Ulysses S. Grant: “Enact such laws as will insure a speedy return to a sound currency, such as will command the respect of the world.”

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

The delicate and complicated questions continually occurring with reference to naturalization, expatriation, and the status of such persons as I have above referred to induce me to earnestly direct your attention again to these subjects.

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.

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.