The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-02

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-The fol-
lowing is copy of the correspondence
between Gov. Orr and Gen. Sickles: I:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, |
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. Z, '67.
MAJOR Gen. ID. L. SICKLEs, Charles
ton, s. C.
SIR; l have learned from the public
press, although | have received no
official notice of the fact, that you
have been relieved from the command
of the Second Military District, em-
bracing this State and North Carolina,
and that by order of the President
Major Gen. Candy has succeeded to
the same. | desire to express to you
the great regret which l feelpersonally
and officially at the course taken by
the President and his advisers in this
matter. There are many of the orders
which have been issued by you since
the passage of the Reconstruction bills
in March last, which did not meet my
approval; but it is due to you and
to your official action that | should
bear voluntary testimony to the wis
dom and success of your administra-
ton, and to express the opinion that
the almost unlimited powers with
which you were invested by the acts
of Congress, have been exercised with
moderation and forbearance.
Your General Order No. 10, so far
ms this State is concerned, was, last
Spring, in my opinion, absolutely
necessary. Looking to the impover-
ished condition of the country, the
shortness of the provisions and staple
crops last year, to the general pecuniary
distress pervading the country, and to
the necessity of protesting the small
means of farmers and planters at that
time from the process of the Courts,
they were thereby enabled to subsist
their families and grow the present
crop. This crop promises to be, in
many respects, and in many sections
of the State, the most important and
the largest which has been grown for
several years, and when harvested you
could, without hazard Or apprehension,
have executed your purpose, as declar-
ed to me, of modifying Generrl Order
No. 10, so that creditors could have
enforced their demands without pro-
ducing general distress, if nothing
worse. 1t is also due TO you that !
should say that, in my judgment, il
| General Order No. 10 had not been
issued last Spring a very considerable
increase in the number of troops in
this State would have been necessary
to have been stationed at many of the
Court Houses to preserve the public
records from destruction and insure
the safety of the Shcriils in executing
civil process in their hands, which
they had been ordered to levy by
thoughtless or hcartless creditors. In
my opinion, general order No. 10 re-
ccived the approval of a very largo
majority of the citizens Of South Car
olina, and your general administration
as commandant of the District, is ap-
proved by majority nearly as great
In all the official intercourse We
have had, ! beg 10 tender you my
thanks for the uniform kindness anC
courtesy with which I have been treat.
ed personally, and for the disposition
you have always manifested to MAKE
the burdens of the military government
as light upon the people whom | rep
resent as it was possible under tn,
circumstances. Ihavc not the pleasur,
of a personal acquaintance with you
successor, Gen. Candy, but hope tha
my official relations with him may b
marked with the same harmony anC
: kind feeling which have characterized
i our official intercourse for nearly tw'
years past. | have the honor to be
General, very truly and respectful.
f. your friend and obedient servant,
JAMES l.. ORR,
Governor Of South Carolina.