Graphic of part of the Emancipation Proclamation
Rights and POwer: The POlitics of Reconstruction
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Presidential campaign button, 1868 (Museum of American Political Life)

Presidential campaign button, "Grant and Colfax," 1868
(Museum of American Political Life,
University of Hartford)

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Ulysses S. Grant chose Schuyler Colfax, former speaker of the House, as his running mate in the 1868 presidential campaign. "Let us have peace," the last line of Grant's letter accepting the nomination, became the Republicans' campaign slogan.

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Presidential campaign ribbons, 1868 (Smithsonian Institution)

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