Chapter 15

GRANT AND GREELEY. The new Cabinet--Seeds of Party Disaffection--Trip to California-- Party Degeneracy--The liberal Republican Movement--Re-nomination of Grant--The Cincinnati Convention--Perplexities of the Situation --The Canvass for Greeley--Its Bitterness--Its peculiar Features-- The Defeat--The Vindication of Liberals--Visit to Chase and Sumner --Death of Greeley.