Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-03
THE SHERMANS.
JohB, the Secretary OF the Treasury
Is an Honest Man. Northumberland
ing lac Made a Fortune while
in Oniee.
Tecumseh, the ~ ne raj. has Too Iluch
Mouth and Brains for this small
Country. and he Must step
Down and Out.

From an Interview with "a Republican Senator
published In the Philadelphia Tines
John Sherman amt a bad sort of man.
Every dollar he's got he made while in office.
Let me see, he went into congress IN 1884,
and has never been out of a place since.
do believe Ee's an honest man; yes SIR, | do
IN pecuniary matters; and | believe he wrote
the Weber letter. There was nothing IN 1t
out of ORDER and it was due to those fellows
down south who stood by the party. He
good business man | believe he made his
money by simply being a good investor and
trader. There ain I FIVE ounces of cordialIty
IN his entire carcass, and | have DOUBTS about
one ounce OF gratitude. II you ever trade
horses with him keep both eyes wide open.
Did you notice that five thousand dollars he
borrowed through his assistant to grease the
Louisiana commission with? Yes, he got 1t
of the First national bank of New York-of
Baker, the cashier. Well, one OF the Jay
Cooke crowd is at the head of that bank. DO
you know that they are making wagon-load
of money daily out of the treasury depart
ment in the sale of bonds? An investga
ton of the way government money Is lett on
deposit Tor months at a time will explain
how. Next winter you will see how. | don't
think he works Hayes for anything. He is
supreme in his own acknowledgements no
interference. Yes, sir, he made the changes
in our customhouse telegraphed to day. Mr..
ing, but Sherman did the job. He ain afraid
of anybody or thing, and he's an able man
with the exception of NJ 'Crary, the ablest
man in the cabinet. Besides, he and Hayes
have several spies in the customhouse VINO
post them. Yes, NJ Crazy is old soggy. HIS
word is worth its weight in gold-and he's
got brains He's out in Iowa now. He
won't stay long in the cabinet. You see
Iowa Republicans are dead against Hayes
M'Crary has a future, and a big one. he
must get away from Hayes, or it will ruin
him. One thing queer he did. He caused
q suppose "Cumpsey Sherman was at the
bottom of it, the list of battles of the rebel
lion in which regiments had been honorably
engaged to be stricken from the army regis
ter. This he must explain fully, or the
Iowans will ''sit down on him" You say you
think General Sherman will be up for Presi-
dent. next time? Indeed, bosh! Sherman,
W. T., the general of the army, unless all
signs fail and the ground hog amt fooled me
and DaybolIs arithmetic amt gone queer
with the weather, after this congress will be
ex-general of the army. 1t will be sort of
hard on the old man, but he will have to
stand the racket. He's got to go. His
CO nplaint is too much brains and mouth for
this small country, where there are al
ready more Shermans in the field than there
is field for Shermans. You see "Cumpsey"
Serman believes he is a great statesman as
well as he undoubtedly was a great general.
You recall in 1865, at the time of his captur-
ing Johnstons army, the political treaty he
entered into with him, which was rejected
with howl of Indignation the land over.
Well, old Tom Ewing, then in his dotage,
his father-in-law, who had been a giant in
tellectually, talked Sherman into that thing.
You see Sherman, an old graduate when the
army was most all Democratic, and afterward
a teacher In a southern school, where politics
was of the first Importance and mans best
recommendation, has always been imbued
with the States rights doctrines. In 1876 be
got scared. The country was fast becoming
Democratic, and the Presidential strife went
far toward confirming this. ''Cumpsey"
saw that Democrats didn't like soldiers, and
especially the ones that put down that little
Democratic advertisement called the rebellion,
and with further alarm he discovered that the
negro vote south had failed to connect and
that the southern rebels, in the majority In
the Democratic party, were going to run the
machine in the future. This discovery
doubled him up like good square collie. 1t
hit him all agog. He rallied and went for
his strategy. Brother John, high in favor
with Hayes, was the man. Hayes was taken
in hand by these hungry brothers and I'M
tiated. Cumpsey, as soon as Hayes reached
Washington (John having PINNED himself In
Ohio the month befole), became his body
guard. He impressed him with the beauty
of reconciliation, and that the soldiers must
not, in the future, be used as police in the
southern States, and that the army should be
Withdrawn from the statehouse at New Or
leans and Columbia, and he convinced him of
these things. The condition in which Hayes
has placed the southern rebel States, as far
as their control and future is concerned, is
Just the same as they would have been if the
j ohnston political bargain had been
carried out in 1865-that is, that the rebels
were to have control of them. Cumpsey then
talked Hayes into big rebel in the cabinet,
and dispatched a messenger to General Jo-
seph L. Johnston, at Richmond, asking him
to be secretary of war. Cumpsey argued |
this way: eff l can get Johnston at the head |
of the army he can hold my head on my
shoulders with his rebel friends. Besides, he |
can tell them how much they are
of the southern States in the with |
drawdl Of the army" It was shrewd, |
but Johnston did not bite. Yes, this country |
owes General Sherman a debt of gratitude |
for his gallantry during the war, but he |
should retire to quiet, well-earned repose, to |
be brought out and furnished up on State &C.
casions, like other relics, that the people may |
yell and cheer at him, but Cumpsey won't |
down. He rises upon all occasions, aud says |
a few words. l notice the other day he bel |
lowed about non-combatants He'd better |
shut up, because without the non-comhat- |
ants, who put up the cash and backed the |
men in the field, Cumpsey wouldn't have fig |
1red much. A few such soldiers as M'Clel- |
AN would have ended the war quickly by |
stopping It and giving the rebs their own |
terms. Besides there are now ten nom com |
oatants to one combatant. Nobody can show |
any difference between the present policy of |
Hayes and the political views of Sherman in |
1873, as shown In the Johnston treaty. No, |
General Sherman will not be the candidate of |
he Republican arty in $780,