arrested by eherman'i
treaty, and in tho interval which must slAps,
before he resumes operations the enemy ma,
have time 10 eountSfact al he has dono anC
prepare for new campaign. Candy top
after he had taken Mobile, dispatched BIZ
forces into the interior 10 capture or destro,
he rstrOating rebels, and this Will be ArrsstSC
By sherlnan's ORDER n the enemy claim It
a We see clearly in Che Macon case.
We have said that shennhnis dspartmsn
extended TO the Mlsuissippi river, but fron
The terms Of his peaee order to his army II
manifested that he Itrotehed II far boyob'
that stream, for he says explicitly, tha
when the -agree1nont shall have been rati6ei
Il viii make peace from the Potomac to III
Rio GrAndo, He thus sets himself aboVs th'
bead Of Gen. Grant, assumes that his agree
nsnt win make ponce In Virginia which
Grant had already conquered With bis sword
and acts for Candy a. though he, too, were /
mare subordinate. In fact this passage OI
his order renders II evident that instead oI
Treating with General Johnston asthe written
document would imply, he was really max
ing formal treaty with the confederate
seseEnns1,, through Jea. Davis, Breekin'
ridge and BenjAunin, "a =. b
Johnston was not tho rsbsl general in
Thief, and therefore had no authority "a
rpat for all the rebel armies Lee bold thai
ofRos, and his surrender, n thsre wero any
power TO treat for ali the rebel urmloS, ought
70 have carried with Il that Of Johnston,
Kirby Smith, and all tne rest. Ash did moi
40 90, the prstenee Of Johnston, Davis q Co.
70 treat for anybody but themselves was only
ntandsd to hoodwink Sherman, In which L
sneeeeded astonishingly. In charity 10 Bher,
man We must assume that his phrase rsIativ,
% peace from the Potomac 70 tho RI,
9randa referred TO the rebel power viii
which, be was treating. and that It's dibre
,peet TO al Gsraf Grant hross from tha
Ionreo only, though Il Il quite clear from III
Whole AFFAIR that Sherman Is q man no
bound BY any rples regulations, bohDds o
manifestations vbpteyer His fAntastioa
ifsaks in this matter IN North Csrolin4 sho'
hat 50 far from pesseising the superior VII
Ion which his tfeaty assumes, he iS inf
aitsly below Grant, Thomas, Sheridan, o
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