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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 21: (search)
that it may yet cause us trouble. It looks to me very much as if Napoleon was going to settle the European quarrel in his own way, thus makithe Liberals of Mexico. Seward is a powerful practical ally of Louis Napoleon, in my opinion, but I am strongly in hope that his aid will do danger that he saw in delay. There was a prevalent belief that Louis Napoleon's object in Mexico had been frustrated when Lee surrendered, anubtless accelerated by the urgency of Grant and the knowledge that Napoleon had of Grant's popularity and influence. The French Minister to tnd Jefferson Davis, he still retained an implacable dislike for Louis Napoleon's acts and character. In the concluding pages of his Memoirs—wterests of his countrymen. He tried to play the part of the first Napoleon without the ability to sustain that role. He sought by new conques scheme of conquest was the precursor of his own overthrow . . . . The third Napoleon could have no claim to having done a good or just act
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
was no desire to retain him. Reverent sorrow and sympathy had long ascended from every quarter of the land toward the cottage on that mountain-top, but there were no prayers uttered for protracted days. The final crisis was neither long nor painful. On the 21st of July the country was informed that he was failing again. For two days his symptoms indicated increasing depression and exhaustion, and on the 23d came the end. There was no renewed struggle, no distinct consciousness on his part that his feet were wet with the waters of that river which we all must cross; he made no formal parting again with his family; he endured no pangs of dissolution, but passed away quietly without a groan or a shudder, with no one but his wife and children and his medical attendants by his side. He had done most of the great things of his life with calmness and composure, and in the same way he entered the long procession in which Alexander and Caesar and Wellington and Napoleon had preceded him.
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
s he was out of deference to Gov. Fish, who is averse to changes, or to doing anything which gives inconvenience to others.—I regretted the delay in getting your bonds; I inquired about the matter several times, and spoke of having them made up myself, but found that, to do so, you would have to make out, and sign, a new set.— Being Executive of this Nation I shall not write about the present terrible war raging on the Continent. However, before this reaches you I would not be surprised if Napoleon should be off his throne (he is practically so now) and peace, through the intervention of other Nations, in a fair way of being negotiated.—The winding up of Congress was much more harmonious and satisfactory than the beginning. I think the Republican party stands well before the people. We will lose Members of Congress in the Fall elections no doubt, because it always happens that the party in power are less active at the election intervening between two Presidential elections than the <