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Show Ir has been the experience of the best of our presidents that this high office is a thankless one, the cares and annoyancea of which largely overbalance over-balance the honors. But no retiring president has ever bo plainly expressed ex-pressed this sentiment in an annual message as General Grant, and hia experience should serve as a warning to ambitious military men without knowledge ef the requirements of statesmanship, and also to political "-,. '-.-Iricu Incline to put availability availabil-ity above brains and experience as qaalificitions for the presidency. |