e popular will.
All the governments of Europe are following in the same path, so
that we may fairly hope that in a brief time Europe will become
republican in substance if not in form.

We returned in the steamer "City of New York," the vessel on which
we went over, and arrived in New York on the 12th of September.
My wife, daughter and myself returned to Washington, improved in
health and strength.

On the evening of the next day after my arrival a large company,
estimated at 1,500 people, led by the Marine band, marched to my
house. The report given by the "Republican" of Washington the next
morning is substantially correct and is here inserted:

"To General Grosvenor had been assigned the duty of formally
welcoming the Senator, and he did so in a very pleasant speech.
He spoke of the thirty-five years of faithful service which had
been rendered Ohio by John Sherman, as Representative, Senator,
cabinet officer and citizen; touched upon the eagerness with which
Ohio looked for the Senator's return; referred happily to the
Senator's wife and daughter, and then launched out upon the broad
ocean of Ohio politics. He closed by saying that one of the chief
causes of Ohio Republican exultation on this occasion lay in the
fact that the Senator had returned to do nobly his part toward the
re-election of Governor Foraker and the election of a Republican
Senator to succeed Mr. Payne.

"The welcome was punctuated with applause, and when the speech and
the uproar had ceased the band played 'Home Again.' The crowd
cheered once more as Senator Sherman stepped forward and commenced
his reply.

"Appreciation of the welcome which had been extended to him by
friends from Ohio and friends in Washington brightened his opening
remarks, and he said that, although his home was in Ohio, yet he
had been so long a resident of this city that he felt himself almost
entitled to the rights of citizenship here, without, of course,
losing his allegiance to the people of his native state. The joys
of home and the pleasures of foreign lands were dilated upon, and
the Senator said: 'No American can travel anywhere without having
a stronger love and affection for his native land. This is the
feeling of every American, and it is sometimes too strongly and
noisily expressed to be acceptable abroad. We do sometimes carry
the flag too high and flaunt it offensively.'

"Previous visits to Europe were referred to, and the Senator went
on: 'An