The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-27

confederate government; and the owner OF
but as he failed also to show the United States
nag, Gen. Garrard burned it also. The main
COTTON factory was valued at million of Uni
ted States dollars. The cloth on hand is re-
served for the use of tho United States hosp-
tais and have ordered Gen. Garrard to ar
rest for treason all owners and employees, for
eiGn ana native, and send them 10 Marietta
whence will send them north. Being OK
empt from CONSUMPTION, they are as much gov
erned by the rules of way as if in the ranks.
The women can find employment in indiana
This whole region was devoted to manufacto-
RES, but VIII destroy every one of them"
There are two points specially worth notice
IN this dispatch. The first. that since these
men or women, by reason of sex, or otherwise,
are exempt from CONSUMPTION, they are there.
Jore as much subject to the rules of il
in the ranks. Why not do less violence to log
&c, and state frankly, that factory hands were
iii demand in 1ndiau;r9 Tue next point is
that the Roswell factories, whether French
property or not We're destroyed because they
We're making cloth for tho Confederate gov
eminent, followed presently by the DECLARE
ton that every manufactory in that region
shall be destroyed, evidently without refer
ence to its products or their destination. How
much franker it would have been to have added
to his last sentence " and thus get rid of
many competitors to the factories of the North"
The South must learn that while she may bear
the hntden of protective tariffs, she must not
presume to share their benefits. Another dis
patch 10 Gen. Halecl of July 0, again refers
TO these factories. After referring to the Eng
lish and French ownership comes this remark:
take 1t neutral is 10 better than one of
onr OWL citizens, and we would respect
the property of one of citizens
engaged in supplying IL hostile army" lis is
the kind of logic proverbially used BY the mas
tiers of leGiors.
y dispatch to General Ha!leck of July IL,
gives Gen. Sherman's opinions OF two great
and philanthropic Institutions. Speaking of
" fellows hang ing about" tho army, he says,
" The Sanitary and Christian Commissions are
ll f,f tSSs 1r,ifN
from our minds"
July IA, to Gen. j. f. Smith, at Alatoona.
- II yon entertain a bare suspicion: against any
family, send it to the north. Any loafcr
picions person seen at any time should be i'm
prsoncd and seut of. IT Guerillas trouble the
road or wires, they should be shot without
mercy"
Sept. s. To Gen. Webster, after tho capture
of Atlanta: Don't let any citizens come to
Atlanta; not one. won't allow trade or man
ufactures of any kind, but will remove all the
present population, and make Atlanta n pure
military town." To Gen. Halleck he writes,
am not willing to have Atlanta cucumber
ed by the families of our enemies" OF this
wholesale depopulation, Gen. Hood complain
ed, by flag of truce, as cruel and contrary to
the usages of civilized nations, and customs
of war, receiving this courteous and gentle
manly reply Sept 12)-"'I think 1 understand
the laws OF civilized nations, and the customs
of war but if at q loss ut any time, 1 know
where to sock for il formation to refresh my
m Emory.
it, public, on which fact Gen. Sherman remarks
to Gen. Halleck, -" OF course he is welcome,
for the more he arouses the Indignation of the
Southern masses, the bigger will be the pill of
bitterness they will have to swallow"
About the middle of September, Gen. Sher-
man, being still at Atlanta, endeavored to
open. private communication with Gov. Brown
and Vice-President Stephens whom lie knew
to be at variance with the Administration at
Richmond on certain points of public policy.
MIR. Stephens refused TO reply to IA verbal mes
IN,,% Al.
that if the General would say tina; there was
any prospect of their agreeing upon terms
to be submitted to the action of their respect
i've governments" he would as requested visit
him at Atlanta. Tho motives urged by Mr..
King were General Sherman's extreme desire
for peace, and to hit " upon some plau of ter
minating this fratricdaI war without the fur
Their ctfnsion of blood" But in Gen. Sher-
mans dispatch Of Sept. Il, to Mr.. Lincoln,
ferriug to these attempted negotiations, the
humanitarian point OF view Is scarcely SO
cent stroke Of policy if could, without sur
rendering foot of ground of principle,
arouse the latent cnmity of Davis of Geor-
sii..'
On Oct. 90 he writes to Cen Thomas from
Summervi4le, giving an idea of his plan of OPP
erations. "Out of the forces now here and at
Atlanta, propose to orgauize an efficient ar
my OF GO,0U0 to- 900 men, with which pro-
pose to destroy Macon, Augusta, aud it may be
Savannah and Charleston. BY this propose
to demonstrate the vnlnerabili+y of the South,
anu make ltS lhn:l UltautS feel that war ana IN
dividual ruin are synonymous terms"
Despatch of Oct % TO Gen. Grant. " ] am
now perfecting arrangements to put into Ten
nesSee force able to hold the line of the
Tennessee while break up the railroad in
front of Dalton, including the city of Atlanta
and pnsh into Georgia and break up all its
railroads and depots, capture its horses and
negroes, make desolation everywhere destroy
the factories at Macon, Mlledgeville, and Au-
gusta; and bring up with 10000 men on the
sea-shore abent Savannah or Charleston"
To Gen. ThomdS, from Kingston, Nov. H.
Last night we burned Rome, aud in two
more days will burn Atlanta" (Which he
then occmpying)
Dec. >. BLAIR burn the bridges and
cnlverts, and burn enough barns to mark the
progress of his head of column"
Dec. Is. To Gen. Grant, from near Savan-
nah. "With Savannah in our possession, at
some future time, if not now, we can punish
South Carolina as she deserves, and as tho1s-
nnGs at people in Georgia hope will do. l
y" ~iu", :"!y believe that tho whole United
: 'r'- ;r,.!:. rad south would rejnice to have
tn,s- i@in"d loose on South Carolina to
dov.s' that State in the manner have
done in Georgia"
Il little u:!nre ihis lac announces to Secre-
tary Stantui ti,.!L nc IiuoM~ what the people of
the South are g. I''ass f,r What, do our read
ers suppose To ravage the North with sword
and fire, and crush them under their heel 7
Surn1 ha Vol, hat;