The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-22
Genera, Sherman Speaks,

General Shermans speech at the anniversary
celebration Of the officers OF the Army of the Ten
nessee on the 18th instant, Is in marked contrast
with the Radical Nominations Of the day, mas
much as it displays none of the vindiotive feelings
or revolutionary designs which the leaders of that
party lose no opportunity OF exhibiting. He ap-
peals to the good sense and good feeling of his
countrymen in behalf Cf the restoration Of the
old forms and theories OF government. If slave
ry is held to be the real cause OF the late war; then
General Sherman, himself born Of New England
parents, "honestly believes that the psopia Of New
England, in common with all the great North who
shared in the original causes and enjoyed large
part of the profits resulting from cotton and slave
labor. should be charitable and liberal in the fina
distribution of the natural penalties" He pro.
ceeds
If children must inherit the sing Of the fathers
even in the the third and fourth generations ther
none of US who trace our origin back to the earlier
days of this republic can escape this mathemat
cal and philosophical conclusion; or, in the Ian
guage OF Dr. Draper: Guilty, then, both of u.
in the sight Of God, let US not vex each other will
! mutual elimination but bear our punishment witt
humility" How has this punishment been par.
| titioned by the results OF the WARP We of the
1 North have 10 MOURN VIC ioSS VI IatnerS, pro
Tiers sons, and friends, and are burdenet
with vast national debt binding on us in fact
in law. and in honor, never, / hope, to be ques
toned bv any honorable man in America, til
every cent is paid. Look to the South, and vol
who went with me through that land can best SAY
If they. too, have not been fearfully punished
Mourning in every household, desolation writer
| in broad characters across the whole face of the
conntrr cities in ashes and fields laid waste. thel
commerce gone, their system of labor annlhilate(
! and DESTROYED Ruin, poverty and distress every
| where and now pesten ce adding the very cap
\ sheaf to their stack OF misery; her proud mer
| heoeing for pardon and appealing for permission
tn raise food for their children; her five millions
| sIoves free and their value lost to their forme
| masters forever.
Now that slavery is gone, and gone forever, Will
;ts nnhonny wrecks left behind, and all danger i,
nassed nP anv SO. of men again appealing to wa,
when thev have courts to secure their rights ant
redress their wrongs, Iwoul6 trust our national des
tinv aoain to those grand old natural laws which
raised our country through che long tedious vassal
noe of colonization; which carried us safely throuol
| t6e ordeal of our Revolutionary war; made our fial
| famons On the high seas in 1872; led our conouer
inc army to tho gates Of Mexico in 1847. and has
bHne ns cloriously through four years of as harC
war as ever tested the manhood Of any people.
| LET ma revive as far as lies in our indiyidua
mower. that system which, Bancroft tells ns. guideC
| our fathers before the Revoution-''the svsteu
| which had been revealed in Judea-the svsteu
which combines and perfects the symbolic wisdom
of the Orient and the reflective genius OF Greece
the system conforming to reason vet kindlinf
with enthusiasm always Fastening reform, yet al