The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-12
SEATTLE. MONDAY. AUG. Ie.
THE SHERMAN MEMOIRS.

The personal memoirs of John sherman,
vh,c,, according 10 current report, arc to
be published In the near. future, VIII De
oue of the most interesting contributions
20 the history of tho last haif-eentury
that has ever been issued. Presumably IL
viii be a record Of personal experiences.
impressions and recollections. and. as Mr..
shesmans political services VIII have
extended over period longer than that
of any other public man. the fund of
"reminiscences he can draw from is prac-
ticaliy inexhaustible.
There have been many men In American
political life who have left behind them
records of the times In which they lived.
John Quincy Adams diary was a verita-
bile treasure to the historian treating Of
the forty-one years during which that
celebrated man was In public life.
Thomas IL Benton's Thirty Years" al
though more or less of scrapbook. Is
fair compilation OF legislative history
from 1890 TO 1850 Mr. Blaine's Twenty
Years of Congress is brilliantly writ
ten story Of the period from 1850 TO 1850.
with much sober comment on the men
and the times.
All of these. however. do not treat Of a
period more profoundly interesting than
that running back from today TO the time
when MIR sherman entered upon the field
of politics When he attended as a dele
gate the whig convention in Philadelphia
which nominated Taylor. Andrew Jackson
had been dead but three years. Webster
Calhoun and clay were still In the senate
and the younger Adams. the sixth presi-
dent OF the United States. had been
stricken down In the house OF representa-
t.vcs but few months previously. The
fierce decade of legislative wranGie and
bitterness which was TO end In civil war
had not yet opened the Missouri COM
promise was yet 10 he repealed. tho bred
Scott decision Was yet 10 be delivered:
th@ Republican party was yet 10 be born,
AIR sherman took his seat In the lower
house Of congress In December, 1855. and
from that time 10 the present he has been
politically one of the foremost men Of his
are He participated IN all the debates
and discussions involved in the settlement
Of those burning questions which arrayed
tie North against the South. In 1851 he
took his seat in the United States senate.
and. with tho exception of the four years
when lie Was cabinet officer. has ever
sInce represented his state in the unoor
iease 81 congress. II he lives until his
present term expires in I,sa 10 viii have
been ia active public lie forty-foar years
How much has been crowded into tha
last nifty years or American hisfor, no
man can appreciate better than John
sherman no has seen IL ana ~ i, been a
part lie has realized Una; the very exist.
sace OF the republic was threatened; he
has watched one ~ the greatest inferno
cine struggles OF history. he has lived n
ree his country united and witnessed e.
enjoy a material prosperity such as cop13
never have been dreamed OF half CEN
tury ago.
Mr.. sherman has been highly honorea.
Few men can expect 10 receive such re-
wards as have been bestowed upon him
by his fellow citizens. lie can. ,hsrsf,rA
afferd 10 be generous now. to forgive >,
bear no reSentmcnts. 70 tell run. fair
and impartial story 81 a public career
which VIII always b one az the mos,
conspicuous and interesting IN cur coun-
try's history.