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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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After Speaker Colfax called it to order again, Schenck of
Ohio said:—

" In order that the representatives of the people and all loyal persons
present may have a better opportunity of making the acquaintance, at least
by sight, of the Lieutenant-General, I move that he be invited for a moment
to the stand."

The report of the Congressional Globe continues :—

" Lieutenant-General Grant was conducted to the speakers desk, amid
general applause, and took the stand on the left of the speaker.

" THE SPEAKER.—Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I have the
honor of introducing to you this day our heroic defender in the field, the
Lieutenant-General of the armies of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
[Great applause on the floor and in the galleries.]
The Lieutenant-General bowed to the House, and then withdrew.
In the Senate he was received with equal attention. His
plain manners and garb were remarked by the grave and
reverend seigniors, and one commented :—

* January fifteenth. + November thirteenth.

RARY, LENOX ANO
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MRS. GRANT, 1868.

1865] PHILADELPHIANS PRESENT HIM A HOUSE. 445

" Why, even a second lieutenant in my part of the coun-
try dresses a great deal better, and puts on a great many
more airs !"
He spent a few days in New York, which he had not
revisited since his return from California, ten years earlier.
He was beset with callers, and overwhelmed with atten-
tions. He paid a visit to the veteran of the Mexican war,
who received him cordially, and gave him a copy of his
autobiography, just issued, first writing upon a fly-leaf:—

" From the oldest to the ablest general in the world.*
" WINFIELD SCOTT."

Citizens of Philadelphia, gratified at Grant's purpose of
making his future home among them, presented to him a
completely furnished residence on Chestnut Street, between
Twentieth and Twenty-first. To their letter he replied :—

It is with feelings of gratitude and pride that I accept this substantial
testimony of esteem from your loyal citizens;—gratitude, because it is an
evidence of deep-set determination on the part of a large number of citizens

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