United States Senate, Washington, D.C.
Letter of eighth
received. I do not expect to reach Washington, D. C., till about May 12th, and
do not ask Congress to make any exception in my case. If officers generally are
disqualified for efficient service at sixty-two years, the law should so
declare it and no chance be allowed for a repetition of the terrible
discrimination made in General Ord's case. Compensation to retired officers
should vary according to length and quality of service, and a vote of thanks by
Congress to general officers should have some value. There are only five such
now surviving, and, like the Supreme Court, they should retain their salaries
without other allowances. You may announce these as my opinions.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 356
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