New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-01
JEFF. DAVIS ON GEN. SHERMAN
ALErTER OF BITTER IDENTIFICATION.

SON LETTER-SHERMAN AND GRANI-EEfobLi-
CAN SENATOR'S
BALTIMORE, Sept. 30.-The Baltimore Sun
will publish tomorrow morning very long aud bitter
attack upon General Sherman made by Jenerson DAVIS
in the form OF a letter Colonel J. Thomas scharf OF
this CITY, dated at Beauvoir. Miss, September %. The
follow extracts show the character OF the letter:
Before gathering OF exsoders Of the Union Army Gen.
era sherman took occasion in the ial OF 1874 to make ao
possessed by others and particularly that
hand%riin@ and saw and ideSiided my signature e
the he Teed had ' passed Between Je Davis and
would not do to mention as he is now
ter he ( would Lees army against state
he pson Of General Of the tinted states Ssmy which
General sherman had ned demanded that immediate contra
pubishein the 81 Lou,s publican the following denial
Interviews were had with General sherman by
cfronfcs The S. Louis Chronicle November2l 1888
ports General sherman as saying This Is On affair
DAVIS himself We will settle the matter between US, It is
hardly necessary Tor me 70 say @ Teen nsT' hr n ms s
otherwise than settled by denouncng his statement as
false and himself as sanderer There The mailer would nav
rested far was concerne and that shermaI
have been treated by with that silence which the men
dacous utierngs Of an sa1aere deserved Bne
custodian Of his SANDER and The Republican Ssnaiors e anne
were lifted INTO official mpoa It became duty alike TO
with my dena and 70 expose alike its author and his norcrs
After nl denial both ny myse inc Iepute wItsf ana by
eaded letter The senate Ina oase an & 20
and to spread the vile or the files of the United
interval between the meeting Of the Frank Blair
which he said lad been written Ta BY Alexander AL n
sherman being verify his authority
on made BY him at he Frank Bsr POST last stephens
which, with the circumstantaty neeifu to one having little
his with my Handwriting appended to which
he Identified my signature The next attempt at decep
fiOn %
but this device failed signally had
the conclusive proof which had to light by denias
by denying they had heard such opinions
by me "rs in an o from c nf 59
was only possible with humiliation aud disgrace He selected
every step In his letter TO the War Department Of January
Among the booAs collected at the palace in Raleigh was
CLERKS or seerSi vso es % ay ana
which referred in my 81 Louis speech and withstand
canned twenty on years after that he eon recall us eAps
Tns an" rPg"t w iter and here's n. hut
he Isoed TO the War DePar%en that The Here letter
Vance upon hearing Of ts SlIIegSsd Eaesh letter
81 LSas Rggcan rPorter on December San TO- lS asked
iere TO N your speech al he opening 81 me new heaadnaI
alleged Raleigh letter has been found sherman saws
and may been finally burned in Chicago The fire
saw not single officer at any hsldlaters has been pro-
duecd who read IT, ana II passes Dssi Iat IN me excitement
When every letter Of mine carefully evil
S S at al ah @ he1dq"areTs Should Eavc re@G hat letter.
Ess.y lar " nus rn ry PS a and S ge
berae flsehoo and that his motive had IT. inspiration in
ngs other ysees ward thS sP%IseIn people
Republican senator's and that they were not g
nan Of It's real Character %neT ,as a%y f9IoH WAS
General sherman had in his letter OF January g. lss5 to the
vera 10 inu I'm asss 30 81 1d &
which the frank Blair Post may have been white lie
not for ds Geg n R
without foundation OF support IN anything written OF Uttered
varicaton know nothing Of any conspiracy or OF any
ics Witch led to the secession o. the states in iS66Gi
There was no possibility Of any the people wsre
through al their various phases were necessarily known TO
81 are Ss mode Of retaliation for my dennnciGn Of
hs brother have been compelled TO General sherman
asher and slanderer order to protect my charac
ity his brother. the SENATOR fell the sting Of that ex.
sa 90 on the record as denOuncng traitor
ea%se nave pTv issue Of raso When banaoBed
trial in 1867 not at my Instant but in face OF my de-
The Of traitor which they raise at The mention Of my name
whose letter nelsche v Johnson has been made The
and has been altered TO serve shermans
malice sipt mat and S %To oe er
bad nuencedhs dgmen and opinion and that thus private
be allowed shadow the carefully prepared
history which Mr. stephens has lett to inform
postcrty Of his of public men aud measures
This historical statement might have been enlarged and
extended Senate made embrace the deliberate
General Sherman Of the
TO ID. To Albert Sidney
Francisco In letter Colonel
William ii. Knight OF Cincinnati Ohio, dated October %
1924 General sherman asserted that Colonel j. steven
SON Francisco, has often told that he
had cautioned the Government TO plot conspiracy
through departing commander Albert sidney Johnston.
TO deliver possession the forts. California
svmpathzng the rebels in the South and lie thinks II
was advice that the President (ncon General
f. v Sumner Johnston Of his before
conspiracy consummae That statement OF Sherman
Colonel j. d. stevenson promptly ana emphacal
ly denied.
General Grant himself has not been exempt from
Shcrman's malice To Colonel scott Sherman
if &c. ]. smith had lived would have disappeared
10 history This remarkable statement published by
General Fry and pontody and empLa caly denied by Gen
era Prompt 10 SANDER he Is equally quick TO deny
The letter sherman dated September 1853
was written Colonel Scott. Of the War Record Office
denial OF sherman has caused the publication Of the letter
exposure Of his by pocrsy in recent audaon Of the dead
choftain
The fasehood which sherman inserted in his
official report that Columbia c. bad been burned by Gen
eia Hampton afterwaTd confessed his Me-
mors 10 have been distinctly charged on General Wade
Hampton the faith OF his people in him. Even when
con-ng alsehoOd he deliberately coined another and
C of his Memoirs said that the
when he from the letter Of General
commanded the Provost Guard In Columbia that the fire
WAS accidental How much more lac knew he may in