Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-26
GRANTS REPLY TO 8ADEaU.
He Dfssects the Generals Address ana
Says There's No Truth I'm It

The reply OF Col. Frederick D. Grant tothe state.
ment recently made by Gen. Adam Badeau. in the
shape Of AN Address TO the American People
has been made public. The document is yo,umi.
nous and deals with Gen. Badeau's statement nara.
graph BY paragraph. With regard to the famous
memorandum, dated February z, 1885, and signed
oy u B. Grant, which Gen. Badeau says his coln.
SCI MI W. II. Alexander. pronounced valid, but
declared mat IL was most important that It should
oe made known TO the family, Col. Grant comments
IN any thing ort complimentary terms
WHOSE LAWYERS WERE rHEsE?
AS 70 the letter OF March f. 1885, In which Gen.
Badeau was asked TO disavow the authorship OF
the Memoirs" request which he declined, s.nrst
70 tne lawyers and then 70 Colonel Grant, as the
Eenerai aiesed Colonel Grant says: 1.-The init
nlduon mere is tnat these lawyers were men as
soclated with me and furthering my wicked de-
Signs 70 depriye Badeau OF his just fame or his
most hgS compensation whichever he esteems
Messrs- Alexander Green already referred 10 by
Sen. Badeau as his loyal advisors These gem
webster a Co., the publishers OF the personal
Memoirs" And In drafting the letters, which be
refused 70 sign they acted In the interests OF their
cnents, the publishers The necessary implica-
Ton also, that this letter OF May written and
given 10 Gen. Grant Immediately after Badeau's
refusal 10 sign the letter drafted by Messrs.
AIeAander and Green, Is equally untrue.
GEN. GRANTS LAST LETTER TO BADEAU.
In relation 10 the letter which Gen. Badeau
wrote TO Gen. Grant asking compensation at the
rate OF 81, 900 per month and 10 per cent OF the
profits OF the book, the answer 10 which was his
dismissal in a letter which Gen. Badeau attributes
TO col Grant, it being In his handwriting. with
Gen Grants autograph at the end, Col. Grant
says: Gen. Badeau handed his cruel letter of
May TO Gen. Grant, on the day OF It's date. In
MIS-. Grants presence, but not In mine, ana I'M
mediatey left the house, returning on the 4th.
sgitated and trembIin% He nnIocsed the rawe1
or bureau where he had placed it, and taking
the letter out handed IL 10 me, saying: Read this
and tell me what you think OF it, did read It
and said that thought IL despiCable. My father
then, without any suggestions from me, began TO
write the answer with his own hand. being so
weak that he could not write more than a few
lines without stopping. He answered one point
after another, and gave me the sheets OF his
them and read the copy 10 him, he directing
changes and corrections"
WHY BADEAU DID NOT SUE.
General Badeau's statement that he refraIned
from suing Mrs. Grant because IL would interfere
with the sale Of the book is pronounced by Colonel
Grant TO be the only truthful assertion In the lad
dress" The assertion that Senator Conkling "with-
drew from the case because dissatisfied with the
stand taken by General Grants family" he de-
nounces as an "utterly wanton misstateTnent," de-
Glazing that the senator was one OF the dearest
friends OF his father and for that reason and be-
cause OF his great ability, was the one lawyer to
whom his mother would resort for advice IN time
OF need. Mr.. Conkling, he said, agreed with Mr.
Alexander that the better way would be 10 give
a statement disclaiming all joint authorship lie
was Ia favor Of giving him $500. Continuing,
Colonel Grant says:
"Ar. Conkng permits me 20 say that said 10
him then what the correspondence discloses that
The question OF the amount IN be paid 10 Badeau
was no factor In this discussion, the one consider
alton never 10 be lost sight or being the vindica-
ton OF my father from even the insinuation that
his book was not his own When IL became EVIL
dent, however, that nothing except litigation and
publicity through the press would satisfy the
author o; the address, Mr.. Conkling did not de-
cline 70 act as counsel, for my mother considered
that In View OF his intimacy with the family that
neither he nor any OF mis- firm should appear AZ
Mr.. COnkling's suggestion Mr.. seward was en-.
gagged. Referring 10 General Badeau's statement
as 10 the refusal OF Mrs. Grant and her family TO
criticise his book. "GranJ In Peace" Colonel
Grant says: ''This they expressly refused To do
anu frankly avowed their disapproval OF the en-
tire performance. Mrs. Grant considered tn at
General Badeau In these articles had been guilty
OF gross breaches OF confidence and OF un1ustiabie
attacks upon persons with whose families her hus-
band and herself had been brought into most in
Innate relations, Officially and personally whom
they regarded as friends and held in the warmest
esteem. Neither she nor any OF her family would
undertake a revision when doing so would npces-
sarily imply u! on their part approval OF a book
when they considered violation OF those rela-
tons OF friendship and intimacy that they have
always endeayored TO preserve honorable and in
violate"
The FISH LETTER EXPLAINED.
In explanation OF General Badeau's charge that
General Grant had confessed to putting his name
IT,,
Grant says his father had held executive positions
Tor hall his liIe and had become accustomed 20
trusting largely TO the good faith OF subordinates
Win regard 10 the signature unwittlngly made he
says: III Is true that Mr.. James ID. Fish relied
largely upon this letter 10 escape conviction for hts
share or the frauds that wrecked the Marine Bank
ana the nrIn OF Grant 4 Ward. But General Ba-
deau does not call attention to the fact that his
present counsel were the counsel OF Mr. Fish, that
they proposed TO post pOne criminal trial OF their
client on account OF General Grants condition
that the newspapers were 1lled with ambiguous
10 demonstrate conclustvely that whatever Gen
eral Grant may have done unwittingly he has at
least In one instance refused TO put hts name wit
tingly to 4 contract when shameless proposition
was put before him TO derive pecuniary benent by
imposing upon the public"
Appended 10 Colonel Grants reply Is a mass Of
correspondence relative TO the proposed settle
ment. Among the letters Is one In which Colonel
Grant declares that relative OF General Badeau
had publicly declared at dinner that Badeau and
not Generai Grant was the author OF the book
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why Congressman Scott Eats.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Congressman VIM. l. Scott told friend some
time ago that the only use ne had for eating was
TO give him chance 10 smoke a cigar afterward
This Is strikingly like an expression attributed to
the late President Buchanan, who said he liked a
glass OF whisky because IL made the ice water taste
so good. Mr.. Scott employs a $lOOOO-a-year cook
10 make his cigars enjoyable. and Mr.. buchanan
friends who went 10 the White House always