The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-08
General Rosecrans' Debut.


product of their common Author
"His prentice ham ......
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General Rosecrans having forsalSen the bust
ness of war for that of Diplomacy, concluded,
before starting for Mexico, to try "his prentice
ham - on the Rebel chiefs; 80, after repairing
to Utica and rehearsing the matter with Hora-
ito Seymour, he flies to the White Sulphur,
where the chieftains of the late Southern Con-
federaoy were enjoying their summer reunion,
and addresses them in the interest of Democ-
raoy and its kind of peace. He is heard with
patience and answered with condescension;
yet the published correspondence sheds new
light on nothing but the character Of General
RoseeTans.
Rosecrans and Lee were alike educated at
West Point at the expense of that Union, alike
taking solemn oath of fidelity to that Union.
That oath General Lee deliberately broke to
plunge into rebellion for which he at the
time declared, in letter to his sister, that
there was no justification. He persisted in
that rebellion till more than half million of
his countrymen had lost their lives by it, while
nearly an equal number were manned and
crippled for life. At least five billions worth
of American property were sacrificed in that
wanton, therefore wicked rebellion. Lee
fought for it till he and his army were taken
prisoners, and could fight no longer, and has
never limited that he regrets having done SO.
'VeuoIol nOseCIduS iOuRnJ Oh Ln6 OLn6r size.
And now Rosecrans volunteers certificate
that he has unqualified confidence in Lees
"purity and patriotism" and in his "reve-
renee and regard for the Union, the Constitu-
tion, and the welfare of the country" Such
being the case, it is very natural that Rose
Grams should wish to defeat General Grant and
restore the Government of our country to Lee
and his confederates. His White Sulphur
mission had that express object. -.
General ROSeCrans wanta the late Rahals In
'evlnce chivalrous and magnanimous devo-
'tion to restoring peace and prosperity to our
common country" sby undertaking to govern
her; and they consent to make the sacrifice.
Give them complete, unqualified control of the
South first and the Union afterward and they
are quite willing to undertake the government
OF BOTH In this we recognize their frankness
and sincerity; we fail to perceive the chivalry
or the magnanimity. If they had been asked
for the country's sake, to treat their loyal
neighbors and fellow citizens as equals, accord
ing them political rights in spite of their color,
we could have comprehended the appeal to
their chivalry and magnanimity; but when
they are asked to take everything and concede
nothing, we cannot imagine where the magma
nimity on their part comes in. Can you
General eRoseorans once professed to sympa-
thize with the Union Republican party. Hate
OF General Grant now impels him to brand
that party in the South as 'the poor, simple.
uneducated, landless freedmen, and the few
whites who, against the public opinion and
sentiment of the intelligent white people, are
willing to attempt to lead, and make their liv-
ing off OF, these ignorant, inexperienced COL
,ored people, mostly men who must be needy
adventures. or without any of those attri-
butes on which reliance for good guidance or
government can be placed' Having thus
calumniated and DETAINED that loyal majority
OF the inhabitants of the States lately plunged
by their arlstocracy into needless and unjus-
tifable Rebellion, and complimented that
Rebel aristocracy as "the intelligent white
"people," " who are not 'needy adventurers,'
since they mOnopoliZe "those attributes on
which reliance for good guidance or govern
ment can be placed" he compels us to ask
why he fought against that intelligent and
capable aristOcracy in behalf of so hopeless
and wretched faction as he makes the South
ern Unionsts. Either he misjudges the two
parties now, or he was in very bad business
from 1861 to 1865.
But General Rosecrans is not content with
exalting the Rebel and depreciating the Loyal
portion OF the Southern people. He goes on
to affirm that the power of the former over
their section ought to be exclusive. He pro-
ceeds:-
q 1--WE are told that this kind of government
must be continued at the South, until six or
eight millions of intelligent, energetic white
Now 1 think, the Union Army thinks, and
people OF the North and West dare say be-
lleve, Jnere must be, or there ought to be.
isurer way to get good government for all at the
South We know that they who organized and
sustained the Southern Confederacy for four
years against gigantic efforts, ought to be able
10 give peace, law, order, and projection to the
whole people OF the South. They have the in
terest and the power to employ, protect, ed a.
cate and elevate the poor freedmen, and to
restore themselves and our country to all the
blessings OF which 1 have just spoken. The
ing 10 do it?'" .'-''
Daniel Webster was once widely accused
of having said:-'Take care of the rich, and
the rich will take care of the poor" It was
monstrous fabrication, and was Indignantly
resented as a calumny. But here is that pre-
cise sentiment, put forth by General Rosecrans
as though it We're republican and patriotic.
''They who recognized and sustained the
Southern Confederacy'' have thereby proved
themselves so wise and capable that
all power at the South should be placed in
their hands, with ''the whole people of the
South" and they will be table to give peace,
law, order, and protection" to that people,
and to the whole country II strikes US that
all the people of the South could be trusted to
achieve these ends quite as we'll as the Rebel
half exclusively. Why mott
We have before us privote letter from Mr..
Frederick w. Sumner, well known to many
worthy mechanic, who, having migrated
hence to Texas, was, in 1861, hunted out of
that State for Unionism, barely escaping with
his life. Having returned to his home aud
family since the war, he was chosen member
of the Constitutional Convention now sitting
at Austin, whence he writes to friend here
as follows
SIN my opinion, 1t matters little what sort of
Constitution we make, as the Rebels are de.