by H. W. Brands
CHAPTER 54
“I was not in favor”: Grant testimony to Congress, July 18, 1867.
“the great danger”: to Johnson, Aug. 1, 1867.
“In notifying you of my acceptance”: to Stanton, Aug. 12, 1867.
“It is unmistakably the expressed wish”: to Johnson, Aug. 17, 1867.
“I feel that your relief”: to Sheridan, Sept. 8, 1867.
“It is truly an unenviable one”: to Sherman, Sept. 18, 1867.
“Our place of meeting”: Memoirs of Sherman, 910.
“Learning on Saturday”: to Johnson, Jan. 28, 1868.
“According to the provisions”: to Johnson, Jan. 14, 1868.
“though to soften”: to Johnson, Jan. 28, 1868.
“I confess my surprise”: to Johnson, Feb. 3, 1868.
“thoroughly ill-bred dog … to this house”: Gene Smith, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1977), 238.
“never in history … Mr. Wade has done it”: Smith, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, 236; Michael Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869 (1974), 300.
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“The Great Spirit raised both the white man”: Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1871 (1872), 23.
“I want men”: from Carrington, Dec. 21, 1866, Papers of Grant, 16:419-20n.
“All Sioux found outside”: Sherman report in Grant to Stanton, Jan. 15, 1867.
“The protection of the Pacific railroad”: to Stanton, Jan. 15, 1867.
“The Indian Bureau should be transferred”: to Sherman, Jan. 15, 1867.
“If the present practice”: to Stanton, Feb. 1, 1867.
“War exists”: in letter to Sherman, May 29, 1867.
“This conflict of authority”: from Sherman, June 12, 1867, Papers of Grant, 17:174n.
“It will be well to prepare”: to Sherman, March 2, 1868.
“These posts are kept up”: to Stanton, March 10, 1868.
“I did not first commence”: Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), 144.
“Your peace commission”: to Sherman, May 19, 1868.
“We are on the mountains”: Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890 (2003 ed.), 118.
“The Government of the United States”: Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (1904), 2:998.
CHAPTER 56
“We profoundly deplore”: Republican party platform, May 20, 1868, Public Papers.
“It would hardly seem”: New York Times, May 19, 1868.
“The proceedings of the convention”: to Joseph R. Hawley, May 29, 1868.
“I have seen in the papers”: from Sherman, June 7, 1868, Papers of Grant, 18:293n.
“You understand my position perfectly”: to Sherman, June 21, 1868.
“The reconstruction policy of the Radicals”: New York Times, July 3, 1868.
“Alarm the people?”: James D. McCabe Jr., The Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour (1868), 465-66n.
“The country to this place”: to Julia Dent Grant, July 17, 1868.
“I do not regret it now”: to Julia Dent Grant, July 21, 1868.
“I fully appreciate the compliment”: to Charles R. Morehead Jr., July 14, 1868.
“I find it so agreeable here”: to Rawlins, Aug. 18, 1868.
“My friends”: Remarks at Dubuque, Aug. 18, 1868, Papers of Grant, 19:23n.
“I have chosen this”: Alphonse B. Miller, Thaddeus Stevens (1960), 404.
“If the contest was to be determined”: New York Times, Aug. 23, 1868.
“Give Mr. Moses assurances”: to Isaac N. Morris, Sept. 14, 1868.
“I know General Grant”: Boston Transcript, Aug. 6, 1868, excerpted in Papers of Grant, 19:18-19n.
“A person would not know”: to Washburne, Sept. 23, 1868.
“I presume military affairs”: to Schofield, Sept. 25, 1868.
“I want to put off the evil day”: to Morris, Oct. 22, 1868.
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“The choice has fallen upon me”: Speech of Nov. 4, 1868.
“I am not on speaking terms”: to Daniel Ammen, Nov. 23, 1868.
“You all know how unaccustomed”: New York Herald, Dec. 9, 1868.
“The offers of the managers”: to Scott, Dec. 11, 1868, Papers of Grant, 19:93n.
