. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... INDIANS SURPRISED AND DEFEATED. ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT 53J >...-c:.Lurers, who found the power of thei^overnment a convenient instrument forI he furtherance of personal schemes, andwho did not scruple to make use of theirmfluence with the President to that ^ these was one of the Presidentsbrolhers-in-law, who amazed the countryby his daring disregard of the rights of the judicial fairness? Republican leaders whowere disposed to amnest
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... INDIANS SURPRISED AND DEFEATED. ADMINISTRATION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT 53J >...-c:.Lurers, who found the power of thei^overnment a convenient instrument forI he furtherance of personal schemes, andwho did not scruple to make use of theirmfluence with the President to that ^ these was one of the Presidentsbrolhers-in-law, who amazed the countryby his daring disregard of the rights of the judicial fairness? Republican leaders whowere disposed to amnesty and a real oblivionfor past offences, were elbowed out of place,and at last driven to the rear. The labors of reconstruction were nomi-nally completed in 1870. Had the courseof the managing men of the party in powerbeen wise and conciliatory, had it been actu-. , RKNn ON THE PENNSYLVANIA NEAR ALTOONA. State which he had chosen as the sceneof his operations. The Northern politicianswho surrounded the President were largely of a similar stripe Was it to be expected of such men that they woulddeal generously with a fallen foe, or was itwithin the compass of partisanship like theirsthat their opponents should be treated with ated by high motives and -statesmanlikeviews, and had the men who represented theparty in the Southern States been men whowere laboring for the good of their section,rather than for the advancement of their ownpersonal interests, it is not to be doubted thatthe administration would have been able toattach to itself the support of a majority of 832 ADMlNISTRAiION OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. the Southern people. The colored peoplewere naturally its friends. The patronage of the administration was
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