Bizim Sancaktar; Ya da, General Ulysses S. Grant'ın Hayatı - Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant

U.S.G FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTSOF HIS COUNTRYMEN

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

William T. Adams,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,

No. 19 Spring Lane.

The Illustrious Soldier,

GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT,

President of The United States from March 4, 1869,

THE ONLY MAN

WHO HAD THE MENTAL POWER, THE MORAL FORCE, THE MILITARY GENIUS TOSUPPRESS

THE GREAT REBELLION,

THE MIGHTIEST THE WORLD EVER SAW;

THE MAN WHOM,

FIRST IN WAR,

AND

FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN,

THE NATION WILL SOON ACKNOWLEDGE TO BE

FIRST IN PEACE,

This Volume

IS ADMIRINGLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY

DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

In this volume my friend Captain Galligasken has been permitted to tellhis story very much in his own way. As I fully and heartily indorsehis positions, fully and heartily share in his enthusiasm, my task hasconsisted of nothing more than merely writing the book; and I assurethe reader that I have enjoyed quite as much as my friend the captainthe pleasant contemplation of the brilliant deeds of the illustrioussoldier. There is something positively inspiring in the following outof such a career as that of General Grant; and when I declare thatthe enthusiasm of Captain Galligasken is nothing more than just andreasonable, I do it after a careful examination of the grounds onwhich it is based; after a patient, but exceedingly agreeable, studyof the character of the man whom we have jointly eulogized; and afterinstituting a critical comparison between the general and the mightymen of the present and the past. I have twice read all that I havewritten, and I find no occasion to add any qualifying words, and noreason to moderate the warm enthusiasm of the captain.
As the candidate for the presidency of the dominant party in the land,all of General Grant's sayings and doings will be subjected to theclosest scrutiny by his political opponents. All that he has saidand all that he has done will be remorselessly distorted by savagecritics. Partisan prejudice and partisan hatred will pursue him intothe privacies of life, as well as through every pathway and avenue ofhis public career; but Captain Galligasken joins me in the confidentbelief that no man has ever been held up to the gaze of the Americanpeople who could stand the test better; hardly one [6]who could stand itas well. In his private life the general has been pure and guileless,while in his public history he has been animated by the most noble andexalted patriotism, ever willing to sacrifice all that he was and allthat he had for the cause in which he embarked.
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