. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . d to understand why, twenty years later, the South and the North togetherread with tears the bulletins from Grants bedside, and why the soldiers whofousfht ag-ainst him joined at his o-idve in the last tribute of love and honor. The rejoicing throughout the North over the surrender of Lees army andthe restoration of the Union was checked by the sudden blow of the assassin ULYSSES S. GRANT. 663 of the President, which changed that rejoicing to mourning. The death ofLincohi left Grant the foremost American in the hearts of the peop
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . d to understand why, twenty years later, the South and the North togetherread with tears the bulletins from Grants bedside, and why the soldiers whofousfht ag-ainst him joined at his o-idve in the last tribute of love and honor. The rejoicing throughout the North over the surrender of Lees army andthe restoration of the Union was checked by the sudden blow of the assassin ULYSSES S. GRANT. 663 of the President, which changed that rejoicing to mourning. The death ofLincohi left Grant the foremost American in the hearts of the people. In thepolitical turmoil which followed the accession of Johnson to the Presidency, andin the period of reconstruction, while much .of the South was under martiallaw, Grant, as head of the army, necessarily held a prominent place. Hispopularity increased, and his nomination for the Presidency in 1868 was a fore-gone conclusion. In 1872 he was re-elected, this time over Horace popularity was so general that the opposition to him was insignificant. GRANT A.\U 1,1 , \1LLKUV tif Lill.\A. At the close of his second term he was succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes, whowas declared elected by the famous Electoral Commission, after the disputedelection of 1876. Grant was by nature and training a soldier, not a civil administrator; andwhile there was much to admire in his career as President, there is also muchthat has been severely criticised. Accustomed to repose absolute confidence inhis friends, he was deceived and made use of by adroit and unscrupulous men C ;- HONORS FROM ALL NATIONS. against whom he was powerless to defend himself. The unsettled state of thecountry after the civil war, the political and race prejudices which disturbed theSouth, the ignorance and helplessness of the freedmen, and the denial of theirrights, all combined to make the task of government a most difficult and delicateone. But whether Grants civil career be considered s
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