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Excerpt from General Grant's Tour Around the World: With a Sketch of His Life
Since the day upon which his victory at Fort Donelson first commended him to the confidence and regard of the American people, General Grant has had the good fortune to constantly occupy a large share of public attention. After the close of the war he sought the retirement of private life, but the people willed otherwise, and he became, for two successive terms, their President. And when, after sixteen years devoted to national duties - first as the leading Soldier and then as the Chief Magistrate of the land - Ulysses Simpson Grant sought, in the delights of foreign travel, a pleasant and profitable relaxation of mind and body, he found that the world at large had elected him representative of the Americannation, and proposed to do him honor accordingly.
The object of this volume is to describe the scenes and incidents of that third term of office - to tell of the places he visited, of the people he met, of the beautiful object in art and nature which he beheld, and of the honors which were paid him by the various peoples whose guest he became, and who saw in him a modest but worthy representative of that American Republic which, as the Viceroy of India put it, "he had once rescued and twice ruled."
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