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hey are, giving transportation to their homes to all who desire to return. You are aware that existing orders permit discharged soldiers to retain their arms and accoutrements at low rates, fixed in orders. This letter was delivered to Schofield to carry to Sheridan. It was on the 25th of July, 1865, that Grant wrote: It is the fixed determination of the people of the United States that an empire shall not be established on this continent by the aid of foreign bayonets; and on the 6th of September following Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Bigelow, our Minister to France: We do not insist or claim that Mexico and the other States on the American continent shall adopt the political institutions to which we are so earnestly attached, but we do hold that the people of those countries are to exercise the freedom of choosing and establishing institutions like our own, if they are preferred. The difference in tone and language between the soldier and the statesman was indicative of the differ