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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
ho have not hitherto been regarded as friends. Toward the last he stammered and hesitated, evidently unwilling at this moment to call any one an enemy; and finally made use of the circumlocution,—Those who have not hitherto been regarded as friends. Dr. Shrady wrote out the bulletin, and read it aloud, when the General added: I desire the good — will of all, whether heretofore friends or not. I urged the Doctor to stop just there, to say nothing about physical details, but give this Easter message from General Grant to the world in his own language. Mrs. Grant, however, wished the word prayerful to be used before sympathy, and General Grant consented to the change. Another morning, only a day or two after his improvement began, he said to me, evidently with a purpose, that it was strange how undisturbed a man could be when so near death. He supposed he had been as near the other world as one could be and survive. His feeling at the time had been that every moment might
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 51: (search)
r side of the water not very favorable to the restoration of cordial feeling towards this country, and by which probably the language of your Government is in some degree influenced. I had thought of writing to you in the autumn in consequence of some expressions as to this country in a note to your book, and I am now the more wishful to do so in consequence of what I have learnt from that article. I have been a good deal occupied since I read it till I came down into the country for our Easter holiday. I write to you from here, having some leisure, that I might put before so fair and impartial a mind as yours one or two considerations which I venture to think ought to weigh against the feeling indicated in the article. The two principal matters which are stated to weigh against us in the mind of the citizens of the United States are (1.) The supposed feeling of England in favor of the Confederate States. （2.) The action of our Government in two instances. 1. The early recogn