Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-21

Rawlins' funeral, and then returned to
fashionable dissipation again. On his re-
turn, he stopped in New York a short
time, and it was then that Gould met him
at Corbin's. IL 'A'-A = - . e
N fWas anything said by Grant about the
Payment of the snbseFiption9' HskH
v "Yes, be thanked Gould for paying IL
said he was much obliged, and so on.
You see, Grant and his party thought we
were made. of gold, and had this building
| packed with money. They'd already got
| 1926. 600 of us, and expected to get
enough before the gold speculation was
| ended TO make all their multitudinous re-
latious rich On that OCCASION Gould's
particular lay was the independence of
Cuba. U Gould is a fearful patriot, and the
greatest of living statesmen. He knows
more about the material interests ofothis
country, and what will conduce to its
prosperity and greatness, than Grant and
all bis Cabinet put together. Gould is
posted upon everything. His theory is
that il rCubas were a free repub
nc,. our trade with 3 the island
would be immense, and that the Cubans
would be among our very best customers
for wheat, -four, coarse cotton goods.
pork and other produce. A So he went in
strong with Grant to acknowledge the
Cuban Republic, and showed him how
certain the island, if once severed from
Spain, would be to seek annexation to the
United States. Gould quoted to Grant,
what old John Quincy Adams said about
it, as given in the Encyclopedia Britanni
ca. : That passage, continued Col Fisk,
seemed TO impress Grant greatly, and he
said Cuba will be independent before
january, 1870 Mr.. Gould then quoted
Rawlins' dying words about Cuba, or
what Rawlins said at Cuban meeting,
forget which, and Grant said, Those
were not Rawlins' exact words. What
he actually said was much more beauti-
full and forcible than the report in the
papers. ~ > TT & TEFIE
b sWhat do you suppose made Grant
turn tail in the Cuban business, Colonel9"
"a EsA party speculation. Dick Schell,
Bancroft Davis and lot of Grants rela-
tions got up scheme to make . big pile
out of Cuba, and 30 went back on their
recognition of the revolutionary govern
ment. "A proclamation of recognition had
actually been written, and was all ready
for PRONUNCIATION, and would have been
issued in few days had it not been for
that scheme. The spectators, through 4
Bancroft Davis, gothold of old Fish and
fooled him blind. Fish was never 4
offered money, but ~ he was fooled
by those who heard the chink of coin in /
the scheme. Gould thinks Cuba would
have been one, of the States of this
Union to-day, if Rawlins had lived. You
ought to talk with Gould about Cuba. He 4
can show you just how much the island
would be worth to this country as a mar 1
ket for our surplus products, as place of 1
winter resort for our inyalids, and for our |
rich folks up North, who would like to |
save firewoad during the cold season, and
all that sort of thing. Gould has got the
hardest and the levelest head on all public 1
matters that you ever saw you betip
t'One question more, Colonel, as to that
Rswlins subscription by Grant. That
subscription was made in honor of the
memory of his dearest friend. n 1t was a
sacred offering upon the altar of friend
ship. How then could he allow it to be
paid by stranger2n - --
Fsk-'1'll tell you how. Grant is not
only greedy little wretch, but he's a
fool. He don't know anything; he
hasn't brains enough to comprehend the
position in which such thing places him
before the country. All he can see in the
matter is, that he saved thousand dol
lars by it: he is too destitute of sensibility
to comprehend what you say about the
subscription being sacred offering upon
the altar of friendship. He is incapable
of true friendship, and never felt any of
the sentiments which true friendship in
spires. To sum him up in one sentence,
he is the national hog