Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-30
rp1nAy OCTOBER 80, 1885
The Bloody-shrt and Sherman.


.h,t he waved the bloody shirt in the
-scept campaign in Ohio. Like FORA
xrn he either tells deliberate false
hood. or else, like FORAKER, he puts q
meaning Of his own on the phrase
"waving the bloody shirt" Mr.
SHERMAN can style it what he plesses'
lint when be called JEFF. DAVIS "a
eopspirator and traitor" he did ex-
.etly what our people understand the
pbrsse ..waving the bloody shirt" to
mean. We do not wish to use any Ian
suage not fully justified by the facts;
but what are we to say Of man that
has the effrontery to stand up in Viz
ginia and say:
"Ifhe General Fitz Leel meant by
waving the bloody shirt that l sought
in any way to renew the animoslties OF
the war. then he was greatly mistaken"
Now. let us see whether in Ohio he
tried to renew the animosities Of the
war or not. Here are Mr.. SHERMAN's
own words at Mt. Gilead, as they
appear in his home organ, the Republic
can Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
"The Republican party is faced by a
solid South, in which the negro is de-
priyed, substantially, Of all his politi-
cal rights by open violence or by frauds
as mean as any that have been COM
mitted by penitentiary convicts, and as
openly and boldly done as any high
wsy robbery. BY this system and by
the acquiesence ofa few northern States
the men rho led in the cirl tcdr hare
been restored TO poper, and hope, Prdc-
tieaHy, 10 rererse all the results Of the
rar.
"This is the spectre that now haunts
American politics, and may make 1t
lust rs vital and necessary to appeal TO
the northern States to unite against this
evil, not so open and arrogant as slavery,
but more dangerous and equally un'
just"
Does not his own language convict
him of waving the bloody shirt and re-
newing the animosities Of the war
Again: Mr.. SHERMAN said:
In the South it may be said that nc
known Union man has been appointed
TO Office. The offices are filled from The
rebel ranks. No man who acquiesce'
in the results of the war, who honora
bly, demands q fair ballot and fail
count, can be appointed to office in tn
South. The rebels are in as absolute
mastery in the South as they woult
have been if the Confederacy had sue
ceeded.
Fellow-citizens the line drawn be
tween the two parties is nowas distinc
as it was during the war;"
The terms he uses are war terms
"Union and " Rebel" He speaks
the "results Of the war;" and of tn
"rebels " being in power, and charge
that the line is as distinct as it wa
/" during the rar." What sort OF col
science can the man have who in II
face of that language can deny that
has sought to renew 1.-THE animositl'
of the war;? We fear he has non
Mr.. SHERMAN also said in Ohio:
Sometimes fear that our moder
ton is verging on indifference; tn
while our minds are distracted by loo
politics the old doctrines are being
yiyed again. We forget sometimes til
IL was the Union cause that won. Al
not the rebel cause. l have recent
heard Jefferson Davis, in the Senate
the United States, extolled as a patri
and have been called in question
denouncipg him as q conspirator and
traitor.
81 have seen many signs OF disI
sition to waive all the glorious resi-
of the war to make no difference
tween the blue and the gray; to rev
again the doctrines Of secession {
State rights taught before the "
The tendency Of the Democratic pa
is all that way"
What can we add TO his own wor
He speaks Of Mr.. DAVIS as q
spirator and q traitor; declares
making a difference between "the
and the gray ~; speaks of the ~
cause- and the "rebel cause v;
does not seek to "renew the amin
ties Of the war"
Who can put any trust in su
msni What is his counsel wo
Either he does not know the me'
of the language he uses, or else
repeat, he is guilty Of deliberate
hood. If the former, he is not
f,ed TO instruct yirginians. II tn
ter, he is unworthy Of any mans
Adcnee.
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