The people of the State had not recovered from the chaos and confusion into which they had been thrown by Sherman\'s march to the sea, when the news came that Lee had surrendered in Virginia, and General Joseph E. Johnston (who had been restored to his command) in North Carolina. Thus a sudden and violent end had been put to all hopes of establishing a separate government. General Sherman, who was as relentless in war as he was pacific and gentle when the war was over, had, in coming to terms with General Johnston, advanced the theory that the South never had dissolved the union, and that the States were restored to their old places the moment they laid down their arms. This theory was not only consistent with the views of the union men o............