. The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen. BOSTON:B. B. RUSSELL, PUBLISHER, 55 OORNHILL. CINCINNATI: WHITE, CORBIN, BOUVE, & FRANCISCO : H. H. BANCROFT & CO. 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by B. B. RUSSELL, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Stereotypers and Printers, 3 Cornhill, Boston. ENERAL GRANT is emphatically a man, no
. The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen. BOSTON:B. B. RUSSELL, PUBLISHER, 55 OORNHILL. CINCINNATI: WHITE, CORBIN, BOUVE, & FRANCISCO : H. H. BANCROFT & CO. 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by B. B. RUSSELL, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Stereotypers and Printers, 3 Cornhill, Boston. ENERAL GRANT is emphatically a man, notof words, but of deeds. His eloquence is theeloquence of action. He will be renowned,through all future time, for the achievementswhich he has performed, — achievements which,every impartial student of history will declare, give him posi-tion among the ablest men the world has known. We are, in our day, apt to give undue importance to fluencyof speech. There is a charm in popular eloquence which cap-tivates the mind. And one is led to suppose that the man whocan give utterance to noble thoughts in glowing sentences,who can soar in dazzling flight upon the wings of imagination,who, with fluency which never fails him, can on all occasionsmake an apt and taking speech, be a man of widereach of intellect, of sound judgment, of executive ability. But no student of the past, no careful observer of the pres-ent, need be informed that such a conclusion may be very erro-neous. The voluble talker is often the very inefficient man wh
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