Show tool wow 0 0 1 7 A champion brave alert an and stron strong cr to aid t the ile right oppose the wong rr ong camp danglas Don glas TT LT T thursday T Mor jiing ISI ove raber 10 1861 asto jS To xio JN iThe following is an extract ti act from froin a leetter of 01 tile the 0 mayor of atlanta k t to sherman She AT ATLANTA L A T A ga sept 41 1864 MAJOR ajan GENERAL IV V T SHERMAN SIR the undersigned undersigner under signed 11 1 1 mayor and two members of the council colac far fl 0 r the city of atlanta for the tirrie time being the iha only legal organ of the said cv city to express their wants and wishes ask leave most moat earnestly respectfully to petition you to reconsider consider re the order requiring 0 them to leavi leave atlanta at aj first view it struck us that the measure would involve extraordinary hardship and loss ait since we have seen tile the practical execution of it so far as it lj bus s progressed 1 essed individual d 1 1 61 condition of many of the people and heard them the statements as to the in conveniences conveniences loss and suffering attending atten dim it we are satisfied that tile the enforcement lement of it will involve in tile aw aggregate regate consequences appalling and heart rendering many of tile women ire are in iii an all advanced state of pregnancy others have young children whose fins husbands bands are for tile n greater reater part either cither in ill the alie antny army prisoners 0 or dead some say 1 I have now s such n c li a one sick CA at my house who will wait on oil them whon when I 1 am aln gorle gone others say what are we to do we have no house to to go to and no means M to buy build or rent rt any no parents relative or friends to 0 go go to another says 1 I wills try ind and t take this or thid that article irti cle of property but such stich and uch lich I 1 must lc ave behind though 11 aneed I 1 need them much we AVO reply tt to them general sherman iiii carry your property to congh toRo ald ad R heady e i d y and then 15 general ell hood will take it thence on and they reply to that but I 1 w to leave the IQ railroad at such a place and cannal got get collep conveyance yance from thence we only refer re fer to a few facts to illustrate in part how this measure ure will operate in practice As you ad advanced va itcek the people north of us fiell fell back and more before your arrival here a large P portion or of the i people eople had retired south so that the country south of this is air already aaby crowded I 1 and without sufficient houses to accommodate the tho people and aiice we are informed that many are staying in in chinches ch inches and outs buildings 3 this rh I 1 s b being ilar so liow how is it possible sible for the ohp people still here mostly in women and children to find shelter and liow how can call they live through 1 I the winter in ill the woods no shelter or subsistence in the midst of strangers who know ahrn n not ot and without the power to as sast t them much inthey if they were acre willing vill ill I 1 1 to todo do r ao 0 I 1 this is but a feeble picture ol 01 of tile consequence of t his this measure e aisil re you know the wot tile horror till nn i 1 tile the sun pring cannot be by words ind imagination tion c can tn only anin conceive colic olve of I 1 it and we ask you t to 0 take th these the e things into consid oration cration we ave know your mind and L time aro r with avith tile d cities of youl d which almost diters doters us its asking your yom attention tc 1 cioll to the mat mai tor ter 1 but thought t lit it rr might bo blidt that you had rib ribbon ton jael j subject in u allias aw afaf fua 1 1 consequences f and that tha on 1 olle 0 o cc tion you yon w we hope li ope would not m mak awo 0 this people an exception toa bovil 1 11 ll mankind for we ve know of azios nonsuch uch instance evoe having occurred 0 st n rely irely not in tile the united states and what lias has this helpless people done that they tl boy should be driven from their homes to wander as Atra figers oil outcasts t casts arid and exiles sedila I 1 and to 9 |