Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-11-30
The Opinion OF a Soldier.

on Of The officers oil The army OF the len
nessee, in ST., Louis, on the 18th instant.
contained, after a rehearsal Of the achieve
menls of that army during the war, an
appeal 10 the good sense Of his country
men, North and South, which is full Of
soldierly magnaniD!iy and ferver. II
slavery is held 10 be the real cause of our
civil war, then General Sherman, him
sell born Of New England parents, "hon-
esi!y balieves iba, the New England, in
common with all the grea, North who
shared in the original causes and enjoyed
large part of The profits resulting from
cotton and slave labor, should be charia-
BILE and liberal in the final distribution OF
the natural penalties. He proceeds {:
"If children mus, inherit the sins Of
their fathers, even in the third and forth
generations, then none Of US who trace
our origin back 10 the earlier days Of This
republic can escape this mathematical and
philosophical conclusion ; or. in the Ian
guage of DR.. Draper /: Guilty, then,
both of US in the sight Of God, let US not
vex each other with mutual elimination,
but bear our punishment with humility
How has this punishment been parlitioned
by the results OF the war g? We OF the
North have 10 mourn tie loss OF fathers,
brothers, sons and friends, and are bur-
dened with a vast national debt binding
on US in fact, in law and in honor, never,
| hope, 10 be questioned by any honora-
Bile man in America till every cent is
paid.
"Look 10 the South, and you who
wen, with me through that land can best
say if they, 100, have no, been fearfully
punished. Mourning in every household
desolaton in broad characters across the
whole face of their country, cities in ash
es and fields laid waste, their commerce
gone, their system Of labor annihilated
and destroyed. Ruin, poverty, and dis
iress everywhere, and now pes,ilence ad.
ding the very cap-sheal TO their stack Of
misery her proud men begging for par
don and appealing for permission 10 raise
food for their children her FIVE million
of slaves free, and their value lost 10 their
former masters forever.
with our population increasing thirty
three per cent. every ten years with
our national wealth developing in even a
greater ratio with our frontiers pushing
back in every direction with farms and
villages and cities rapidly covering our
vast national domain with mines of gold
and silver and iron and coal pouring out
wea,h faster than ever did the cotton
fields of the South with forty thousand
miles Of finished railroads, and thousands
in progress-can any one doubt our pres
emf strength, or calculate our future desil-
ny If our friends al the South will
heartily and cheerlully join with Us in
This future course, for one, would vel
come them back, our equals, but no, our
superiors, and lend them helping hand"
When men like General Sherman take
issue in this wise with the con6scation
and destruction policy just reiterated more
venomousIy than ever by Thaddeus Ste-
vens, we, may hope on that real "Grand
Army of the Republic" who
fought in the war and do not buster in
time Of peace, are in no danger Of becom-
ing Radical enthusiasts. .-NeW York
WorH.
A Maniac on Board a Railway Train.
A Thrilling Scene.-A gentleman who
arrived from Chicago on Tuesday morn.
ing gives the following particulars in re-
laiion 10 an affair which traDspired on the
train. and if the circumstances are as sta
ted they are sad indeed. middle aged
man came into the sleeping car just after
leaving Chicago on Monday night and Or
deied birth, and il was observed by his
fellow travellers that he seemed in great
mental agitation, and would often press
his hands 10 his temples, al the same time
muitering 10 himself uninlelligible words.
After entering the berth he commenced
groaning, and was then asked the cause
Of his trouble, when be stated that he was
the captain of boat which had laid up
for the winter at Milwaukee, whore he
had been paid his wages amounting TO
$4,000, but had been enlicrd into gam
bling saloon and had there fallen victim
10 two shsrpers who Introduced that novel
game known as "three card monte" and
lef. him penniless. From friend ne had
borrowed money enough TO bear his ex-
penses 10 Buffalo, where he has a wife
and three children, whose only subslsi-
ence during the coming winter was 10
have been The money he had lost. lie
repeatedly exclaimed "Oh. my poor
family, what will become Of them this
winter They will s,srrp, they will
starve." He then laid down, and moth
ing more was heard from him for some
time, when the conductor Of the cas was
alarmed at hearing the crash Of glass, and
rushing 10 the berth of the unfortunate
man found that he had smashed the win.
dow and was endeavoring 10 climb thro'.
He was pulled in agsin, when i, was found
that he was a raving maniac. and il be-
came necessary 10 bind him. His rawlings
are described as fearful, and upon reach
ing Jackson il was found necessary 10 re-