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Grant Compares the Election to Sheridan Going After Jubal Early

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Grant Compares the Election to Sheridan Going After Jubal Early
Grant Compares the Election to Sheridan Going After Jubal Early (1822-85) 18th President of the United States (1969-77). Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant") as President, on "Executive Mansion" stationery, 2pp (recto/verso), Washington, D.C., April 18, 1872. Written to J[oseph] R[ussell] Jonee, a friend of Grant's whom he had appointed U.S. minister to Belgium in 1869. With a presidential free frank and holograph address on an envelope engraved "Executive Mansion" and "Secretary"; Grant marked through "Secretary" and signed above. The letter is very good, only because of several clean fold splits, easily repaired; otherwise clean and nicely penned and signed in purple ink. Some soiling to envelope.

Grant introduces a summer neighbor of his from Long Branch, N.J., who is traveling to Europe with his family for the summer, but who expects "to return in the Fall in time to go for the Cincinnati Convention nominees as Sheridan went for Jubal Early in the Valley of Va. Any attention shown Mr. Hovy and his family will be duly appreciated by them and my me."

The "Cincinnati Convention nominees" refers to the anti-Grant Liberal Republican Convention which would be held in Cincinnati in May. Horace Greeley won the nomination on the sixth ballot (over Charles Francis Adams). B. Gratz Brown of Missouri was the vice presidential nominee. The Democrats came up with no nominees at their Baltimore convention in July and united behind Greeley-Brown in an effort to defeat Grant. Grant's Civil War analogy of Sheridan going after Jubal Early sounds as if Grant is almost gleefully looking forward to the upcoming election, and rightly so. He won 286 electoral votes; Greeley won 0.
Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000.

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