lief that he was a proscribed man because of his hostility to the Administration, but he nevertheless thought it best not to make public the indictment which he had prepared. And having, after mature deliberation, concluded not to say what he had prepared as a speech, it was not, as was asserted, Mr. Sumner's "posthumous speech," and its publication in the newspapers by those to whom copies had been intrusted in confidence was an unpardonable breach of trust.

As the weather became warm Congress evinced a disposition to close the session so soon as the appropriation bills could be passed. It was very evident that no financial legislation could be agreed upon, and the great question of inflation or specie would consequently be brought directly into the Congressional elections of the coming fall. Every candidate for the House of Representatives must then announce himself as in favor of or opposed to the financial policy of the President, and no one who was opposed to that policy could hope to receive support from those who sustained the Administration.

ANDREW JACKSON.

History was again repeating itself, for General Grant had taken a financial position almost identical with that taken by General Jackson in 1837 when he opposed the United States Bank and an almost exclusively paper currency. There were many points of resemblance in the Presidential actions of Jackson and Grant. Each had received a military training and brought into the White House a soldier-like, straightforward way of assuming responsibility. General Jackson possessed a wonderfully intuitive mind, which had not been enervated

by other culture, was strong in his convictions and unyielding in his resolutions when once formed, was prone to confidence in the guileless truth of his own nature, but implacable in his resentment and scorn when once. deceived. General Grant possessed the same traits, used his constitutional prerogatives, and had great confidence that the people would sustain him at the polls.

A New York committee which waited on General Jackson with a memorial in favor of re-chartering the United States Bank, signed by six thousand business men, discovered him sitting at a table writing, in his mouth was a long pipe, which rested on the table, and revealed the intensity of the President's interest in his work by the volumes of smoke which issued from its blackened bowl. President Grant received numerous financial committees with a cigar in his mouth, and although he did not talk to them quite so positively as "Old Hickory" did, yet his language was equally un mistakable. Like Jackson, he appeared to have been selected by that prophetic instinct, often displayed by the people, as precisely the man to stand firmly by the helm of the ship of state after the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court-House.

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The inflationists predicted the consequent defeat of the Republican party, but true members of that organization were inspired to a higher degree of confidence in their principles and in their President. On their battle-flag was inscribed "no inflation," "specie payments," repudiation," and it was understood that General Grant, bearing this banner, would "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," sustained as he was by his profound convictions of right and duty.

The Senate passed a Civil Rights Bill, not that which Charles Sumner framed, but it insured many rights to

the colored people. The Representatives, however, did not wish to touch it until after the fall election, and it went over. So did the bill making provision for the payment of the French spoliation claims, and a number of other important measures. A bill making the desired appropriation for the Centennial Exhibition, at Philadelphia, in which General Grant took great interest, met with decided opposition.

An amusing type of visitors who began about this time to frequent Washington again were the old Virginia gentlemen-desiccated, large-boned, and blear-eyed -who wore antiquated rusty black dress suits, ruffled shirts, and crape on their white hats. They were faithful to the radical Democratic doctrines of Voltaire, Jefferson, and Tom Paine, they groaned over the "lost cause," and they hinted at a "coming restoration." Meanwhile each one of them had a budget of claims for fences de

stroyed by the Union army, and for bacon, meat, vegetables, corn, wagons, horses, mules, and beef-cattle supplied to Grant's quartermasters, on each and every one of which was a sworn statement that the claimant was thoroughly loyal during the war. Restrained by their desire to obtain greenbacks for these documents, they stifled their criticisms on the Republican party in general and the Yankees in particular, but sat in grim state, like Pagan in Pilgrim's Progress, and gnawed their fingernails with suppressed rage at the reconstructed nation's progress.

With them there were adroit Northern speculators engineering subsidy schemes for plundering the public treasure. Railroads, steamships, and Star Route mail contracts, wooden pavements in Washington, processes for preserving army clothing against moths, and many other swindles, on each one of which Colonel Mulberry Sellers would have remarked, "There's millions in it," were presented at Washington by lobbyists and schemers who bore the brand of "swindler" in scarlet letters of infamy upon their foreheads.

CHAPTER XVII.

MARRIAGE OF GENERAL GRANT'S DAUGHTER-THE BRIDEGROOM, MR. SARTORIŞ-THE GUESTS-THE DECORATIONS-THE CEREMONY-THE WEDDING DRESSES POLITICAL TROUBLES AT THE SOUTH-ARKANSAS AFFAIRS-ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS-THE SANBORN CONTRACTS-SECRETARY BRISTOW-VISIT TO EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS-SUCCESS OF THE DEMOCRATS.

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HE marriage of General Grant's only and muchloved daughter, Ellen Wrenshall Grant, to Algernon Charles Frederic Sartoris, at the White House, on May 21st, 1874, was a social event in Washington. The fair bride was not nineteen years of age, and was noted for her quiet self-possession and modest deportment. She had met Mr. Sartoris, a happy young Briton, on the steamer Scotia, while on her return from Europe with the family of Secretary Borie in 1872, and after she came home it was whispered that he had enlisted her affections.

The bridegroom was the son of Urban Sartoris, who had taken a degree at Cambridge University, and was living as a country gentleman in the South of England. The young man's mother was Adelaide Kemble, the sister of Fanny Kemble, whose uncongenial marriage in the United States to Mr. Butler all were familiar with. The necessities of Charles Kemble, their father, made Fanny an actress and Adelaide a vocalist. Their mother, a Viennese dancer, had come to London, been taught English, and had then learned to sing ballads exquisitely, and so her daughter Adelaide, whose voice was neither