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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 6: (search)
e country and had been repeatedly and earnestly pressed upon the Government; and the device of the Administration now was to make use of these sentiments as an excuse to send him on a mission to the neighboring republic and thus get rid of his presence which had become such an obstruction to many of their designs. The French Emperor, it was true, was tardily preparing to remove his army, and there was neither object nor necessity for Grant's presence or intervention. Nevertheless, in November, 1866, immediately after the failure of the Baltimore scheme, the President informed Grant that he meant to send him to Mexico. A Minister had already been appointed to that republic, and Grant was to be given neither powers nor authority. No special purpose for the mission was announced; he was simply to give the Minister the benefit of his advice in carrying out the instructions of the Secretary of State. It was doubtless supposed that Grant with his profound anxiety for Mexican independ