The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-12-04
General Sherman Speaks.

| ''''" VI lhc "hS, lnaSinucn as IL displays
nono Of the vindc;iyo fec lings or revolu
,icnary designs which the leaders of that
! party lose no opportunity Of exhibiting
llc appeals 10 the good sense aud good
| feeling OF his cOUntrymeu in behalf Of the
restoration OF the old forms and theories Of
| government. Ii slavery is held to DO the
| real cause of the late war, then General
Sherman, himself born of New England
parents, "honcstly believes that the people
of New England, in common with all tho
| great North who shared in the original
causes and enjoyed large part of tho pro-
hts resulting from cotton and slave labor,
| should be charitable and liberal in the final
distribution Of the natural penalties" He
proceeds:
If children must inhcri, !he sins of The
fathers, even in the third and fourth gcnc
rntions, then none ofus who trace our ori-
gin back TO the earlier days Of this republic
can escepe this mathematical aud philo-
sophical conclusion or, in the language of
DR.. Draper "Guiliy, then, both of us in
the sight ofGod, let us not vex each other
With mutual calmination, but bear our pun
ishmcnt with humility" how has this
punishment been parltioncd by the results
of The war? We Of the North have to
moaru the loss Of fathers, brothers, sous,
and friends, and are burdcncd with n vast
national debt binding on Us in fact, in law,
AMI in honor, never, hope, to be question
cd by any honorable man in America, tin
every cent is paid Look to the South, and
you who went with me through that land
can best say if they, too, have not be, II
iearlully punished Mourning in every
household, DISSOLUTION written in broad
characters across the whole face of their
country, cities in ashes and fields laid waste,
their commerce. gone, their system of labor
annihilated and destroyed. Ruin, poverty
and distress everywhere, aud now postilcnce
adding the very cap-shcaf to their stack O:
misery; her proud men begging for pare o
anu appealing tor permission to raise {, o
for their children ; her five millions of slaves
irec and their value lost to their former
masters forever.
Now that slavery is gone. and gone for
ever, with its unhappy wrecks left bchinl
AMI all danger is passed OF any set OF men
ngain appealing TO war when they have
courts to secure their rights and redress
their wrongs would trust our nario al
destiny again to those grand old na .ural laws
which raised our country through the lorp
tedious vassnlagc IF colonization /; viii. il
carried MS safely through the orden OF or
Revolutionary war, male our flag f.myus
on tho high seas i'll 1872 lc,l our c,noucr-
ing army to tho gates Of Mexico in i847,
anu has borne III glDriously through four
years Of rs hard war as over tested tho
manhood ofany people.
Let us revive, as far ~ lies in our
individual power, that system which, Ban.
croft tells us, guided our fathers before the
Resolution 1.-THE system which had been
revealed in Jnda the system which com
hinos anu perfects the symbolic wisdom of
The Orient and the reflective genius of
Greccc-thc system onforming to reason.
yet kindling with enthusiasm always has.
icning reform, yet alwaya conservatives
prociaiming absolute equality among men,
yet not suddenly nbolishing the unequal
institutions of society; guaranteeing abso.
Lutte freedom, yet Invoking the imcxcrabie
restrictions of duty; in the highest degree
theoretical, yet in the highcs, degree prac-
tical; awakening the inner man 10 n con.
sciousncss of his destiny, nnI yet adnp,cl
with exact harmony to the outward world:
at once divine and human. This system
was proicsscd in every part of our widely
extended country, aud cradlod our FREQ
DOM"
With such . spirit pervading all our coun
try oncc more, with our population increas-
ing thirty.threo per cent. cvcry ton years,
with our national wealth developing in even
greater ratio, with our frontiers pushing
back in every direction, with farms and
villages and cities rapidly covering our vast
domain, with mines of gold and silver and
iron and coal pouring out wealth faster
than ever did the cotton fields of tho South,
with forty thousand miles of finished rail.
roads and othcrlhousaIds in rapid progress,
can any ono doubt our present strength or
calculate our fu,urc destiny?
And now III conclusion, my friends, will
say that since the war closed, nothing has
given me the most perfect satisfaction than
to sec the spirit you have all manifested
since yon cast aside the soldiers garb.
Go on, say and encourage honest indus.
try everywhere. Form and express your
honest opinions like free men, Discourage
that system Of personal abuse and derao.
ton which hns grown too mnch into n hab-
It, and - stain OF our national character
frown upon violence, come from in what
quarter it may, have unhoundcd fnlth in your
country and its flag. md You will win for
tho Army of the Tennessee fame in peace
equal to that which you fairly won for it in
war and He who holds HE faic of nations
in the palm Of Ills hand will SEQ that your
lnbors nro not in vain, and that the glory
OF your country for which you battle in
war, and lnborcd in peace, slial, not be tara
nished by an insidious foe.
s.-------
For the benefit of tho fcw whites who
voted tho Radical ticket in This city saws
The Wilmington star oe tho 2lst inst, we
suhjoia he following pieco of machine
poetry which is going tic rounds, ns very
nearly expressing their c9uditioL aud stand.
lug:
"False to your countrymcn and your race,
Stunned by true men in every place,
Dark at heart, though white in face.
Sold to tho blaoks--to their disgrace.
~ torriblo trngedy has occurred in Aus.
trian Tyrol. a farmer after affecting
heavy insnramcs on his house and barns set
fire to the latter, but wns discovered in the
not by one of his shepherds. He therefore
killed tho shepherd and murdered his wife
and infant son, finishing by cutting his oWn
throat.
Prairie fires sill cont inue TO rags In near.
ly all sections of the Rrst, but havo been
particularly severe in Western and Northern
Missouri, whore immense amounts of pro-
pcrty have been destroyed. Tho prairies
aro said to be burning slong tho line Of tho
Illinois Central Railroad for distance Of
100 miles, and in Union county, Illinois, the
tamcs extond into tho woods.