. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . rs, U. S. Grant. The first time I met General Grant after the receipt ofthe foregoing letter was after the lapse of several was in my home city and holding a quasi-public recep-tion. As I approached to shake his hand he was standing atrest, with his eyes looking down upon the floor, there be-ing a cessation of callers. On my name being announcedto him by the chairman of the reception committee, he 267 Civil-war Echoes — Character quickly looked up, smiled, cordially grasped my hand, andremarked as if the subject was fresh in
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . rs, U. S. Grant. The first time I met General Grant after the receipt ofthe foregoing letter was after the lapse of several was in my home city and holding a quasi-public recep-tion. As I approached to shake his hand he was standing atrest, with his eyes looking down upon the floor, there be-ing a cessation of callers. On my name being announcedto him by the chairman of the reception committee, he 267 Civil-war Echoes — Character quickly looked up, smiled, cordially grasped my hand, andremarked as if the subject was fresh in his mind: I sup-pose you have not heard from Washington yet. I wrote asstrongly as I could to the President, but I am afraid wemade a mistake in asking your appointment to be creditedto Utah. He was right. I did not get the remarkable recollection of a comparatively insignificantmatter as that here referred to, coming so unexpectedlybefore his mind simply by my presence, shows the celerityof his mental action even in trivial things. 268. JACOB M. HOWARD U. S. Senator from Michigati, 1862-ji; Author of the First Plat-form of the Republican Party, and of the ijth A)nendmentto the United States Constitution; Chairtnan PacificRailroads Conimtttee, and Select Committeeon President Johnso?is Impeachment CHAPTER SIXSenator Jacob M. Howard, , Michigan GRADUATE OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS—MEM-BER OF THE MICHIGAN STATE LEGISLATURE MEMBER OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH UNITED STATES CONGRESS AT-TORNEY GENERAL OF MICHIGAN, THREE TERMS, 1854-1860—UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN, 1862-187I—AUTHOR OF FIRST PLATFORM, AND GODFATHER OFTHE REPUBLICAN PARTY—^AUTHOR OF THE THIRTEENTHAMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONABOLISHING CHATTEL SLAVERY, ETC. Jacob M. Howard was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont,July 10, 1805. His father was a substantial farmer of Ben-nington County, and the sixth in descent from WilliamHoward,^ of England, who settled in Braintree, Massa
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