For myself, I say plainly and without hesitation, that I prefer Horace Greeley, with any Congress possible on the Cincinnati Platform, to President Grant, with his personal government and his rings,--a vote for whom involves the support of this personal government, with prolonged power in all the rings.
Sumner expresses his preference for Horace Greeley over President Grant, criticizing the latter's governance style and associated corruption.
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