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tion of the policy of extermination. The Southern people understand this perfectly. They know that, if they were ever expected back into the Union again, the policy of emancipation and confiscation never would have been adopted; that Sheridan would not have been ordered to make the whole Shenandoah valley a barren waste, even to the extent of breaking up and burning the farming utensils, and burning the roofs over the heads of helpless women and children; that the atrocities of Turchin and McNiel would not have been overlooked; that Atlanta would not have been depopulated and burned; that Petersburg and Charleston would not be shelled, and that Sherman's march through Georgia would not have been marked by a broad belt of desolation. The course which has been pursued towards the South has had precisely the effect which the Administration designed that it should have. It has made out of every man, woman and child in the South a deadly enemy. If the alternative were presented to-