The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-06-02

We find in one of the New York papers
the subjoined letter from Major General
Sherman, addressed to Col. Bowman:
CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, VA.,)
May 10, 1865. I
Dear BOwman Il am just arrived
All my army will be in. to-day. I have
been lost to the world in the woods for
some time. Yet On arriving at the "set-
Elements" found had made quite a stir
among the people at home, and that the
most sinister motives have been ascribed
to me.
I have made frequent official reports of
my official action in all public matters,
and all OF them have been carefully sup.
pressed, whilst tho most ridiculous non
sense has been industriously spread abroad
through all the newspapers. We'll you
know what Importance l attach to such
matters, and that l have been too long
fighting with real rebels, with muskets in
their hands, to be scared by mere nom
combatants, no matter how high their
civil rank or station.
1t is amusing to observe how brave and
firm some men become when all danger is
past. have noticed on fields of battle
brave men never insult the captured or
mutilate the dead but towards and lag
CARDS always do. | cannot now recall the
act, but Shakespeare records how poor Fal-
staff, the prince of towards and wits, ris-
ing from figured death, stabbed again
the dead Percy and carried the carcass
aloft in triumph to prove his valor. So
now, when the rebellion in our land is
dead, many Falstaffs appear to brandsh
the evidence of their valor and seek to
win applause, and to appropriate honors
for deeds that never were done.
AS to myself, l ask no popularity, no
reward; but dare the War Department
to publish my official letters and reports.
l assert that my official reports have been
purposely suppressed, while all the power
of the press has been Indignantly turned
against me.
do want peace and security, and the
return to law and justice, from Maine 10
the Rio Grande; and if it does not exist
now substantially, it is for State reasons
beyond my comprehension. 1t may be
thought strange that one who has no fame
but as q soldier should have been so care
full to try to restore the civil power of tho
government and the peaceful jurisdiction
of the Federal courts but it is difficult
to discover in that fact any just cause of
ofense to an enlightened and free people.
But when men choose to SANDER and in
jure others, they can easily invent the
facts for the purpose when the proposed
victim is far away, engaged in public SER
vice Of their own bidding. But there is
consolation in knowing that though truth
lies in the bottom Of well, the Yankees
have perseverance enough to get to that
bottom. Yours, truly,
"A Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Inquirer writes:
The friends of Gen. Sherman serenadod
him on Tuesday evening at his private
residence in Washington, near the Capt.
toll, when he came to tho front door, and
in conversational way said he supposed
they wanted him to make speech He
did not want to make one, because if he
did he might get excited and say some
thing that might better not be said; for,
said he, when speak speak to the point,
and when 1 act in earnest 1 act to the
point. If man minds his own business
l let him alone, but if he crosses my path
he must get out of the way. [Cheers.1
l want peace and freedom for every
man to go where he pleases, to California,
or to any other portion of our country,
without restriction. Every man should
work, and there is plenty of work for
every man to do. Every man should do