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followers who did not support him in the concluding political effort of his life never held the same place in his personal regard.
His failure embittered his feeling toward all who contributed to it.
This remark has no reference to Young.
Grant followed Young's counsel, and in the end perhaps wished that others had done so too. It was at his urgent advice that Mr. Young was afterward appointed by President Arthur, Minister to China.
But though Grant's disappointment was acute it was not manifested with any loss of dignity.
The world knows how soon he accepted defeat and fell into line as a follower in that party of which he had so long been the head; how he supported Mr. Garfield, and though an ex-President, attended political meetings and made political speeches in behalf of the man who aspired to the place he had held and had again expected to fill.
On the 23d of June, two weeks after the result of the convention was known, he wrote to me from Galena: ‘I am glad you are getting on so well with your book.
Hope to see it out before you return to England.
It will not probably have so great a sale at once as it would have had the result at Chicago been what many thought it would be. But it will have a long run, finding a market long after you and I are gone.’
This was all that he said to me on the subject till we met in October, when I accompanied him on his political tour.
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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