“The proposition was to pay me”: to Sherman, Jan. 5, 1869.
“People looking at it”: New York Times, March 7, 1869.
“The office has come to me unsought”: Inaugural address, March 4, 1869, Public Papers.
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“I have come to the conclusion”: Speech to congressional delegation, Feb. 13, 1869.
“I would ask”: to the Senate, March 6, 1869.
“It is a matter for profound consideration”: New York Times, March 11, 1869.
“It has been my intention”: to Fish, March 10, 1869.
“I cannot … forbids it”: from Fish, March 11, 1869 (telegram and letter), Papers of Grant, 19:150n.
“Not receiving your dispatch”: to Fish, March 11, 1869.
“You have exceptional qualifications”: Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish (1957 ed.), 1:112.
“I am ‘in for it’ ”: Nevins, Hamilton Fish, 116.
“The Cabinet is a surprise … classed among statesmen”: Editorial excerpts in New York Times, March 7, 1869.
“The Cabinet is not strong”: John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life (1913), 4:263.
“There was nothing”: to George Stuart, Feb. 26, 1869.
“I scarcely get one moment”: to Mary Grant Cramer, March 31, 1869.
“There is one subject”: Special message to Congress, April 7, 1869, Public Papers.
“I leave here tomorrow”: to Badeau, July 14, 1869.
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“Mr. Corbin is a very shrewd old gentleman … was a contractionist”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic (1870), 152-53.
“I took a letter”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 172.
“I think it had become … the whole question”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 153.
“About the 4th day of September”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 358.
“You will be met by the bulls and bears”: to Boutwell, Sept. 12, 1869.
“The President was reported”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 35.
“Nothing ever occurred to me”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 154.
“We started … delivered all right”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 231-32.
“Who is that man?…a few moments”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 444.
“Write this”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 182. Julia Grant was reproducing the letter from memory. Delicacy or fear of a lawsuit prompted her to leave the name “Jay Gould” blank; the present author has supplied it.
“I was very much excited…‘letter gets out’ ”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 251-56, 257.
“I became satisfied”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 344.
“I went over to the President”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 345-46.
“It was each man drag out his own corpse”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 176.
“The President conversed”: New York Times, Oct. 4, 1869.
“The committee find”: Investigation into the Causes of the Gold Panic, 20.
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“What a wonderful shot … and earnest”: Borie to Badeau, Oct. 3, 1869, Papers of Grant, 19:220n.
“Your beloved husband”: to Mary Rawlins, Sept. 6, 1869.
“Yet his final taking off”: to Washburne, Sept. 7, 1869.
“You and I know”: Wilson to Babcock, Oct. 13, 1869, Papers of Grant, 19:257n.
“The executive department”: John Sherman, Recollections of
Forty Years (1896), 375.
“I think it advisable”: to Fish, Aug. 14, 1869.
“The United States are willing”: Memorandum, Aug. 31, 1869.
“For more than a year”: Annual message, Dec. 6, 1869, Public Papers.
“I did not dream”: to the Senate and House of Representatives, April 5, 1871, in Report of the Commission of Inquiry to the Island of Santo Domingo (1871), 1.
“He stated further”: Report of the Commission, 1-2.
“Great and good friend”: to Báez, July 13, 1869.
“He visited San Domingo”: to the Senate and House of Representatives, April 5, 1871, in Report of the Commission, 2.
“What do you think!”: Jacob Dolson Cox, “How Judge Hoar Ceased to Be Attorney-General,” Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1895, 166-67.
“A list was opened”: Perry to Fish, June 7, 1870, in Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Investigate the Memorial of Davis Hatch (1870), 105.
“It is an island of unequaled fertility … in the Antilles”: Grant memorandum, undated, Papers of Grant, 20:74-76.
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“When we consider … he didn’t write it”: George S. Boutwell, Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs (1902), 2:214-15, 251.
“a colossus”: Gamaliel Bradford, Union Portraits (1916), 236, 242.
“ ‘I advise you’ ”: Bradford, Union Portraits, 240-45.
