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Ulysses S. Grant: “The whole nation is interested in securing cheap transportation from the agricultural States of the West to the Atlantic…”

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The whole nation is interested in securing cheap transportation from the agricultural States of the West to the Atlantic Seaboard.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Republican · Ohio

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Grant highlights the importance of affordable transportation for agricultural states to access the Atlantic.

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