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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 21: (search)
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 difference in the means they desired to employ —to accomplish, nevertheless, the same end. Grant did not write to Schofield again for nearly a year, but on the 24th of March, 1866, he said to that officer: I have never written to you since your departure, for two reasons: First, because I was afraid to send through the mails, lest the letter should fall into the hands of the French authorities. Second, because I could not say anything which would be agreeable to Mr. Seward, and did not like, therefore, to send by his mail. I might add a third reason and say that Mr. S. keeps the whole question between the United States and Mexico so befogged that I know no