The Man Who Saved the Union (106 page)

“I am no politician…‘next President of the United States!’ ”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 13, 1866 (including excerpt from
St. Louis
Commercial
).

“I regret to say”
: to Sheridan, Oct. 12, 1866.

“absolute massacre”
: Eric Foner,
Reconstruction
(1988), 263.

“thrown in like sacks of corn … God damned niggers”
: Ted Tunnell,
Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana
,
1862-1877
(1984), 104-06.

“So far there seems”
: to Johnson, Oct. 24, 1866.

“There is ground to apprehend danger”
: Stanbery to Grant, undated (Nov. 2, 1866), Andrew Johnson Papers, Library of Congress.

“General Grant desires me to say”
: Comstock to Meade, Nov. 2, 1866,
Papers of Grant
, 16:363n.

“General Grant is of the opinion”
:
New York Times
, Nov. 3, 1866.

“Give my respects to the dead dog”
: Eric L. McKitrick,
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
(1960), 361.

“One of the most ridiculous veto measures”
: to Washburne, March 4, 1867.

“Delay may cause further demands”
: to Ord, Dec. 6, 1866.

“There is but little difference”
: to Sherman, Jan. 13, 1867.

“I am not egotistical enough”
: to Washburne, April 5, 1867.

CHAPTER 54

“I was not in favor”
: Grant testimony to Congress, July 18, 1867.

“the great danger”
: to Johnson, Aug. 1, 1867.

“In notifying you of my acceptance”
: to Stanton, Aug. 12, 1867.

“It is unmistakably the expressed wish”
: to Johnson, Aug. 17, 1867.

“I feel that your relief”
: to Sheridan, Sept. 8, 1867.

“It is truly an unenviable one”
: to Sherman, Sept. 18, 1867.

“Our place of meeting”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 910.

“Learning on Saturday”
: to Johnson, Jan. 28, 1868.

“According to the provisions”
: to Johnson, Jan. 14, 1868.

“though to soften”
: to Johnson, Jan. 28, 1868.

“I confess my surprise”
: to Johnson, Feb. 3, 1868.

“thoroughly ill-bred dog … to this house”
: Gene Smith,
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
(1977), 238.

“never in history … Mr. Wade has done it”
: Smith,
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
, 236; Michael Les Benedict,
A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869
(1974), 300.

CHAPTER 55

“The Great Spirit raised both the white man”
:
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1871
(1872), 23.

“I want men”
: from Carrington, Dec. 21, 1866,
Papers of Grant
, 16:419-20n.

“All Sioux found outside”
: Sherman report in Grant to Stanton, Jan. 15, 1867.

“The protection of the Pacific railroad”
: to Stanton, Jan. 15, 1867.

“The Indian Bureau should be transferred”
: to Sherman, Jan. 15, 1867.

“If the present practice”
: to Stanton, Feb. 1, 1867.

“War exists”
: in letter to Sherman, May 29, 1867.

“This conflict of authority”
: from Sherman, June 12, 1867,
Papers of Grant
, 17:174n.

“It will be well to prepare”
: to Sherman, March 2, 1868.

“These posts are kept up”
: to Stanton, March 10, 1868.

“I did not first commence”
: Dee Brown,
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(1970), 144.

“Your peace commission”
: to Sherman, May 19, 1868.

“We are on the mountains”
: Robert M. Utley,
The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890
(2003 ed.), 118.

“The Government of the United States”
:
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
(1904), 2:998.

CHAPTER 56

“We profoundly deplore”
: Republican party platform, May 20, 1868, Public Papers.

“It would hardly seem”
:
New York Times
, May 19, 1868.

“The proceedings of the convention”
: to Joseph R. Hawley, May 29, 1868.

“I have seen in the papers”
: from Sherman, June 7, 1868,
Papers of Grant
, 18:293n.

“You understand my position perfectly”
: to Sherman, June 21, 1868.

“The reconstruction policy of the Radicals”
:
New York Times
, July 3, 1868.

“Alarm the people?”
: James D. McCabe Jr.,
The Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour
(1868), 465-66n.

“The country to this place”
: to Julia Dent Grant, July 17, 1868.

“I do not regret it now”
: to Julia Dent Grant, July 21, 1868.

“I fully appreciate the compliment”
: to Charles R. Morehead Jr., July 14, 1868.

“I find it so agreeable here”
: to Rawlins, Aug. 18, 1868.

“My friends”
: Remarks at Dubuque, Aug. 18, 1868,
Papers of Grant
, 19:23n.

“I have chosen this”
: Alphonse B. Miller,
Thaddeus Stevens
(1960), 404.

“If the contest was to be determined”
:
New York Times
, Aug. 23, 1868.

“Give Mr. Moses assurances”
: to Isaac N. Morris, Sept. 14, 1868.

“I know General Grant”
:
Boston Transcript
, Aug. 6, 1868, excerpted in
Papers of Grant
, 19:18-19n.

“A person would not know”
: to Washburne, Sept. 23, 1868.

“I presume military affairs”
: to Schofield, Sept. 25, 1868.

“I want to put off the evil day”
: to Morris, Oct. 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 57

“The choice has fallen upon me”
: Speech of Nov. 4, 1868.

“I am not on speaking terms”
: to Daniel Ammen, Nov. 23, 1868.

“You all know how unaccustomed”
:
New York Herald
, Dec. 9, 1868.

“The offers of the managers”
: to Scott, Dec. 11, 1868,
Papers of Grant
, 19:93n.

“The proposition was to pay me”
: to Sherman, Jan. 5, 1869.

