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Title: Life and public services of General Ulysses S. Grant, from his boyhood to the present time. And a biographical sketch of Hon. Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Phelps, Charles A
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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olitical Life. — Repeal of Missouri Com-promise. — Kossuth. —American Stump-Speaking. — Mr. Col-fax elected to Congress. — Debate on Kansas. — Extract fromSpeech. — Admiration of Henry Clay.—Interest in PacificRailroad. — Friendship for Mr. Lincoln. — Urged for a Seat inthe Cabinet 322 CHAPTER IL Chosen Speaker of House of Representatives. — Qualifications ofa Presiding Officer. — Lord Stowell. — Journey across the Con-tinent.— Parting Interview with President Lincoln. — TheNight of the Assassination. — Receives the Presidents lastGood-by. — Eulogy. — Speeches to the Mormons. — Views onMexican Question. — Manufacturing Interests. — Nominationfor Vice-President. — Speech at Serenade — Speech to Com-mittee of Soldiers and Sailors Convention. — Formal Pres-entation of his Nomination.—Address on accepting.—Let-ter of Acceptance. — Personal Description. — Opinion of Gen.Grant. — Characteristics , 329 APPENDIX.Republican Platform 342
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iiiiiir iilr ■!:*?■ ii i LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT. CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE. ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT was born, April27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County,Ohio, a small town on the Ohio River, twenty-fivemiles above Cincinnati. The Grants are of Scotchdescent; and the motto of their clan in Aberdeenshirewas, Stand fast, stand firm, stand sure. Grant in-herits from many of his ancestors a love for freedom,anfl a determination to fight for its cause. In 1799, hisgrandfatlier, a Pennsylvania farmer, joined the greattide of emigration moving to the North-west Territory. This fertile and attractive region had recently beenconsecrated to freedom forever by the great Ordinanceof 1787. There, there would be neither slaves norslavery ; there, labor would be honorable in all. His great-grandfather, Capt. Noah Grant of Windsor, Conn., and his brother, Lieut. Solomon Grant, were soldiers in the old French War, and were bt)tli killed in battle in 1756 ; and it is not to be forgotten th

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