Excerpt from Some Aspects of Politics in the Middle West, 1860-72 During Grant's first administration the alienation of the old school Republicans took place on a large scale, though the points of departure varied with different men. In the case of many supporters of the general reconstruction policy there gradu ally developed a desire for measures of conciliation and a cer tain impatience with the habit of constant interference by the Federal government in the internal affairs of the states. In the minds of some Illinois Republicans the old doctrine of states rights was given a new interest by the controversy between (jov ernor Palmer and General Grant, on the question of using Fed eral troops to restore order after the great Chicago fire. In this instance General Grant disregarded the vigorous protest of the Republican governor of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.