“People looking at it”
:
New York Times
, March 7, 1869.

“The office has come to me unsought”
: Inaugural address, March 4, 1869, Public Papers.

CHAPTER 58

“I have come to the conclusion”
: Speech to congressional delegation, Feb. 13, 1869.

“I would ask”
: to the Senate, March 6, 1869.

“It is a matter for profound consideration”
:
New York Times
, March 11, 1869.

“It has been my intention”
: to Fish, March 10, 1869.

“I cannot … forbids it”
: from Fish, March 11, 1869 (telegram and letter),
Papers of Grant
, 19:150n.

“Not receiving your dispatch”
: to Fish, March 11, 1869.

“You have exceptional qualifications”
: Allan Nevins,
Hamilton Fish
(1957 ed.), 1:112.

“I am ‘in for it’ ”
: Nevins,
Hamilton Fish
, 116.

“The Cabinet is a surprise … classed among statesmen”
: Editorial excerpts in
New York Times
, March 7, 1869.

“The Cabinet is not strong”
: John Bigelow,
Retrospections of an Active Life
(1913), 4:263.

“There was nothing”
: to George Stuart, Feb. 26, 1869.

“I scarcely get one moment”
: to Mary Grant Cramer, March 31, 1869.

“There is one subject”
: Special message to Congress, April 7, 1869, Public Papers.

“I leave here tomorrow”
: to Badeau, July 14, 1869.

CHAPTER 59

“Mr. Corbin is a very shrewd old gentleman … was a contractionist”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
(1870), 152-53.

“I took a letter”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 172.

“I think it had become … the whole question”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 153.

“About the 4th day of September”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 358.

“You will be met by the bulls and bears”
: to Boutwell, Sept. 12, 1869.

“The President was reported”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 35.

“Nothing ever occurred to me”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 154.

“We started … delivered all right”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 231-32.

“Who is that man?…a few moments”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 444.

“Write this”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 182. Julia Grant was reproducing the letter from memory. Delicacy or fear of a lawsuit prompted her to leave the name “Jay Gould” blank; the present author has supplied it.

“I was very much excited…‘letter gets out’ ”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 251-56, 257.

“I became satisfied”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 344.

“I went over to the President”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 345-46.

“It was each man drag out his own corpse”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 176.

“The President conversed”
:
New York Times
, Oct. 4, 1869.

“The committee find”
:
Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic
, 20.

CHAPTER 60

“What a wonderful shot … and earnest”
: Borie to Badeau, Oct. 3, 1869,
Papers of Grant
, 19:220n.

“Your beloved husband”
: to Mary Rawlins, Sept. 6, 1869.

“Yet his final taking off”
: to Washburne, Sept. 7, 1869.

“You and I know”
: Wilson to Babcock, Oct. 13, 1869,
Papers of Grant
, 19:257n.

“The executive department”
: John Sherman,
Recollections of Forty Years
(1896), 375.

“I think it advisable”
: to Fish, Aug. 14, 1869.

“The United States are willing”
: Memorandum, Aug. 31, 1869.

“For more than a year”
: Annual message, Dec. 6, 1869, Public Papers.

“I did not dream”
: to the Senate and House of Representatives, April 5, 1871, in
Report of the Commission of Inquiry to the Island of Santo Domingo
(1871), 1.

“He stated further”
:
Report of the Commission
, 1-2.

“Great and good friend”
: to Báez, July 13, 1869.

“He visited San Domingo”
: to the Senate and House of Representatives, April 5, 1871, in
Report of the Commission
, 2.

“What do you think!”
: Jacob Dolson Cox, “How Judge Hoar Ceased to Be Attorney-General,”
Atlantic Monthly
, Aug. 1895, 166-67.

“A list was opened”
: Perry to Fish, June 7, 1870, in
Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Investigate the Memorial of Davis Hatch
(1870), 105.

“It is an island of unequaled fertility … in the Antilles”
: Grant memorandum, undated,
Papers of Grant
, 20:74-76.

CHAPTER 61

“When we consider … he didn’t write it”
: George S. Boutwell,
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs
(1902), 2:214-15, 251.

“a colossus”
: Gamaliel Bradford,
Union Portraits
(1916), 236, 242.

“ ‘I advise you’ ”
: Bradford,
Union Portraits
, 240-45.

“Mr. President”
:
Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner
, ed. Edward Lillie Pierce (1893), 4:434.

“I feel an unusual anxiety”
: Special message to the Senate, May 31, 1870, Public Papers.

“The condition of the insurgents”
: Special message to Congress, June 13, 1870, Public Papers.

“The moment it is known”
: Annual message, Dec. 5, 1870, Public Papers.

“Rather than carry out … rudely assailed”
:
Charles Sumner: His Complete Works
, ed. George Frisbie Hoar (1900), 18:262ff;
Congressional Globe
, 41:3:226-31.

“This report more than sustains”
: Special message to Congress, April 5, 1871, Public Papers.

“If Mr. Sumner”
:
New York Times
, March 30, 1871.

CHAPTER 62

“Knowing your great desire”
: from Angier, Jan. 20, 1870,
Papers of Grant
, 20:105-06n.

“Governor Bullock has assumed”
: from Tift, Jan. 3, 1870,
Papers of Grant
, 20:104n.

“These bands are having a great effect”
: Allen W. Trelease,
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
(1971), 123.

“Armed bands of banditti”
: Trelease,
White Terror
, 138.

“Please answer quickly”
: from A. Alpeora Bradley et al., Feb. 9, 1870,
Papers of Grant
, 20:107n.