New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-03
THE INDIRECT CLAIMS.
GENERAL GRANT AND MIR. sUMNXR--A CARD FROM
JOHN RUSSELL YOrNG.

GENERAL GRANT AND MIR. sUMNXR--A CARD FROM
john RUSSELL YOrNG.
TO the Edtfor Of Ths TrfbHme
SIR. | do not know that there is any special
reason reply part to yOm EDITORIAL rri' r. nee
In 1IE IRIIUnE Of this morning to Nj T. L. Whites cor
reciio ri my narrative. would lhr however to make
clear " hat In your eumuaIy 81 Mr. Whites views re-
MANS olAcuIc: MIR. White prints VIVA, ns rt'd and
industrious corespUndrn he was able To lean about
The Indirect claims ana the Geneva Tribunal MI Waite
however was a member o! that Tribunal iar
az can learn rnm any historical record. In the
confidence OF the mtInbers Of the Tribunal. Of The
Executive, nor OF the Department 81 state My MARIA
tive came rom lips Uf the President who created the
Tribunal, aid knew n about IT. II not printed
I'M General Grant hud read II In proof and tUnrnrd
lis accuracy.
In response to the suggestion that put words into
General Granl's mouth" VIII. with your permission.
say IN your columns what have printed IN my volumes
Whenever quoted General Grant took pains To nave
him read what 1 had written. TO that had quoted
him with accuracy. remember we'll when 1t FIRST came
10 me 10 wtn those chapters Of my WORK that called
Conversations" We were JOurnrying on the Nile In
the many Of talk that fell upon our party IA we
mad He'd over the sands, the deck OF our boat
leaking Oni upon The dense aud gathering nigt, ibofe
were frequent references to the great deeds o. our "'r'
and t. the great men, moth or the North ana the South
who performed these dcrds Although wa, not ilto'
" thcr Unfamiliar with the history OF the war, irt haI
III General Grants conversations there w re fncs' I'M
prcAsions, ccisms incidents and color which belonged
TO history which had yalu0 developing the
truth or history and which II wise IN me To gphrf
nm and ToncInbcr and print When | asked General
Grants pctnssOn to do 81. remember his rcGcidhce-
arising as II aid from his extreme modrsy-s fcdr' to
se MS ord. ~ rcall them, that there uoth'
ing OF value In nls recolleclion7
wrote nt odd times, bit now and "a bit then, what
,Vas afiorward known ia Tie Nrr ffrk Hrrad rs Toe
Hamburg Letter" That iettr va "tiii"n "h t.r Me
m FcJrIAry gave thr manuscript % Grueral Grant
II ws ,yera wctks before rs returned mr The MANI
srrint A good part / omitted at his irquesf, because
lie iunc had Ia pratt ~ was III iihnbig III
INV when he gave .is pc mission THIS litter v
rlboa,cd ina thOsr chapters ~ my book called CON
vtrsatiou-" They arJt 4, me while was Ia JdPan
aud C;reraI o. II was KIDD enough TO revise them.
Inis - a. e point all nxi0GS TO make clear hO'o
General Grant IN too high hOuor 10 have supposed tnat
conII AXE with him the liberty that hurried icitluH
Of your uttI6e might imply. Much rs ! respect OH;
yL,rr uIcfer so the history or these indirect
c'.,ma "a concerned 20 accept tie narrative OF tho
u,ns,Ieut who knew all about Them, ana VINO IL nOtu
- h,a ,ruf ACCURATE mathematical memory 10 that 81
correspondent, who was u no way concerned III Tue
,ron'. ri On and knew than II hundred Ithri
cn,rcsnoudrnts wing the wing AID striving i0F nr"'
I am sir respectful your Ube,!Irni servant, .
-. Y1rk frb q 1881, INo. RUSSELL YOUEO