Thank you for posting this.
Up until now, I had a tiny bit of respect for WT Sherman.
This letter opened my eyes to the fact that he is no different than a George Soros or any other liberal trash that advocates for ‘good little obedient citizens’ over those who are native born and have real grievances that are being ignored.
This gem sealed it:
“No man would deny that the United States would be benefited by dispossessing a single prejudiced, hard-headed and disloyal planter and substitute in his place a dozen or more patient, industrious, good families, even if they be of foreign birth.”
Sherman would be a wonderful modern version of Michael Bloomberg with a Che Guevara touch of slaughter.
“The Government of the United States has in North-Alabama any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war — to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything . . . and war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact. If they want eternal warfare, well and good; we will accept the issue and dispossess them, and put our friends in possession. Many, many people, with less pertinacity than the South, have been wiped out of national existence.”
Unreal!
Quite real
The very DNA of the Deep State.
Also realpolitik, writ large. And, in historical terms, comparatively merciful; some nations would simply have hung every rebel in a similar situation.
Upon being asked his reaction to being called out of retirement to head up the Navy during WWII, Admiral King said “when they get in trouble, they send for the sons of bitches.” (He denied saying it but agreed with it.)
I suppose that Sherman was a real son of a bitch. (This business about not really owning land except at the pleasure of the US Government is a real crock! Of course, he also did not believe in self-government if I am reading that correctly.)
“No man would deny that the United States would be benefited by dispossessing a single prejudiced, hard-headed and disloyal planter and substitute in his place a dozen or more patient, industrious, good families, even if they be of foreign birth"
Not that the pure immmorality, and completely unconstitutional, stain of slavery didn't need to be eradicated, but, this person sounds exactly like today's Globalist-Marxistss 😲.
This letter smells hoaxish.
> Up until now, I had a tiny bit of respect for WT Sherman. <
Sherman is not getting a fair appraisal here. Please see my post #18.
Why does his final resting place always have that urine smell?
Some people get their nose out of joint when I point out how similar the Lincoln government and his cronies were to modern day liberals.
I used to compare Lincoln and Obama by saying "that other race obsessed liberal lawyer from Illinois who became President."
:)
Yes, they were all big government Tax and Spend Liberals who liked to feed all their crony capitalists from the government trough, which was paid for with other people's money.
Well... first, before I'd get too deep into anti-Sherman condemnations, I'd want to double check if A) the quote is 100% accurate, since doctored quotes are stock in trade for some propagandists.
And B) is the context presented correctly?
Then, assuming the quote is reasonably valid, we might next notice that Sherman did correctly identify large slaveholders as the rebellion's root cause, and here speculates that replacing them with hard working small farmers, such as found elsewhere in the U.S., would prevent future rebellions.
So obviously, Sherman never read Lost Causer theses that slavery was really just the excuse, not the real cause for Secession.
As for Sherman's opinions on constitutionality of secession, Unionists have always said Confederates had no unilateral "right to secede" or to start & declare war against the USA.
And to the current location of Sherman's soul, we might remember that one of his sons became a Catholic priest and may have prayed for special intercession on his Old Man's behalf.