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Moscow, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): article 3
o loyalty, he should, on his next invasion, burn every house to the ground, and if that did not work a cure he would put all the inhabitants to death, without regard to age or sex. If anything were necessary to render his next visitation a rather more difficult one than the last, this timely announcement has secured that result. He never could have advanced far into Georgia if the inhabitants had laid waste the country before him as he traveled. Even Napoleon quailed in his march upon Moscow when he saw that the people were acting upon a maxim once announced by himself, that "an army cannot exist among ruins." Sherman is not Napoleon. Nor have our own countrymen, we admit, acted, as yet, with the desperation of Russians. But Sherman has now furnished them the incentives to that desperation, and if their houses are to be burned, they will burn them themselves, and make the country a desert before him. If the men, women and children are to be put to death, they will prefer to di
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): article 3
on with a lady in Fayetteville, said that if the results of his late visitation of the South did not restore its people to loyalty, he should, on his next invasion, burn every house to the ground, and if that did not work a cure he would put all the inhabitants to death, without regard to age or sex. If anything were necessary to render his next visitation a rather more difficult one than the last, this timely announcement has secured that result. He never could have advanced far into Georgia if the inhabitants had laid waste the country before him as he traveled. Even Napoleon quailed in his march upon Moscow when he saw that the people were acting upon a maxim once announced by himself, that "an army cannot exist among ruins." Sherman is not Napoleon. Nor have our own countrymen, we admit, acted, as yet, with the desperation of Russians. But Sherman has now furnished them the incentives to that desperation, and if their houses are to be burned, they will burn them themselve
Napoleon (search for this): article 3
render his next visitation a rather more difficult one than the last, this timely announcement has secured that result. He never could have advanced far into Georgia if the inhabitants had laid waste the country before him as he traveled. Even Napoleon quailed in his march upon Moscow when he saw that the people were acting upon a maxim once announced by himself, that "an army cannot exist among ruins." Sherman is not Napoleon. Nor have our own countrymen, we admit, acted, as yet, with the deNapoleon. Nor have our own countrymen, we admit, acted, as yet, with the desperation of Russians. But Sherman has now furnished them the incentives to that desperation, and if their houses are to be burned, they will burn them themselves, and make the country a desert before him. If the men, women and children are to be put to death, they will prefer to die with arms in their hands rather than be shot down like dogs. The common instincts of humanity render that much certain. And it is equally clear that, when prudential reasons against retaliation have been thus sum
Sherman (search for this): article 3
Some of our contemporaries publish a statement that General Sherman, in conversation with a lady in Fayetteville, said that if the results of his late visitation of the South did not restore its people to loyalty, he should, on his next invaswhen he saw that the people were acting upon a maxim once announced by himself, that "an army cannot exist among ruins." Sherman is not Napoleon. Nor have our own countrymen, we admit, acted, as yet, with the desperation of Russians. But Sherman hSherman has now furnished them the incentives to that desperation, and if their houses are to be burned, they will burn them themselves, and make the country a desert before him. If the men, women and children are to be put to death, they will prefer to die ential reasons against retaliation have been thus summarily removed, retaliation will at last begin in earnest, and when Sherman comes as "a savage," as he promises, he will be met by savages, who will make no farther appeal to civilization, but qui