. The new eclectic history of the United States . U. S. Grant. TWENTY-FIRST AND TWENTY-SECOND TERMS, A. D. 1869-1877. II,„„„TO e ,-.„.„„, D -j t Schuyler Colfax, > ... „ ., . Ulysses S. Grant, President. rT„M„,, ur,,,.^- \ Vtce-Prestdents. rlENRY WILSON, j 593. The Eighteenth President.—By the elections in the autumn of 1868 General Ulysses S. Grant ^ became the eighteenth President, and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Vice-President, of the United States. 594. The Pacific Railroad was completed in May,1869. For six years the great work had beenin progress, both from San Francisco in the west,
. The new eclectic history of the United States . U. S. Grant. TWENTY-FIRST AND TWENTY-SECOND TERMS, A. D. 1869-1877. II,„„„TO e ,-.„.„„, D -j t Schuyler Colfax, > ... „ ., . Ulysses S. Grant, President. rT„M„,, ur,,,.^- \ Vtce-Prestdents. rlENRY WILSON, j 593. The Eighteenth President.—By the elections in the autumn of 1868 General Ulysses S. Grant ^ became the eighteenth President, and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Vice-President, of the United States. 594. The Pacific Railroad was completed in May,1869. For six years the great work had beenin progress, both from San Francisco in the west,and from Omaha, Nebraska, in the east. The twoconstruction-trains met at Ogden, in Utah, one partyhaving built 882 miles of the road, theother 1,032. The great continent, ofwhich Columbusand his fellow dis-coverers saw onlythe eastern edge,no longer blockedthe way to Chinaand Japan, butafforded the speed-i e s t passage tothem even for trav-elers from ^ The Meeting Trains. 353) 354 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 595. The first few months of 1870 saw the restoration of theentire South to equal rights with the North. The Senators andRepresentatives of Texas, last of all the seceded States, tooktheir seats in Congress, March 30. ()n the same day the Presi-dent proclaimed the Fifteenth Amendment,-—already adoptedby Congress and ratified by three fourths of the States,—aspart of the Constitution. It ordains that no State shall denyor abridge the right of any citizen to vote on account of hisrace, color, or previous condition of servitude. 596. Unsettled war claims, arising from the mischief done byConfederate cruisers built in Great Britain (§ 500), occasionedsome anxiety both in England and America. But neithergovernment was unwise enough to plunge the two nations intowar for matters which could be settled by reason. A Joint High Commission, consisting of five English and Jan., 1871. five American statesmen, met at Washington, and,
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