The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-17
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday morning, July II, 1855.
The Christian Warrior.

The Christian Warrior.
Gen. Sherman made a Fourth of
July speech =. Salem, Illinois, of
which we-fnd a brief report in the
Nashville Uaion and American.
We pronounce W. r. Sherman one
of the most brutal military com
manders, not excepting Hayuau,
that has ever disgraced the annals of
warfare IN modern times. In shis
speech at Salem, he uses the follow
ing language Language strong.
enough, God knows, to sink him to
the utmost depths of infamy:
ave did. not like to see bloodshed,
but we were determined to produce
results, and now what were those
results? TO make every man, woman
and child, in the South, feel that if
they dared to rebel against the flag of
their country, they must die or sub
NIT. Immense enthusiasm.
'Did not like to see bloodshed,n
and yet, on the morning of the 10th
of February, 1855, this Christian
general sheIled the city of Colunlbia,
containing men, women and children,
lGod help the young rebels, without
asingle '@note of warning" DID not
like to see bloodshedl It is wonder
that the great God did not send
thunderbolt to strike this orator dead
when he uttered the above sentiment,
the humanity of which he was utter
ly opposed to. The fearful memen-
toes in and around Columbia show
that the man did not understand the
first principles of Christian warfare,
and ought to have been hooted out
of the service of such a great nation
as that of the United States
Woman and child must feel that if
If they dared to rebel against the flag,
they must die O, submit. Is not
comment unnecessary on such a
fiendish declaration?
Gen. Sherman was determined to
''produce results" In the course of
the speech, he says:
''Now, my friends, know that, all
the world over, there are parties that
denounce me as being inhuman.
That's so'-'Can't see it'll Iappeal
to you to say if I have not always
been kind and considerate to you.
That's 80. I care not what they
say. That's right. I care not
what they say, but say that it ceased
to be our duty to guard their cities
any longer, and had I gone on string
ing out our column, little by little,
little by little, some of your Illinois
regiments would never have got
home, and you would have been
crushed. Therefore, I let go the
whole country; took one army myself,
and gave my friend, George Fl. Tho
mas, one, and we whaled them both.
tGreat applause
Therefore, if Atlanta were de-
stroyed, and Columbia and Savannah
and all the cities of the South had
been destroyed, I say it would have
been right, because it was necessary
to produce the results in view. It
did produce the result, and now,
ladies', you see your Young friends
returned to you, wives see their hus-
bands, and all are reunited here in
this handsome grove in Illinois, and
God knows, I hope you may never go
forth again; but if you have to go
forth, know you will respond quick
er than you did before, if possible"
CHEERS.
And this is from a General of the
United States army! He would have
destroyed every city of the South ''to
produce good results"
There is one thing that is evident
from this speech-SAe,naa,s Aad DETER
mined 10 destroy Columbia before he
entered it. From the time he left
Atlanta until he passed through Co.
lnnbia, his war-path was one of
desolation, cruelty and crime The
pen which records this, kno,cS it to be
h'ue; and although in Fourth of
July speech he candidly acknow-
lodges his unprincipled system of
warfare, we had thought that per-
sonal self-respect would have re-