The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-13
GRANT AND HANCOCK.
His Revised Version Of His Conversation
Designed to Depreeiate and Belittle Gen.
Hancock.
CHICAGO, October 8.

: CHICAGO, October 6.
! The Inter Ocean published an intervie,
with Gen Grant respecting his interview
I, published yesterday morning in whc
Grant says: Though il is in most respect
correct, it also contains many mistakes an,
3 makes me say things IN a way not iutende,
and use some language that / did not EN-
piOy.' La answer To the question
| wherein Is the statement af Dr. Fowler
in correct ~ Grant said 1T is in accu
rate in many respects"
Here he quoted the following paragraph
as published yesterday, in Fowler's inter
| view
"Down to 1864 be seemed like man am
bilious to do his duty an officer, but il
| IS64 when Mcclellan was nominated Han.
| cock received one vote, and that greatly ex
cited and changed him. He was so delight
ed that he smiled ali over. 1t crazed him
before that we got on we'll After that he
would hardly speak 70 me. | was working
To enforce the laws of Congress, and he was
| working for the Presidency. Perhaps he
| thought | did not praise him enough, but
any way, he hardly spoke to me.
| II said substantially that up to 1861 |
did not suppose Hancock had thought OF
the Presidency, but at the Democratic Con-
vention Of that year, he got vote. ''Not
one vote, as DR.. Fowler has it, which
makes me imply that he got the support Of
but one delegate and from that time he had
the Presidential bee in his bonnet. When
| met him afterward his smile was so broad
that you could almost see 1t when his back
was turned. | don't mean that | said he
thought | did not praise him enough, though
possibly that may he the fact. Hancock
is a man who likes to hear himself praised,
and sometimes complained that he
not complimented high enough"
He also said " DIR. Fowler does not get
hold of the points about order No. 40 cor
rectly. BY the various reconstruction acts,
Congress, for consistency sake, l suppose,
stripped me of all authority over the dis
trict commanders in their civil duties ex-
cept in the matter of appointment and re-
moval of civil officers. In reconstruction
States as / was senior my authority was
superior to the Others. DR.. Fowler quotes
me Is saying that the Louisiana Legislature
passed a law authorizing levee boards this !
may have said but if | did it was mis- |
take, the amount being four million.
In regard to the statement also that the |
Louisiana commissioners agreed to pay |
Reverdy johnson and other lawyers two |
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, l |
stated what ! understood and not a fact |
within my own personal knowledge
II am made to say: president Johnson
called Hancock to Washington to instruct
him in measures to defeat the laws of Con-
gress.' |, of course, do not know why
Johnson called Hancock | could only sur
mise. | know Hancock came, and mistake
also occurs in the following paragraph,
where | am made to say "He (Hancock)
went South and removed the government,
and the commissioners that Gen. Sheridan
had appointed. | instantly telegraphed
him not to appoint to office any man
who had been removed and to give his
reason by mail for removing the men,"
When Hancock went South, L published an
order prohibiting him from appointing any
body to Office who had been removed by his
predecessor. This, | suppose, he did not
ike, but my object was to prevent the pos
,ibility OF men being put i'll place who had
arranged for the negotiations of those bonds,
wen fol ore hour. | had intended to tell
Hancock all about it as ! had Johnson, but !
turing my interview with him, | saw he
vas not disposed to listen to my advice, l
lid not tell him. After h9 had been down | {
south some time, lac made some pretty clear |
weep of officers who had been appointed by {
sheridan. | then telegraphed him to sus- :
'end his orders of removal, and report to !
ne by mail. There was an order exist
ng, if | remember Alright, prohibiting ;
he u.s. Of telegraph when the mail {
oud he employed. He replied in t
very long dispatch costing, if | remember | s
DIRECTLY, about two hundred and fifty dol
ars | informed him | was not satisfied
nut if he had any further reasons to commu-
icate to do so by mail. He again replied by
telegraph, but gave nothing new, saying sim
ly that his usefulness would be destroyed L
f he was not left free to act he would ask f
0 be relieved. | ordered him to revoke his {
rider making removals and to make no more
lie tAen asked to be relieved and [ relieved
i'm. always 4egarded his mere declara- e
ion in order No. 10, that the military u
hould be subordinate 70 civil power as o
omethng that everybody accepted and no. fl
ody disputed As 0otaiiiiocArs we were sworn d
. OLeS CIR superiors-Congress was our SUI .
erior and had made laws AID these laws .
lade military subordinates We were act
lg under them but his order made laws a
lbordinate to his own opinions.