The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-28

| WENDELL PHILLIPS on GENERAL SHEEMAN-In the
last number of the AntSlavery Standard, Wendell
Phillips writes follows his hearty suspicion Of the
| lieutenant general:
"Sherman hide under no such excuse. There
! is no doubthe has genius Emmerson tells of Col.
BufOrd at West Point, who struck the trunnions of
cannon so many thousand blows with hammer till at
last he broke them Just so Grant broke the rebel
lion. Sherman conquered with his brain truly as
with his sword He will never be a King Log 1t is
vitality important that his steps toward the presidency
should be vgilanty scrutinised Long time a resident
of the SOUTH he has all the preudices and alb
surd opinions of that section. He hates New England
for the ideas it represents He has nothing but curses
and contempuous criticism for Massachusetts not of
course, the geographical State but the principles,
ideas and purposes which that name stirs in the mind
of every man who hears it. We fear he has learned
little from the Bigoted, haEnformed, intensely
sectional, the moment armed resistance ceases, he is
just the to the south in her effort regain
| by intrigue what she lost by arms.
If he is next president he will carry ont to its
fulhlment on national scale, that dsgracefu and
wholesale surrender to johnson which only northern
growl, that drowned even the thunder of Niagara,
! frightened him and his comrades from completing.
After living twenty years at the south in intimate
ations with her leaders, after sweeping through her
territory at the head Of victorious army, and taking
the latest survey Of her mood and resources he pro
posed to treat the roc, andet both sections
resume, substantially the relations they held before
the rebellion. Gen. Sherman is shrewd ard capa-
bic man to allow of our explaining this on any
ground of credulty or misapprehension. Such an
offer could have come only from mind inCurably
southern in its opinions. If the hot fires Of such
civil could not burn this folly and wickedness
out of him, he is past cure. His clear, logical
mon sense taught him what honor and fair play de-
manded
| Whilst he had no relish for the plan of allowing
negroes to fight, and flung his influence against it, he
confessed that" to admit the negro to this struggle
for any purpose to give him 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 word from him in support
of that rule Of justice and fair play His narrow
sectional hate las smothered his logic His old, bitter
aristocracy OF the skin still clings to him. There is
an old proverb that "an Italianised Engshman is d
devil ncarGalc" / northern born STAKEHOLDER was
always the worst tyraut northern politician
stepped in southern hate is the incurable of all
biSots, and most dangerous to trust with power"
Ben. BUTLER THE AUTHOR OF THE REBELLIoN-Er-
ra0rdnarg Observation-Disclosures f. Pratt editor of
the Piaindeaer, published at Waukesha, Wisconsin,
Douglas delegate to the Charleston convention in
1860, and who has known Benjamin I. Butler
intimately from his youth, publishes extraordi
nary revelations concerning the part the notorious in
cendiary took in the Charleston convention, the ef-
forts he put forth to bring about secession and the pro-
misses of help from the north which he made in the
name Ol IuG HOTIileiu ueLlOCfdbS, Wltu Secession
should be accomplished fact.
Mr. Pratt says Butler had been sent to that con
vention as were instructed to vote for Stephen A.
Douglas, but during the whole of that struggle which
lasted some two weeks he voted persstenty for the
nomination of jeff DaEis"
AT that time" continues Mr.. Pratt secession was
openly advocated, and plain to US in the dis
tance, as it is to all, in the background Six
eight welldrilled and well-armeG ard equipped com
panles, were then daily parading the streets of that
city One by one were our northern delegates led into
the private of St. Andrews hall by Butler and
others, where they met by such men as Slidell
Mason, and others, who had their millions in gold to
purchase the nomination of southern man. How
much Butler received neither know nor care, but
said before the last speech we ever heard from
Butler and it probably will remain the last unless we
may have the good fortune to hear him speak from
the gallows, at secret meeting held one evening
after he and the southern delegates had seeded from
our convention. We obtained admittanee that even
ing, through a friend from Alabama and for nearly
an hour listened to speech from Butler upon seces-
sion"
In this speech Butler assured them that we, the
Douglas democrats, were free solers' that he, and
others, represented the Buchanan, the Simon pure
democracy of the north-that in case of collision of
arms between the north and the SOUTH that the gen
une democracy would be found defending the rights
OF the south. And when they fred upon fort Sumter
they had much faith in the belief that Butler and
the northern democrats would sustain them, they
had in their powers ignitng when they applied the
fire to it."
"There is no one more willing to pardon and for
give than are, but when reflect upon the past
and consider the human suffering caused by TIE late
war, the mountains of human bones bleaching the
southern soil, the rivers OF human blood that have
drenched that soil, together with the home scenes Of
destitute widows and orphans, and the thousands Of
cripples who hobbling lmbless about our towns
and cities, knowing we do, of our personal knowl-
edge, that Ben Butler done than all other north
ern men put together to bring the war, we cannot
but hope that may yet live to hear his last speech
made from more elevated platform, and where he
will be listened to by better Union men, surrounded
by the officers of justice, sworn to do theis duty
When that time arrives, treason viii be made
odious'"
new Canadian newspaper contains the following
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