“Mr. President”: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner, ed. Edward Lillie Pierce (1893), 4:434.
“I feel an unusual anxiety”: Special message to the Senate, May 31, 1870, Public Papers.
“The condition of the insurgents”: Special message to Congress, June 13, 1870, Public Papers.
“The moment it is known”: Annual message, Dec. 5, 1870, Public Papers.
“Rather than carry out … rudely assailed”: Charles Sumner: His Complete Works, ed. George Frisbie Hoar (1900), 18:262ff; Congressional Globe, 41:3:226-31.
“This report more than sustains”: Special message to Congress, April 5, 1871, Public Papers.
“If Mr. Sumner”: New York Times, March 30, 1871.
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“Knowing your great desire”: from Angier, Jan. 20, 1870, Papers of Grant, 20:105-06n.
“Governor Bullock has assumed”: from Tift, Jan. 3, 1870, Papers of Grant, 20:104n.
“These bands are having a great effect”: Allen W. Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1971), 123.
“Armed bands of banditti”: Trelease, White Terror, 138.
“Please answer quickly”: from A. Alpeora Bradley et al., Feb. 9, 1870, Papers of Grant, 20:107n.
“President has received”: Porter to Bradley, Feb. 9, 1870, Papers of Grant, 20:108n.
“She ratified her constitution”: Annual message, Dec. 6, 1869, Public Papers.
“The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment”: to Washburne, Jan. 28, 1870.
“The adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment”: Special message, March 30, 1870, Public Papers.
“force, bribery, threats, intimidation”: Statutes at Large, 16:146.
“There is a deplorable state”: to Blaine, March 9, 1871.
“A condition of affairs”: Special message, March 23, 1871, Public Papers.
“I can scarcely believe”: Congressional Globe, 42:1:Appendix, 75.
“He is invited”: Congressional Globe, 42:1:Appendix, 231-32.
“It is to divert”: Congressional Globe, 42:1:355-57.
“Public affairs are growing”: Garfield to Jacob Cox, March 23, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:247n.
“Politics have again”: Sherman to Ord, March 18, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:351n.
“powerful and armed combinations”: Statutes at Large, 17:14-15.
“extraordinary public importance”: Proclamation, May 3, 1871, Public Papers.
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“There is a Ku Klux organization”: from Flournoy, May 1 and 3, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:337-38n.
“The Ku Klux attacked us”: Flournoy and C. C. Culling to William Belknap, May 18, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:338n.
“The first appearance”: from Huggins, April 7, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:342n.
“Give us poor people”: from Boulding, May 2, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:13-14n.
“Armed bands styling themselves”: from J. Pinckney Whitehead et al., June 16, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:15n.
“There were about twenty”: Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States: Georgia (1872), 1:2.
“The object of it is to kill out”: Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee: Miscellaneous and Florida, (1872), 95.
“The cause of this treatment”: Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee: Alabama (1872), 11:1188.
“When they were taking me out of the door”: Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee: Miscellaneous and Florida, 43
“We are fast drifting”: from Diver, Sept. 1, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:166n.
“All eyes are turned”: from Bryant, Sept. 8, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:167-68n.
“The cruelties that have been inflicted”: from Scott, Sept. 1, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:164n.
“A surrender in good faith”: Lou Falkner Williams, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (2004 ed.), 44.
“Order the troops in South Carolina”: to Belknap, May 13, 1871.
“Unlawful combinations”: Proclamation, Oct. 12, 1871, Public Papers.
“These combinations”: from Akerman, Oct. 16, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:179n.
“The public safety”: Proclamation, Oct. 17, 1871, Public Papers.
“What has been”: Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee, 1410-11.
“giving the names”: Congressional Globe, 42:2:3.
“As a member”: Congressional Globe, 42:2:14.
“fermentation”: The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (1908), 3:320.
“I stand in the Republican party”: Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, 3:331-32.
“Akerman introduces Ku Klux”: Hamilton Fish diary, Nov. 24, 1871, Library of Congress.
