The world: historical and actual . eley, who for thirty years had been aleading journalist and ardent opponent of the Dem- (564) JR- =£,£. THE PRESENT UNITED STATES. 565 ocratic party. He was nominated by the LiberalConvention. The Democratic National Conventionaccepted him as the candidate f the Democracy inthe hope that he would draw enough Republicanvotes to elect him, and he did; but the Democratsfailed to fulfill their part of the contract. Manyof them stayed away from the polls of them united in supporting for the presi-dency that eminent Democratic lawyer of New which co
The world: historical and actual . eley, who for thirty years had been aleading journalist and ardent opponent of the Dem- (564) JR- =£,£. THE PRESENT UNITED STATES. 565 ocratic party. He was nominated by the LiberalConvention. The Democratic National Conventionaccepted him as the candidate f the Democracy inthe hope that he would draw enough Republicanvotes to elect him, and he did; but the Democratsfailed to fulfill their part of the contract. Manyof them stayed away from the polls of them united in supporting for the presi-dency that eminent Democratic lawyer of New which continued until after resumption in 1879,nearly six years. Notwithstanding good crops, hardtimes continued year after year. The general de-pression of business gave rise to a political partywhich demanded a large increase in the volume ofthe currency, and deprecated any attempt to re-sume specie payments. This Greenback party wasespecially hostile to the national bank year 1876, which completed the first century. CHICAGO York, Charles OConor. General Grant was re-elected by an overwhelming majority, and with himHenry Wilson for Vice-President. Mr. Greeley madea very remarkable campaign upon the policy ofreconciliation and good feeling between the the popular election and before the meetingof the electoral colleges of the several states, hedied, and the nation was once more in American was better known or more profoundlyrespected as a pure patriot than the founder of theNew York Dibuiw, well called our second the following October occurred the panic of1873, which inaugurated a period of hard times, m FLAMES. of American independence, was celebrated by agrand exposition at Philadelphia, at which were rep-resented all the countries of the world, civilized anduncivilized, the most successful affair of its kind everprojected. The year 187(3 was also the year of another presi-dential election. Two governors were the standard-bearers o
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