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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
“The universally kind feeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace”
Personal Memoirs, Vol. II, Conclusion
Grant, writing in his final illness, reads public sympathy from North and South as a sign of reconciliation, echoing his 1868 campaign slogan.
Citation: "The universally kind feeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol. II, Conclusion. (id personal-memoirs-q13)
Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.
