Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
TECUMSEH'S RECORD.

1IUUMUiu u lliUUHUs
The Looming Fortunes of the Genera, of
the Army---The Next Republican Ca,ldi-
date for the Presidency---His Record An
terror to the War as a Soldier, Lawyer and
Patriot.
[Gath Letter.
New YORK, Dec. 23.-No subject is more
entertaining than the presidential
prospects of men. The only national
holiday in America participated in by all
is election day, and this holiday for a
period of weeks before and after the
national election is the longest in the
world, putting the carnivals and holy
weeks of other countries into the back
ground.
The Republican party is by no means
dead, though it has much to accomplish
in itself before it can again expect public
confidence. The Republican party did not
meet with its great disaster last fall from
the failure of the manufacturing system,
but really from the superfuous success of
many of its measures. The treasury
was gorged with money, taxes were easily
collected and very redundant in amounts,
the manufacturers had become established
on scale hardly ever dreamed of by most
visionary protectionists of the time of
Henry Clay. The little town of Paterson.
N. j., which was. founded by Alexander
Hamilton for manufacturing ends, had
reached a population of more than 10000
people, though at the close of the rebellion
it had not 10000 souls. The questions
which broke up the Republican party were
hardly of an industrial sort. They related
to morals and the lavish expenditure of
the treasury, excess in mere wantonness of
profigacy, and of the incapacity of
congress to put down taxation as
long as they could riot IN the
great balances in the treasury. 1t is man
ifest that the Republican party prefers to
harmonic the differences rather than yield
up the country. That is the drift of most
of the movements now going forward. The
rings in all the states were so 1attened out
last November and the blow came so GER
tainly from Republican voters that they
perceive it necessary to harmonic and
learn wisdom, or give up the comfortable
independence of Office.
There are several movements going on
within the Republican party to nominate
particular individuals for president. Per-
haps the most spasmodic of them all in the
vicinity of New York is that
to put the retiring General VIM. T. Sher-
man in the field for the presidency.
Sherman possesses the ambition of his
family. He was born to public life. His
father was judge from Connecticut, said
to be from the family of Roger Sherman,
who was one of the authors of the declara-
ton of the Independence. Roger Sherman
lived to 1898, when he was seventy-two
years old. A shoemaker originally, he
supported his mother and her family by
drawing the wax end, studying meantime,
and then kept small store. He became a
land surveyor at twenty three, lawyer at
thirty-two and judge at thirty eight. He
was in the continental and following con-
crosses nearly twenty years. This man
belonged to family Of sterling Puritan
traits. In the early part of this CEN
fury one of the Connecticut Shermans
was sent to Ohio to locate 100000 acres
granted by the state of Connecticut. This
gentleman became a judge of the supreme
court of the state, and died in 1929. He
had three sors-Charles, who became a
Judge likewise, William Tecumseh and
John. One of the old towns of Ohio was
Lancaster, and there Thomas Ewing, a
friend of Judge Sherman, raised and edu-
Gated the orphan, W. T., and sent him to
West Point, where he graduated in 1910.
Ten years later, at the age of thirty, he
married Mr.. Ewing's daughter. Young
Sherman served in the Florida war, and
during the Mexican war as one of the ad-
remained in the army until 1853, when
he was thirty three years old,
and then he resigned to
go intoa banking partnership in Cali
fornia. When the rebellion broke out he
was president IF military academy in
Louisiana. Refusing to have anything to
do with disunion, no matter what honors
it promised him, Sherman came out of the
South and was Immediately made colonel
of one of the new regiments of the regular
army, and in the battle of Bull Run he
commanded a brigade. He was then sent
West to support Gen. Robert Anderson,
whose health giving out, Sherman took the
department. of the Cumberland. Unlike
Mr.. Seward, who thought $4,000 men and
three months would finish the war, Sher-
man demanded of the secretary
of war 100000 men to make
Ia successful forward movement
in the Mississippi valley. This led to the
statement for sometime that he was a
crazy man. In the panic of 1857 he was
obliged to wind up his banking interests
when he had been only seven years mar
ried. He sent his family to Lancaster, and
there he remained much of the time very
much disturbed to know what he could do to
support those five persons, all accustomed,
as he says, to more than the average COM
forts of life. Mr.. Ewing wanted him to go
to the salt wells and coal mines, but Sher-
man did not like it. His two brothers in law,