Green Mountain Freeman

Gen. Sherman's Letter.—We print, on the outside of this paper, a letter from Gen. Sherman to the Mayor and other gentlemen of Atlanta, who had sent a request to Sherman to revoke his order for non combatants to leave Atlanta. The letter is most admirable as a clear, logical and direct statement of the issue between the government and treason. He cuts as with the keen edge of his good sword, clear through the perverse and wicked sophistries of secession reasoning; and the sacriligious hypocrisy of treason, while, its garments and hands red with innocent blood, pleading for the humanities of war, he crushes to powder under the iron heel of the inexorable necessities of the strife which traitors have invoked, and from whose consequences he does not mean that they shall escape. He makes rebellion stand face to face with itself, shows it its own horrid and fiendish image, and then dashes at it the lightnings of his own loyal soul, stirred to its very depths by his wrath against, and his hatred of, the atrocious wickedness of treason. We reckon the Mayor of Atlanta, and Gen. Hood, will hereafter exhibit a prudent caution in inviting Gen. Sherman to a correspondence, for the gallant hero's pen is as trenchant as his sword, and neither of them "let up" in the least when treason stands in the way.