Beiträge zur Geschichte der Nordamerikanischen Union: Die Administrationen der Präsidenten U. S. Grant und R. B. Hayes, Volume 1

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Grunow, 1881 - United States - 328 pages
 

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Page 16 - ... make the difference between gold and greenbacks. We must restore the Constitution before we can restore the finances, and to do this we must have a President who will execute the will of the people by trampling into dust the usurpations of Congress known as the reconstruction acts.
Page 155 - A national election is approaching under circumstances of peculiar significance. Never before in our history has the public mind been so profoundly agitated by an apprehension of the dangers arising from the prevalence of corrupt tendencies and practices in our political life, and never has there been greater reason for it. We will not display here in detail the distressing catalogue of the disclosures which for several years have followed one another in rapid succession, and seem to have left scarcely...

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