CHAPTER XXXI.

GRANT’S SECOND TERM.

The Best Man for the Position and Most Deserving of the 313

Honor.—How the “Boom” was Worked up in Favor of

Grant.—The Great Financiers and Speculators all Come

to the Front in the Interest of the Nation’s

Prosperity and of the Man who had Saved the

Country.—The Great Mass Meeting at Cooper Union.—Why

A. T. Stewart Refused to Preside.—The Results of the

Mass Meeting and how they were Appreciated by the

Friends of the Candidate, Leading Representatives of

the Business Community and the Public Press

Generally, Irrespective of Party

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