MANSFIELD, OHIO,
Oct. 21, 1870.
Dear Brother: I have
kept the general run of you during your trip, and therefore know what a fine
reception you had on the coast.
It is a fatiguing
trip, and no wonder that Lizzie1 is worn out by it. I have spent the
summer very quietly and pleasantly, most of the time at home. I did my share of
the work in the canvas at Ohio and Indiana, but it was a languid one. I am
getting tired of the ceaseless struggle of political life, and above all dread
the contest next summer, when, if I am a candidate, I shall have to encounter
the combined opposition of every Democrat and of every Federal office-holder in
Ohio. . . .
1 The General's second daughter.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 329-30
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