The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1873-12-17
GEN. snERMANs lNnUMANITY.

Gen. d. II. Marry in 4 communicatio
to the Richmund Enquirer. gives his opiu
ion Of Gen. Sherman. IT shows up tha
distinguished military genius ia quite al
unenviable light. We quote: ss
Viewed ~ the standard Of honor use,
| BY the military men Of this age prior /
the late war Gen. Sherman's record viii
be found very uliwprthy Of imitation.
five except Gen. Butler, perhaps n,
commander more cruelty violated the prin
ciples ofhumanity than Gen. Sherman did
Ills own words and his own correspondence
shall en- lemn him. Although the gov
ernment las suppresseda portion of hi
military correspondence. for reasons ",
may conjecture, enough remains to show
that Shefman's ideas Of military honor ar.
very peculiar. and should be carefully g.
| Eliminated from any model Designed for tbs
education Of young soldiers.
We will give some 'gleanings from Ge.
neral Sherman's dispatches. which seem
to justify our opinion Of his principles O
war.
July 7th, 1864: Their utter destruct-
ion factories in Georgia) is right, and
meets my entire approval; and 10 make
the matter complete you will arrest the
owners and employees and send them mn
der guard, charged with treason, to Ma
rietta. ~ 49, -
Should sou. under the impulse Of an
ger, natural at contemplating such perfdy.
hang the wretch. approve the act be-
forehandr 7
July nth. To Gen. j. +. Smith: III
you entertain bare suspicion against an,
family send it to the North. If guerrillas
trouble the roads or the rivers they should
be shot without mercy
September Sth, 1864. | wont allow
trade or manufactures Of any kind, but
will remove the present population and
make Atlanta purely military town r
This barbarous threat was actually ..cxecu-
ted BY Lin.
November 1iih. 1864. Last night we
burned Rome. and in two more days we
will have Atlanta
December 9th. 1864. Blair can burn
tie bridges and culyerts and burn enough
barns to mark the progress Of the head Of
his column.
December 22d. To Gen. Grant: II
you can hold Lee, | can 60 on and smash
South Carolina all to pieces
This seems very unfair division OF L.
bor. When Gen. lIalleck suggests to him
TO have Charleston destroyed by some ac-
eident. and TO SOW salt upon IL site.
Sherman replies. December 24.s
y We are not only fighting hostile ar
mics. but hostile people aud we must
make old and young. rich and poor. feel
the hard hand Of war
10 terrified lady. whe demonstrated
against the cruelty Of bis acts. be is said
to have replied, Madam, war means cru
city,
Ills dispatches and correspondence be-
tween the 10th aud 2lst December have
been suppressed by the Government.
And then referring to West Point Acad-
emy under its present management. Gen.
ersl Manry says:
.IfWsst Point ever was desirable
school for the education OF young geKtle-
men. il cannot be 81 now. aud we believe
no Virginian can wisely subject bis son to
the influences which must surround him
there.
If military education be desired By
q young man. have we no. an academy In
Lexington equal TO all Of our prospective
rclairementss
While it is 10 no respect inferior IN the
standard Of attainnenis to West Point in
il. best days.
The influence Of lee and jackson. hoy.
ers about It's eleyes. and the examples Of
Rhodes. Patton. Iatimer. aud hundred
other Of It's gallant spirits. animated the
virtues of the young gentlemen ofthe vir-
ginis Military Institute. The very fow-
or u Southern youth have for more than
thirty years resor:ed there for The founds-
lion Of fsn education which is at once liberal
aud practical. aud IL which social aud mo.
raj issaususes bold their controlling place.
ID. II. NJ.