Ulysses S. Grant preservation and reconstruction

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Ulysses S. Grant and the period of national preservation and reconstruction (1897)

Author: Church, William Conant, 1836-1917
Subject: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Publisher: New York [etc.] G.P. Putnam's Sons
Year: 1897
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
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Book from the collections of: New York Public Library
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When the opportunity offered, he was faithful to
this promise of his youth. Believing that officers
of the Army were honest as a class, and that they
would treat tfieTndians with justice and considera-
tion, he endeavoured, but without success, to per-
suade Congress to transfer the care of the Indians
from the Department of the Interior to the War
Department. "

Failing in this, he called upon the various relig-
ious bodies of the country,, to assist him in the
selection of Indian agents. In his first Annual
Message he had"'<IecIareJ that " a system which
looks to the extinction of a race is too hornBIe for a
nation to adopt without entailing upon itself the
wrath of all Chrjsteridom, and engendering in the
citizen a disregard for human life, and the rights of
others, dangerous to society." To avoid this, he
proposed to gather the Indians on reservations,
under territorial Governments7~and to induce them
to take their land in severalty. This is the policy
that has since been pursued, but the greatest factors
in quieting the Indians have been the completion of
transcontinental ^r^tilroads, and the consequent de-
struction of the buif alo. Grant foresaw and predicted
the result that would follow these causes, but he
found it impossible to carry out, in freedom, the
policy which would in time lessen Indian outrages.

In one of his conversations, reported by Mr.
Young, General Grant said: ** there is nothing
more natural than that a President, new to his
office, should enter upon a policy of conciliation.
He wants to make everybody friendly, to have all

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the world happy, to be the central figure of a con-
tented and prosperous commonwealth. This is
what occurs to every President; it is an emotion
natural to the office."
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