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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
nnati convention how Greeley's nomination was brought about his retirement from the Tribune control progress of the campaign his defeat and its effect on him his last hours On the evening of March 4, 1869, John Russell Young, the managing editor of the Tribune, came to my desk (I was then the assistant city editor), with a long letter, written on Tribune notepaper, in his fine hand, which he asked me to copy for him. The letter was addressed to General Grant's intimate friend, General Adam Badeau. The next morning I found this letter, with only the necessary alterations, printed as the Tribune's leading editorial, giving an outline of what the paper hoped for Grant's administration. There were to be economy and retrenchment; Cuba seemed to be falling into our lap for nothing ; Santo Domingo stood at our door, and with it would come Porto Rico; for Canada we could wait; Grant was to change possible national bankruptcy into solvency, bring about specie payments, and send ships
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 21 (search)
ss of India. And why not? A toy is a toy, and to a child the mere size or costliness is of little importance. In monarchies the royal station tells, and whether it be an exiled Bourbon or a dethroned Bonaparte, it is much the same thing. General Badeau, in his curious and valuable book on Aristocracy in England, describes an occasion where Prince Leopold and the Prime-minister of England brought with them in the carriage an African prince. He looked to me, says Badeau, like any little negrBadeau, like any little negro boy of nine or ten; but he had his gentlemen-in-waiting, he took precedence of the Prince-minister, and he stood on the red carpet reserved for royalty alone. The difference is that all this in England is in a manner serious; even persons of liberal opinions half believe in it, as a little girl half believes that her doll is hungry unless allowed a bit of her luncheon. In America it has been a curious combination of genuine international hospitality with a sort of pleasurable playing at some
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 25 (search)
if he does not see in it something which is insulting to the dignity of human nature itself he differs inconceivably from a sensible American. A cast-iron etiquette like this puts a ceremony above a man ; a descent above a character; and above all, a social rule above that instinct of hospitality which bids even the Bedouin Arab and the American Indian give the guest the place of honor at his board. In the long series of social insults which General Grant, according to his chronicler, General Badeau, received in England, the point of disrespect lay not in the fact that he was the greatest general of the age or an ex-President of the United States, but in the circumstance that he was the guest for whom the entertainment was in most cases made. He being the guest, all this subordination was as essentially degrading as when the guests of some Oriental potentate are expected.to enter his presence on all fours. That, no doubt, is esteemed by his loyal subjects a most convenient arrange
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
ew, J. A., 38. Anglomania, 22. Aphrodite, 2. Apollo, Phoebus, 44, 47. Appleton, T. G., 22. Arab festivals, 226. Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 130. Also 133, 140, 248. Artemis, 2. Aryan race, traditions of the, 46. Astell, Mary, quoted, 89. Athena, 45. Audrey, 102. Auerbach, Berthold, quoted, 14. aunts, maiden, 38. Austen, Jane, quoted, 113. Also 156, 157, 160, 194. Authorship, difficulties of, 151, 202. B. Babies, exacting demands of, 41. Badeau, General, Adam, quoted, 103, 128. Bancroft, H. H., 225. Barnum, P. T., 108. Barton, Clara, 20. Baeudelaire, Charles, 302. Baxter, Richard, 34. Beach, S. N., quoted, 143. Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 271. Beethoven, L. yon, 252. Bell, A. G., 99, 209. Bell, Currer. See Brontie, Charlotte. Bickerdyke, Mother, 20. Birds at midsummer, 304. Birthday, secret of the, 176. Bismarck, Prince, 309. Black sergeant, prayer of, 79. Black, William, quoted, 168. Blake, William, 180
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
ch as a general selects his staff officers. Badeau's Grant in Peace, p. 163. This writer is citedabinet-making. The following statements of Adam Badeau are fictions; they have no support in trustaracter of William the Silent. According to Badeau, the President was impressed by this speech. ening Post, June 16. 1892. In December, 1892, Badeau settled the case by paying another sum. (a liss death ever finish the job. The details of Badeau's exposure before the country in his treatmentost, March 19, 21: New York Herald, March 21). Badeau's persistence in claiming two salaries at the CXXX. p. 4:9. General Butler's description of Badeau in his Book, p. 860, note, has the double meri Fish after receiving it sent it to Sumner. Badeau says (Grant in Peace, p. 199) that this was dokened him. New York Herald, Jan. 14, 1878. Badeau's Grant in Peace, p. 202. That confidence contons, is disproved by the President's letter to Badeau, July 14, three weeks after the report was rec[5 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
