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I had not been disposed to believe this until
I was told, a little while ago, by Secretary Boutwell that
he had the statement that that was the fact from the lips
of Grant himself. If that be true, the President must have
changed his mind twice. When the bill was pending in the
House of Representatives, my wife's father, a very simple-
hearted and excellent merchant of Worcester, who spent seventy
years of life in business on the same spot, visited us in
Washington. I took him up to see Grant. The General was
alone and, contrary to his usual custom, in a very talkative
mood. He seemed to like Mr. Miller, who had a huge respect
for him, and evidently saw that we were not there for any
office-seeking or other personal end. He talked with great
freedom about himself and his visit to Worcester. He expressed
his wonder that the town had grown and prospered so without
any advantage of river or harbor or water power, or the neighborhood
of rich mines or rich wheat-fields. He then asked me how
the bill for an increased issue of green-backs was coming
on in the House.


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