{"id":95559,"date":"2020-07-22T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=95559"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:14:44","slug":"william-t-sherman-to-thomas-ewing-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/william-t-sherman-to-thomas-ewing-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tom : . . . The fact that Congress did not admit Kansas must be a disappointment to you all, but the certainty of her giving a Republican vote was too much for a Democratic Congress, with the almost certainty of the election going into the House. Down here no one thinks of Lincoln. The struggle will be between Douglas and Breckenridge; the latter will win. . . If Lincoln should win I don&#8217;t know but that something would turn up to my liking, but it won&#8217;t do for me to say Lincoln down here. The devil himself would be a more welcome guest than a Black Republican, yet I have no fears myself of the election of anybody; if our form of government will not endure any man as president it is not a fit machine and should break up; but of course I know that no man would now disturb property in slaves; as to the limitation of its sphere, that is comparatively a small matter. . .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>adapted from <em>General W.T. Sherman as College President, A Collection of Letters &#8230;.<\/em> (1912).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\"><span class=\"field-content\">&#8220;William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Jr., July 22, 1860,&#8221; House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32609\">http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32609<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tom : . . . The fact that Congress did not admit Kansas must be a disappointment to you all, but the certainty of her giving a Republican vote was too much for a Democratic Congress, with the almost certainty of the election going into the House. Down here no one thinks of Lincoln. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/William-T.-Sherman.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}