State of the Union Addresses

The 1875 State of the Union Addresses was given by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885) was an American military officer and politician. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. Excerpt: «In submitting my seventh annual message to Congress, in this centennial year of our national existence as a free and independent people, it affords me great pleasure to recur to the advancement that has been made from... Dalej