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Show . THAT INTERVIEW. HAN-uoi.ru and ni-.wriT with his ine- lilt'ATKO IvXOJLI.KNCV. Donu Piatt Bays in the Cincinnati Enquirer. I blame Senator Randolph and .Representative Hewitt fur not giving to the world precisely all that occurred iu their last inlcniew wilh hie inebriated excellency, j There ia truth in wine-, nays the old adage; and we can add, there ia solid (act in whisky. Tho delicacy thnt makea them hcsilnto is fa la..- The events threatening tlio life ol tho republic are too grave for any such nice dis-linctione dis-linctione of etiquette: It was not a private u flair, and occurred at the executive mansion, the house- of the people. . ,( When Grant called upon: Sumner lo urge ilia support? oi the . Han Domingo job, Suiuner tlid not hedt-Ute hedt-Ute to say that the president was drunk, although the interview occurred occur-red in Sumner's house, , It was not a private, confidential afliir; it waB public, and referred exoluaively to public allairs. When Randolph and Hewitt were admitted; 1 am told by one I have no reason to doubi, they lound the pre&i-; dent in the presence of Don Cameron and Mrs. tirant. Tho chief magistrate magis-trate waa bo under the iofiueocu of stimulants that the two gentleman regretted they wero preseot. Tuere was, however, no nscapfl. They soon discovered, however, that under tha influence this horotofore reticent man talked not only with great volubility, but violence. This went a far that Mra. Crant, interrupting, uaid: "General "Gen-eral (Jranl, you rauat hear these gen-tlemeu; gen-tlemeu; you must austain what you promUod; you must not dipcrace yourself and your country." To which the president responded, and mpliafi-d the rcaponae with aiup-ping aiup-ping bis lug, by saying: "Mrs. UrtuL, (hid is not your budinead, but mine." Tbirt is Buid U be -only part of this oxlraorumary scend, that I am tald Mtwri. Jian Jolph and liewilt reduced to writing iiu-iH.-diattly after leaving the white house. . I If I am in error in thie if I have miarepn-JwmUHi what occurred, it is lor Mrfhra. JUndulpb and Hewitt to make the correction. 1 only give, not only what : reliable gentleman toid me, bill what tl laiked about the tl tors of fungrta.". 11 the people know the sjLrt ot a nun he is who ia engaged in pnrecrving ihe peace wiihc coucviitraluig aruieJ nun about tlie capital. |