It is not a grateful
task to relate the story of Butler using Grant as a tool to
accomplish his own ends. The picture of such a relation between
the two is repulsive, but it may be fraught with instruction
as men of the type of Butler are never absent from our political
life."*
[Footnote]
* Rhodes, "History," Vol. 4, p. 493.
[End of Footnote]
"Butler had some hold on the Commander of the Armies of the
United States and in the interview of July 9th showed his
hand."*
[Footnote]
* Rhodes, Ibid., Vol. 4, p.495.
[End of Footnote]
I do not suppose the secret of the hold which General Butler
had upon General Grant will ever be disclosed. Butler boasted
in the lobby of the House of Representatives that Grant would
not dare to refuse any request of his because he had in his
possession affidavits by which he could prove that Grant had
been drunk on seven different occasions. This statement was
repeated to Grant by a member of the House who told me of
the conversation. Grant replied without manifesting any indignation,
or belief or disbelief in the story: "I have refused his requests
several times.
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