The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07

Grant and Corbin were an good friends
, wasn't it?n .nsn1G5 yfLR ssiik
'e"Yes, we were. all on terms Of tn,
warmest affection in thoae daSs.nn
Il, Butterfield was in the family circl,
too; he got up all the Rawlins fund.-
He sent around to Gould and othel
th0usanG-dollar men, to meet at ths
| Sub Treasury, and when they got thert
Butterfield out with, his subscription
\ paper, and showed u telegram from
Grant to bead the list with his, Grants
name for q thousand dollars. This was
done, and then Gould ana others put
down their names, and afterwards
4 scfiption, and that check yOu are)h0d-
ing in your fingeTs. vas GouldfsI re-
/ sponse to the call. didn't know any
thing about his paying it until I found
five hundred of it charged 70 me. By
the way, I've q letter written to Mr..
Dana on the subject already, which pll
| show you before you go,no |Iy-,,t
| &c Did Mr. Gould see President Grant
after he paid the subscription for him 2,'
| "Yes; he met him at Corbip'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
q short time, and it was then that Gould
met him at COsbinis.n - ,isAf- :
"Was anything said by Grant about
the payment of the subscription n
"Yes; he thanked Gould for paying
it; said he was much; obliged, and 30
on.F You see, Grant, and his party
thought we were made of gold, and had
this building packed with money
They'd already got S125, 600 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 a fearful patriot, and the greatest of
living statesmen He knows more
about the material interests of this
country, and what will conducea 70 its
prosperity and greatness, than Grant,
and all his Cabinet put together. Gould
Is posted upon everything. His theory
is that, if Cuba were free republic, our
trade with the island would be i'm.
mense, and that the Cubans would be
among our very best customers for
wheat, -four, coarse cotton goods, pork 4
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 EncyciO-
pedia, Brittannica, That passage"
continued Col. Fisk, /" seemed to Inn
press Grant greatly, and he said, Scuba
will be independent before January, |
1S70.' Mr.. Gould then quoted Rawlins'
dying words about Cuba, or what Raw
lins said at a Cuban meeting, forget
which, and Grant said, These were
not Rawlins' exact words. What he |
said was much more fOrcible |
than the report in the papers, |
"What do you suppose made Grant |
turn tail in the Cuban business, Colon
"a party speculation. Dick Schell,
Davis, and a lot Of Grants re-
lations got up q scheme to make q big
pile out of Cuba, and so went back on,
their recognition that had actually been
written, and was all ready for promul-
SollOu, anu NOulu hoNC OSCh ASouCN III
> few days had it not been for that
scheme. The spectators, through
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
hem. Gould thinks Cuba would have
been one of the. States of this Union to-
lay if Rawlins had lived. You ought
20 talk with Gould about Cuba. He
IAN show you just how much the island
would be worth to this country as
market for our surplus products, as
place of winter resort for our invalids,
ind for our rich folks up North, who
would like to save firewoOd during the
,old season, and all that sort of thing.
Gould has got the hsrdest and leveliest
head on all public matters that you ev-
n saw, you bet y, ef-..F
"One question more, Colonel, as to
hat Rawlins subscription by Grant,
That. subscription was made in honor
# the memory of his dearest friend. 1t /
vas q sacred offering upon the altar Of |
How, then, could he allow
t to be paid by a strangerw
Fisk1"I'll tell you how. Grant is
lot only greedy little wretch, but he's ,
fool. He don't know anything; he +,
lasn't brains enough to comprehend
he position in which such q thing
,laces him before the country. All he
an see in the matter is, that he saved
thousand dollars by il; he IS too des- ,,
ituteo Of sensibility to comprehend what
'ou say about the subscription being q !
acred offering upon the altar Of friend |,
hip. He is incapable Of true friend
hip, and never felt any of the senti-
nents which true friendship inspires. !
% sum him up in one sentence, he is !
he national hog" isqicFy E,