Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-22

Gfant'F, name for q thousand dollars. This
was done, and then GOULD and others put
Gown their names, and afterward Gould
was asked to pay Grants subscription,
and that check you are holding In your
fingers was Gould's response to the call.
/ didn't know anything about his paying
1t Til 1 found five hundred Of 1t charged
to me. By the way, I've q letter written
to Mr.. Dana on the subj set already, which
I'll show you before you CO."
"Did Mr.. Gould see President Graft
after he paid the 81 Inscription for him7"
Eyes; he met him at Corbin's. You ra-
member Grant went on from Saratoga, or
some where, to Washington, to attend
RaWlins' funeral, and then returned to
fashionable dissipation again. On his re-
turn he stopped in New York q short
time, and 1t was then that Gould met him
at Corbin's."
"Was anything said by Grant about the
payment OF the subscription7"
ayes, he thanked Gould for paying IT,;
said he was much obliged, and so OIL.
You see, Grant and his party thought we
were made of gold, and had this building
packed with money. They'd already got
Sl26. 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 a fearful patriot, and the greatest Of
living statesmen. He knows more about
the material interests of this country,
and what will eonduce 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
immense, 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 re-
public, and showed him how certain thu
island, If ones severed from Spain, would,
be to seek annexation to the United
States. Gould quoted TO Grant what old
John Quincy Adams said about it, al
| given in the Encyclopedias Britannica.
That passage" continued Colonel Fisk,
seemed to impress Grant greatly, and
he said Cuba will be independent beford
January, $780, Mr.. Gould then quoted
Rawlins' dying words about Cuba, on
what Rswlins said at a Cuban meeting, ]
forget which, and Grant said, Those
were not Rawlins' exact words. What hG
actually said was much more beautiful.
and forcible than the report in the pa
pers."
"What do you suppose made Grant
turn tail in the Cuban business, ColOnel?'
"a party speculation. Dick Schell
Bancroft Davis and a lot of Grants rela,
lions got up q scheme to make a big pile
u Of Cuba, and so went back on theil
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 a few days had it not been
tor that scheme. The speculatorsl
through Bancroft Davis, got hold
of old Fish and fooled him blind
Fish vas never 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 il RawlinE
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 q market for our surplus pro-
ducts, as a place Of winter resort fol
our invalids and for our rich
folks up North, who would like &c
save firewood during the cold season, snd
all that sort of thing. Gould has got the
hardest and levelist head on all public
matters that you ever saw, you bet!"
Zone question more, Colonel, as to that
Rawlins subscription by Grant. Thai
subscription was made in honor of the
memory of his dearest friend. It was g
sacred offering upon the altar Of friend.
ship. How, then, could he allow it to b
paid by a ~stranger?"
Fisk-Iu tell you how. Grant Is no
only q greedy little wretch, but he's {
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, hat he saved a thousand dollars by it
he is too destitute of s%ensibility to com.
prehend what you say about the sub
scription being a sacred offering upon the
altar of friendship. He is incapable o.
true friendship, and never felt any o
the sentiments which true friendship in.
spires. To sum him up in one sentence
he Is the national hop.U