Ulysses S. Grant: “If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo.”

Under the present system there seems to be no provided remedy for contesting the election in any one State.

Santo Domingo is fertile, and upon its soil may be grown just those tropical products of which the United States use so much, and which are produced or prepared for market now by slave labor almost exclusively, namely, sugar, coffee…

When this is done, all the strength that there is in our Navy will be developed and useful to its full capacity, and it will be powerful for purposes of defense, and also for offensive action, should the necessity for that arise within a…

The compulsory support of the free school and the disfranchisement of all who can not read and write the English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval.