The Executive power is not weakened, but rather strengthened.

Surely he is not such an obstruction as would warrant violence, or even s show of force, which would produce the very reaction and clamor that he hopes for to save him from the absurdity of holding an empty office "for the safety of the country." This is so much as I ought to say, and more too, but if it produces the result I will be more than satisfied, viz., that I be simply allowed to resume my proper post and duties in St.Louis.

With great respect, yours truly, W.T.SHERMAN, Lieutenant-General.
On the 1st of February, the board of which I was the president submitted to the adjutant-general our draft of the "Articles of War and Army Regulations," condensed to a small compass, the result of our war experience.

But they did not suit the powers that were, and have ever since slept the sleep that knows no waking, to make room for the ponderous document now in vogue, which will not stand the strain of a week's campaign in real war.
I hurried back to St.Louis to escape the political storm I saw brewing.

The President repeatedly said to me that he wanted me in Washington, and I as often answered that nothing could tempt me to live in that center of intrigue and excitement; but soon came the following: HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, February 10, 1868.
DEAR GENERAL: I have received at last the President's reply to my last, letter.