Dear Sir,

I am bundling up to be off in the course of the week. Business presses upon us and the most important  acts will be passed within these five or six days.

The state of affairs will be made to conform to Peace.  We are at the moment engaged in reducing the army.  In Committee of the Whole, we have reduced the army to 6,000.  The Cabinet are for 20,000.  I think it not unlikely that we will eventually fix the number at 10,000.

Democrats here take their cue & declare that this has been a glorious war...that we have established a national character.  I take it, too, that the people--the sovereigns--will have about the same opinion of the matter.

Everyone is so pleased to get rid of the war that, be the Peace what it may, it will be hailed as the first of blessings.  The people fell like men pardoned under the gallows...they will take it upon any terms.

Yours most cordially.

S. Sherwood

To: Ebenezer Foote

The painting of Samuel Sherwood is at the Delaware County Historical Association.

Transcription courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

Further information on the Sherwood Family is available in the Letters and Journals of Samuel and Laura Sherwood (1813 - 1823), edited by John Crocker, Delhi, NY, 1967,  available in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives and Milne Library, State University of New York College at Oneonta.

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