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very time when many at the North suspected Grant of favoring the President's views, he was in reality doing more than all the country besides to thwart Johnson's designs.
But he thought it prudent not to alarm or provoke the nation by disclosing his fears.
This was, indeed, far more than tact, it was political and patriotic wisdom.
And his course throughout all these proceedings was entirely his own. He listened to the advice, or opinions, or persuasions of those who felt they had a right to offer either, but every decision was the result of his own judgment, of his own instinct of what was right.
He seemed to me at the time greater than in any emergency of the war, and when I look back upon both crises now, I remain of this opinion still.
During these contentions Congress created, or rather revived, the grade of General in the Army for Grant.
His nomination was announced to him by the Secretary of War in the following letter:
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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