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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 23: (search)
instructions as envoy to England. The document was written in a spirit and tone that would have been highly offensive to England; it was entirely unacceptable to Mr. Fish and to General Grant, both of whom had conceived the idea of a pacific policy looking to an adjustment of our differences with England that might be agreeable to both nations. Mr. Gladstone had just come into power at the head of a liberal government, including such friends of the Union as Bright, Forster, and the Duke of Argyll; and the American Administration thought it might make terms with these without assuming an offensive attitude. The memoir which Mr. Motley presented was therefore rejected. At this Mr. Sumner was very indignant. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs he supposed himself entitled to dictate, or at least control, the foreign policy of the Government, and he would indeed be able to thwart or advance it in an unusual degree. He had been a life-long intimate and personal fr
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 35: (search)
etter of condolence to the Prince of Wales for the death of the Princess Alice and a letter of thanks to the President for his tender of a ship to take me East, I had written such a letter as the latter, but to the Secretary of the Navy, from whom the tender came, without allusion to the President. On the whole, I thought it out of place, in the estimation of the American citizen, to write to the Queen, or for her. Nevertheless, a few months before he had said to me: I wrote the Duke of Argyll a letter of condolence the very moment I heard of the death of the Duchess, day before yesterday, I think. And so he went on from one potentate and people to another. At Bombay he wrote, four days after his arrival: The reception here has been most cordial from the officials, foreign residents, Parsee merchants, and the better-to-do Hindoo natives. Myself and party were invited to occupy the Government House, where we are now staying, and where we have received princely hospitalities.
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
of the British army, presided; and there were innumerable parties, afternoon and evening, made in his honor. The Duke of Argyll, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mrs. Hicks-Lord, of New York, the Marquis of Hertford—all entertained him; and everybody ole he was at Varese. At Ragatz I left him for a week to arrange for his tour in Scotland. The Dukes of Sutherland and Argyll had asked me to bring him to them if he went as far north as their seats of Inverary and Dunrobin, and I now wrote to thehad been retired by his order as President, to enable me to take a diplomatic position. On the death of the Duchess of Argyll I had suggested that the General should write to the Duke, who had entertained him at Inverary. Paris, France, Maorresponded, desiring answers, but whose letters I do not answer. B.'s was not one of that class. I wrote the Duke of Argyll a letter of condolence the very moment I heard of the death of the Duchess—day before yesterday I think. We leave here