Dear Brother: . . .
I have made up my mind to be silent and neutral, and I think that it is your
best course. You did not want the nomination. I would gladly take it as an
honorable closing of thirty years of political life, but I will neither ask for
it, scheme for it, nor have I the faintest hope of getting it, and at the end
of my present term I intend to retire from my political life and take it easy.
One thing you ought
to have, and I think Congress would readily grant it if acceptable to you, and
that is the detail of a staff-officer to help you with your military correspondence,
to travel with you, and aid you in the social duties that will always cling to
you while you live. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 358-9
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