[Footnote 35: See pp. 618-620.]
[Footnote 36: See pp. 615-618.]
[Footnote 37: See pp. 613-615.]
[Footnote 38: See pp. 613-615.]
[Footnote 39: See pp. 618-620.]
[Footnote 40: See p. 613.]
[Footnote 41: See p. 615.]
[Footnote 42: See pp. 612-613.]
[Footnote 43: See p. 615.]
[Footnote 44: See pp. 618-620.]
[Letter addressed to each of the members of the Cabinet present at the
conversation between the President and General Grant on the 14th of
January, 1868, and answers thereto.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., February 5, 1868_.
SIR: The Chronicle of this morning contains a correspondence between the
President and General Grant reported from the War Department in answer
to a resolution of the House of Representatives.
I beg to call your attention to that correspondence, and especially to
that part of it which refers to the conversation between the President
and General Grant at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the 14th of
January, and to request you to state what was said in that conversation.
Very respectfully, yours,