ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed to "Friend William," Washington, 28 December 1893. 4 pages, 8vo, United States Civil Service Commission stationery, autograph emendation on letterhead, matted and framed with engraved portrait .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed to "Friend William," Washington, 28 December 1893. 4 pages, 8vo, United States Civil Service Commission stationery, autograph emendation on letterhead, matted and framed with engraved portrait . "HE WAS AN INVETERATE HATER OF REPUBLICANS IN GENERAL, OF NORTHERNERS, AND ESPECIALLY OF NEGROES" A spirited letter about his long battle with the racist, ex-Confederate George D. Johnston (whose name T.R. has crossed off the letterhead and written alongside: "Bust!"): "Yes, I did have a savage time with that unreconstructed rebel, old Johnston. He was a real type of the fire-eater; he always went around with a revolver, and was always bullying and threatening and talking about his deeds as a general in the war, and 'his people' the Southerners, and 'his party' the Democrats. He was a big fellow, and once or twice I wished I had your thews [i.e., muscles]; but as I hadn't, I resolved to do what I could with my own if it came to a rough and tumble...After he had carried his bullying to a certain point I brought him up with a round turn, and when he threatened I told him to go right ahead, that I was no brawler, but that I was always ready to defend myself in any way and that moreover I would guarantee to do it, too. Then he backed off. I was always having difficulties with him as he was an inveterate hater of Republicans in general, of Northerners, and especially of negroes. However, I finally drove him off the Commission, and before that happened I had reduced him to absolute impotence on the Commission save that he could still be a temporary obstructionist..." Johnston (1832-1910) fought at First Bull Run, Shiloh, Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaign, during which he was wounded. Unreconstructed is certainly the word for him, as he wanted to keep fighting after both Lee and Joseph Johnston surrendered. His final tantrum with Roosevelt was over the fact that T.R.'s office got carpeted before his. Roosevelt went to President Cleveland and told him that either he or Johnston would have to leave the Commission. Johnston, truculent to the end, declined Cleveland's offer of a consular posting in Canada, and refused to tender his resignation, leaving the President no alternative but to fire him. Roosevelt served on the Commission from 1889 to 1895, when he resigned to become New York City police commissioner.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed to "Friend William," Washington, 28 December 1893. 4 pages, 8vo, United States Civil Service Commission stationery, autograph emendation on letterhead, matted and framed with engraved portrait .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph letter signed to "Friend William," Washington, 28 December 1893. 4 pages, 8vo, United States Civil Service Commission stationery, autograph emendation on letterhead, matted and framed with engraved portrait . "HE WAS AN INVETERATE HATER OF REPUBLICANS IN GENERAL, OF NORTHERNERS, AND ESPECIALLY OF NEGROES" A spirited letter about his long battle with the racist, ex-Confederate George D. Johnston (whose name T.R. has crossed off the letterhead and written alongside: "Bust!"): "Yes, I did have a savage time with that unreconstructed rebel, old Johnston. He was a real type of the fire-eater; he always went around with a revolver, and was always bullying and threatening and talking about his deeds as a general in the war, and 'his people' the Southerners, and 'his party' the Democrats. He was a big fellow, and once or twice I wished I had your thews [i.e., muscles]; but as I hadn't, I resolved to do what I could with my own if it came to a rough and tumble...After he had carried his bullying to a certain point I brought him up with a round turn, and when he threatened I told him to go right ahead, that I was no brawler, but that I was always ready to defend myself in any way and that moreover I would guarantee to do it, too. Then he backed off. I was always having difficulties with him as he was an inveterate hater of Republicans in general, of Northerners, and especially of negroes. However, I finally drove him off the Commission, and before that happened I had reduced him to absolute impotence on the Commission save that he could still be a temporary obstructionist..." Johnston (1832-1910) fought at First Bull Run, Shiloh, Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaign, during which he was wounded. Unreconstructed is certainly the word for him, as he wanted to keep fighting after both Lee and Joseph Johnston surrendered. His final tantrum with Roosevelt was over the fact that T.R.'s office got carpeted before his. Roosevelt went to President Cleveland and told him that either he or Johnston would have to leave the Commission. Johnston, truculent to the end, declined Cleveland's offer of a consular posting in Canada, and refused to tender his resignation, leaving the President no alternative but to fire him. Roosevelt served on the Commission from 1889 to 1895, when he resigned to become New York City police commissioner.
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