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Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Union League, of Philadelphia: December 14th, 1868 On the elevation of General Grant to the highest station in the Republic, by a majority so overwhelming as to remind us of the completeness of his fogner tri umphs in the field, we must look with peculiar satisfac tion. Ours was the first public body that nominated General Grant for the office to which he has been elected. We adhered to him with fidelity when the claims of other candidates of worth were pressed upon our con sideration. We sustained his canvass with unabated zeal, and with all the force 'of our various resources, until his complete victory was assured. The vast popular majority by which General Grant was declared to be the choice of the nation for President, should be a source of pride to every American, proving as it does that in our day, and as we trust-it will be hereafter, we may rely with full faith upon the fitness of our people for self-government, and have no fear of the issue When they are called upon to choose at the polls between honesty and dishonesty, truth and treachery, right and wrong. To say, as is said by our adversaries, that General Grant was elected on his personal popularity, or because of his illustrious warlike fame, is to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.