Sherman's News paper Rule.
Sherman has not neglected, in his military march, to "garrison the press." --The Savannah
Republican, an old and long established journal of that city, has been manned and officered by an Abolition detachment.
In one of its editorials it thus discourseth:
"We rely
almost whollyon our army and navy patronage, the sales to citizens being, of course, just now, very
small. It will require time to teach the
rabid rebels of
Savannah their fatal error; and as might very naturally be expected, a people so closely allied with the interests and success of
Jeff. Davis wicked rebellion will not patronize, in any way, representatives of such an infernal Abolition sheet as the
Tribune, if they can help it. This class forms quite a
large element in the resident population of the city of
Savannah, and as long as they can purchase Copperhead or Northern rebel journals, from whose columns they can constantly draw a bountiful supply of consolation, we need not
expect any assistance from them."
We are glad to learn that the new organ of
Sherman is compelled to rely
wholly on the
Yankee soldiers and sailors for patronage, the sales to
citizens being, at present, very
small. This shows that, in spite of representations to the contrary, the great mass of the people of
Savannah have not followed the lead of
Arnold,
Lamar &Co., and have no sympathy with the invaders.
The
Republicanindeed, admits as much, but it is by no means despondent.
It will "require time to teach the rabid rebels of
Savannah their fatal error." The manner of conveying this instruction is not clearly indicated, but, from the example of New Orleans and other Confederate cities in Yankee possession, we can readily imagine the process of enlightening darkened understandings.
Insult, degradation, stoning and plunder, will open their eyes to the beauties of abolition philanthropy; or, if they still continue incredulous, banish them by wholesale and seize their houses and effects.
The "fatal error" of the
Confederate people is to imagine that they have any right to exist on the planet.
When they are converted from that mortal heresy, and renounce it with their dying breath, they may expect to escape from Yankee persecution.
