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that his reign on this continent shall cease. Another election will probably bring this latter fact clear before his vision. I regret that his expulsion had not been the closing scene in the great struggle through which the country has just passed, and which he contributed largely to protract. It will be noticed that Grant speaks of the expulsion of the Emperor of the French, evidently regarding the Mexican potentate as only the tool of his great prototype in France. On the 20th of July, 1866, Grant wrote to Sheridan: Your dispatch relative to selling the arms at Brownsville to the Liberals was referred by me to the President, strongly recommended. I also saw the President in person about it, who said: Why can't we let them have them? The subject will be up before the Cabinet to-day, and as Seward is absent, I am in hopes it will be decided to let them go. Whether this is done or not the Liberals are now getting arms. I got the Secretary of the Treasury to give clear