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take a different course the will calculate. for herself the ultimate as well as the immediate consequences, and will consider what position she will hold when the shall have forever lost the sympathies and the affections of the only nation on whose sympathies and affections the has a natural clain. In that calculation the will making

To well to remember that is the controversy the proposes to open we shall be actuated by meither pride nor

passion, nor cupidity.

stand simply

nor ambition; but we shall

on the principle of self preservation

and that on cause will involve the independence

of nations and the rights of human antire

I am, his respectfully you obedientio

DEAR SIR:

I.

ULYSSES S. GRANT.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 1885.

In the first draft of his book, Gen. Grant had fixed upon quite a large number of anecdotes which were afterward omitted. Among the number I find the following, for which, as will be seen, he was indebted to President Lincoln.

ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, Esq.

Respectfully,

F. D. GRANT.

I.

UST after receiving my commission as lieu

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tenant-general, the President called me aside to speak to me privately. After a brief reference to the military situation, he said he thought he could illustrate what he wanted to say by a story, which he related as follows: "At one time there was a great war among the animals, and one side had great difficulty in getting a commander who had sufficient

confidence in himself. Finally, they found a monkey, by the name of Jocko, who said that he thought he could command their army if his tail could be made a little longer. So they got more tail and spliced it on to his caudal appendage. He looked at it admiringly, and then thought he ought to have a little more still. This was added, and again he called for more. The splicing process was repeated many times, until they had coiled Jocko's tail around the room, filling all the space. Still he called for more tail, and, there being no other place to coil it, they began wrapping it around his shoulders. He continued his call for more, and they kept on winding the additional tail about him until its weight broke him down."

I saw the point, and, rising from my chair, replied: "Mr. President, I will not call for more assistance unless I find it impossible to do with what I already have."

II.

Upon one occasion, when the President was at my head-quarters at City Point, I took him to see the work that had been done on the Dutch Gap Canal. After taking him around and showing him all the points of interest, explaining how, in blowing up one portion of the work that was being excavated, the explosion had thrown the material back into, and