Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-06-22
Sherman.

We see the name OF Gen. w. u
Sherman suggested, by some Of the
papers, as suitable to put in, inomina-
ton as a candidate for the Presidency
in 1872. It has even been. hinted by
some few demented individuals, .to
run him as the Democratic candi.
date! Put him on the Vallandig-
ham platform and. run him as "a
Democratic candidate and let the
Southern Democracy accept him and
/. the platform and the situation, and
we will have farce that will make
the world, laugh.
We suppose his speech at New
Orleans, in which it is said be gave
utterance TO sentiments in opposition
to the Ku-Klux bill, is the ground
upon which these few individuals
wish him nominated. Of course, no
such thing will ever happen, but we
merely mention the fact of such q
thing having been in the thoughts Of
anybody as matterof great surprise
to us.
The fact is, we do not see what
claims this man has upon either party !;
or what claims he has to- distinction.
His name deserves as much infamy
as that Of any man living, Beast But
ler not excepted.
He is a general without a victory.
a hero .without.a fight. Hemay have
talents, he may be a military genius
for aught we know; weneither admit
or deny the fact but We do say. he
has done nothing to display military
genius.
His great march to the sea, about
which the Yankee nation made such
noise and upon which all his fame
rests, was no great achievement.
Any school boy could have led an
army through the most abundant
country in the South, without an en-
emy to oppose him. It was about as
difficult to do as to take the train an,
day at present, at Atlanta, 60 to
Macon, and from thence to Savan-
nah the only difference being in the
time it would take.
But if infamy can make man
great, then this. man Shernanis great,
for upon this great march to the sea,
he certainly loaded. himself with
enough of it to last through all time.
His wanton, cruel, cold-blooded,
useless destruction of life and prop
erty is unprecedented in the annals
of history. Starting at Atlanta, he
begun mis- career. After utterly de-
stroying that city, he marched to
Savannah, leaving behind him track
from forty to sixtymiles wide,5 through
the most prosperous and productive
portion of our State, perfectly devas-
ttated and desolate. His march back
through South Carolina. and the de-
struction of the beautiful city of
Columbia, with all the accompanying
and heart rending brutalities upon its
poor, defenceless women and chill
dren, needs no word Of comment
from us. They will not be forgotten by
the present generation of Southern
ers, md he is but a miserable style
of man, who does not teach his chill
dren to abhor the very name Of the
man.
There might have Leen some shad-
,ow of excuse for this cruelty, this
destruction of property, if it had ad-
vanced his cause in the least, but he
could have accomplished the same
ends just as easily, and just as soon,
without destroying one dollars worth
of private property more than suh-
cient to subsist his troops, without the
death of a single private citizen.
Let us then never cease to execrate
his name, and the name Of any man,
or any newspaper, North or South,
that eyer mentions the man in con-
nection with any Office towhich honor
ought to be Washington
(Ga.) Gazette.