The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-13
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| General ''Cump' Sherman not long be-
fore he died wrote a ape for the
North American Review" in which he
| undertook to paint the south red. He
is but an idol in the north, is indeed
such an ideal soldier up there, his
vandalism is never referred to, his
multitude of sins against humanity are
entirely overlooked, n his devotion
of the south is never cerSured by any
writer or speaker. In fact he is the
subject of unbroken eulogy, and hero
worship. The old reprobate, for such
he was, seems never to have suffered
in popular estimation for his high crimes
and misdemeanors in the south. If his
ability for mischief after the war had
been in proportion to his meannessI
and righteousness, he would AVE made
the south a vast sahara for ever. He
| blasted and burned and robbed Is he
| went, but the south SOC began to
show signs of recovery when the fact
of the devouring of invaders and the
hummer vandals mad been removed.
| This fact hurt old sherman, and long
| years after peace had been declared,
marched in triumph back into the|
north, the old malignant could not
keep from eXpectorating his venom,
and dipping his pen in gall when ever
he touched upon the south. The fact
is the south knows Sherman, and,
therefore, puts one estimate On the old
heather wretch, while the north puts
another m upon his doings, and
| greatly admires and lauds the ~"victo-I
| rious chief" The southern whites
know that he conducted war as a wild
Comanche or Sioux would have done,
and under the pressure of sharp and
pertinacious criticism he LIED like al
trooper" and kept on lying. The south
has a right to hate the memory of theI
vile old house burner and robber, and
they will never take a systematic, de-
| liberate liar as a suitable eXamplar for
the youth of a country, nor will the
northern people each their children
hat burning and numbering, plumber
ing and devastating are fine arts or
are the proper expression of humanity,
even in time of war.
1t is indeed a pitable spectacle to see
a veteran once the Commander-in-Chief
of the great army of the United States,
who ought to have character as well
as decency and humanity, using his
pen to fan the flames of mob violence,
| Inc to incite the negroes to a campaign
of incendiarism. And thus General
Sherman did in his paper in the repub-I
lican North American Review" He
was willing for his party to retain
power by a race war in the south, and
a campaign of torch and turpentine in
the incendiary hands of a race urged
on by various whites and maddened and
frenzied by bad examples. When old
'Cump'' wrote that diabolical paper
he portrayed his own vileness and drew
his own picture and wrote his own ep-I
itaph. He was in war an incendiary,
and after nearly a quarter of a CEN
fury of peace he remained an incendi-
airy.
But Lincoln did as bad or even
worse, for he admitted to Stanton and
lI1dl HC "IoIC LIS
ton" freeing the negroes in the hope
and for the purpose of melting the ne,
groes to rise up and slaughter all the
old men at home and all the womenI
and children. See Wells book-"Lin-'
coin and Seward"
If you nave never read the volume by
General Bradley T. Johnson, of Balti-
.,n1p Ganaro1 ToCnDh L. Tohn
ston, a most readable and informing
work, we advise you to do so. You
will learn a great deal of Sherman's
nod of warfare and of the vas de-
struction of property he visited upon
Georgia and South Carolina. We have
not our copy of johnson at hand,
quote from the very valuable. instruc-
tive work of Hon. B. F. Grady, 1.-The
South Against the North" He quotes
from the United States Government
War Record Xiv, ia. General w.
T. Sherman wrote to General Halleck
on January 1, 1866, that he a devas-
tated a strip of Georgia, thirty miles
on either side of a line from Atlanta
to Savannah" an area, 2,465 square
miles larger tndn the STATE Oh vermont,
and that he had damaged the state as
much as 500, 900. 900. including 500. 0OO.-
900 which had Injured" to the "advant-
age of the invaders" The devil Kill
patrick reported the great destruction
he had accomplished. See page al OF
Records. Both Grant and Lincoln COM
plimented Sherman on his successful
barbarities and wholesale vandalism.