While the great majority of the Republicans retained confidence in the personal integrity and patriotism of President Grant, it had become painfully manifest that he was often an easy victim to the influence of unscrupulous and designing men.
He acknowledges the integrity of President Grant while also noting his susceptibility to unscrupulous influences.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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