United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . ant was nomina-ted by the Republi-cans, and HoratioSeymour of NewYork by the Demo-crats. The canvasswas attended withgreat people were stillagitated by the recentstrife through whichthe nation had passed,and the questionsmost discussed by thepolitical speakers werethose arising out ofthe civil war. The principles advocated by the majority in Congress furnished the basis ofthe Republican platform of 1868, and on that platform Genera
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . ant was nomina-ted by the Republi-cans, and HoratioSeymour of NewYork by the Demo-crats. The canvasswas attended withgreat people were stillagitated by the recentstrife through whichthe nation had passed,and the questionsmost discussed by thepolitical speakers werethose arising out ofthe civil war. The principles advocated by the majority in Congress furnished the basis ofthe Republican platform of 1868, and on that platform General Grantwas chosen by a very large electoral majority. The votes of twenty-six States, amounting, in the aggregate, to two hundred and fourteenballots, were cast in his favor, while his competitor received onlythe eighty votes of the remaining eleven States. Of the popular vote,however, Mr. Seymour obtained two million seven hundred and threethousand six hundred, against three million thirteen thousand onehundred and eighty-eight given to General Grant. At the same elec-tion, the choice for the vice-presidency fell on Schuyler Colfax CHIEF-JUSTICE CHASE. 552 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER LXYIII. GRANTS ADMINISTRATION, 1SG9-1S77. ULYSSES S. GRANT, eighteenth President of the United States, isa native of Ohio, born at Point Pleasant, in that State, April 27th,1822. At the age of seventeen he entered the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point, and wa5 graduated in 1843. He served with distinction and waspromoted for gallantryin the Mexican war;but his first nationalreputation was won bythe capture of FortsHenry and Donel -son in 1862. Fromthat time he rapidlyrose in rank, and inMarch, 1864, receivedthe appointment oflieutenant-general andcommander-i n-c h i e fof the Union subsequent careerat the head of thatarmy has already beennarrated. At theclose of the war hisreputation, thoughstrictly military, wasvery great; and hisbeing involved inthe imbro
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