The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-06
plans; so long as ] beat the rebel army
he was satisfeA. He spoke OF Q plan he

map. ne crew atl Imaginary iine Do.
tween two Of the Virginia ,creeks OF
rivers, the Bemes of afhich have escaped
me, and said that I might move on that
line and have the streklhs for supplies.
looked at the plan and, cav In q mo.
meht that If put my aftny on each d
line would be Id mitch the same poai-
ton as the amy Of the James. would
be powerless; I could do no good 10 our
side and no harm to the other. Iwould
be locked up. l tod Mr. Lincoln I
would consider the plan aud that vas the
last Of it. The. route was en- impossible
route, aud was meyer mentioned again by
Mr. Lincoln. That is, as far as Z re-
member, the exact story Of the confer.
ence between Mr.. Stanton and myself
when / took command OF the army. The
question IF my plans and their wisdom
and unwisdom was never afterward a
subject OF conversation or correspon.
dence, If there were blunden in that
campaign the. blunders were mine and
not those Of Lincoln or Stanton. They
did everything in the. world to assure my
success. Upon me, and upon me alone,
iiust inc whuie Fvap0nsibiIity fail.
THE RELATIVE POWER OF THE NORTH
k.f.,'e AND SOUTH. s44s
"There is another point said The Gen.
eral, "th9t thase historians omit. It 10
said that we oyerpoweFed the South. IN
foreign Journals and foreign assemblies
it is put up, this way, that we oyerran
the South with the scum of the world
with Mrelipgs and He3sians. No one
would do moro honor to the foreigners
who came into our ranks than myself.
They were brave men and earned our
gratitude. But so far from. our armies
being foreign, Iqqestion moro than three
per cent. v'eTee aliens. Yet have no
doubt many well informed authors will
tell you that there wege only three per
cent. Americans. This 10 the way public
opinion was made during tho war, and
this 10 the way bietory,is made now. We
meyer overwhelmed the South, and ], IN
only sorry we could not have done so
end ended the war and its Iaiseries.
What we Won from the South We won by
hard fighting, aud the odds, when there
were Odds, were meyer decisive. We aad
to fight the Southern States. They were
O unit and we were divided. Every able
bodied male in the South from II to 60
was the army, or was supposed to be
there. We had TO depend upon volnn.
teers and the eonscTiption. The South
had 1000, 600 of negroes. These negroes
kept the farms, protected the families,
supported the armies, and were really o
reserve force, 3 ,moss important reserve
force in q afighting nation. These 4, ,0O0,O00
of negroes did . work thst white men
would have been compelled to do. Yet
they are never copa.ed in any sum-
mary of the forces of the South. They
are forgotten as If they never had existed,
and yet they kept the acres green and
tho harvestgrowing while.the white men
were: In the, war. Men, women aud
children went into the fields. The
South was really an organized army.
During the wax in the South all progress,
all industry came to halt aud nothing
va; showed 20 :Gts--Ess=a With the =s..
Even now the South auffers from war
stagna'ion, fromwar paralysis. In the
North industry was never moro brisk !:
All the arts Of peace were cherished; !; so
cfety. moved on; inventions were dis
covered the genius of the country werr
as keen as ever. We supported ar army
ana 3 hiansa5ipg fesf. we never
Jagged in Jour industry. We kspt. our
place as o manufacturing commercial
power. Cites like Chicago, New York,
San francisco grew and grew, while
Savannah, New Orleans and Charleston
languished. s
We not only sustained our part in the
war, but oil that was required for peace.
In spite of,all the drain upon the re-
sources OF the North ne were moro pros
porous, moro powerful, more respected
and feared by the nations than when the
war broke out Remember, rs have
gaid, that we hRy by no means O unite5
North, while tne South was o unit. we
had to send troops 20 suppress riots in
New York |; We had enemies in our midst.
II every NG-sshheess:::. State State there .ss res Q
strong pasty against the war always re-.
joicing over disaster, aalgsyB voting to-
paralyEe :3n. forces ready for any con-
cessiop or surrender This party was
strong in every Stase--str0ng enough To-
carry States like Indiana, Pennsylvania
and New York during the wax. Nothing
but Morson'B cptfrage elsaycd it from maxi
ing Indiana rebel State, like Kentucky.
This was the party that voted the war
was o failure atthe time Sherman was
setting out On his march to the sea, at
the very time when the great General
and his army were about TO cover our
arms With imperishahie renown. You
can innaginsithe effect such resolution
must have had upon the enthusiasm of
an army, for itis a mistake TO imagine that
such things did not affect an army. Thsy
did affect 1t as i know we'll. During our
var there was acaEcely O wind that Came
from the North, frc.N our own homes!
that did not como laden with caluEany.
and diapasagemehs. The Southern Gen!
erals were models of chiVairy and yaior
--our Generals were genai, incompetent!
coarse. / am speaking hoWlof our peo-
pie, of writer's aud speakers who were
loyal and toa certain extent Republican.
Everything that our armies did was
wrong, could have been done 90 much
better. Everything that our opl
ponents did was perfect. Gen. Lee was
o DEM .Sod, jackson Tas q demigod!
= :, :. s,s. s..zsA ksrslei
ers. So 1t was In Europe. With a few
exceptions here and there tho public
opinion OF the world was against the
North, and ous own friends at homo
would often grow nervous and fault
finding with the army. You cannot
read Gle Of Journals In England of that
tifno that did not contain some horrible
callmny ebout.men In the army, and
copied from onr own journals. {. If we
won,s battle like Shiloh, for instance
ono of the most useful victories of the
war, one Of che most important in its
reanlts-oura own papers set to work 10
belittle tho victory ana give the enemy
as much advantage as possible, These
,sege essential elments in war like
ours the war OF q free people. lido not
recite these things to complain especially.
have nothing 20 complain about. Tie
moro foes we conquered the more i'm
poFtant Was our Victory. Having con-
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