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Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER XVI
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The two Administrations of President Cleveland are remembered by the business men and the laboring men of the country only as terrible nightmares.

Whatever has been accomplished in this period, which seems to me the most brilliant period in legislative history of any country in the world, has been accomplished by the Republican Party over Democratic opposition.

The failure to secure honest National elections and the political and civil rights of the colored people is the failure of the Republican Party and the success of its Democratic antagonist.

With that exception, to all the problems which confronted the country in 1869 the Republican Party has given a simple, wise, final and most successful solution.

It has done it not only without help, but over the constant opposition of its Democratic antagonist.
Every State that went into the Rebellion has been restored to its place in the Union.
There has been complete and universal amnesty.


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