The Struggle Of'72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign: Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President and Vice-president; History and Platforms of the Great Political Parties; Facts about Public Men and Measures; Review of Grant's Administration; the Queer Record of Horace Greeley |
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... Reforms - Grant Amnesty - Policy toward the Colored Race -The Treaty with England - History of the Negotiations - Grant's Indian Policy - The Olive Branch Armed with a Switch .. .219 CHAPTER XIV . THE SAME , CONTINUED . Grant and I 2 ...
... Reforms - Grant Amnesty - Policy toward the Colored Race -The Treaty with England - History of the Negotiations - Grant's Indian Policy - The Olive Branch Armed with a Switch .. .219 CHAPTER XIV . THE SAME , CONTINUED . Grant and I 2 ...
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... reform . 8. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Lin- coln , and regret the accession to the Presidency of Andrew Johnson , who has acted treacherously to the people who elected him and the cause he was pledged ...
... reform . 8. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Lin- coln , and regret the accession to the Presidency of Andrew Johnson , who has acted treacherously to the people who elected him and the cause he was pledged ...
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... reform were there in the person of the venerable Gerrit Smith , Nestor of the Anti - Slavery army , and a man whose milk of human kindness had never been soured by personal jealousy , like that of Charles Sumner . The business community ...
... reform were there in the person of the venerable Gerrit Smith , Nestor of the Anti - Slavery army , and a man whose milk of human kindness had never been soured by personal jealousy , like that of Charles Sumner . The business community ...
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... Reform . 5. Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the Government are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing ; and we therefore favor a reform of the system by laws which shall ...
... Reform . 5. Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the Government are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing ; and we therefore favor a reform of the system by laws which shall ...
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... reform of the civil service , the abolition of the franking privilege , land - grants , etc. It leaves the Cincinnati crowd nothing to fight for — nothing but Greeley and Gratz . But they might have known as much before . They might ...
... reform of the civil service , the abolition of the franking privilege , land - grants , etc. It leaves the Cincinnati crowd nothing to fight for — nothing but Greeley and Gratz . But they might have known as much before . They might ...
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