The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-17
"OLD SHADY"
Virginia Comments on Gen. Sheridan's
North American Review Article.

From the Net1 York sun.
| RICHMOND, Oct 1O-The article entitled
''Old Shady" by Gen. W. r. sherman, in
this months North american Reriew, has
caused great sensation in Virginia. A
/ leading democratic politician mere boasted
! that it was worth to-day 5000 new votes
| for the Democratic party il this state.
! The Richmond State expresses its gratif-
cat on at 1.-THE indignant reprobltion of the
lncendary article written by w. I. Sber-
man in the North American Review, in
| which he viifies and miSrepresents the
south. and at the same time gives iucendlary
| advice to the negroes" and adds:
What a spectacle this is A retired com
mander-in-chief of the army of the United
| States, man who would be supposed 10 be
against mob violence actually limiting to a
large class of newly liberated and ignorant
| people the power Of the use of the torch.
VIVA a s ectaclel A political party
seeking to light its way to victory by the
| liglt of the home-cJnsumtng fiambeau, aD-
piled by frenZed hand All. yes. Here
we have the Republican party in its true
colors. Here we have the decay ed, wicked,
and cowardly party, whose leaders from
secure hiding places would wreak contlagra-
ton on the people of the south, south they
they hate because it is a solid south.
I'VE cannot feel angry at these pitiable
speeches, because the speaker is far in years.
nc LOOse anu ulsc LueClei iOi &c ol Ills tulA
shows disagree able mind The otfense Is
in those who shove him in the frout and
make him thus exhibit himself"
Tho Lynchburg NetCS is more bitter. 1t
says, among other things:
"Old Tee Sherman, senile and vindictive,
Is as much q savage III his declining years
as old John Brown was. He has written fOr
the current number OF the North 4 Inericdn
RerieiU a paper which would have done
credit to the character and usages of he LerJ
Of Harper's Ferry, bat which, in reality, is
a dlshonor to this age of the countrys civil
lzatlOn. In plain words, it is a deliberate,
cold-blooded Indictment to riot and rapine-
an incendiary appeal to the negroes Of the
southern states to rise in mutiny against
the local governments, and, with dagger
and torch" to murder the people of this sec
ton and lay waste 10 their homes"
The Alexandria Gazette quotes this pas
sage from Gen. Sherman's article: "Other
wise, So sure rs there is a God in h. aveH, you
will have another war, more cruel than the
last, when the torch and dagger Will take
the place of muskets of well ordered battal-
ions and thus comments:
80 spe ks a man who, before the war
lived in the south, and " no then knew so
much about the real condition of the two
races living i'll this section, that, though of
northern birth, it was for some time ques-
tionable with him which side he would es-
pOuse But, since Gen. Sherman's denial
of the burning of Columbia by his army,
and his statement that he had seen private
letters convicting ex-President Davis of
conspiracy, what he says or even does, has
ceased to @ a matter of any consequence to
the people whom in his senile garrulitv, he
now threatens with the fate which John
Brown would have melted out to them