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Charles Sumner

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Alternate Title

Personal government and presidential pretensions

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The cover contains a quote from Plato from "The First Aleibiades" and a quote from the Letter of Lord Darham to Henry Brougham from "Brougham's Live and Times, Vol. III". The cover also identifies that the speech was delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 31, 1872.

Donor

Ulysses S. Grant Association

Date

1872

Measurement Display

30 pages ; 23 cm

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PDF

Subjects

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; United States--Politics and government--1869-1877; Congressional addresses--1872

Keywords

U. S. Grant; Politics; Government; Republicans

Work Type

pamphlet

Class

ephemera

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Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Digital ID#

E661.S95 1872

Repository

Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University Libraries

Publisher

Washington [D.C.] : F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information on the contents of this collection, email usgpresidentiallibrary@library.msstate.edu.

Republicanism vs. Grantism : the presidency a trust; not a plaything and perquisite. Personal government and presidential pretensions. Reform and purity in government / Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts

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