Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-24
EXHUMING THE dead.
Chauncey NJ Depew Speaks in Con-
frmaticn Of the Truth Of His Let
ter to Col, Fred Grant.
Ex.Seeretary McCulloch Surprised nj
the Disclosures..Butler Has
Secrets TO Dirulge.
Extracts From a Volume Of Memoirs De.
tails the Rupture nctwocn John.
son aud Grant.
history Amerien Womb INV rnuri,,sn

History Amcrien Would Have unwrttten.
NEW lor Oct. 2G.-Thc Herald this
morning ! coo.ser details of The Grant
johnson, fi,fag,, tSsis,,se,l Ia interviews
Hugh Mct''hos, qer yIan,l home
said: "a, ~
This Is all new 10 mc. d hoara ,n,
thing of the kind before. liisSl. ,ompletc snr
prise and challenges my rrcdulity without nr,,n
ment. wat makes me doubt the correctness
OF the statement y that the personal relations
between President johnson aud Cpn t.rnnt
were OF the most friendly character up 10 Tho
time when Cen Grant, as acting sccfctary 0i
war, yielded his chair Ia Secretary stanton md
mat was u year or more after these occurrences
are reported to have taken plare Ii Il NOT
possible for me 10 dcuy the CORE tncss uf Mr.
Dcpcw's narrative, because IL may barc
happened just us he alleges cen. t,ra,.f
said Il did can only repeat that II is Tho frst
Time over heard of Il, or a proposit ion lnyoi,.-
ing 50 much really think would have been
spoken Of and talked about and hardly keni n
secret these nineteen years.
MIR. McCulloch regretted that he had
not mem, randa from which to speak pos.
itively, but others had, and he didnot
doubt but that the charge would be ut-
tcrly disprovod.
Mr. Depcw said
gen. Grant talked to me for nearly hyo
homs, and his speech vas SO graphic ihnt
lew men would forget what he said
lhn , story Impressed me very much al
aahc,clesr and Trlable II" Si tnld no n,o i T.
about johnson In great detail. said To- hlm
"HeneFai, thls Is more interesting and import
am IMAM any OF inc recorded events happening
SlmNe lhe war you oughtto write out the Facts. f
The general replied that for ycar. hr had
MlSheu 10 hNhc q written record of that pait ct
american history mi that nc found no time for
the task l urged that these Facts proved the
country had been ON he verge OF another great
roNoihiioh perhaps grANet Than the Other.
anu ihHt lhg gCope ought to know
u me general 'aW iw hoped IA time 10 write
me story
=, lMnor liTce GAYS We orc he went to Mount
said, do you remember the story Won told me
some years ago about President John~uu's cN-
traordnury citorl 1T Che period OF rceonStruc-
ttnnt
"iIay" Won rncln,rd ~ ~ IrIi nnr ,t,.,o.t.. ~,
the War; asked
NO ne sad ~ have never written lt.'
,,',t,, "ti,o o NH. ",aHL U'u MOI want ="
not being wiling To- iroy"tr
a controversy, lie realized that he was Il dying
Luz Ci1 me o,hiE more lnam what nc
gress Ut of Ike cnntol at the noitt of NJ, g
net Grant was very earnest in his conversation
III sWg nv, u J"nheih' Pfopusi.ton hH te"i caf
bly have controiod congre.- and WEI" ,cb n,c9s
ure- rs the Fifteenth amendment TO the consti
'"tloil nllshl nave neen dcieated'
Heing asked II he knew OF any corrub-
oratiNc facts, Mr.. Depew rcplicd
Wen, see that ecu, sherman says he KIN ows
an about ~ ana Gen. Horace Porter was ae
HIM Front Tbop,ns"S ~ tl,c ; ~ rt5
railroad told me yesterday that years MO Judge
Jeremiah BLACK informed him of JOhnsuue in j.