ST. LOUIS, June 15, 1884.
Dear Brother: I am
just back from a trip to Carthage, Joplin, etc., in Southwest Missouri. Thence
to Kansas City in a week, and find an unusual pile of letters for answer, yours
of June 11th among the number. This calls for an answer, for I fear even you
suppose I was coquetting with the Chicago Convention. course this is not true,
and if you could be here to see the letters and telegrams received by me marked
"Strictly confidential," from parties even you cannot conjecture, you
would have to admit that my course was fair, honest, and straightforward. . . .
Henderson, and
Henderson alone, had a scratch of pen or even telegram which could be tortured
into authority to personate me. I talked with him before I went to Washington,
and explained fully that in no event and under no circumstances would I assent
to the use of my name as a Presidential candidate. He contended that no
American citizen could disobey the "call of his country," but I
insisted that the Chicago Convention was not this country. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 362
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