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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
the power of the United Government can be maliciously and wickedly used to injure a public servant who refuses to submit to wrong or countenance corruption. But General Grant was right in what he said; my matters before the courts would have been better served by quiet; that is, I should have had proper and fair decisions without the trouble and expense and delay of the law, had I been satisfied to submit in silence to indignity and injustice in other affairs. Washington, D. C., Apl. 8th, 1884. Dear Badeau,—I have now been here three weeks. We go back to New York on Saturday next. I am still on crutches, and will probably be on them, for a month or two yet. I have had but one opportunity to talk to the Sec. of State and then did not bring up your matter because the Sec. had said to me on the street that he wanted to come over and see me and have a talk. This was when I first arrived. I saw him at the State Dept. a day or two after, but there was a clerk in the office an