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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 81 P. N.
Wendell Phillips on General sherman

Wendell Phillips on General Sherman.
In the last number of the Anti-Slave-
ry Standard, Wendell Phillips writes as
follows his hearty suspicion Of the Lieu
tenant-General:
Sherman can hide under no such ex-
cuse. There is no doubt he has genius.
Emerson tells of a Colonel Buford, at
West Point, who struck tho trunnions
Of a n so many thousand blows
with a hammer that at last he broke
them. Just so Grant broke the rebel
lion. Sherman conquered with his
brains as truly as with his sword. he
will never be a King Log. 1t is vitality
important that his steps towards the
Presidency should be vigilantly scruti-
nizcd. Long time a resident Of the
South, he has all tho narrow prejudices
and absurd opinions of that section. He
hates New England for the ideas it rep
resents. He has nothing but curses and
contemptuous criticism for Massachu-
sets; not, of course, the geographical
State, but the principles, ideas and pur-
pose which that name stirs in the mind
of every man who hears it. We fear he
has learned little from the war. Big
oted, half informed, intensely sectional,
the moment armed resistance ceases, he
is just the man to serve the South in
her effort to regain by intrigue what she
lost by arms. If he is our next Presi-
dent, he will carry out to its fulfllment,
On a national scale, that ~disgraceful
and wholesale surrender to Johnston,
which only a Northern growl that
drowned even the thunder of Niagara
frightened him and his comrades from
completing. After living 20 years at the
South in intimate relations with her
leaders, after sweeping through her ter
ritory at the head of n victorious army,
and taking the latest survey of her mood
and resources, he proposed to treat the
wal as Il frolic, and let both sections re-
sumo, substantially, the relations they
held before the rebellion. Gen. Sher-
man is too shrewd and capable a man to
allow Of Jul explaining this on any
ground of credulity or misapprehension.
Such an offer could have come only from
a mind incurably Southern in its bias
and opinions. If the hot fires of such
civil war could not burn this folly and
wickedness out of him, he is past cure.
His clear, logical common sense taught
him what honor and fair play demanded.
While he had no relish for the plan OF
allowing negroes to fight, and flung his
influence against it, he confessed that
Ito admit the negro to this struggle for
any purpose was to give him a right to
stay in it for all, and that when the fight
is over, the hand that drops the musket
cannot be denied the ballot;"-still, no
man has since heard one word from him
in support of that rule of justice and fair
play. His narrow, sectional hate has
s%mothered his logic. His old, bitter
aristocracy of the skin still clings to
him. There is IN old proverb that Gan
~Italianized Englishman is n devil incar-
nate" A Northern-born STAKEHOLDER
was always the worst tyrant. A Nor
thern politician stepped in Southern
hate is the most incurable Of all bigots,
and most dangerous to trust with power.