On the record
History shows that no Administration from the time of Washington to the present has been free from these mistakes.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “History shows that no Administration from the time of Washington to the present has been free from these mistakes.”
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Grant points out that every administration has made mistakes throughout history, including his own.
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The attention of Congress can not be too earnestly called to the necessity of throwing some greater safeguard over the method of choosing and declaring the election of a President.
Foreigners coming to this country to become citizens, who are educated in their own language, should acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during the necessary residence to obtain naturalization.
Being a part of the United States, commerce between the island and mainland would be free.
Under the present system there seems to be no provided remedy for contesting the election in any one State.
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