had harbored personal enmity against me ever since he perceived that

he could not bend me to an acceptance of the false position in which

he had tried to place me by garbling my report of the riot of 1866.

When Mr. Johnson decided to remove me, General Grant protested in

these terms, but to no purpose:

"HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,

"WASHINGTON, D. C., August 17, 1867

"SIR: I am in receipt of your order of this date directing the