Democratic and Republican newspapers vied with one another which could say crossest things and laugh loudest.

One sentence especially caught the newspaper risibilities of the time, and it was many a year before the phrase "between the sherry and the champagne" ceased to pursue me.

That any patriotic American, twice elevated to the presidency, could want a third term, could have the hardihood to seek one was inconceivable.

My letter was an insult to General Grant and proof of my own lack of intelligence and restraint.

They lammed me, laughed at me, good and strong.