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President on the 18th, to urge this. On Tuesday Mir. Stanton was reinstated asSecretary of War, General Comstock, who had carried my official letter announcing Mir. -Stantons reinstate- ment .by the Senate, and that I had ceased to be Secretary of War ad inter- i'm, and who saw the President open and read the communication, brought back to me from the President mess rage that he wanted to zee ne that day at a Cabinet meeting, after I had made known the fact that I was no longer Secretary of War ad interim. At this meeting, after opening as though was member of the. Cabinet, Ireminded him of the notification had already given him, that Iw was no longer Secre- tary of War ad interim. The President gave his version of the conversation alluded to already, and said that I had agreed to hold on to the Office of secretary of War until displaced bv the courts, or resign so as to place the President where he would have been had never accepted the office. After hearing the President through, I stated our conversation, substantially as it is giveh in this letter. will ada that my conversation before the Cabinet em- hraced other matters not pertinent here, and therefore left out. lin nowise ad- mitted thecorrectness fthe Presidents statement of our conversation, though, to soften the evident contradiction of my statement, said, alludiug to first conversation on the subject, the Presi- dent might have understood me this way-he said, viz. "That had promis- ed to resign if did not resist the rein statement" made no such statement
 have the honor to be, very respect fully,
 [signcdl |. $. GRANT, General
 WASHINGTON January 24. Hts Ercellency, Andreao Johnson, Presi-
 dent of the United Stotes:
 SIR: have the honor very respect fully to request, in writing, an order which the President gave me verbally, on Sunday, the 18th instant, to disre- gard the orders of Hon. k. M. Stanton, as Secretary of War, until knew from the President himself that they were his orders. a
 have the honor to be, very respect fully. your obedient servant,
 [Signed] U. s. GRANT, General.
 The following is the endorsement on tho above note.
 GAS requested in this communication General Grant is instructed in writing 1 not to obey any orders from the War | Department, assumed to be issued by direction of the President, unless such orders arc known by the General con- handing the armies of the United States to have been authorized by the Executive"
 (Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON,
 J.xNUARY 29, 1868.
 In his communication of the 31st the President in his reply to the communi- cation of General Grant requesting written order not to obey Mir. Stanton's orders to the interview wherein the course which should be pursued in case of Stanton's reinstatement, was fully discussed. The interview termi- mated with the full understanding that if, upon reflection, General Grant should prefer to become party to the controversy, or conclude that it would be his duty to surrender the office to Stanton, he would return the office to the President prior to the action of the Senate, in order that he might designate a successor. Had not this understand ing been reached, it was the purpose of the President to relieve him and ap- point some other one in that capacity.
 The Presidents letter is very long, and throughout shows that General Grant acted contrary to his repeated pledges. s .tu