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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 37: (search)
plans. When I reported the result of my interview to General Grant he telegraphed me again: I advise you to decline Copenhagen and stick to London, unless you can get Naval Office or Italy, or some equally good place. Advise with Conkling and Platt. It would be better to come here without Government appointment than to take Copenhagen. My relatives and personal friends gave me different advice and thought I would do better to accept the mission to Denmark; but I considered myself bound toe myself in advance to accept the post. But before this arrangement could be carried out Garfield was struck down by the assassin. General Grant had in the meantime returned from Mexico and gone to his house at Long Branch. Both Conkling and Platt had resigned their positions in the Senate, and after a long struggle at Albany their successors were elected. Grant's feeling, however, had by this time become somewhat mollified, and when Garfield visited Long Branch, Grant called on him and t
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
my endorsement of you for either place. U. S. Grant. Letter no. Sixty-seven. As the President was disinclined to reconsider his appointment, Grant sent me this second telegram, which also I submitted to Garfield. The result is described in Chapter XXXVII. New York, March 25. General A. Badeau, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. I advise you to decline Copenhagen and stick to London unless you can get Naval Office, Italy, or some equally good place. Advise with Conkling and Platt. It would be better to come here without government appointment than to take Copenhagen. U. S. Grant. Letter no. Sixty-eight. As elsewhere related, Garfield persisted in his nominations, which, however, were opposed in the Senate, and I returned to my post in England to await the result, while General Grant went to Mexico to arrange for the organization of a railroad connecting that country with the United States. This was the enterprise in which Mr. Romero took so deep an intere