The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-03-04
An OLD REASON FOR J0HNs0N's
HATRED OF GRANT.

| The Jersey City Times relates the fol
lowing narrative of events happening
during Johnson's circle swinging tour
The finale lets US into the possession o.
ono Of the Presidents first reasons fol
not liking Grant
General Grant charges that President
Johnson has tried to involve him in acts Of
resistance to the law, for which he, (Nr
Johnson), hesitated to assume the response
bility. Whether that is so or not, people will
| Judge for themselves, but this much is GER
| tain, that the President has all along tried to
make use of General Grants popularity with
the people in his struggle with Congress, and
to convey the impression that General Grant
was on his side. The means by which Mr..
johnson has thus sought to compromise Cen
eral Grant before the country, have not al
ways been the most honorable, and frequently
have been in direct violation Of the truth.
As bearing on this point the writer will state
fact which came under his personal cogni-
zance during the summer of 1866. The
writer of this was one of the party which ac-
companied the President on his trip to the
West TO inaugurate the Douglas monument
and visit the tomb of Lincoln, thence Swing
ing round the circle " home to Washington.
After leaving Chicago Mr.. John Hogan,
member of Congress from St. Louis, who
strongly supported the secession movement
in 1901, and who only escaped disfranchise-
ment as rebel because Missouri did not
join the rebels as he wished her to do, made
himself very conspicuous during the journey
through Illinois and Indiana by introducing
the Presidential party to the crowd assembled
at every little wayside station. Hogan used
to do it as follows The President would
step out on the platform behind the car, and
being Immediately saluted with loud cries of
" Grant, "Grantt" "Farragut !'"Grant"
Hogan would step forth, hat in hand, saying, !
" My friends allow me to introduce to you
the President of the United States, Andrew
Johnson, who stands up for the flag and
Union of thirty-six and not twenty five stars
and States. Three cheers for President |
Johnson and this request being seldom |
to, except by renewed cries for |
Grant and Farragut, John would wave his |
hat and give the required cheers himself. |
Grant and Farragut at last appearing, John |
would take upon himself to introduce them |
also, with the following address, "You see,
my friends, both General Grant and our
noble Farragut are tcith the President"
thereby involving, if not actually saving,
hat Grant and Farragut were with the Presi-
lent politically as well as bodily. Grant en-
lured THIS as well as ne couid Tor some time,
three days in fact), though with many indi-
cations of his disapprobation of the perform
,nce Of which neither the President nor
Hogan took any notice, though Grants feel
ng in the matter must have been as evident
. them as it was to everybody else. At In.
Annapolis, Grant left the party. which he re-
oined at Cincinnati, and at the first stoppage
Ifter leaving Cincinnati, Hogan acted as
master of the ceremonies in his usual style.
n very few minutes, however, he left the
Presidents car with a very crest-fallen coun-
enancc seated himself in a corner of the
receding car and hardly spoke again during
he whole journey and certainly never offered
0 introduce anybody. The explanation was
his. Grant had told the President that he
idn't like it. saying 1--WE are passing through
loyal State now, whose people sent two
undred thousand of her sons to the war and
am unwilling that those people should be -,
asulted By my being paraded before them
, company with a id secsssionist like
ohm Hogan" That was enough; the Presi-
ent gave John his quietus and Grant was no
lore annoyed by such underh and attempts
compromise him before the people as . s
IMPORTER of the Presidents policy.