. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GRANT BETWEEN RAWLINS AND BOWERS out the final copy. Nineteenyears later. General Horace Por-ter recorded with pride that heloaned General Lee a pencil tomake a correction in the William Duff and J. , and General M. , are the three men whowere not present at the inter-\-iew. All of the r(>maining offi-cers were formally presented toLee. General Seth Williams hadbeen Lees adjutant when thelatter was superintendent atW est Point some years before thewar. In the lower photographGeneral Grant stands
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GRANT BETWEEN RAWLINS AND BOWERS out the final copy. Nineteenyears later. General Horace Por-ter recorded with pride that heloaned General Lee a pencil tomake a correction in the William Duff and J. , and General M. , are the three men whowere not present at the inter-\-iew. All of the r(>maining offi-cers were formally presented toLee. General Seth Williams hadbeen Lees adjutant when thelatter was superintendent atW est Point some years before thewar. In the lower photographGeneral Grant stands betweenGeneral Rawlins and ColonelBowers. The veins standing outon the back of his hand areplainly visible. No one but hecould ha\e told how calmly theblood coursed through them dur-ing the four tremendous MltjBBfs ^. (tyrant ^ 4- ^ ^ During his stormy iieriod of civil administration. Grantwas like a landsman tossing upon an angry sea who makes hisport by virtue of the natural drift of the winds and tides ratherthan through his skill in navigation. The policies PresidentGrant advocated during his two terms of office w^ere sound,and if he did not show the politicians skill in availing himselfof the varying winds of pojiular sentiment, he did exhibit astatesmanlike comprehension of the measures promotive of thebest interests of the country. Refusing to be misled bj thefinancial heresies of his time, in spite of the fact that they wereadvocated by a powerful faction in his own party, he took anuncompromising stand in his first inaugural in favor of pay-ing the jiublic debt in the currency of the world, and vetoedthe bill to increase the issues of the simulacrum of coin, ofmerely local value. He reduced taxation and promoted econ-omy in Government expenditures and reform in the civilservice
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