Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-12
THE TWO SHERMANS.
The Strong Point ofthe Famous
Brothers.
SHERMAN THE ARMY LEADER,
And Sherman Tho Statesman, Financior and
Great Politlcian--The Fitness Of Each
for the Work In Which No
Was Engaged.
hy aenernl Adam Rndeau.
For The Sunday Gazette.


A daughter Of General Sherman has
recently published some letters that
passed between her father and Senator
Sherman at the beginning Of the Civil
war. Portraits of the brothers are placed
side by side to preface the correspOn-
dence and they recall very wildly the
two figures so prominent at "a critical
period In the national history; figures
closely knit, not only by ties of blood, but
by interest and effort In the same great
cause, yet sigularly contrasted both in
character and career. i CHANGED to have
unusual opportunities to observe the
parallel.
They were like and unlike by turns;
the one a soldier the other a statesman;
one sympathizing with the South on
many points Of the great controversy
about slavery, the other siding always
with the North: both strongly and above
all things Union men, yet one almost a
Democrat in political faith, the other q
staunch Republican. One was ardent
and inG9utious. in temperament, the
other phlegmatic; one ELUSIVE, the other
reserved; one full Of Imagination. senti-
ment and passion. the other logical, coli
lected and cold; one brilliant. the other
staid. The politician got the start in
life and entered the senate at 81, while
the soldier left the army early and tried,
by turns, the role of banker lawyer,
a.
eclipsing any that his brother had
achieved. The general had no gift for
mOney-making or money-suYing and
managed his private affairs with only
moderate success; the senator is q re-
puted millionaire and one of the ablest
hnanciers of his time One detested the
devices of practical politics, the other il
an adept at working machines and pull
ing wires Both We're spoken of for the
presidency, but neither attained it; the
nomination was offered to the soldier,
and declined: the politician sought IL for
years, and once was very near the goal,
but personal and party treachery snatch
ed away the prize
Through all these cheuuercd circum-
stances they preserved the warmest at
tachment for each other, the keenost in
terest In each others fortunes, and we're
IN perfect harmony as patriots, differing
occasionally, 1t Is true, but never discord-
ant in their political views.
Both were tall and spare, and their
portraits bear more than d family re-
semblance. In each the face is long and
narrow, the forehead high, the nose
prominent. the mouth firm. The generals
features. however, were by far the more
strongly marked; energy and power
were stamped on every line brilliant
hight flashed from his eyes, and emotion
aud expression We're apparent not only
in lineument, but in form and gesture
and voice; John is less iudivdualized i'm
every way. One abounded in sponta-
neous, impetuous eloquence, the other is
artificial and elaborate in speech and
conversation. The personality of one
was irTesisubly fascinating, that of the
other Is unuttractiyc, and to some, re-
pelling, unless he and his hearers are in
accord.
The soldier was dramatic and sympa-
thetic, and interested those who differed
with every word he uttered the senator,
though studied and uuimpulsiye, Ia the
end llnprcsses every one with his jndg-
mont, his knowledge and his euuipoise
The soldier showed the traces of the life
he had led in tent and field the hard
ships he had endured, the dangers he had
encountered, the responsibilities he had
borne, but he carried these traces as a
warrior does his arms the weight did
not embarrass, nor did the marks dis
figure him; they were the glorious scars
OF his great achievements. recalling
Shiloh and Atlanta, and the immortal
March The senator's face is that of
q thoughtful, sedate and diplomatic legis-
latori the general looked the typical man
OF action that he was, physically men
tally, morally.
The general had an army OF devoted
ndherents and the whole nation at times
TO admire and love him. the senator
oVokes no enthusiasm, but Is respected
| even by his opponents; yet the general
made many enemies and often brought
| on himself a storm of criticism from
those who had been his stauuchest
fncpds, while the senator has skilfully
avoided personal antagonisms.
There were only three years between
them and the general was the elder. He
was born in 1920 and named William
| Iecumseh, partly after an Indian chief
| who was waging frontier war ut the
! time of his birth. The lad was nick
named "Cump,' an Authorization for
Tecumseh, and to the last some who had
boon his mates at West Point knew the
| world-famous general ms "Cump Sher-
man. He married into prominent
family and was early brought into com
municotion with important people who
| Doubtless noted his brilliant qualities
| In 1883 he resigned from the army and
at the age of Al was superintendent OF n
military school In Louisiana, not a very
! lofty position for Il man of his genius to
have attained. Here the war found
| him.
HIS GREAT COMPEER.
| Grant, at the same time was 80 he. Ike
Sheynan, had left the army, hui he was
onlp clerk in the employ of his fntber
a dealer in leather in Western Illinois
The other Sherman meanwhile had de.