Show Grant oa Rosecrans I Washington 24General Grant i was asked by a reporter of the Star this afternoon if he had anything to say concerning the alleged interview inter-view between him and Thos M Nichol supposed to have taken place in New York after Garfields election which was telegraphed from Chicago in which he Grant is alleged to have spoken disparagingly dis-paragingly of General Rosecrans saying he Rosecrans never was fit to command an army He would not 01 rather could not obey orders He was what he Grant called a constitutional insubordinate a sort of bigheaded orstinate man who would get a selfish prejudice into his head and stick to It and act on it against the judgment and reason of everybody else and absolutely was Incapable of seeing any force in any facts or arguments argu-ments in conflict with what for the time being was his theory Rosecrans would have utterly been destroyed if it had not been tor the intelligence of the army itself and especially for such subordinate officers i offi-cers as Garfield and Thomas General Gen-eral Grant said in reply I do not know Mr Thomas M Nichol and do not remember to have seen him in my life and I certainly never would have said to him such things as are attributed to me in such circumstances cir-cumstances A great deal that is attributed to me in that article I never said or even thought but some of the things I did say but not to Mr Nichol I may have seen Nichol but did not know him |