I felt that reconstruction had been set back, no telling how far.
I immediately arranged for getting a train to take me back to Washington City; but Mrs.Grant was with me; it was after midnight and Burlington was but an hour away.

Finding that I could accompany her to our house and return about as soon as they would be ready to take me from the Philadelphia station, I went up with her and returned immediately by the same special train.

The joy that I had witnessed among the people in the street and in public places in Washington when I left there, had been turned to grief; the city was in reality a city of mourning.

I have stated what I believed then the effect of this would be, and my judgment now is that I was right.

I believe the South would have been saved from very much of the hardness of feeling that was engendered by Mr.Johnson's course towards them during the first few months of his administration.