lvin,
who claimed damages in the sum of $3,000,000. At the close of the
meeting and when the fact became known one gentleman said to me: "I
do not see how you could have spoken after such a summons."

I said in reply: "If the suit had been for $3,000 only, it might have
given me some uneasiness, as a recovery would have involved payment.
A judgment of $3,000,000 implies impossibility of payment."

I had no knowledge of Galvin, but his letters of advice were found on
the files of the Treasury. Even after the suit, I did not examine them
for the purpose of forming an opinion of their value or want of value.
Galvin alleged in his declaration that he had furnished the financial
policy that I had adopted, that it had benefitted the country to the
amount of $300,000,000 and more, and that a claim of $3,000,000 was a
moderate claim. Under the statute, the Department of Justice assumed
the defence. The case lingered, Galvin died, and the case followed.

At the election of 1872, I voted at Groton in the morning, and in the
afternoon I went to New York, to find that General Grant had been
re-elected by a sufficient majority. On the morning of the next day, I
left the hotel with time for a call upon General Dix, who had been
elected Governor, and for a call upon Thurlow Weed. General Dix was
not at home. Notwithstanding the criticisms of Thurlow Weed as a
manager of political affairs in the State of New York and in the
country, I had reasons for regarding him with favor, although I had
never favored the aspirations of Mr. Seward, his chief. When I was
organizing the Internal Revenue Office in 1862-1863, Mr. Weed gave me
information in regard to candidates for office in the State of New
York, including their relations to the factions that existed--usually
Seward and anti-Seward--and with as much fairness as he could have
commanded if he had had no relation to either faction.

As I had time remaining at the end of my call upon Mr. Weed, and as I
had in mind Mr. Stewart's message at the Cooper Union meeting, I drove
to his down-town store, where I found him. He received me with
cordiality, but in respect to his health he seemed to be already a
doomed man. He was anxious chiefly to give me an opportunity to
comprehend the nature and magnitude of his business. As I was about
to leave, he took hold of my coat button and said: "When you see the
President, you give my love to him, and say to him that I am for him
and tha