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Marseilles (France) (search for this): chapter 36
publication of the book at any particular time can have to do with the formation of public opinion as to political objects. It has been a long time in preparation, and the public has known all about it. If the work should be withheld, the public might say that there was an object in that. I would go on as fast as possible, and when the book is ready publish it. Let the public say what they please. In the early part of 1879 he left Europe for the last time. I accompanied him as far as Marseilles, where he took a steamer for the East, and up to that day he had said no word to me, nor, I am confident, to any other human being, defining his intentions or desires in regard to a third term. Mrs. Grant often assured me that, so far as she could judge, he had formed no determination in the matter. I believe that at this time he had neither expectation nor ambition to return to power. He showed this very plainly by insisting, against the advice of nearly every political friend he had
Havana (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 36
x months sooner than his supporters desired. The reason he always assigned for this was that Mrs. Grant wanted to see her children. He himself was far from being tired of travel. On the 1st of August, 1879, he wrote to me: At the end of twenty-six months I dread going back, and would not if there were a line of steamers between here and Australia. But I shall go to my quiet little home in Galena, and remain there until the cold drives me away. Then I shall probably go South—possibly to Havana and Mexico—to remain until April. On the 30th of the same month he wrote to me: I do not feel bad over the information——gave you. I am not a candidate for any office, nor would I hold one that required any manoeuvring or sacrifice to obtain. The enthusiasm that attended his welcome was greater than the most sanguine had anticipated, and gave him the keenest gratification. In December he wrote me a long account of it from Philadelphia. In this letter he said: To-day I start for Cuba an
Long Branch, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
for any office, nor would I hold one that required any manoeuvring or sacrifice to obtain. The enthusiasm that attended his welcome was greater than the most sanguine had anticipated, and gave him the keenest gratification. In December he wrote me a long account of it from Philadelphia. In this letter he said: To-day I start for Cuba and Mexico. But he continued: I expect to be back in Galena as soon as the weather gets pleasant in the spring, and to remain there until time to go to Long Branch. I will then have the summer to arrange for a permanent home and occupation. It may be the [Nicaragua] canal, in which case I shall live in New York City. It must be employment or a country home. My means will not admit of a city home without employment to supplement them. I replied that I thought the country would find an employment for him that would require him to live in Washington. But to this he made no response. In April I returned to the United States and found that he ha
Belgium (Belgium) (search for this): chapter 36
inally, however, became extremely anxious to receive the nomination. In May I went out to visit him at Galena; but before I reached that place he had arrived at Chicago, at the home of his son, Colonel Grant. At Chicago, I saw him constantly, either at Colonel Grant's house, or more frequently at General Sheridan's headquarters; for his son was on Sheridan's staff. I accompanied him on a visit to Elihu B. Washburne, and dined with him at the house of Russell Jones, his former Minister to Belgium. Both these gentlemen were avowed supporters of General Grant, and in their presence conversation was unrestrained, and the prospects were discussed as freely as they would have been before any other expectant candidate. It was now only a few weeks before the convention, and Grant manifested as much anxiety as I ever saw him display on his own account; he calculated the chances, he counted the delegates, considered how every movement would affect the result, and was pleased or indignan
China (China) (search for this): chapter 36
ime. But that he disclosed his interest at all showed how profoundly it must have stirred him. I had not met him for more than a year, during which period he had gone through his wonderful experience in the East, had obtained his knowledge of China and Japan, and conceived an Oriental policy for this country which he believed so important that a desire to achieve it was certainly one reason why he was so anxious to return to power. All who met him were impressed with his views in regard tobuted 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
Australia (Australia) (search for this): chapter 36
But he paid no attention to the advice, and returned to America in the autumn of 1879, nearly a year before the Presidential election, and more than six months sooner than his supporters desired. The reason he always assigned for this was that Mrs. Grant wanted to see her children. He himself was far from being tired of travel. On the 1st of August, 1879, he wrote to me: At the end of twenty-six months I dread going back, and would not if there were a line of steamers between here and Australia. But I shall go to my quiet little home in Galena, and remain there until the cold drives me away. Then I shall probably go South—possibly to Havana and Mexico—to remain until April. On the 30th of the same month he wrote to me: I do not feel bad over the information——gave you. I am not a candidate for any office, nor would I hold one that required any manoeuvring or sacrifice to obtain. The enthusiasm that attended his welcome was greater than the most sanguine had anticipated, and
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 36
le home in Galena, and remain there until the cold drives me away. Then I shall probably go South—possibly to Havana and Mexico—to remain until April. On the 30th of the same month he wrote to me: I do not feel bad over the information——gave you. Ion. In December he wrote me a long account of it from Philadelphia. In this letter he said: To-day I start for Cuba and Mexico. But he continued: I expect to be back in Galena as soon as the weather gets pleasant in the spring, and to remain there But to this he made no response. In April I returned to the United States and found that he had already arrived from Mexico and gone as he intended to his little home in Galena. The country was at this time in the full flood of excitement that in business or affairs, and enchained their attention for hours while he laid before them his information and his views. Mexico also was a favorite theme, and a Mexican policy was already germinating in his brain. As a rule I do not consider that
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
ause of an improvement in his financial circumstances. When he first arrived in England, he told me that he had only $25,000 to spend in foreign travel; if that would last two years he could stay abroad two years, but if it became exhausted sooner he would be obliged to return. He was treated so much like a sovereign that his expenses were proportionally increased, and of course the sum that he mentioned did not hold out nearly as long as he had hoped; but his son Ulysses, then living in California, was able to make certain investments for his father which resulted in placing nearly $60,000 at his disposal, and then General Grant was enabled to travel as far and as long as he pleased. Accordingly, he extended his stay. I wrote to him in the latter part of 1878, repeating something that had been said to me about the possible effect of my history of his campaigns upon his political prospects, and suggesting that the concluding volumes should be delayed until his return to America;
Galena (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 36
steamers between here and Australia. But I shall go to my quiet little home in Galena, and remain there until the cold drives me away. Then I shall probably go Sout: To-day I start for Cuba and Mexico. But he continued: I expect to be back in Galena as soon as the weather gets pleasant in the spring, and to remain there until te had already arrived from Mexico and gone as he intended to his little home in Galena. The country was at this time in the full flood of excitement that precedes thextremely anxious to receive the nomination. In May I went out to visit him at Galena; but before I reached that place he had arrived at Chicago, at the home of his ing the greater part of his European and Asiatic tour, went out to visit him at Galena. Young was opposed to Grant's third nomination, principally, perhaps, because ne, 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 befor
Europe (search for this): chapter 36
eved by his adherents that he would have polled a large vote in the Southern States and broken down the line of a solid South as no man yet had succeeded in doing. Of course these are surmises, but I recite them because they affected him, and because considerations of this sort were prominent motives of his conduct at this time. After a stay of a few days in Chicago, I returned to the East, and shortly afterward Mr. Russell Young, who had accompanied Grant during the greater part of his European and Asiatic tour, went out to visit him at Galena. Young was opposed to Grant's third nomination, principally, perhaps, because he thought he could not be elected. He had long and repeated conversations with the General, in which he represented the views of those of Grant's friends who were averse to his standing again. Mrs. Grant suspected Young's purpose, and tried to thwart it; and the discussions between Young and the General were usually carried on in her absence. This was only a
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