UNITED STATES SENATE
CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24,
1868.
Dear Brother: . . .
Your reception speech was universally approved. I saw Grant after his return
here, and he was quite exultant over the whole affair. He takes all things
tranquilly. . . .
I am in real
embarrassment about questions that I must now act upon. My conviction is that
specie payments must be resumed, and I have my own theories as to the mode of
resumption, but the process is a very hard one, and will endanger the
popularity of any man or administration that is compelled to adopt it. Our
party has no policy, and any proposition will combine all other plans in
opposition to it. . . .
Affectionately,
JOHN SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 325
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