The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-09-11
TIE CoR2EsFoTEENCE BETWEEN
RoSZcRANs AND LEE.

CHICAGO, September 4.-The correspond
-nce between Rosecrans and Lee is published.
Hosecrans addressed letter to Lee asking
information regardin, the condition, wishes
and intentions Of the people of the South,
and especially those of former officers. Lees
reply is signed by Generals Lee, Beapregard.
A. H Stephens and politicians. Tho follow
ing is the letter almost entire:
Whatever opinions may have prevailed in
the past, in regard to African slavery or the
right of State to secede from the Union, we
believe we express the almost unanimous
Judgment of the Southern people when We
declare they consider the questions were de-
cided by the sword, and i. is their intention
10 good faith to abide 5y that decision. At
the close of the war the Southern people laid
down their arms and sought to resume their
CORNER relations with the United States Gov
rrament through their State Conventions.
They abolished slavery, annulled the ordin-
aaces of secession and returned to peaceful
pursuits with the sincere purpose Of fulfilling
all their duties under the Constitution of the
United States, which they had sworn to sup
port. If their action in these particulars had
,een met in a spirit Of frankness and cordial
ity, we believe ere now the old incitations
would have passed away and the wounds in
dioted by war would have been, in a great
measure, healed. We have been accustomed
from childhood, to look upon the negroes with
kindness. The change in the relation of the
two races has wrought no change in Our feel
ings towards them. They still constitute an
Important part of our laboring population.
W;thou: theis labor the lands Of the South !!
would be comparatively unproductire. With |
-oIt tar employment which Southern agricul- |
,uee affords they would be destitute of means,
and becUme paupers dependent on the public |
county. SelfinteEest, even il no higher mo-
i've, would prompt the whites Of the South |
to extend to the negroes care and protection.
The important fact that two races are, under |
existing circumstances, necessary to each
..:her, is gradually apparent to both. and we
believe that both for the influences exerted to
s.;r up the passions o. the negroes, the rela-
Gus ef tae two races would soon adjust
themselves Oh = basis Of mutua, kindness ,
and Of advantage to both.
It is true that the people Of the South. to-
sether with the people of the North and
'Yest are. for obvious reasons, oppo.ed to
any system of laws which wou Id place the
political power Of the country ia the hands
vi the negro race but this opposition springs
from no feeling of enmity, but from the deep
seated CONVICTION tina. at present the negroes
aAve not the intelligence nor other qualities
necessary to make them the repositories of
political power. They would inevitably be-
tome the victims of demagogues who for sell
Ssh purposes, would misiead them to the Sc
rious injury Of the Republic. The great
amt Of the South is peace. The people
.aruestly desire tranquility and restoration
TO the Union. They deprecate disorder and
settlement az the most serious obstacle to Z
heir prosperity. They ask for a restoration :
Il they ixhts under the Constitution. They
lt>ire relief from oppression and misrnie, q