Another Of Gen. Sherman's Letters

Inicia; lo IIimtBTlUt Advocate Auuüt 81. Mr, D. AI. Martin bas hamled us the follüwiiig letter lYom General Sbennaa to himsclf', ivbioh wo bog our readers to retid carelully. ít shows the auimss of the country iu fjghting for the Union, bdJ tlio siupondous. insano folly of saBöceBsion, by wfiich fatal act tbe Soulh has lost so uiuch : llüADQUAUTÜRS MlLIIABY DlVlSlO 01? i TIÍK MlSSISSIFJPI, IX TllB FlELD, nkai; Atlanta, Geo.Aug. 10, '64. ) Dftniel M. Martin, Butd Mounlaiu, opposits BellefoiUe. , Mr Drae Old Fkiknd : - Wben ín Lark'uiBvillo last winter,. I iaquirod nftor you, and couM get no positivo answer. I wish you h;ul sent tu o your lottor of Jan. 22 - vvbich I have just received - for I could havo made you feqj nt easo at once. Indeed do I well reraember oí r oíd times about Bollefonte, and the r.ide we took to the corn mili, and the littlo farm where I adoiired tho bandeóme colt, and tiied to buy it. Timo has woru on, and you are now an oíd man, in want and suffering, and I, also, uolonger young, but leadíng an hoatile army pn tbc vory road I oame wheu I left Bellofonte, and at this moment pouriug into Atlanta tho dread missiles of war - seeking the livos of iti people. And yet, I am the saine William Teoumseh Sfaerman you knew in 1844, with as warm a beart as ever, and arixious that peaoa and plonty hall prevail in this laúd, and to provo it, I defy Jeffrnou Davis, General Lee or General Hood to make the saorifice for poaee íhat I will persoually and offioially. I ,-will to-day lay down my power and my honor - already vvon - will strip myeelf uakod, and my ehild and wife - atarkDfeíd in tho world aa we carne, [and begin life aneiv, ií tbe people of tbe South will but eease the war, elect their members of Congross, and let them settle by argumout audireason tho questions growing out of slavery, instead oí trying to divide our country into two angry hal ves, to quarrel and íight to the end of time. Our country catino be divided by an East and West lino, and uiuat be oue, and if we must figbt let us iight H out now, and not bequoath it to our children. I wíis áeoor a politician, but reíignod fiom tho anny and livod io üalifornis tul 1857, wheu I oame baek with my wifc and threo chiidren, who wanted to be near home- Mr. Ewing's, not Mr. Corwm's- but I the oíd army eo ground iu iny composition that civil pursuits v;ere too tame, and J accopted tin oíler as president of the Louisiana Military Academy. Therefore, at tbe time of Linuoln'e cloetion I waa at A!oxsndria, on Rod llivor. I saw, and you n.ust have seeíi, that tho eouthero politieians waoted to bring about Boosssion, teparation. They could have eleoted Mr. DoLiglas, but thoy so mansgad that Lincolu's cleotion v?a8 marle oertüin, and ajter they had acoomplialied this, was it boaost and fair for them to allege it as a cause of war ? Did not BIr. Jireekinridge, as V ico-president, in his Beat, declare Mr. Lincoln the lawfully tlocted President of the United States ? Was it ever pretended the President was our goverument ? Don't you know that Oono,ress makes the lawa," the Sapieme Court judges them, and the President only executea them ? Don t you know that Mr, Lincoln of h.imself could not take away your rights ? Now, I was iü Louisiana and whilo the planters and mechanica and industrial people wero happy and prosperous, tho politiciaus and busy b.odres were scheming aod plotting, and got tho Legislature to pass an ordinanco of eecessioD, which was submitted to the people, who yoted againü it - yet the politicians voted tho state out, andprocoeded to takapossession of the United States mint, the forts, tho arsenals - and tore down tho old flag and insultod it. . That, too, before Mr. Lincoln had got .to Washington. I saw these things, and begged -Bragg, and lieauregard, and Governor Moore, and a host of personal friends, to beware. In that was high tre.ason. liut they answered the North was made up of mean manufacturera, of traderd, of farmers who would not fight. The people of the North never dreamed of interferiüg with tbe elaves or property of the South. They eimply voted as they had a right to do, and they could not understand why the people of the South should beginto take po-ssession of the tlnited Staota forts lud arsenak tí our government had done sometliiug wrong - sornething oppressive. Tbe South legan the war. You know it. I aud millions of others living at the South kuow it, but the poop!e of tho North were as innocent of it us your little grand chiidren. Even after forts had been taken, public arms stolen f'rom our arsenals and distributod among the angry militia, the brave and houest freemen of tho great North could not realize tha fact, and did not uutil Beauregard began to firo upon a garrison of tho United States troops in a fort built by the common treasury of the tohole country. Then, as by a mighty upheaval, the people rose and begau to think of war, and not until then. I resigned my poat ia Louisiana in March, 1SC1, because of the public act on the part cf tho state in seiziug the United States arsenal at Baton Eouge, and went to St. Louis, where I readily got lucrativo employuieut, hoping that sorne chango would yet avert tl war. Jiut it carne, and I and all of! military education bad to choose. I repeat that thon,ag now, I had as much love for the houest people of the South as any man living. Had they remaiucd lrue to the country I would havo resisted, even with arms, any attack upon theiiVjjqghts - even tboir slavo rights. But vmen, as a people, they tore down our old flag ard spit upon it, and callod us cowards, and dared us to tho contest, then, I took up arms to uiaintaia the integrity of our country, and punish the men who ehallonged us to the conflict. Is this not a truo picture? Supposing the North had patiently Bubmitted wliat would have been the verdict of histoiy and the world ? Nothiug else but the North was craven and cowai-d. Will you say tho JNorth is eraveu and coward now ? Cruel and inhuman as this war bas been, and muy elill continua to be, it was foroed upou ub. We had uo choice. And we hriv uo ehoice yet, Wu must go on ovan to tlio ad of timo; oviïi if it rmsult in taking a iniilio!) if lives and deeolatiug tlu) vlu:!e huid, leaviug a. ïesort behind. V"e must uiaïntuin the iijte,iity of' our country. And jtlia day will como wbeu thu littlo graud ohild you !ovo bo well will bief us who fougbt that the United Status of America shnuld not pink info infaröy and worga than Mexioari aiifirchy, hy the nel of southeni politiciau?, who care uo uioro fur yon, or suc.h is yciu, thau thoy caru ior iJattoiitots. I havo m;ver undermted tho magnitudo of thia war, fur I know the aize of tho Soulh, and tho diffioulty of operating in it Büt I alsd know that the northern raoea hnve over sitice tiie vitr ber.'an. had moro patieucc and persevorance than tho southern races, And so will it be now - we will persevera to the and. All mankind shall recognize in us a brave and stubboru nice, not to be daterred by tho niagnitudo of the dauger. Oaly throo ears h&ve passed, and that ia but a minuto in a nation's life,.a;id seo" whoro we aro. Wliere nro the hanghty planters of Louisiana who oonipared our hard vvorking, intelligent whites of the Norlh vïith our uegroe-iV The defeata we huv.' sustained have baroly made a phase in our courae, and the vannlocl braves of Teunesaoe, Mississippi, Louisiana, Jliesouri, etc, inslead of vvaluing rough shod over tho freemen af tha Nnrtb, are ongnged in ítealíug horacs and robbing poor old pbople for a living, whila our-armies now troad in every southorn state, and the biggeBt irmiei in Virginia aud Georgia lay bohind forts, and dará not como out and fight lis cownrds of tho North, who have oomo fivo hundred miles inkj their country to accept their challenge. But, my doar old friond, I have borod ycu too much. My hand-writing is not plain, but you havo timo ío study it out, and, as, you can undersUnd, i havo a great deal of writing to do, and it muit be.in a hurry. Think of what I have written. Talk it over with your neighbors, ond aak yourselves, in your trials a;id tribulatioriit, ifyou havo suffared mote fro:n thoUuion aoldierathan you woald, hd you built your barn Tfhere lightning was aura lo burn and tear it down, Did yuti not all invoke the ptinishmont of an indignatit God and govermnent ? Í crire not a ptraw for niggera. Tlio Dioraent tho master rebels, tha negro sfree of cours, for he is a lave o ni y by law, and the law broken he is freo I commnnd in all Tenncsseo, Karttuoky. Mississippi, Alabami, and Georgia. The paper l inclose will be of service : o vod. Love to Mrg. Martin.