Dear Brother: . . . Your letter endorsing
Hayes is first-rate, and meets general approval. I agree with you that no one
should be the President unless he was with us heart and soul in the Civil War;
and Hayes fills the bill perfectly.
I
should be delighted to have him nominated and elected.
The
Democrats, in turning between the Democrats of the North and South, will probably
commit a mistake that will reunite the Republicans.
I
see the "Herald," in an elaborate and good article on saving money in
the War Department estimates, criticizes the sending of officers abroad at
public expense, instancing my case. Not one cent of my expenses was paid by the
Government. I availed myself of the frigate Wabash to reach Gibraltar, whither
she was bound in her course to the Mediterranean. I paid my mess-bill, which
amounted to $130 (more than the price of passage over in a Cunarder).
If you
happen to see one of those ------ reporters, you could say as much. I will not,
because on searching they will find that not a cent was paid for my expenses
abroad.
SOURCE:
Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence
Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 347-8
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