| Civil War general and Mexican American War | | | | Today, England is a great ally of the United States |
| veteran, Ulysses S. Grant, became the eighteenth | | | | and has fought with us to help propagate |
| president of the United States in 1869 and served | | | | freedom around the world. |
| two terms as a Republican. Among his presidential | | | | I believe President Ulysses S. Grant would proud |
| accomplishments are:o The 1872 Treaty of | | | | to see the fruits of his work as an abolitionist and |
| Washington resolving a dispute with Great Britain | | | | the strides the country has made in treating all |
| regarding damages made to American shipping | | | | men, regardless of race, creed, or color, equally |
| during the Civil War by Confederate raiders built in | | | | under the law today. The Ku Klux Klan still exists |
| British shipyards.o The 1870 Enforcement Act | | | | in many parts of the south today, but the |
| rendering the Ku Klux Klan powerless in the | | | | irradiation of an idea or an attitude is much more |
| Reconstruction South.o The 1875 Civil Rights Act | | | | difficult to accomplish than a change in the law. |
| extending federal protection to black civil rights in | | | | The war for men's hearts and minds will continue |
| the area of public accommodations. | | | | till the end of time, as will the battle against |
| The above accomplishments were made in an | | | | corruption the mugwumps were fighting, but if |
| administration that came to be known for it | | | | good men show the same courage and conviction |
| indecisive leadership, inconsistent policy on | | | | as President Grant did we will have a much |
| Southern Reconstruction, and massive corruption | | | | greater country and much more peaceful world |
| during a time of severe economic depression. The | | | | I honor President Ulysses S. Grant as did so many |
| scandals caused Republican civil service reformers | | | | before me for his courage and fight for the |
| to revolt in the 1872 election. The issue was kept | | | | principal that all men are created equal. As I honor |
| at the fore by a group of patrician New York | | | | all good men who continue the fight for justice |
| Republicans, the "mugwumps," who campaigned | | | | and freedom around the world today. |
| against the pervasive corruption. | | | | |