The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-28

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; Tks Buried cities or the North.
The Richmond Times has the fol-
lowing cutting remarks: =
On the Fourth of July, patriotic
nrchin threw q pop-cracker into a
carpenters shop, in the beautiful oity
Of Roctland, and from thence arose
4 mighty confagration, which de-
vouned ''150 acres of public and pri-
vate buildings, -
Tho calamity was appalling, and q
trehef committee of the leading men
fof the unfortunate city are appealing
to humane people, North es we'll as
South, for contributions of money
and provisions to tho thousands
who have lost everything.'' The
committee assert, that the fra WAS by
far the most "calamitous that has
ever occurred on this continent. 4"
Never before were o people so ter
ribly scourged as those of Portland !"
I'VE sincerely hope that these appeals
will not be made in vain to the -chari-
table people of the United States.
But the members Of the relief COM
mittee cannot -truthfully claim for
|. Portland u monopoly of the terrible
suffering inflicted by great conhagra-
tions. Atlanta was. as large, and
iourishing a city as Portland, and
yet, after the had evacu-
ated it, it was burnt down in cold
blood by Sherman. Its inhabitants
were not even allowed the miserable
privilege of lingering near the ruins
| Of their once happy homes, but we're
driven forth by the destroyer. The
humane and charitable North greatly
honors Sherman for this splendid act
Of Christian geueralship, which de-
prived 20, 900 people of their homes.
The city of Columbia was almost
rs populous and q far more beautiful
city than Portlahd, but that city was
destroyed blythe infuriated soldiery
of the destroyer Of Atlanta.
Charleston was a city Of twice the
population of Portland, yet for two
years after its Notifications rendered
its capture impossible, the Federals
exhausted the resources of modern
warfare to reduce the city to ashes,
and left that lovely city a hideous and
unsightly ruin
Rome, Fredericksburg, and score
of other beautiful Southern towns
were ruthlessly destroyed during the
war, and mere list of burnt villages
and hamlets would fill the editorial
columns Of this paper.
If Gen. Sherman, for the benefit
of the unhappy city of Portland, :"
will deliver lecture upon the ''burnt
cities, towns and villages of the
South" he will satisfy the public
that he inflicted with the torch q
thousand times moro suffering upon
the Southern people than Portland
hos suffered. The pretcnsions of the
boy who fired Portland with q pop
cracker to be regarded as more re-
nowned incendiary than Sherman, is
absurd
The Richmond Examiner pays the
following tribnte to Gen. Sherman:
Sherman is taking q tour for the
purpose of being Congratulated on
his public services. He makes
speeches on all occasions that offer,
1hdo IAlo Stapie VI all Ills remarks IS
himself. No donbt. the subject is
very interesting to himself, but we
doubt whether it is SO interesting to
his hearers.
We have no respect for Sherman.
We detest him. We know of no
armed ruffian in the history of the
world who has performed more afro
cities than he has. When we reflect
upon the burning of Columbia. we
have a loathing for the very name Of
Sherman. History records many de-
vastations, but we find none whose
deeds of desolation exceed those
committed by the vain and heartless
wretch, who, beginning with the de-
struction of Atlanta, and making a
waste and ruin throughout his line of
march, ended with the pitiless burn
ing of South Carolina's most beauti-
full city. The barbarous ages of the
world will bave to be hunted to find
q parallel to his Infamous march
through Georgia and the Carolinas
ALTERATIONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.