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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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to march your companyaway, as I do not wish to be thus annoyed. I consider thismerely a political demonstration for a selfish and politicalobject, and all such I disapprove of. At Pittsburg, Johnson found banners inscribed with hisold phrases, Traitors must take back seats in the work ofreconstruction; We must make treason odious; andthe like. He tried to speak, but the people—almost riotous—refused to hear a word from him, though giving deafeningcheers for Grant and Farragut. The tour soon ended. Johnson was not intoxicated byliquor, as many supposed, but only by his own passions.Grant wrote to a friend that he was prodigiously glad toget home, and that while declining to mingle in politics,he freely told everybody that it was an insult to ask anyNorthern man who had helped suppress the rebellion, tosupport for office any candidate who was not loyal in 1861,and whose anxiety that the flag should have thirty-six,and not twenty stars, did not come to him until after Leessurrender.
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GEN. GRANTS RESIDENCES SINCE THE WAR. ME NEW YORK tC LIBRAE »sro i860.) More about Mexican Matters. 531 CHAPTER XLV. RECONSTRUCTION. Seward had always believed that the withdrawal of theFrench from Mexico could be secured by diplomacy, with-out resort to arms. Grant never did ; and on learning thatour minister at Paris had been officially notified that LouisNapoleon—in violation of repeated promises—would notcall home his troops until the spring of 1867, wrote to Sher-idan an emphatic letter :— October ninth—Grant to Sheridan. My opinion is that the interest of the United States, and duty, is to seethat foreign interference with the affairs of this continent is put an end to. * * * It is probable that you may have an opportunity of judgingthe designs of Santa Anna, should he attempt to send a force to the RioGrande. Should his designs be inimical to the Government of Mexico, withwhich we are at peace, the same duty, in obedience to our own neutralitylaws, compels us to preven

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