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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rity, and wrote now to Mr. Van-derbilt, informing him of the well-meant efforts THE LAST DAYS OF GENERAL GRANT. 925 in his behalf, but declaring that he preferrednot to avail himself of them. He recjuestedMr. Vanderbilt to exercise his legal rights andoffer for sale the whole of (ieneral (Irantsproperty in his hands, including the jjresentsand trophies of peace and war. He did notfeel at liberty to thwart the intentions of hisother friends without the sanction of Mr. Van-derbilt, as their eftbrts would enable him tocancel his debt to Mr. Vanderbilt, but he pre- guile of a monster in craft, who selected thepeoples hero as his victim and his decoy;ihe abandonment of the j^roperty, and thesurrender — harder still—of those monu-ments to his fame which his deeds had won;surrendered, it is true, to the nation, whichwill guard them sacredly, as it will the fameof which they are the symbol and the seal. All this wore on the frame torn by diseaseand the spirit racked by imputations, thrown
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grants birthplace at point pleasant, OHIO. (1885.) THE HOUSE LOOKS UPON THE OHIO RIVER. ferred that the debt should be paid by the saleof the property, not by a new subscription. Then came the correspondence which hasbeen given to the world: first the munifi-cent ofter of Mr. Vanderbilt to make over allthe property to Mrs. Grant, only providingthat the i:)resents should be held in trust dur-ing her life and that of the General, to beafterwards transferred to the Government, assouvenirs of the glory which is national;then the letter from General Grant, acceptingthe offer so far as it concerned the dispositionof the presents, but declining to receive thereturn of the property; the persistent press-ure of the great millionaire; the acceptanceof (ieneral Grant under this pressure ; Mrs.Grants letter of an hour afterwards recallingthe acceptance, written, of course, with Gen-eral Grants sanction, but signed by Mrs.Grant to save the General from the appear-ance of discourtesy; and the final

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