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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 5 : (search)
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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 29 : (search)
Chapter 29:
Leaving the White House.
the close of Grant's Presidential career elicited a remarkable comment from the great French statesman Thiers, who was at that time, though no longer President, perhaps the most important personage in France; almost controlling parties in his own country and watching with an acute and intelligent interest the great political crisis on this side the seas.
General Sickles was then residing in Paris and in the habit of meeting the ex-President frequently.
To him Thiers declared that no country in Europe could have passed through the situation which agitated America without a serious disturbance of the state.
He thought it possible that France or Germany or England might have weathered storms equal to those of our War of the Rebellion, and even have passed through the difficulties of the Reconstruction period, but he knew of no other country that could have withstood the dangers of a disputed election, when the parties were so nearly matched
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