Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . exas and California—empires. There are the same materials for new empires inMexico. I have always had a deep interest in Mexico and herpeople, and have always wished them well. I suppose the factthat I served there as a young man, and the impressions thecountry made upon my young mind, have a
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . exas and California—empires. There are the same materials for new empires inMexico. I have always had a deep interest in Mexico and herpeople, and have always wished them well. I suppose the factthat I served there as a young man, and the impressions thecountry made upon my young mind, have a good deal to dowith this. When I was in London, talking with Lord Beacons-field, he spoke of Mexico. He said he wished to heaven wehad taken the country, that England would not like anythingbetter than to see the United States annex it. I suppose thatwill be the future; of the country. Now that slavery is out ofI he way there could be no better future for Mexico than absorp-tion in the United States. But it would have to come, as San .!//?:. v/( v >. 449 Domingo tried to come, by the free will of the people. I wouldnot fire a gun to annex territory. 1 consider it too great aprivilege to belong to the United States for us to go aroundgunning for new territories. Then the question of annexa-. EAKEWELL lo CHINA. tion means the question of suffrage, and that becomes moreand more serious every day with us. That is one of the graveproblems of our future. When the Mexican War broke out, said the General, myambition was to become an assistant professor of mathematicsvol. n.—29 acq LEAVING CHINA—CONVERSATIONS WITH GEN. GRANT. in West Point. I think I would have been appointed. But somany officers from my regiment had been assigned to otherduties that it was nearly stripped, and although I should havebeen glad to have found an honorable release from serving ina war which I detested and deplored as much as I did our warwith Mexico, I had not the heart to press the matter. But in
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