The Struggle of '72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign: |
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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 12 ...
... 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 12 ...
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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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Page 43 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 36 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 570 - ... to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution, within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 26 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 181 - My Dear General: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition...
Page 22 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Page 212 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 44 - Do not misunderstand me because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties that have thus far prevented my action in some such way as you desire. I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves, but hold the matter under advisement; and I can assure you that the subject is on my mind, by day and night, more than any other. Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do.
Page 213 - General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 36 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.