Gen. Sherman Declares The Mcclellan Doctrine Of The War

We hope uo (ino will oiuit to read the tpunly letter, printed in u fonuor issh, in which Gen. Sheinjan replies to the r monstra-nees trf tbo poople t AtI. nia agiiiiwt iiis edict of depopul'ution The hei o of the western canipaign declares oxautly tho doctrine uow aud ulwavs held by Gen. MnClellan u referi once to the war, to tho Uuioii, and to j pea;e. Tho presjivution of 'tho Uniou 'and the restwution of the authority of the Govurnineiit are preí-entod by Shein.iin. as by McCleüau, as the only legitímate objeols ei the war. "As soon a.s tiie.-e objüeis are acuomplished" (we quote froni thu Crittenden resolutiún, adopted by Congress iu 1861, and repudiated by the samo bedy ever bíiico) tho war ought to eease. ÍSo also says (Jen. Shertiiun to the pooplö of Atlanta. "I had no hand in miiking this wai-j aud I will inake more aaonñues than auy oi you to secure peace, üut you can not havo penee urid a división of our country." These are Öhermau's words - (Comparo thern with thoso of Gon. MoClelhin's ueeeptimco letter : ';I would huil witu unbounded joy tho permaueot restoraliuu ol tho Uuioü, under the Coastitution, without the eflusion of another drop of blood. Jiut no peaco can be peniiiuient "A'ithüut the Union." Wo repeat that Gen. Sherunin has mude iu nis letter preeisely the exposition of the Union posiiion to bo tound in all the utturanc(ö of Gen. McClellun, from the date of nis en'ranue oto West Virginia, to the present titae, As the conqueror of Hood's arrny is thus UpHftirtg belore the Öouthern paople the banuor (f uo pfirty, but the old flig of his country, and tliat only, it follows that he is not a faithful exponent of the radical poliyy of Lincoln and the other marplots at Washingtou We are i'.urious to learn what tbese wil! say wheo they liear the learless words bv whieh thfir crazy and wicked utteraBees ai'e arwvulled - when they see how the glaived band of aturdy Shormao is strikiug down the barriera they have madly erceted against the return of Union and "Your property shall be ooutiscated," says the abolition Congress to the people of the 8outh. "Tuero can bo no peace till consent to tbe abandoament of slavory," eays Lincoln. Bit wh-at eays Sherman ? "We dou't want youf nogá'oen, or your horses, or j'our housos, or your land, or anything you have; but we do want, and will have to the lawa oi the United States." Uruvo Sherman í When you penued that bolcJ paragraph and sent it ringing through the South, you gave a blow to the confetieracy as siaggering as that you struok at Atlanta ! Tho rebel government can stand a defeat in tho tiold better than that plain declaration I As said the Richinond Enquirer of Sept. 5th ; "Had McClellan's polioy been persistently follovved, he might have divided our people, aud, perhaps conquored our liberties. It was a most dangerous policy for us , for, it the ameliorating hand of Federal kindness had aofteued the rigors of war, our people would not have been subjüeted lo tbose terrible fires of suSering by whieh Mr. Lincoln has hardened evory beart and steeled overy santiuient ajrainst our rnerciless foe." " I want peace,1' -writes Sherman to AÜanl'a, "I will ever conduct war purely wilh a view to perfect and early succoss." It seems he doos not viow the policy of oontiseation, emanoipatiim and esfi-porat:oa u couducivu to such a result. Tho simple qnostion is : WiH the peoptu sustaiu Sherman iu his uod MofJIellau's plain, eommon sense methrod of restoring the Union poaie, or will they endorse at the polls tbe proclama tions of' Liuooln and his deoreen tiiat there shall be no peace til 1 slaver is abandor.ed ? "We hailed the proclumations of' emancipation nd confiscation," says thu Kichmood papurs from which we have already qnoted, "and thu policy of plunder and devasttition, as euro pledges of our ultímate triumph tliey wero terrible ordeals, but they most eíftíctually eradicated every sentiment of Union, and, íirouBÍng the pride as well as interest of' our peoplo, mflatned tlie patriotisin of the whole, until they vvoiild have noeepted doath as preferable te ultímate defoat." Can there bo a doubt in the hoart of any one who desireít the restoration of the Union, aa to his political duty in tho present crisis?