New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-08
Peace and Good win!
From the Mobile Advertiser.

l4E t @ ~ from the Mobile Advertiser NJ ''5N "T@
WI commenced, on Saturday morning upon the
chares made by leading journal of New, York
against the press and people of the South of pro
longig sectional bitterness" Apropos to this is
an account, which we find in a St. Louis paper, of
lecture recently delivered at Jefferson City by
one Gen. Sherman's staff The account is tee-
GRAPHIC, and dated Jan. 26th: 44I r
\ = Major Il. A. Duncan, of General Sherman 3
staff, has just delivered most entertaining and
i GRAPHIC lecture upon the ineidents-descriptiy
exciting and humorous connected with the won
derfu march to the sea of the great military chief
/ The Major is one OF the very best REALTORS of
Anecdotes extant, and his inimitable delineatons
i of tie characters met with in that celebrated
| campign threw an immensely of humor into the
Ilectue tonight His descriptions, too, of scenes
/ themselves before the minds of the hearers as
Tangible existences. His description tonight Of
] the lTid and terribly grand confagration of At
lanta, on the night of November 18th, 1854 was
uneqaied. One could almost see, as with the
NATURE eye, the 300 acres of city in flames, over
whichhovered angels of destruction, in the my
RAD Of fakes of fire that shot upwards toward the
heayes, throwing back their red glare for many
milearound. In singular and happy contrast
with sch scenes of destruction were the pleasant
ries o the camp, the jests Of the rude soldiers,
the surprise and alarm of the populace, the gro
tesqut maginings Of the ever-present Sambo, the
cloud: of dust by day and the pillars of fire by
night, that led the march of an army, spread over
Southern territory" - p.
Nov the question occurs whether the keeping
alive Vi such memories as those of Major Duncan
is the best means Of allaying sectional bitter
ness ~ 81 e. %
Is 4 strange that people do not love those who
delight in reminding them Of the :" lurld and ter
ribly grand CONGREGATIONS !" OF their homes and
properly? Is the picture Of angels of destruc-
ton y lowering over three hundred acres of d
city IL flames y gentle persuasive to peace and
good will? = y
or agairl does it make the matter more palat-
able % be entertained with the az singular and
des sn "jests,'' the \ pleasantries Of
the soldiers, while SO many thousands of those
whom they claimed as countrymen wives,
totterhg old men, and delicate children-were
driven forth, homeless and naked in the beginning
of winter, to look back upon the /" grand " spec
tacle If their houses in flames? IN
We ian bear witness that the press of the South
does not bring forward these TOPICS or dwell
upon them. Never id history has there been an
instanee recorded of people so universally ready
adyiseily. Defeat does not imply guilt, nor is
penitence necessary accompaniment of submis
sion. -" 4-a pa '-'i'-4S7'fa o. ~ tf5ff 7'
The truth is that it is much better taste to waive
entirely this question of " forgiveness Let either
side, II it can believe itself to have been in the
right It is enough Tor the one to know that it has
triumphed the other, that it has failed. Conyic-
ton does not come by the sword. The pressure
W power may tALoTt IL pToltsslOil OF cOnVlctOn,
but such professions are not worth the breath by
which they are uttered. The judicious and the
generous conqueror alike refrain from exacting
them, g 1t still moves whispered Calico, when
he had made his recantation. ~ -.5sF,s,- 7z-i54
Wehave digressed a little from the subject. 1t
remains to be said that, although the North has
been the victor in the late struggle, yet she is
much interested as we are in restoration Of good
will With an immense debt to discharge, a whole
host of difficult domestic questions to decide, and
the risk of two three foreign wars on hand it Is
not wise policy to foster discomfort by harsh
measures and bitter words to the people of the
South These things will not drive US into revolt
Scarcely any decree Of oppression would do that
and no sane man thinks OF it. But they are moi
likely to make us atfectionate and enthusiastic ii
our allegiance. Nor are we likely to love oul
Northern friends the better for being reminded o
burning cities, ruined homesteads, desolated fields
and Of the . happy contrast to these Woes pre
scented by the ''pleasantries Of the camp" We
rather suspect that such "reminiscences will dc
more towards prolonging sectional bitterness
| than any impatient or petulent expression Of {
I Southern newspaper,