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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 36: (search)
ed to it. This remark has no reference to Young. Grant followed Young's counsel, and in the end perhaps wished that others had done so too. It was at his urgent advice that Mr. Young was afterward appointed by President Arthur, Minister to China. But though Grant's disappointment was acute it was not manifested with any loss of dignity. The world knows how soon he accepted defeat and fell into line as a follower in that party of which he had so long been the head; how he supported Mr. Garfield, and though an ex-President, attended political meetings and made political speeches in behalf of the man who aspired to the place he had held and had again expected to fill. On the 23d of June, two weeks after the result of the convention was known, he wrote to me from Galena: I am glad you are getting on so well with your book. Hope to see it out before you return to England. It will not probably have so great a sale at once as it would have had the result at Chicago been what many
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 37: (search)
aff of a distant commander, and in 1863, when Garfield was promoted to the rank of major-general, heongress, and after the battle of Chickamauga, Garfield resigned his military commission and applied his party. Up to that time the prospects of Garfield had not been brilliant. He was comparativelytent with a simple expression of opinion. At Garfield's urgent request he consented to pay him a vier the election and until the inauguration of Garfield, Grant was in no way in the counsels of the ithe removal of Cramer, or Fish, or my own. Garfield, however, remained firm, but as the nominatio before this arrangement could be carried out Garfield was struck down by the assassin. General Gthis time become somewhat mollified, and when Garfield visited Long Branch, Grant called on him and hare of unpopularity with those who supported Garfield, as well as with that large portion of the co not know. This attempt upon the life of General Garfield produced a shock upon the public mind but[14 more...]
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 38: (search)
dfast under Conkling's lead in the advocacy of a third term. When Garfield was nominated the Vice-Presidential place on the ticket was tendersignified his adherence, he accepted Arthur as willingly as he did Garfield. Neither was in any way personally objectionable to him. He at ons in complete accord with Grant and Conkling in their dispute with Garfield, and even took a more conspicuous part than Grant in the struggle,he re-election of Conkling and incurring the severest criticism of Garfield's supporters. The ex-President and the Vice-President did not meet very often in the months succeeding Garfield's inauguration, but they held frequent correspondence, not indeed by letter but by the messagesd before supposed he could entertain. When the assassination of Garfield culminated in his death Grant met Arthur at the funeral; the whiloion, and preceded the ex-President in the procession that followed Garfield's remains. Almost immediately afterward they were traveling toget
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 39: (search)
ne's introduction into the Cabinet, and though he certainly attributed the subsequent course of Garfield to the influence of Blaine, I never thought his soreness so great toward the Secretary of State as toward the President. He not only looked upon Garfield as responsible, but he felt that it was Garfield whom he had obliged, and who should have remembered the obligation. Blaine was an avowed aGarfield whom he had obliged, and who should have remembered the obligation. Blaine was an avowed antagonist, and at liberty to fight with whatever weapons Fortune or his own ability had endowed him. Thus, though the action of Garfield's Administration undoubtedly increased Grant's hostility to BlaGarfield's Administration undoubtedly increased Grant's hostility to Blaine, I never heard him speak of the Minister as bitterly as he did of the President. Grant's implacability, however, was in no way shared by Blaine. That statesman was very willing to come to termot President, he was Secretary of State, and rightly or wrongly, he was credited with directing Garfield's policy. After 1880 there was no intercourse between Grant and Blaine, until the time appr
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 40: (search)
and manufactures as far as possible. This we do not now with countries from which we receive tropical and semi-tropical products. Mexico can furnish all these commodities, and will want in return what we have to sell. This is an epitome of Grant's Mexican policy, and seems to me full of far-reaching political wisdom and large patriotic views. It shows, too, how his mind took in the widest purposes and most various aims; for this same letter contains comments on the Administration of Garfield that indicate how keenly Grant resented the conduct of the Government of that day toward himself and his political friends. But just as he turned, in the moment of defeat at Chicago, to the consideration of the resources of the country at the West, so, while suffering what he considered slights and rebuffs at the hands of his successor, he was devising a great international scheme to exchange benefits and productions with the neighboring republic; and later, at the very moment when anothe
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
ral Grant began to improve, after his place in the affections of the people was restored or resumed that his whole nature, moral and physical, became inspired and renovated. For this it was almost worth while to have suffered,—to have the world recognize his sensitiveness, and to receive himself its appreciation in return. Few men, indeed, have known in advance so nearly the verdict of posthumous fame. No deathbed was ever so illumined by the light of universal affection and admiration. Garfield had not the same claims on his countrymen, and the feeling for him was pity and indignant grief rather than gratitude or lofty enthusiasm; Lincoln knew nothing of the shock that went round the world at his assassination; Washington lived before the telegraph; and no European monarch or patriot was ever so universally recognized in his last moments as a savior and hero as Grant. All this was borne in to him as he sat struggling with Death, and, like the giant of old, he received new strengt
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
before the Chicago Convention that nominated Garfield for the Presidency. After the result was knor, and was turned to good account in favor of Garfield by the Republicans. During the journey, whicident would be sufficient; the obligations of Garfield were so conspicuous. Dear General,—Mucork, March 16th, 1881. His Excellency, Ja's A. Garfield, President of U. States: Dear Sir,—I takis second telegram, which also I submitted to Garfield. The result is described in Chapter XXXVII. er no. Sixty-eight. As elsewhere related, Garfield persisted in his nominations, which, however,the United States Senate, a letter condemning Garfield's course. This letter was published and exciet the reply. I am completely disgusted with Garfield's course. It is too late now for him to do aidates before the Convention save their own. Garfield has shown that he is not possessed of the bacto decline the nomination to Copenhagen which Garfield offered me, and my whole course in that matte[3 more...]<
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 51: (search)
ng for my intrusion, and anxiously awaiting a reply to this, I am Sir, with great respect, Yr. obt. sevt., Edwin Booth. No. Five. General Grant to General Garfield. This letter was written after Grant's first nomination as President. Garfield was in Congress at the time, and the communication referred to a previous Garfield was in Congress at the time, and the communication referred to a previous recommendation of the General-in-Chief. The address and signature were not preserved in the penciled copy taken at the time by one of the aides-de-camp of Grant, and transferred to me. The letter was endorsed: Gen. Grant to Gen. Garfield, June 19, 1868. About increase of Army pay. In recommending a continuance of the same iGen. Garfield, June 19, 1868. About increase of Army pay. In recommending a continuance of the same increase to the pay of officers of the army given for the fiscal year just ending, I did it on mature deliberation and under the firm conviction that it is necessary to their decent support. The pay of the army is now what it was at the breaking out of the Rebellion within a few dollars, and which is offset by the income tax, whils
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 52: (search)
the will of those who had conquered, a fiercer animosity was aroused than had existed during the Rebellion. The rancor of his Presidential terms rivaled any that was poured on Lincoln, and the damage done to his reputation by open enemies and pretended friends wounded him all the more acutely because for a while he had been used to popularity. Then came the wonderful tour abroad, and after this his return to party strife. The aspirations that were crushed at Chicago, the hostility with Garfield, the slights from Arthur, embittered his final years, and his political sun went down in eclipse; while the odious story of his business failure flung an additional cloud around his fame. Last of all appeared disease—the result of mental agony. But the self-same hand that struck the soldier to the earth tore away all that had obscured the real Grant from his countrymen. They saw him suffering, struggling with Death, and all the light of his past was reflected on the scene; his errors w