...ngel against the public, and Rawlins in Grant's tent was his good angel against temptation — John A. Rawlins, farmer, charcoal-burner, self-educated lawyer, swarthy, rough-hewn, passionate, as Mr. Garland writes of him. In later years Grant said, I always disliked to hear anybody swear except Rawlins. It was over Grant's whiskey that many of these oaths were raised; and, though we have heard much a...