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exterminated the unlawful bands that terrorized the communi- 
ties where colored and white conflicts were rife. His greatest 
diplomatic achievement was the referring of the Alabama claims 
against England to a court of arbitration in Geneva, Switzer- 
land, which act founded the permanent friendship of the two 
English-speaking nations. Following his presidency, he made 
a famous tour of the world during which he visited the rulers 
of each country through which he traveled. His later years 
were seriously impoverished by the business treachery of the 
junior partner of the New York firm of Granr & Warp, and 
only the publication of his autobiography brought sufficient 
funds to secure his wife against real want. In 1884 cancer at 
the base of the tongue set in, and he passed away July 23, 1885. 
GENERAL GRANT was as characteristic an American type as WASH- 
INGTON, WEBSTER or LINCOLN. His justice and steadfastness were 
traits that healed great breaches between the North and South 
during the reconstruction, and his death was mourned in both 
sections of the country. 