“It seems to me”: Richard Zuczek, State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina (1996), 100.
“deep criminality”: Akerman to David Corbin, Nov. 10, 1871, Zuczek, State of Rebellion, p. 99.
“The feeling here … from the past”: Akerman to J. R. Parrott, Dec. 6, 1871; to “Mr. Atkins,” Dec. 12, 1871; to Benjamin Conley, Dec. 28, 1871, Zuczek, State of Rebellion, 58-59.
“At the Superior court”: from Tourgée, Dec. 28, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:370n.
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“At a moment of profound peace”: Charles Sumner: His Complete Works, ed. George Frisbie Hoar (1900), 13:53-93.
“If it were not for our debt”: Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish (1957 ed.), 1:397.
“Its provisions”: Annual message, Dec. 6, 1869, Public Papers.
“The President further expressed”: Hamilton Fish diary, Oct. 21, 1870, Library of Congress.
“Should the time come”: Annual message, Dec. 5, 1870, Public Papers.
“Upon a certain class”: Fish diary, Jan. 8, 1871.
“Sumner is malicious”: Nevins, Hamilton Fish, 2:460.
“Sumner is bitterly vindictive”: Nevins, Hamilton Fish, 2:461.
“I never asked”: to Alexander G. Cattell, March 21 (or probably 23), 1871.
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“I have never been”: New York Herald, June 8, 1871.
“You may say for me”: William Sherman to John Sherman, May 18, 1871, The Sherman Letters (1894), 330.
“General Sherman, Mr. President”: New York Herald, June 6, 1871.
“Under no circumstances”: to John Sherman, June 14, 1871.
“I told him plainly”: William Sherman to John Sherman, July 8, 1871, Sherman Letters, 331.
“With what face”: Congressional Globe, 42:1:305.
“The President’s
education”: Congressional Globe, 42:1:Appendix, 60.
“Unless I greatly mistake”: Schurz to Cox, April 4, 1871, Papers of Grant, 21:370n.
“Grant and his faction”: Schurz to Sumner, Sept. 30, 1871, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (1908), 3:338-39.
“gross exaggeration”: New York Times, Jan. 27, 1872.
“You know our house room”: to Childs, Nov. 28, 1871.
“Sumner, Schurz, Dana”: to Jones, Nov. 7, 1871.
“I simply replied”: to Colfax, Nov. 14, 1871.
“My own convictions”: to Charles Ford, May 3, 1871.
“It will be a happy day”: to Badeau, Nov. 19, 1871.
“My trials here”: to Washburne, May 17, 1871.
“We have men among us”: from Wilson, Nov. 11, 1871, Papers of Grant, 22:233n.
“Whenever I have done injustice … execute their will”: to Wilson, Nov. 15, 1871.
“President says”: Hamilton Fish diary, Dec. 6, 1871, Library of Congress.
“It looks to me”: to Charles Ford, Oct. 26, 1871.
“My prediction”: to Charles Ford, April 23, 1872.
“He has never left”: Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, 3:358.
“Carl Schurz was the most industrious”: Matthew T. Downey, “Horace Greeley and the Politicians: The Liberal Republican Convention in 1872,” Journal of American History, vol. 53 (1967), 738.
“I have no hesitation”: Congressional Globe, 42:2:4110-22.
“The atrocious speech”: from Pope, June 8, 1872, Papers of Grant, 23:164n.
“The wild enthusiasm”: from Pierrepont, June 6, 1872, Papers of Grant, 23:162-63n.
“How do you like”: New York Herald, June 14, 1872.
“Experience may guide me”: to Thomas Settle et al., June 10, 1872.
“The conversation turning”: Louisville Courier-Journal, Aug. 16, 1872, in Papers of Grant, 23:100n.
“I was not anxious”: New York Herald, Aug. 6, 1872.
“The Greeleyites”: to Washburne, Aug. 26, 1872.
“There has been no time”: to Russell Jones, Sept. 5, 1872.