Dear Brother: . . . You are probably right in your
treatment of the Presidential nomination. Most of the talk in your favor is no
doubt honest and sincere, but some of it, I am sure, is to crowd off other
candidates, or for selfish motives. A nomination is far from being equivalent
to an election. The chances are for the Democrats, but for their proverbial
blundering. An election would be a misfortune to you, while the canvass would
be painful to all the family. Still, having fairly and fully stated your
opposition to being a candidate, and having given fair notice of your purpose
to decline, it is better not to say anything more about it. The papers will
think you protest too much.
It now looks as if
Logan may get the nomination.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 357
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