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Show The long expected revelation of Chaun-cey Chaun-cey W. Depew, some intimation of which was given in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of New . York last summer, about the unrecorded work of General Grant, has been made. Whatever the other merits of this revelation it has the important one of being interesting. Mr. Depew's revelation will generally be taken with a grain of salt, and the, grain will nof be" a small one. If Mr. Depew is to be "believed, Andrew Johnson was "the biggest fool that ever lived, and had neither brains nor determination. The story about Johnson's wanting to be admitted ad-mitted to the society of - the Southern aristocracy, and his feelings of hatred to them because he could not be, is, in our opinion, pure stuff and nonsense. And then the yarn about Johnson wanting to issue a proclamation for the States recently re-cently in rebellion to send Senators and Representatives to Congress because the Southern leaders were willing to admit him to their society when he had got to be President of the United States and they themselves were without power or prestige and defeated, is "too thin." His revelation will succeed in creating a discussion dis-cussion if nothing else. I |