The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-01-25
uAn. SHERMAN
Talk OF Him as a Presidential Candi.
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George Alfred Townsend
There il the greatest anxiety among the
ofliceliolders to find somebody to run for
president in 1884. Tho Democrats generally
think tho Republicans are going to nominate
General Sherman. 1t is barely possible that
Sherman thinks so too for observe that he
had IL great reception in Washington yester-
day, and undoubtedly he has INDUCED the
hope for some years back that he might
be u presidential possibility. His dispo-
sition to run might be enlarged by seeing
his brother John out of the way for the pres
ent, though some think that John believes lie
may have another turn. Sherman would
make q brilliant president-something on the
style of Andrew Jackson. l mean General
Jackson. He is a hot-headed, though rather
cool-hearted man. He has good deal Of
ability to utter phrases that catch the time
and dwell on the public car. Being man Of
bold expression, he has hosts of enemies,
whom he has incurred by his criticisms; but I
notice, as a general rule, that these enemies
who are so mad with Sherman are just as rash
as himself about attacking other people, and do
not like their own Cruel
Sherman has uttered great deal of caustic
wisdom since the war, and his influence has
been, on the whole, conservative. As man
of family, of household affections, and of a
certain silent pathos, he could be IN enter
tanning personality if he ever got into cam
paign. The loss of his son, who went into the
Catholic church through the excessive devo-
ton of his mother to that faith, was one of
those hard, inexpressible blows at Sherman's
earthly hopes that has always seemed touch
ing Mrs. Sherman, the daughter of Thomas
Ewing. is one of the most thorough going
Catholics in the country; while Gen. Sherman,
coming out Of the Puritan mold has kept the
faith of his ancestors. He had but this son.
whom he thought much of, and had expected
to put him in some worldly professional occu-
patton, and be near him the rest of his days,
when suddenly it was announced that the boy
had resolved TO enter the priesthood / have
heard that for some time Sherman felt rather
bitterly toward his wife on that account: but
his natural instincts and magnanimity return
ing, he rejoined his family after brief inter-
val; but the boy is gone, apparently, forever
Sherman has been overridden for several
years by the civil administration of the war
department., even in matters strictly pertain
ing to the army. He is one Of the most intel
ligent men l ever came in contact with. Grant
had a domestic, instructive nature, without
any imagination, and his conversations were
generally narrative and plain. Sherman has
a mind like his face, with thunderbot in it;
and, his faculties being unimpaired, he ought
to be now wiser and a mellower man than
ever before. He knows considerable of every
thing. Educated in the military academy, he
went into banking and pulled his own canoe
for several years; and when he returned to
the army he became the right hand of Grant,
and the great poet of the war-cutting
circle in the south like majestic rhyme, or
the swinging of a mighty pendulum His
original instincts are almost always just
Holding position at the head of a military
school in Louisiana at the outbreak of the
war, he told his neighbors that they would be
shivered to fragments if they struck at the
union, and he left them and threw himself
into the northern army.
Most of the generals children partake of
their mothers affectionate domestic nature
l recolloct being in St Louis about five or six
years ago, when, sauntering into the opera one
evening, l found an empty seat near Mrs.
Sherman. She asked Iie who l was for for
president, and then answered the question
herself by saying: There are two men
hope won't get it; one of them is Grant and
the other Sherman" meaning her husband.