ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov.
23, 1868.
Dear Brother:
* * * * * * * * * *
I know that Grant
esteems you highly and will respect anything you may ask. He may offer you the
Treasury Department, but I think not. He will think you more valuable in the
Senate, as the Governor of Ohio and the Legislature would fill your vacancy
with a Democrat.
Don't approach Grant
in person if you want anything. Put it in plain writing so emphatic that he
will know you are in earnest and not yielding to personal importunity.
Yours affectionately,
W. T. SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 323-4
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