NEW YORK, Νον. 12, 1889.
Dear Brother: . . . I was very glad to receive your full
letter of November 9th, to hear that you are safely back at your Washington
home, and take the recent election so philosophically. I wanted Foraker to
succeed, because he was one of my young soldiers. He cannot be suppressed, and
will turn up again. I think you are also wise in your conclusion to retire
gracefully at the end of your present term. To be a President for four years is
not much of an honor, but to have been senator continuously from 1861 to 1892 -
less the four years as Secretary of the Treasury - is an
honor. Webster and Clay are better known to the world than Polk and Pierce. As
to myself, I continue pretty much as always in universal demand for soldiers'
meetings, college commencements, and such like things - always with a promise that
I will not be called on to speak, which is always broken worse still, generally
exaggerated by reporters. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, pp. 379-80
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