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GRANT, Ulysses S. Autograph letter signed ("U. S. Grant") and autograph postscript signed ("U. S. G."), to Mr. Johnson, Galena, Ill., 24 September 1880. 2 pages, 4to, ink very faded, matted and framed.
GRANT TRIES TO CANCEL THE VOTE OF A DEMOCRATIC FRIEND BEFORE THE 1880 ELECTION. About to leave on a trip that will keep him away past election day, Grant makes a light-hearted pitch to a staunch Democratic party friend to sit out the election so that their missing votes will balance out in favor of their respective parties. Taking a page out of Lincoln's folksy playbook, Grant recounts the story of "a man of accredited veracity, [who] asserted that his horse was seventeen feet high. Of course it was understood that that he meant hands. But being a man of firmness as well as veracity he stuck to it that the horse was seventeen feet high...In the same way some men have, in a passion, or an excitement, announced that they would never vote other than a democratic ticket....In such cases it is humane to relieve such persons from the performance of a humiliating act, without a violation of their pledge. Now I want to vote the republican ticket as a conscientious duty. I will have to travel a thousand miles, and retrace my steps to do so. Now what I propose is to pair off with you at the approaching election..."
GRANT TRIES TO CANCEL THE VOTE OF A DEMOCRATIC FRIEND BEFORE THE 1880 ELECTION. About to leave on a trip that will keep him away past election day, Grant makes a light-hearted pitch to a staunch Democratic party friend to sit out the election so that their missing votes will balance out in favor of their respective parties. Taking a page out of Lincoln's folksy playbook, Grant recounts the story of "a man of accredited veracity, [who] asserted that his horse was seventeen feet high. Of course it was understood that that he meant hands. But being a man of firmness as well as veracity he stuck to it that the horse was seventeen feet high...In the same way some men have, in a passion, or an excitement, announced that they would never vote other than a democratic ticket....In such cases it is humane to relieve such persons from the performance of a humiliating act, without a violation of their pledge. Now I want to vote the republican ticket as a conscientious duty. I will have to travel a thousand miles, and retrace my steps to do so. Now what I propose is to pair off with you at the approaching election..."