The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-10
ANOTHER "REMINISCENCES OF
GRANT.
His Original Determination 10 .o.
the Rebels-The GOverner ol Aii-
uois OutbIds the Governor OF MS.

His Original Determination 10 JOE
thu RebeIs-The GoverBer OF HE
uo,s OutbIds the Governor OF Mis-
souri,.
From the Houston CTex.) Telegraph
When IN the beginning OF the war in
Missouri, Governor jackson, OF thai
State, was organizing his military
camps he felt greatly the need OF edu'
Gated military talent to instruct his ne"
recruits. The State was young, and
none OF her sons who had been educs
ted at West Point had risen to any dis
tinction in the army. The Governor
saw the best blood of the State was
rushing to his standard, but he had
sasacity enough to see that something
more than raw valor was needed to
make an efficient army. In bis trouble
he consulted with Professor D, an init
mate friend. Professor D. recommended
his friend and kinsman, Captain Grant,
as he was then called. He spoke OF
him as q man of decided character, who
had graduated reputably at West Point;
had afterwards abandoned the army.
married into a respectable St. Louis
family; was q consistent, weIl.pro-
nounced, pro slavery Democrat; had
lived long time in the State; in fine,
was in all respects just such a man as
the Governor wanted. Professor D. ,
by the authority of Governor jackson,
wrote to Captain Grant, then resident
in Illinois, offering him, in Governor
Jackson's name, q position in the Mis-
souri, insurgent army. Captain Grant
accented the offer, and while at the
railway station awaiting the train for
St. Louis, letter was handed him con-
tanning a colonels commission from the
Governor OF Illinois.
He accepted the latter and thus be-
came an officer in the army OF the
North. The Governor Of Illinois out,
bid the Missouri Governor and got his
man. And this man, who thus mar
rowly escaped a position in the "rebel
army" is held out to the black man as
his particular friend, his especial
champion. Professor D., whom we'll l
know to be a truthful man, related to
me the above facts in the city of St.
Louis since the close OF the war
Shreveport Telegraph.
The matters detailed in the above
were made known to US by reputable
citizen of Houston, who was personally
cognizant of the facts. There was,
however, according to our recollection,
one slight though not material varia-
ton, viz that the proposal WAS first
made 10 General Price and through h
him to Governor Jackson, and that the
place offered Grant in the rebel army
was less in rank than that offered by
the Governor of Illinois. Our in.
formant was upon General Prices
staff at the time, and an intimate
friend of the Professor Grants relative
by marriage) when the proposal was
made, and through this informant it
was communicated to General Price.
The witnesses OF these matters are yet
living, and the facts can be proven. Our
informant is now absent, but will ere
long return, and we shall! submit the
matter to him for his evidence, and
such is his position that it will not be
questioned by any candid man.
The facts will show that Grant
was a mere sdventurer, ready to draw
his sword in favor Of the side offer
ing him the largest place or position:
1t is also charged against General
Grant that be declared that he would
not fight to free the slaves, but the evil
dence of this we have not so positive as
the other. Still, il he could accept OF
the larger place on the Union side at
the very time he was negotiating for a
place on the rebel side, he was capa-
BILE OF anything for his own aggrandlze.
ment. Without a Rawlins TO plan for
him he never would have attained a
name, and when the former died his
good genius died with him.