he was at this time affected by adulation and not disposed to consult others. （Badeau's Grant in Peace, pp. 156-158, 159, 160.) This may be true, but it is not the more credible because Badeau states it. This writer implies, though he has not the hardihood to say so explicitly, that the senator could have been brought to support tion of the treaties, and was impatient with the opposition which developed. Badeau says: I believe it was the heat of the contest that made him so eager for succeen. J. D. Cox's notice of General Grant in the New York Nation, July 30, 1885. Badeau says for once what was doubtless true: Even when Grant determined on a course tted. The debate on the treaty of annexation was not resumed till June 29. Badeau states absurdly as well as untruthfully that Sumner kept back the Senate from creference to the rejection. J. C. B. Davis in New York Herald, Jan. 4, 1878; Badeau's Grant in Peace, p. 216. In order to escape just indignation at an act of reve
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
sh could do this thing it is difficult to see; but it is more difficult to explain how he could write seven years later: Letter in Boston Transcript, Oct. 31, 1877. The cessation and interruption of that intimacy [with Sumner] were to me the cause of deep and continuing regret. I am not conscious of any just cause for the discontinuing of the relations which had existed between us. Mr. Fish's partisans, as well as himself, uniformly ignore the insult to Sumner in the letter to Moran. Badeau says that Fish's letter to Moran in no way reflected on Sumner. Grant in Peace, p. 218. The interval may have worked confusion in his memory, but what follows will show that at the time he did know the cause, and a just cause too. He knew when he sealed the despatch that the senator he had libelled could not as a man of honor have anything to do with him thereafter except purely in an official way. Sumner wrote afterwards:— If beyond paying court to the President, even at the expense
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
believed to be true,—that the senator had not done his duty concerning treaties. What Sumner's final estimate of Grant would have been if he had lived to be the survivor, it is not possible to say; but it is easy to suppose that he would at the last have colored the picture differently. He would have seen the Ex-President a modest citizen in retirement, with his nature softened and his will subdued; finding out slowly the quality of the creatures he had trusted, like Belknap, Babcock, and Badeau; cheated in business as he had been often cheated in politics, but ever wishing well to his country, ready to reverse his judgments adverse to his military contemporaries when new evidence was brought to him, As in General Fitz John Porter's case. reconciled to men whom he came to realize had been honest critics of himself and his acts, rebuking agitators who sought to keep alive the passions of civil war, counselling confidence in the Southern people, bearing misfortune with more than a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
nst placing in the national Capitol any picture of a victory or battle with our own fellow-citizens,— without incurring criticism or indeed attracting any general attention. Ante, p 77; Works, vol. VI. pp. 499, 500; vol. IX. pp. 333-335. Adam Badeau, in the Century Magazine, May, 1885, p. 160, states that Sumner waited, at the head of a committee, on General Grant, soon after the close of the war, and proposed (Badeau present) a picture of the surrender at Appomattox to be placed in the rBadeau present) a picture of the surrender at Appomattox to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol, and that the general declined. This statement was replied to by C. W. Eldridge in the same magazine for October, 1885, p. 957. It is incredible on its face, and exhibits well the quality of that untrustworthy narrator. What had been done without censure and with little observation in the midst of the intense heats of the Civil War strangely enough now provoked indignant protests in the name of patriotism, at a time when there had been an opportunity for the passions of w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
W. C., 497 Avery, Michael, 330 Avignon, Peter, 497 Axtell, F. H., 497 Ayers, B. F., 330 Ayers, G. W., 497 Ayers, J. T., 440 B. Babbington, William, 330 Babbitt, Albert, 497 Babbitt, C. E., 330 Babcock, A. J., 440 Babcock, J. W., 440 Babo, Alois, 135 Babson, F. J., 326 Babson, S. B., 330 Bacheller, Alfred, 490 Bacheller, J. C., 321 Bachelor, A. A., 330 Backus, C. H., 330 Bacon, D. H., 330 Bacon, George, 440 Bacon, Henry, 103 Bacon, Jonas, 497 Bacon, W. B., 330 Badeau, Adam, 116 Badger, A. H., 330 Badger, Stephen, 330 Badigan, John, 497 Bagley, J. C., 440 Bagley, Thomas, 497 Bailey, A. F., 330 Bailey, G. A., 330 Bailey, G. H., 440 Bailey, G. M., 330 Bailey, George, 330 Bailey, Horace, 440 Bailey, L. F., 440 Bailey, Ransom, 497 Bailey, S. H., 120, 330 Baker, A. N., 331 Baker, C. K., 440 Baker, Charles, 331 Baker, Daniel, 436 Baker, E. D., 34 Baker, E. E., 497 Baker, Frederick, 331 Baker, George, 440 Baker, J. H., 331 Baker, J. J., 149
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