The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-10-14
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT INTER
VIEW WITH THE EX-PRESI-
DENT.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
WHAT THE LOUISIANA REB
ELS OFFERED FOR ONE
DAYS POWER.
Hill SHERIDAN.
SENATOR CONKLING.

Letter from Rev. C. II. Fowler, D. D.
GALENA, Ill, Sept. 21-I have
| Just returned from a protracted call
upon Gen. Grant. I went with Bro.
Cramb, Grants pastor. When we
were introduced into his library we
found him at his desk, writing, He
rose, and calling my name said, 81
have not seen you since we met at
the Chautauqua Sunday School As
sembIy." He was very free and full
of talk. He talked about the polit-
ical situation, canvassing the coun-
try and the men with great freedom.
I said to him, 81 suppose everybody
tells you that he wanted to see you
on the track he said, eyes, many,
but not everybody. If everybody
had wanted to have seen me on the
track I would have been there" I
said, 81 am sorry for the country
that you are not there not for your
comfort or fame, but for theoountry."
He said, '.Not for my comfort; I am
glad to be released from the care.
There are three reasons why I would
have accepted the nomination:
"First-On account of the char
aeter.of the men who urged it. I
esteem their respect and confidence
more than the nomination.
Second believe I could have
broken up the solid South. Many
lifelong Democrats in the South had
given me the strongest assurance Of
their support, believing that I could
deliver them from the evils of a
solid South. Florida is a Republi-
can State, if they had a fair chance,
The Republicans are so distributed
that they cannot secure a fair count,
except in the northwest corner of
the State, where the negroes are
chiefly centered, and where the So
ciety is like Georgia-is really a part
of Georgia. While I could have re-
ceived probably 200 or 300 more
votes from the State than Garfield
will receive, those few are so located
as to secure a fair count in that
northwest corner These are the
substantial reasons.
'Third-There is another partial
reason. I believe that I could have
induced, from my knowledge of the
consulates, the enactment of certain
laws touching our commerce that
would have given US control of much
desirable commerce-fOr instance,
in Mexico-instsad of dealing with
people who use only slave labor,
and receive little or nothing in ex-
change"
He next discussed Hancock with
great minuteness; he said: Il have
known him for forty years. He is q
weak, vain man, He is the most
selfish man I know. He could never |
endure to have anyone else receive
any credit. Though he received all
the mention from his superiors he
deserved, and often more, he was al
ways displeased that he was not
praised more, and that anyone else
was mentioned at all He is the
most selfish man I know. He was a |
very good corps commander He
was ambitious, and had courage and
a fine presence but he is vain, self
ish, weak, and easily fattered. He
can not bear to hear anyone else
praised, but can take any amount of
hattery.
"Down to 1864 he seemed like a |
man ambitious to do his duty as an
officer. But in 1864, when McClel-
Ian was nominated, Hancock received
one vote, and that greatly excited