The Man Who Saved the Union (107 page)

“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.

CHAPTER 63

“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.

CHAPTER 64

“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.

CHAPTER 65

“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.

“I do not think”
: to Elihu Washburne, Aug. 26, 1872.

CHAPTER 66

“The history of the government connections”
:
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1869
(1870), 47.

“I come without an invitation … those obligations yourself”
: Conversation with Red Cloud et al., May 28, 1872,
Papers of Grant
, 23:146n; Grant speech, May 28, 1872.

“The President inquired”
:
New York Herald
, Sept. 29, 1872.

“I hear that in a few months”
:
Papers of Grant
, 23:147n.

“If the present policy”
: to Stuart, Oct. 26, 1872.

CHAPTER 67

“The policy which was adopted … the highest importance”
: Annual message, Dec. 2, 1872, Public Papers.

“Under Providence … support and encouragement”
: Second inaugural address, March 4, 1873, Public Papers.

“Will you do me the favor”
: to Colfax, March 4, 1873.

“Good government”
: Maury Klein,
Union Pacific
(1987) 1:298.

“pitiful and shameful”
:
New York Times
, Feb. 27, 1873.

CHAPTER 68

“Much to my astonishment”
: to Sartoris, July 7, 1873.

“When Nellie came back”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 181.

“The President’s levees”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 175.

“The servants I had”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 174.

“I was somewhat annoyed”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 174.

“The papers make the most”
: Sherman to Ellen Sherman, June 5, 1872,
Papers of Grant
, 23:82-83n.

“I hope Fred”
: from Sherman, April 24, 1872,
Papers of Grant
, 23:83n.

“We certainly”
: from Sherman, May 23, 1872,
Papers of Grant
, 23:85n.

“Oh, mamma!”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 179.

“Oh, yes”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 178.

“He expressed himself”
: to Adolph Borie, July 3, 1873.

“You spoke of mixing lime”
: to Elrod, June 23, 1871.

“I send you $600”
: to Elrod, July 8, 1871.

“I do not want any land”
: to Elrod, Nov. 16, 1871.

“I engaged a thoroughbred Alderney”
: to Elrod, Oct. 2, 1871.

“You had better purchase”
: to Elrod, March 15, 1872.

“Fred tells me”
: to Elrod, Feb. 27, 1873.

“I telegraphed you”
: to Ford, June 15, 1873.

“I see by the morning papers”
: to Ford, Feb. 22, 1873.

“No building”
: to Adolph Borie, Feb. 25, 1873.

“The receipts”
: Levi Luckey to John Long, July 3, 1873,
Papers of Grant
, 24:234n.

CHAPTER 69

“Results of today”
: from Morton, Sept. 19, 1873, Grant Papers, Library of Congress.

“Relief must come”
: from Murphy, Sept. 19, 1873, Grant Papers.

“All assistance of the government”
: to Morton, Sept. 19, 1873.

“The presence of President Grant”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 22, 1873.

“The Government is desirous”
: to Horace B. Claflin and Charles L. Anthony, Sept. 27, 1873.

“Panics generally occur”
:
New York Times
, Oct. 13, 1873. Grant’s remarks were quoted indirectly, per the custom of the day. But his words are straightforward to reconstruct.

“Pure fright”
:
New York Times
, Oct. 5, 1873.

CHAPTER 70

“Minnesota will furnish”
: from Austin, Dec. 5, 1873, Grant Papers, Library of Congress.

“I appeal to you”
: from Mrs. Gebhard, Dec. 15, 1873,
Papers of Grant
, 24:245-46n.

“The United States are weak”
: Jeanie Mort Walker,
Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, the Cuban Martyr
(1875), 449.

“The summary infliction”
: to Fish, Nov. 7, 1873.

“This seemed to be”
: Message to Congress, Jan. 5, 1874, Public Papers.

“His family”
: to J. C. Bancroft Davis, May 8, 1873.

“A chief justice”
: to Roscoe Conkling, Nov. 8, 1873.

“My dear Senator”
: to Conkling, Nov. 8, 1873.

“My transfer now”
: from Conkling, Nov. 20, 1873,
Papers of Grant
, 24:253-54n.

“When the President”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 193-94.

“The Judiciary Committee”
: Porter to Bristow, Dec. 18, 1873,
Papers of Grant
, 24:285n.