Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — Wells and Sherman. [ARTICLE]

Wells and Sherman.

The New York Herald prints an acrimonious interview between J. Madison Wells and Secretary Sherman: “ Did we not give you the moral sympathy support of the letter which Gen. Garfield, Stanley Matthews and Gen. White united with me in writing you?” asked Sherman. “ Oh, hang your letter-writing; there were have a dozen better things yon could have done for us, and as for your moral sympathy, if it was deep enough to reach to hell and back it would not have taken Gen. Anderson and me out of jail,” was the angry response. “ But what else could we liave done in the matter?” queried Sherman. “ Oh, if the President bad said but the word to Nicholls it would have saved us all the misery of staying in prison. A line from Hayes would have done the business. As for writing letters, you might have written 200 of them and they would not have been worth any more than so much waste paper.” The interview continued in this vein for quite a while, and was conducted at times in so loud a key that the voices penetrated to the adjoining chambers, the language of Wells being, as one listener described it, freely interspersed with “cuss words.”— Washington Letter.