The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-02-04
SHERMAN IN ATLANTA,
THE MAFNEIf OF HIS RECEPTIOE
BY THE GEORGIANS,

BK K1HE GE0RGIANs,
The Newspapers Give Him q Welcome. |
Not Warm, but Dignifled--The Peo-
pie Gather In Crowds to See the
Lion OF the Day--A dentle Reminder
or the Past--Sherman's Letter De-
Ginning to Let the Women and Chill
dren Remain in Atlanta.
From the Atlanta Constitution
History furnishes few moro dra-
matte episodes than the one pro-
seated by tho visit of Gen, Sherman
to Atlanta. Seven teen years ago
he entered this city at the head of
conquering army. In tho near
distance the guns of Hoods army
doomed sulleply. Flying before
the advancing legions, cloud of
women and children hurried from
tbeir homes. Breaking now and
then through the din Of drum and
trumpet came the sharp crack Of a
rifle, as some man, maddened at
the surrender of tho city. fired on
the victors, and then ended his pro-
test with his life. Two months
afterwards General Sherman left
the city. AS he filed from the hills
to the south of Atlanta, he turned
aud saw it enyelopod in cloud Of
smoke, through which cleaned the
htful fumes as the old city, repre-
sentlny years Of heroic labor, and
haliowed with sacred memories, was
melting into ashes, Hardly had the
hoof ring of his horses died away
before tue work Of desolption and
destruction was completed. A mass
OF ruins narked the place where
Atlanta had stood. A horrible ex-
panse Of charred AMI blackened
wrecks stretched ov.r these hills,
Anu the dread gloom was broken
only by the call of the sentry or
tho rumble of the army wagon.
Yesterday aan. Shermap returned
to the scene of this destruction and
disaster, andlooked upon the an.
swer that our people had made to
bis torch, A proud city, prosper
ons almost beyond compare, throb-
b'ng with yigor and strength, and
rapturous with the thrill Of growth
and expansion, stands before him.
A people brave enough to bury
their hatreds in tho ruins his hands
have made, and wise enough to turn
their passions towards recuDeration
rather than revenge, give him deco
rous greetings. In this new CITY
in this new life--in this metropolis,
planted amid the rakings of ASH
heaps, his heart must kindle with
admiration for the people who, ris.
Ing from beneath his horses boots,
stanched their b'eed ng wounds,
closed up their shattered ranks,
and bent their unused hands to the
labor of rehabilitation.
We give Gen, Sherman welcome
to this city We point him to At
lanta as o fair sample of the readi-
ness with WHICH the. South has
recovered from the desoiation of
war that was cruel beyond prece-
dent-as an evidence that our peo-
pie, brave enough to die in opposing
his invasion. have been brave
enough to give themselves manfully
to repairing the disasters that were
scattered from his hands.
sHRRMANs ARRIVAL.
Gen, Sherman REACHED the CITY
on the 1854 train on yesterday. He |
was expected on Wednesday, but
switched off at Dalton and went
down the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad. A foolish rumor that he
had q purpose in not letting the !
people know when he was coming
was almost too absurd to mention.
A large crowd collected along the
sidewalks to SEQ the general of the
army. The depot was comfortably
filed, mostly with white people. A
sort Of light, good humor pervaded
tho crowd, spiced up with curiofity
10 see the man who burned Atlanta
There was no perceptible indigna.
ton or feeling Of prejudice. In most
of the clumps Of takers there were
Jokes flying to and fro. One man
proposed to Mayor Calhoun to 20
and offer the freedom of the city to
Gana.a1 Sherman, EHa mada foo