The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-21
Not ali innovator.

1ne HdFllUfH tUuliLt eAF!dlIjS, Iii
defence OF Gen Smith. or "Hell-K0ar>
ing lake" as he is known to his
troops. that ne has only been following
the example in our own country OF
1.-THE greatest ''American generals,
under whom he WIS trained. He s.
first quoted as saying for himself il .
published interview:
"Of course l underJ;::;ill>t shy {: e
insurgents hate me. Ii IS >";,sI>e !;
have knocked them out. 1flhS: G::!C:
general order 1907 had been uniforH::.t
enforced throughout LuZon, there
would not even be the ghost OF a re-
bellion to-day. Inhuman? l think
not. II it was not too severe for oar
own people at home during the civil
war. il is not too severe for Ties
MalayS.
"Tha; last sentence" says 1':a
Courant, should set people thinking
and remembering. 1t does Tot ic.et
to The G0ingS OF tile bCsl.wi;acEcrs
and jayhawkers, the "Quantrells and
Shermans bummers. What it does
refer to is very carefully specified.
What follows is the substance of the
Courant's own statement and for the
most in its own words.
In December. 1861, Gen Halleck. in
command in Missouri. ordered that all
pretended Union men caught giving
information to the enemy, burning
bridges. destroying railroad CT teic-
graphs. etc. 'or ''tacitly conniying at
such things with ''guilty knowledge
of them.' should be shot, and he re-
minded the Missourians that the laws
Of war make no distinction of SEX"
In 1862 Gen Granger wrote from
Rienzi," There must besOme definite
and fixed pclicy on our part to combat
and break up this most Internal guer-
rilla system of thieves. 1t is bound
soon to waste an entire army away
and for no equivalent. We must push
every man, woman and child before us,
or put every man 20 death found in
our lines
in the same year Gen G.. ". Dodge
wrote with reference to three coun-
ties in Tennessee-"not in Samar.' as
the Courant observes: II believe our
policy is to burn up these counties.
They pay no attention to the oath,
and feed and and guide the rebels"
In the same year Gen Sherman, then
at Memphis, ordered an Illinois regi-
ment to go on board steamer. cross
the river, disembark before daylight
on the Arkansas side, near Eimgrove
postottice, and then proceed to destroy
ali the houses, farms and corntields
from that point up to Hopefeld."
The distance between the two
places is not mentioned. The provo
cation for the order was that guerril-
las had fred on gunboat. In 1864 the
same officer wrote from Rome. Ga, to
one of his subordinates, Gen. Watkins:
'Can you not send over about Fair
mount and Adairsyille, burn ten Or
twelve houses of known seceSsionistS.
kill few at random-and let them
know that it will be repeated every
time a train is fired on from ReSaca to
kingston" Before starting to the sea
he wrote to Grant that he was going
to "make desolation everywhere, to
Col. Beckwith that he was going ''ruin
Georgia." to Gen. James H. Wilson
that he was going to leave a trail that
will be recognized fifty years hence"
Everybody knows" the Courant
remarks, ''how he kept his word"
Everybody knows" it adds, what
Sheridan did to the Shenandoah
Valley" Applying the lesson Of these
interesting "reminiscences in defence
Of Smith, the paper goes on to say:
He has done no more + 4 < than the
greatest American generals have done
in our own country. To those great
generals war was war. 1t was in the
army which idoliZed them than Jacob
H. Smith toted a musket and won his
first shoulder straps. No wonder he
doesn't see why war should be waged
so much more gently, tenderly and
politely on treacherous Malays
than it was, in his youth, On white
Americans
The News and Courier, from which
paper we clip the above, says I'VE have
nothing to add to the Courant's state
ments, and need make no comment on
its lire of argument, perhaps, except
that it appears to have fully made out
its case.
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