The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-10-07

I paper, and showed q telegram from
Grant to head the list with his, Grants
/ name for thousand dollars. This was
/ done, and then Gould and others put
down their names, and afterwards
/ Gould was asked to pay Grants sub
| scription, and that check you are hold
! ing in your fingers was Gould's re-
spOnse 70 the call. / didn't know any
thing about his paying it until found
| five hundred of it charged to me- By
J the way, Ive a letter written to Mr..
Dana on the subject already, which I'll
show you before you gO.nis nearf3
g Did Mr.. Gould see President Grant
after he paid the subscription for him 2''
Yes; he met him at Corbin's. You
remember Grant went on from SaratO-
ga, or somewhere, to Washington, to
attend Rawlins' funeral, and then re-
turned to fashionable dissipation again.
On his return he stopped in New York
short time, and it was then that Gould
met him at Corbin's.n
Was anything said by Grant about
the payment of the subscription p
Yes; he thanked Gould for paying
it; said he was much obliged, and so
on. You see, Grant and his party
thought we were made fgold, and had
this building packed with money
They'd already got $125, 900 of us, and
expected to get enough before the gold
speculation was ended to make all
their multitudinous relations rich. On
that occasion GOuld'S particular lay
was the independence of Cuba. Gould
is fearful patriot, and the greatest of
living statesmen. He knows more
about the material interests of this
country, and what will conduce to its
prosperity and greatness, than Grant,
and all his Cabinet put together. Gould
is posted upon everything. His theory
is that, if Cuba were a free republic, our
trade with the island would be inn
mense, and that the Cubans would be
among our very best customers for
wheat, flour, coarse cotton goods, pork,
and other produce. 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 EncyclO-
pedia, Britannica. That PASSAGE
continued Col. Fisk, " "seemed to i'm
press Grant greatly, and he said, Cuba
will be independent before January,
1902 Mr.. Gould then quoted Rawlins'
dying words about Cuba, or what Raw
Inns said at Cuban meeting, I forget
not Rawlins' exact words. What he
actually said was much more forcible
than the report in the papers, -
g What do you suppose made Grant
turn tail in the Cuban business, Colon
eI ?'
" A party speculation. Dick SchelI,
Bancroft Davis, and lot of Grants re-
lations got up a scheme to make a big
pile out of Cuba, and so went back on
their recognition that had actually been
written, and was all ready for promul-
cation, and would have been issued in
a few days had it not been for that
scheme. The spectators, through
Bancroft Davis, got hold of old Fish
and fooled him blind. Fish was never
offered money, but he was fooled by
those who heard the chink of coin in
them. 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
can show you just how much the island
would be worth to this country as a
market for our surplus products, as
place of winter resort for our inValidS,
and for our rich folks up North, who
would like to save ffreWOOd during the
cold season, and all that sort of thing.
Gould has got the hardest and leveliest
head on all public matters that you ev-
er saw, you bet!' af
Zone question more, Colonel, as to
that RaWlins subscription by Grant
That subscription was made in honor
of the memory of his dearest friend. 1t
was a sacred offering upon the altar of
friendship. How, then, could he allow
it to be paid by stranger ?"
Fisk-"I'l 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 a thing
places him before the country. All he
can see in the matter is, that he saved
a thousand dollars by it; he is too des-
titute of sensibility to comprehend what
you say about the subscription being
sacred Offering upon the altar of friend
ship. He is incapable Of true friend
ship, and never felt any of the senti-
ments which true friendship inspires.
To sum him up in one sentence, he is
the national hog"