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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 37: (search)
efore and received his assurances of friendship and deference. Of course the President had the right to make what changes he pleased in the public service, but Grant thought that after what he had done to secure Garfield's election he should have been consulted in the disposition made of his personal friends, and he felt that the changes were intended to be offensive to him. But although greatly amazed he at first withheld any public expression of opinion. He telegraphed to me on the 24th of March in these words: See the President at once with my letter. Ask him to withdraw your nomination, and if he cannot leave you in London, ask him to give you either Italy or Naval Office in this city. Show him this dispatch as my endorsement of you for either place. At the Executive Mansion I met Merritt, who had come on from New York to save himself from taking my place, and as we walked up the stairs—to the American salle des pas perdus—we laughed at each other, and each declared he did
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
ged hospitalities, but would like to join me in a mess at my house; and I consented. When he wrote this letter he expected to go direct to me. Washington, D. C., Apl. 23d 1877. Dear General,—I have just received your letter of the 24th of March, and have before me the chapter on the Petersburgh Mine explosion which I will read so soon as I finish this letter.—I am much obliged for the kind expressions in your letter and shall only be too happy to serve you whenever it may be in my prom this city and Brooklyn. Very truly yours, U. S. Grant. Before this letter was delivered my name was sent to the Senate as Charge d'affaires at Copenhagen. Grant at once sent me the following telegram from New York: New York, March 24. General Badeau, Riggs House, Washington, D. C.: See the President at once with my letter. Ask him to withdraw your nomination, and if he cannot leave you in London, ask him to give you either Italy or Naval Office in this city. Show him th