Dear Brother: . . . You are living the life proper for your
position and services, — everywhere welcome, all you say and do applauded, and
secure in a competence and independent in all things. I will deliver your
message1 to Edmunds, but you will not probably find him at
Burlington, August 20th. We are to have important questions before us, but I
mean to act not as a laborer but as an umpire. I am for peace at home and
abroad, and if I cannot do much that is actively good I will try and prevent
harm, and if possible will tranquilly glide down the rest of the road of life,
enjoying all I can and helping those who deserve help.
1 Hoping to meet Mr. Edmunds at Burlington,
Vt., at that date.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 380
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