Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-01
SOME FACTS IN TaE LIFE OF
ULYSSES q. GRANT. =.

From the Manchester IN, H.)l Union, July %
The New York World says: ssThefe is a
story which has long been current in mill
tary circles OF q certain captain of the
Fourth United States Infantry, who, being
stationed on the Pacific coast some twenty
years ago, repeatedly disgraced himself by
being found drunk when on duty. His SUI
perior officer, long unwilling to, ruin him,
finally found himself obliged 10 take decis-
i've steps. he called the delinquent before
him, and insisted upon his giving isl his
written resignation. Il shall not use this
said the Colonel, 'unless you compel me to
by again publicly bringing scandal upon the
service. In that case | shall instantly for
ward it to Washington The story rms
that after no great lapse Of tine the unhap-
py captain once more lapsed. The threat
was executed. The army lost an officer
and st. Louis gained q citizen. To no
man in the country can this story be better
known than to President Grant, gl u3
We are able to state the facts alluded to
above with exactness, and we think 1t is
our duty to do 30. While sojourning at
Washington in 1867, we met a gentleman
who wss an officer In that regiment at the
time referred to. Its commander was Col
onel, afterwards General, Buchanan, who
commanded at New Orleans for some time
during the late war. The "captain" re-
fered to was Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant.
His dissipation was shocking and perpetual,
and finally eliminated, ct public dinner
Of the officers, in an offence -nameless here
$50 fragrant and revolving that Col. Bu
chanan gave 30 Grant the alternative of re-
signation or court martial. OF course he
preferred the former, and resigned, as af-
6rmed above, The colonel agreed to hold
it until Grant got drunk again, which was
very soon, and it was then forwarded tothe
Department. Our informant says that
Grant then left the camp, and lived for some
in most abject degradation amsng the
neighboring Indians. Then he went to San
Francisco and opened a billiard-saloon,
which he kept till be 'srun himself out"
when he sailed for New York. Now let us
meet him in New York: BE arrived
without dollar. He sent to an officer in
command in the harbor--and we have this
from that officers own hps-to ceme to the
city and meet him. He did so, and sup
piled him with money to reach his wife's
relatives In Missouri, and not one cent of
the money was ever refunded. His career
in Missouri, while living ON the farm of his
father-in-law, was simply awful. We viii
not now say what we knoac to be true in re-
gard to it. We only add, if required to
"match it, y in deprsvity and degradation,
we could not do ii in the limits of our ae-
quaintance. We know he carried the same
habits into the army, and we believe that
a hundred thousand of his own
men were needlessly sacrificed in eonse-
quence, and we can show when and where
and how, with abundance of contemporary
testimony, which we viii produce if any
body wants it. We sincerely believe that
Grant is not fit for any public position
whatever, intellectually or morally, and that
if our people knew the simple truth in re-
gard to him he would not get an honest
vote. Let such voters make it their bust
ness to learn before they commit the fatal
error ofVoting for him again. d.. I.-