. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . fered him the chairmanship of the Southern Claims Com-mission, and requested him to think it over and not decideat once. He had been defeated for the third election, andhis second term as senator was soon to expire on March4, 1871. Shortly thereafter he mailed the President hisdeclination of the honor tendered, as he had become tiredof public life, and longed for the quiet of home life was little of the active politician about him. He diedof apoplexy within a month after his return to his after his decease in A
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . fered him the chairmanship of the Southern Claims Com-mission, and requested him to think it over and not decideat once. He had been defeated for the third election, andhis second term as senator was soon to expire on March4, 1871. Shortly thereafter he mailed the President hisdeclination of the honor tendered, as he had become tiredof public life, and longed for the quiet of home life was little of the active politician about him. He diedof apoplexy within a month after his return to his after his decease in April, 1871, I received a pri-vate note of condolence and sympathy from General O. , in behalf of President and Mrs. Grant, and inform-ing me that it had been the formers intention to offer myfather the portfolio of Attorney General of the UnitedStates. President Grant shortly tendered this relator theFederal office of United States District Attorney for theSouthern District of Florida, which, after due consideration,was declined with thanks. 26s. FERNANDO WOOD, M. C, OF NEW YORKEX-MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY Sketches and State Secrets My readers will pardon a paragraph or two entirelypersonal, as illustrative of one phase of General Grantscharacter. While this relator was a temporary resident of the terri-tory of Utah, where he was engaged in mining with ayounger brother, whom President Grant had appointedRegister of the United States Land Office there, I wasdesirous of being appointed as a member of the Utah Com-mission, a body established by Congress to regulate thematter of suffrage. I accordingly wrote General Grant,whose term as President had expired, asking his kindly aidin procuring the office, and received the following consid-erate reply from him: New York City^ June i. Dear Sir : I have your letter of the 2gth ult. Perhaps I shouldhave written to you on the receipt of your former letter to tell youwhat I had done in the matter of your request. My excuse for notdoi
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