It seems to me that the publication of that letter is calculated to place the general in a wrong light before the public, taken in connection with what correspondents have said before, evidently getting their inspiration from the White House.
Sherman expressed concern about how the publication of a letter could misrepresent him to the public.
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The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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