. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. hat-passing for a man who had occu-pied the office of chief executive of the United States. A man of undoubted firmness, and of more talent thaneven the most of his friends have credited him with possess-ing. Grant lacked dignity, moral rectitude, and that senseof fitness usually inborn in all Americans. The most eventful occurrences of his administration werethe completion of the Pacific railroad, the adoption of theFifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the great Chicagofire, the settlement of the Al
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. hat-passing for a man who had occu-pied the office of chief executive of the United States. A man of undoubted firmness, and of more talent thaneven the most of his friends have credited him with possess-ing. Grant lacked dignity, moral rectitude, and that senseof fitness usually inborn in all Americans. The most eventful occurrences of his administration werethe completion of the Pacific railroad, the adoption of theFifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the great Chicagofire, the settlement of the Alabama claims, the adjustmentof the Northwestern boundary, the war with the Modoc In-dians, the great financial panic of 1873, the Centennial ex-hibition, the Custer massacre, the re-admission of Virginia,Mississippi and Texas, the Credit Mobilier infamies and ex-posures, the St. Louis whisky ring, the deaths of GeneralsRobert E. Lee and George H. Thomas, Admiral Farragut,Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner and Andrew Johnson; theadmission of Colorado to the Union and the San
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