ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24, 1884.
Dear Brother: I think I have owed you a letter some time.
I have nothing new. Days, weeks, and months glide by, and my mail brings the
most conglomerate stuft possible, letters asking for autographs, photographs,
donations, tokens, such as saddles, swords, muskets, buttons, etc., etc., which
I used in the war, many letters predicting that I will be the next President,
and that the writer foresaw it and was the first to conceive the thought. . . .
I notice with satisfaction that my name is being gradually dropped, and that my
sincerity is recognized. What your party wants is a good, fair executive, and
of these you have plenty,—Edmunds, Harrison, Gresham, Logan, etc., etc. I wish
to remain absolutely neutral. Gresham has a fine war record, and is as honest,
outspoken, judicious a man as I know among my old soldiers. I also think highly
of Calkins of Indiana and Ballantine of Nebraska.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 358
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