Show WHAt DID HE MEAN f Chaun < ey M D win His remarks at thefbhamberJof Cdminercejln New York tithc II is i J1f1 J d wltlll 10 unwrit Iii thistor of Qteriil Grant matter I that in his judgment was as important in its results to the Republic as any recorded re-corded The public will be anxious to know what this is The life and services of General Grant are well known to his i j country and it is but natural to wonder what the things are to which Mr Depew I refers Are they things connected with the I dark days of the rebellion when even I the stoutest hearts at times had grave misgivings If such they be were there those who had schemes to further at the price of their country and did they make advances to him who is now resting at Mount McGregor Or were they plans for a compromise between rebellion and I loyalty Mr Depew says that the matter mat-ter is left unrecorded because the General Gen-eral did not wish to cause anyone pain who might have been opposed to him Then those who would have been pained must be high in place and looked up to with reverence and respect by their fellow fel-low countrymen If such there are who were once engaged in doubtful plans for self or other aggrandizement then they occupy a false place in the hearts of the people Mr Depew says there was a time just at the close of the war when but for the firmness of General Grant this country would have been plunged into the throes of another rebellion If such is the case it may be something connected with the impeachment of President Johnson and if so it is possible pos-sible that there were plans for summarily dealing with him Mr Depews remarks give rise to a thousand conjectures and one conjecture may be as wild or true as another He says that if no one else writes the history of the matters to which he refers he himself will some day It is to be hoped he will and that he will do so shortly while it is yet fresh in his memory If he shall write it now and give it to the world while yet those men live rho might have been offended had General Grant himself recorded the story he might raise around I his head a hurricane such as greeted Mr I Froude upon the publication of the journals I jour-nals and letters of Carlyle Nothing in literary history ever created so great a furore as did that publication Those who were leaders of fashion and science were alike most unmercifully scathed as only a dyspeptic genius can scathe a man Mr Depew might make for himself a place in the annals of authors on military and civil strife All will anxiously await the explanation of the riddle he has propounded pro-pounded |